Future Hair Stylist

 Brynlyn almost waited patiently for her turn. She only played her leapster for 10 minutes before she was intrigued by everything around us in the salon.  She wanted to help color and cut my hair.  Jessie was a great sport and awesome stylist letting Brynlyn help with a few things.

 Almost done with her new style.  I love her sassy short hair.  Matches her personality perfect.

After sweeping up all her hair she was amazed at the large pile.

Chop, Chop I really enjoy having my hair shorter!  Never thought I would say that.

We are beautiful and finished.  Love our hair.

Weird...

My immune system has not been the strongest. I have gotten sick more often this summer than usual.

This weird virus I got started in July. Peyton and Brynlyn were sick after we spent time in Utah. Then a couple days after they started feeling crummy,  I began to have the same symptoms only worse than the girls. I was exhausted, weak, feverish, flu like stuff, sores inside my mouth, nose and cold sores all over my face.

 Strange lesions started to appear on my hands, feet and legs. I had a strange rash and felt like a leper.  I didn't leave my house for over two weeks.  When I called and explained the symptoms to my doctor's office, they got me in right away. After visiting the doctor I told my mom what I was diagnosed with and she said I think your brother has the same thing. So Kurt and I are comparing these odd symptoms and trying to take care of ourselves.

Turns out I had Hand, foot and mouth disease... which adults rarely get.  But my immune system is weak so I got it!

After a few weeks of having painful red welts on my hands and feet, they started coming to the surface and popping.  So painful, irritating and just plain stupid!!

I had to wear plastic gloves to change diapers, fix food, etc...

Everything I touched irritated the crap out of me.  Holding my plastic cell phone case or car keys felt like scraping a chalkboard.  Crazy how sensitive I was to everything.

 It's been over eight weeks since these symptoms started and I still have sores opening up on my feet, and I'm loosing some of my fingernails.

Possibly to much information... But hey, doing my best to document this crazy and wonderful life.

Sweet baby Iris

 Me and Andrea with her sweet little Girl Iris.  She is a cute chubby little thing.

 Nana holding her beautiful great grand daughter named after her.  My gorgeous mom.

 Peyton playing super hero's with Jackson's cool toy's.

 Some of my sweet family at Andrea's house after her baby's blessing.

My dad and Uncle Clark hiding from the craziness in the sewing room.

Duck tub

Our girl's crack me up.  The travel baby tub was still out from our last trip. The girls were fighting over who had the longest turn in the blow up tub.  So we had fun and took silly pictures.

Yearly Cabin Trip

 We had a blast at the family cabin this summer.  The kids played outside most of the time.

 but they really enjoyed bath time and relaxing with cousin's before bed.

 Swinging and playing in the dirt.

 Peyton was so happy to have dad help her shoot her marshmallow gun.

 Uncle Jared and Aunt Heather were awesome and brought enough supplies to make Marshmallow guns for the entire family.  Each kid and each couple now have a bright gun to shoot each other with.

The best part was watching the little kids eat the ammo after shooting it in the dirt.

 

Fishing was a very important part of our vacation.  Grandpa Carl was the best, he made sure each grand kid had a turn catching a fish.

Miyah started walking!

 This sweet little girl finally started walking at 13 months old.  She was content to scoot around on all fours and let her sister's bring everything her way.  We went to Al & Nancy's to swim July 14th and she took 10 steps in the family room.

Just a week later, I had Megan Lee take pictures for the girls birthday's.  Miyah was walking all over the place making it tricky to get pictures. My baby is learning so much.