To celebrate our 13th wedding anniversary (which isn’t technically until this Saturday, the 26th) Rock and I went to McCall, ID for a few days last week.  It was wonderful to get away. McCall is beautiful. 

On Monday we slept in nice and late and then went to the Pancake House for breakfast. 

The food was so delicious and the atmosphere so fun that we ate there for breakfast both days!  We ate outside on the flower covered, wrap around porch.

After breakfast we rented a canoe to take on the Payette River at the north end of Payette Lake.  It was peaceful and serene and wonderful not to have to answer any questions or stop any fighting. 

That night we ate dinner at the Shore Lodge, a fancy ski lodge that we’ll stay at when we are rich and famous.  The professional pictures are better than mine, so I’ll use those.

The restaurant had the most amazing view of the lake!

(Note, there was no snow on the mountains last weekend.  lol)

The day ended with a beautiful sunset. 

On day two we drove up to the Brundage Ski Area and explored the surrounding area. 

This one is worth a click to enlarge.

Brundage Reservoir

Beautiful, relaxing, awesome getaway!  Thanks for watching the kiddos, Grandma and Sarin!

We had my parents and siblings over for the 4th of July this year and had a great day.

Liberty

Liberty was fascinated by Alli’s star earrings. 

Shucking corn

Hangin with Sarin

We got them all to sit still for a split second.  Ok, not Levi, but close enough.  They made their own shirts this year!  Thanks for the cute idea, Penny!

Watching Fireworks

If you’re wondering what Liberty is wearing on her ears, look here: Ear plugs the Monster Jam way  She looks ridiculous, but they allowed her to actually be outside this year to watch.

Setting off Fireworks

God Bless America!

For those of you who don’t have a pink addict living at your house, you might not know about the children’s books called Pinkalicious about a little girl who is, yes, addicted to pink.  Liberty turned four last week so here are some pictures from the big day and some funny ones I’ve been collecting for a while. 

First, the Birthday Party

We’ve lived in our house for a year now and we are just finally settling on what rooms the kids will be in, so now I can finally do something to Liberty’s room.   For her birthday we graduated her to a twin bed and painted one wall pink.  We won’t talk about how many shades of pink it took before I got it right.  Ok, just two.  Luckily one wall does not take much to repaint.  The room is not done yet; still needs a comforter and some curtains among other things, but it’s a start. 

Her favorite gifts were this ballet outfit from her Hymas grandparents (for her ballet camp coming up next week) and this ribbon wand from her Wesel grandparents. 

Now on to the collection of pics I take every now and then.

She wears this dress every other Sunday.  It would be every week if I didn’t require her to wear a different color/dress in between.

Nope.  This is not Cade’s shoe basket.

Fashion show host:  “Liberty is wearing a pink dress by Hand Me Down, with a Mama’s Sweater designed by Great Grandma Norma Wesel.  Her hair is in the Messy Modern Bun Come Undone Look.” 

On top of the world.  At least at Target.

My cousin Katelyn got married last week and Liberty couldn’t wait for the reception when she could see Katelyn in her beautiful dress.  “Is she going to dance, Mom?” 

Katelyn looked amazing!!

My mom and I took Libby shopping to the mall, which apparently I’ve never done with her before.  She squealed with delight at every mannequin she saw.  She was fascinated by these fake people everywhere and it was quite the adventure for her.   Better than the zoo! 

A few weeks ago she was getting a little talkative in church so I gave her a warning by saying, “Do you need to go out in the hall?” To which she responded, “Yeah, it’s getting boring in here.”

 
We love our little pink addict.