Almost the end!

Okay so I am finally updating again. First off, we still don’t have a baby. Any day, we are just waiting. I hope within the next week I will be posting pictures of our new little one, making his debut. So I decided to call this one almost the end because first of all we are almost at the end of this pregnancy, and second because we are almost at the end of summer. We can't believe how fast it has gone. Here are some fun pictures of what we have done this last month.

We spent some time at Coeur d’ alene Lake swimming with a group of friends.

The girls had a ton of fun.

I also had a couple of nights out with some girlfriends. I had a blast!! I am lucky to have so many friends that are so much fun!! This is a group of us at Deer Lake....

and then here I am with some friends at Olive Garden.
This is the whole group.

The is the line of pregnant people from soonest due date (August) to latest due date (February).


I also wanted to give a big thank you to Elly,

who put together a baby shower for me. It was great and I had a ton of fun and was able to get a lot of clothes

and things for our new little guy. Here is the cute desserts that she made.

Here are some pictures from one night when we took a walk around the temple.

The sunset that night was beautiful.

Here is a recent picture of our garden.

It is growing great and giving us lots of good produce to enjoy and share with others.

Here is the kids in their pool riding their pet goose, which they often times call a swan!! And here is a little blip on a couple of cute things the girls have said recently. The other day Sam was mowing the lawn and Hailey said, "Dad needs his pluggers on." It took me a minute but she was referring to his earplugs, which he always wears when using loud equipment. And then a couple of weeks ago we were watching "So You Think You Can Dance" and it was getting to commercial time so we told Ashtyn she needed to go to the bathroom so we could brush her teeth for bedtime and then the host of the show said, "Don't go anywhere" just before the commercial came on. So then Ashtyn said to us, "but they said don't go anywhere." It was a pretty good laugh for Sam and I. The host had convinced Ashtyn that she couldn't go anywhere but right where she was.

We were also able to go to kids free day downtown. Of course since we were there we had to ride the carousel which is the girls favorite thing to do downtown.

The girls had lots of fun getting all the free stuff, and they enjoyed the sesame street concert where we saw Gordon and Elmo and Cookie Monster. They got their faces painted too. It is kind of hard to see but you can tell a little bit. Hailey has a white unicorn on one cheek. And Ashytn has a kitty on one cheek and a dog on the other. Their choice of course.

Sesame Street is getting ready to celebrate it’s 40^th season. Gordon has been doing this for 34 years. Wow!

I will leave you with another spectacular sunset that we had here less then a week ago.

We went to Dairy Queen and then for a drive and were able to catch some of this beauty!