It's been a year and here it is finally!

We moved about a year ago to our new house.  Here are the before and afters!

 This is a look at the empty lot before the house even got here.

 The house arrives and porches were put up and other things were in progress...

 Here is grass fence side walks, and bushes and flowers to get bigger with age. :)

 a rock garden in the corner

 Grass and gravel pad for parking

 The wall were all speckled and full of vines I painted all the walls and had fun decorating.  Brent and Curt put in wood floors.  We also put in inset lights and new light fixtures.  Just the other day the girls were reminicing about the old gold chandelier and saying that they loved it and missed it.  So funny the difference of oppinion with age.

 The pictures of the bedrooms were taken right when we moved so they have changed a bit like paige no longer has a crib and Kota and Cloe wanted their beds bunked so we did that.  My room is basicly the same, I love the Country Feel.

 Whoops! :)

 Alright that's more like it! I made the curtains and throw pillows and also the curtains in the bathroom bellow.

 It is so nice to have a master bath!

 I must admit I wasn't happy about the timing about these kitchen picks it's not really clean but you get the idea of how it looks at least.

 We are really enjoying our house and whew I'm glad that I finally got these pics posted that I've been saying I'm going to post. :)

Casey Family Reunion

                                     

We had a Blast at the Family Reunion this year!  We got to do sealing in the Rexburg Idaho Temple for family.

 We got to go to bear world and see bears and albino elk and they had a petting zoo and fun rides for the kids.

 Trish and all sorts of fun things planned for the kids.  We painted faces and did nails and went for a hike and Aunt brenda brought reunion shirts to sign and decorate.  we also went and saw the falls there and waded in warm spring which wasn't really warm by the way but it was fun and uncle trevor did swim. :)

 And trish made all the kids matching PJ's and put them in totes and just made us all to welcome!

We got to go out to dinner for brent's parents anniversary it was really nice.  Look at that lemon brent had in his drink I never did see a deer lemon before or maybe it's a bunny. We also had a lot of fun playing minute to win it games although I may have gotten a little competitive sorry to all you sheaters out there that I had to tattle on. :)  I must say I was very happy that I was able to get the sticky chocolate cookies in my mouth by starting on my forhead not touching it with my hands and it was delicious!  Also the Cabin that we stayed in was really nice too. Great Reunion!  Thanks Trevor and Trish it was really nice!

Fireworks and Friends

 I made red(sprinkles), white(cream cheese frosting and sugar cookie), and Blue (blueberry) cookies for the forth they tasted great and were fun to see and make too.

 Brent and the girls and I went for a bike ride and picnic to the park on the forth of july that was really nice but the only picture I had from the outing was this long hair on brent ear that I found when we were laying on out picnic blanket. Don't worry it's not there anymore. :)

 The weekend before we went camping with our friends, we had a lot of fun playing campfire games and hanging out.  I loved it when Paige was trying to marry everyone.  She made them ring and wanted them to kiss and dance too cute.  She tried to marry Dad too and he said what about to Mom and she said, "She's already married."

We went to the the Russells for Fireworks and BBQ we had a lot of fun great family.  The fireworks were fun too. Sparklers, parachuttes, tanks and smokers for the kids and then big ones for us all to watch one accidently tipped and shot out toward the audience my favorite part was when Cassie was helping get all the kids away from it she had Cloe and Cloe said, "wait my shoe," and Cassie said, "Forget the Shoe!"  We were all safe and decided to sit back a little bit more. :) A lot of fun!

Summer Activities

 Little Scietists: Cool bubbles made with dry ice that they got to hold was awesome!

 They Dove for those rings and then had to bring them back to their teachers, I saw kota out their asking her teacher to help her find her ring she said she couldn't find it and so she was looking for it and then kota takes it out from behind her back and says, "Just kidding, Here it is!"

Swimming Lessons: Kota and Cloe they are great swimmers and can swim by themselves even in the ten foot, they went off the diving board without life jackets, cloe touched the bottom of the ten foot with her feet, lot's of learning!

 Paige had to do a lot of waiting and watching but she was a good sport especially when mom or dad took her to the gas station across the street for a treat. :)

 We've been playing out with water toys in the yard making our own little water park.  WE even had one day where we had tons of friends over and it was a blast.

Since Paige didn't get to do Swim lessons or t-ball we made sure she had other things to do like go to the park and we also went to open swim at least once a week.

 T-Ball season was fun Cloe and dakota played. Paige had fun with her friend Callie watching games and practices.  Cloe really did a great job this year I was so impressed by her progress and confidence from last year.  She played pitcher the first game and she got the ball almost every hit and threw it to first.  She also played catcher and did a good job there too.  Kota said, "Mom I don't like t-ball." I said "why not" She said, "Because I am so confused."    Poor girl thought she had it figured out and just kept running around the bases she didn't know that there was only supposed to be one person per base so they sent her back to second base where the second baseman wouldn't get off the base and then when the ball was hit she thought she was supposed to run the other way because they had her go backwards so she ran the opposite way.  They had a great coach you could tell that he enjoyed the kids and did really good excersizes with them he even brought water balloons to one of the pracitces and had them practice trowing with those, then they ogt to throw them at him. :)

Paige and Kota are doing a little scientist acitivty at the rec center.  Kota was excited all summer about it and she loves it. She said, "I'm going to be a cow girl and a science girl."  She's also been learning to read small books and told me that she loves to read. These pictures were from chemistry day where they made goooo and slime Paige finally decided to touch it even though she got messy.  She does not like to be messy the only place she doesn't really mind it is on her face because she can't see it.

Cloe is doing summer school. And the girls have also been doing horse riding lessons, they have been able to ride by themselves in the small round pen so that's been exciting and fun!

I did a presentation at the library about dance and showed them some dances too.  I taught a Hip Hop dance workshop this summer it was a lot of fun!  I also taught some dance history with my workshop and I one of the things that I taught about was Tap dance and how the african american started this dance.  I had an African american girl in the class and i could tell she was really interested and she asked questions about it, she was normally very shy.  Then later her church leader told me that she said during chruch that her god send was Tap dance she told her, "My dance teacher taught me about this dance tap."

Brent is busy Working, Golfing, and working in the yard and building the girls a playhouse I will update with pictures later.

Summer has been so busy! I packed the days full of activities and friends and School time! Paige keeps saying, "I like you teacher!"  We've been really enjoying Summer!

Rainbow Chase

We found a Beautiful Double Rainbow at the begining of the summer and the girls desperatly wanted to find the pot of Gold at the end. Brent and I were in the yard doing yard work and then we spontaneously took the girls out on a rainbow chase. It was a lot of fun the girls were really into it. KotaLee, " That Tricky leprocon keeps moving the rainbow."

A family drive up the mountain and a picnic and wildflower picking we found this moose enjoying the moose at the bottom of Casey's Pond.

We are watching my mom's dog, Jasper, for a couple months this summer! Awe look at that face! "Let me out of hear, please."