Happy Birthday to Me!

What a great it has been. Dave spoiled me today. First, I got to sleep in. Then he made a yummy breakfast. Next, I got to go shopping all by myself. We ended the day at Claim Jumper for another yummy meal.

Northern Nevada

Dave and I want to move out of Vegas eventually. This isn't the place that we want to raise our kids. We've been praying that someday, hopefully sooner than later, God will move us somewhere else. Dave is always looking on line for property and dreaming of the future. We'd love to have a ranch and to have his parents and my parents both move with us.

Dave found some property up in Northern NV by a tiny little town called Battle Mountain. We took a road trip up there to see what it was like.

The girls were eating Cheetos while watching VeggieTales. We just found out they were gluten-free so we were excited.



The area was very nice and so was the property. It was in a canyon which was cool. It even had a little stream running through it, but it didn't have a huge flat area to build where the power ran to.





After that we drove over to Elko. All of Northern NV was so beautiful. We went to look at some other property that was on a river, but we ended up on a wild goose chase and never found it. We talked to someone that lived in the area and found out that the streets weren't labeled correctly. So our map was doing us no good! It was so beautiful, but then a storm hit and I didn't get any pictures by the water. Dave took this cool picture when we stopped on the side of the road.


Next, we drove down to Ely to spend the night. We wanted to ride the train, but it didn't leave until 4:30 and we were planning on heading back to Vegas early in the day, so we just took a little tour of the rail yard. We saw them working on the train and then we watched them back it out. We got covered in soot, but the kids had fun.

Colds in the Summer

Colds in the Summer are so weird. Emma has a cold right now and it's trying to make it's way through the whole family. Dave and I have been fighting it for a few days. Abby has it a little also. I think Josiah may have started it all because his eye was a little goopy before Emma got it! How can such a little guy pass on a cold? Anyway, I wanted to post something, but I haven't been taking any pictures because of the snotty noses! So, here are some random pictures from before.

Cool fort Dave made for the kids in the playroom.


Josiah and his best friend taking a nap

My big girl finally stopped for a second so I could take her picture

Emma in time out! (So stinkin' adorable)

4 Months

Our little man just turned 4 months yesterday. He thought he'd celebrate by rolling over onto his tummy! Seriously, it is going by way too fast! He is having fun checking out the world. He loves hanging out in the playroom with the girls, sitting in his Bumbo, just watching them play. He also loves making all kinds of noises in his little play gym trying to grab the toys. He has started giggling now, which is so adorable. He is huge already! He went to the doc yesterday and weighs a big 16 pounds now. He are his latest pictures.

I just can't get enough of him. Look at that sweet face!

This is his new best friend. My best friend gave this to us with all the clothes because her son didn't like this one. Her son has another dog similar to it named 'Chewy'. So Abby named Josiah's Chewy also.

Here he is asleep about 3 minutes after I took his picture!

Recent Pictures

Sorry I've been a slacker. Here are some recent pictures of my little munchkins.

Abby & Emma slept in the same bed when we went to the cabin. When we got home Emma kept getting into Abby's bed. I put Abby in our bed and left Emma in their room. This is how I found her asleep: in Abby' bed, she took off her pjs, and tucked pooh bear in also!

Just hangin' out at home.



At Burger King with friends. (The summertime playground, can't wait for it to cool off!)

Emma just started potty training. She is doing awesome. Kids with Downs are very hard to potty train, but she amazes me (as usual) and wants to use the potty.

Mr. Personality! He is so much fun now!

I was getting the next size of clothes out for Josiah. My best friend, Jill, gave me a TON of clothes. These are all the clothes for his age right now. That is a crazy amount of clothes. So blessed to not have to buy him any clothes.

We had fun burying each other.



Well, that's just some of what we've been up to lately!

Old Friends

Two of our friends from San Jose came to visit this past weekend.
This is Michelle.

She was part of the leadership team for the College/Young Adult group when Dave was the pastor over it. Michelle is on the drama team at our old church so Dave worked with her on some videos and dramas for the services.

This is Melissa.

She went to the College/Young Adult group also and she taught with me at Valley Christian Elementary. Melissa and I spent many lunch hours together, and took summer school together. We even carpooled to work sometimes.

We had so much fun seeing them again. We watched some videos that Dave made for the College group. They were hilarious and fun to watch again! The girls had fun playing with them and Josiah loved cuddling with them.

Getting Away

(Sorry this post is old! I started it, but I took so many pictures that I had a hard time narrowing them down and never posted it. So, here it is minus a ton of pics.)

Dave surprised us by taking us out of town on Sunday. We went up to Utah and stayed in a little cabin just outside Zion National Park. It is so beautiful up there. I always love going up there.


We stayed at Zion Mountain Ranch. It was so relaxing. Our cabin was right next to the garden. The girls LOVED exploring in it.




We drove over to Kanab. They had a movie set museum there. A lot of old western movies were filmed there back in the day.