4th of july.

yeah its august, so what. it's been so long that i no longer remember the 4th of july vividly, but with the aide of some pictures ive come up with the following...

it looks as though we did a little back yard swimming at some point.

im guessing it was pretty warm. nothing a little ice cream sandwiches cant handle.

jove even managed to go down the slide...one time.

looks like we made a trip to the lake courtesy of the holmes/thompsons. jove however preferred to be beside the lake. her reason for not getting in, its too big. maybe next time.

for now she will just sulk in the middle of the boat as far away from the water as possible.

moving on to fireworks at my parents house...during the day of course. patience has always been a problem for us.

jove refrained from holding or being near anything resembling fire, just like i taught her. what a good girl. she was content to sit and watch.

and here she is just being the cutest girl in the world. i managed to photoshop most of the spaghetti off of her face.

then came the clean up crew.

and finally, we made it to a real life night time fireworks display. i cant take credit for this picture, chris was in charge of the camera here as i was too busy being 7 years old and enjoying the fireworks accordingly.

that is all. perhaps in another month or so we can discuss august. ill let you know.

-cayla

fathers day

more cute pics of the jove. they are cute for the most part but take into account that, the day before, she spent the evening on a slip n slide that was doused with four bottles of baby oil. this is actually two hair washings later.

little drumming pre slip n slide.

during slip n slide

after

cayla

not too shabby

better than one year. mostly i got a new camera and am no longer embarassed of my pics. i think they are quite cute and worthy of sharing. it could have something to do with the subject, but regardless, here is the recent happenings in pics...

ok fine so just more of the same. but at least she looks happy this time. my next task should i choose to accept is to take pictures in places other than the park. until next time. here is my cute dog.

-cayla

we're back. after almost a year ive become inspired yet again to post another blog. it might be another year before the next one so you should probably really enjoy this one. it will contain pictures of a very cute girl so that should suffice.
so i now have a two year old. i think that sounds ridiculous. im still not old enough for that to be true. she has just recently become a big girl too. now i really dont know what to do with myself. i took off on her birthday 5/5 and decided that was the day she would become a big girl. we ditched the paci cold turkey and never looked back, she has since been sad about this approximately two times for only a moment and moved on with her life. more importantly we ditched the diapers. we woke up on our birthday put on some pullups and off we went. we were in big girl panties by saturday 5/8. we arent 100% but we are getting there.
so what else have we been up to you might ask, well im currently watching nemo for the second time today. this after watching Up once and mickey mouse christmas twice. so that about sums the last year up. these are the only jovie movies we own, she doesnt seem to mind, obviously.
moving on to the picture portion of the post....

drinking and swinging.


deep thought.


sandbox.


i like this one because for some reason it reminds me of the pic that she took on "where the heart is" minus the destruction. and yes i do love that movie.


on the slide. i swear she is actually having fun. she loves the "weee"


the birthday girl.


that should do for now. naptime is almost over. enjoy.

cayla