MORE SWIMMING

I know you are probably tired of the swimming pictures. Pretty much all we have done this summer is swim. This weekend was great because DAD was home and he went swimming with us.

They did land on the tub, but then bounced right out of it

Jordan and Rylan started to get creative with the tube

Rylan was trying so hard to hold the tube for dad.

Paislee enjoys the hot tub a lot more than the big pool. She had so much fun with Grandma Coache and Aunt Jenn

Jordan doing flips while holding on the tub!!!

Rylan talked grandma into getting into the big pool. Mind you it was raining and not as warm as we would have liked

Paislee was not to excited to go float with dad

HE IS HOME

My husband has been out of town sense June 26th and finally returned home last night at midnight. The kids are going to be so excited to see him home when they wake up this morning. Eight weeks with out him was just way to long and hard. Sorry about the boring blogging lately but I really didn't want anyone to know that I was home alone the last two months. I know kind of lame, but I get a little worried. He was supposed to be gone for about a week and that sure was not the case. A doctor here in town bought a cabin in Paniguich Lake and need the whole thing remodeled. They started off with 6 guys and by the time the cabin was finished Jordan had to call his best friend to come up and help him finish, everyone had headed home. My husband is not one to quit on a job he has started. While he was gone I thought I would have time to get my scrapbooking room all set up and also get so much done around the house. It has been eight weeks and I went in the room long enough to change the bedding on the bed, but I have not even started on the scrapbooking part. Being a single parent is not easy. I love my husband and have always acknowledged how much he does around the house, but dang. Jordan does a lot. Just trying to keep up with the kids was making me crazy. I have wonderful, but yet oh so busy children. I never realized how much my husband spoils me. The kids missed him a lot. It took a few weeks for them to really care that he was gone but this last two weeks was really hard on them. Jordan came home twice and I went up there once with the kids and once on my own. These pictures were from the last time he came home. The kids would not let him out of their sight.

ANOTHER WEEKEND AT THE POOL

We spent another weekend at the pool. My children are turning into little fish. Paislee is starting to enjoy the water a little more. She loved the pool we went to on Friday. We went over to my girl friend's parents house. They have a beach front entrance and she loved it. Rylan is getting so brave. He was jumping off of the rocks like it was no big deal. I was more nervous than he was.
Rylan and Carter

Saturday we headed over to my aunt's house. The kids just love Aunt Peggy.

A SWIMMING WEEKEND

We spent Friday and Saturday at the pool. Rylan has really started to swim. He is no longer using his life jacket. Each time we go he gets a little more brave.

Paislee does not enjoy the water.

She spends most of her time in the Jacuzzi

********************************** Rylan & Kayla (my cousin's daughter) going down the slide.

Look at that Face!!!
Paislee and mom headed down the slide. She hated every minute of it, but I did make her do it twice.

Grandma & Paislee swimming. Paislee screams most of the time she is in the big pool.

Rylan going down the slide HEAD first.

Look Mom I am SUPERMAN!

Eddie doing a double back flip. He did land it but once he got out he was sure he is to old to try and keep up with his nephews.

BEST HUSBAND EVER

I truly have the best husband ever. Anyone who knows me, knows I always have my camera in my purse. I love to take pictures and capture every moment I can on camera. Jordan has to have a camera for his job. He takes pictures of the work he does to send to California. Therefore he has his own camera to do this. Well back in April both of our cars were broken into in our front yard, I might add. The thief's took his camera. We have now been sharing a camera. My husband works in dirty houses and he also is doing yard maintenance, so the camera has been dropped a few times, the lens is now always dirty and he has the camera pretty much every day. Therefore not in my purse, like I enjoy. We have now gone on two trips where the camera comes with a dead battery. He thinking I charge the battery and me thinking he charged it. I have been trying really hard not to complain because money has been extremely tight right now and I know we can not afford to go get a camera. Although I found one that I really liked. My wonderful husband saved up the money to buy me a camera and I love it! He went all out with an extra battery, and a car charger for the battery. No more trips with a dead battery! This camera does video and pictures. Both in High Definition. I could not have asked for anything better. Thank you Jordan!

Just a few pictures I took yesterday

ALICE

When I was pregnant with Paislee I didn't want Rylan to feel left out so I decided to get him a little hamster. Sally was a great little friend to Rylan. She took more abuse than any little hamster should ever have to go through. Sally loved Rylan as much as Rylan loves her. Well Sally passed away a couple of weeks ago. Rylan was so sad but then was ready for a new pet. He kept insisting that he wanted a guinea pig. Jordan put a veto on that one. So I took him to the pet store and we ended up with another hamster. She is very fast and the guy could not even catch her. I really tried to get Rylan to go to another pet store to get a hamster that was a little less wild, but he wasn't going to leave that store without a new friend. So we got her and he is having a hard time catching her to be able to hold her. Hopefully Alice will slow down the more he does hold her.

***I am sorry for the poor picture quality, they were taken from my phone***

A NEW ADVENTURE

Well you see, I thought I blogged about this forever ago, but it seems I was wrong. A few months back Jordan and I decided we needed to start a garden. We have a nice size back yard that is just dirt. We couldn't really afford to put a back yard in right now, so we went with a garden. It was great, Jordan watered it every night and it was kind of fun to watch the plants grow. Well now it is my responsibility to make sure the garden gets watered. I have only had one tomato plant die. To be honesty he was a little guy and I just don't think he could handle the 110 degree heat.

The beginning stages of our garden

Today's garden

Paislee loves to help out in our garden

(If you notice she is watering our neighbors yard)

Our little house guest in our garden

WEDDING TIME

This past week my sister-in-law got engaged. We are all so excited for her. Saturday she came into town so we could go dress shopping. We had a great time, and we even found THE DRESS. As we were both walking into the store together it was sitting on a manikin and we both said she had to try that dress on. It was definitely the one for her. We were also able to get the brides maids dress this weekend. Here are a few pictures from the day, but I won't tell which dress she chose!!!

FISHING TRIP

This last weekend we went up to Eagle Valley, in the middle of Nevada. It was about a 3 1/2 hour drive. We left Thursday night and headed to the lake. Jordan's parents had left that morning so they had already gotten the camp setup. It was 3 fun days of fishing and camping!!! For those of you that don't know my idea of camping is staying in a cabin and showering every night. I truly do not enjoy camping. Paislee is defiantly my daughter. She hated the tent and the sleeping bags. She woke up about every 45 minutes all 3 nights. If the sleeping bag got to close to her face she would freak out. Not just a little crying a total bloody murder screaming. Rylan and Jordan and a really good time and that is why we went. Rylan caught 4 fish and had a great time realling them in. Although he didn't want to touch the fish.

Jordan took the kids into a cave that they thought was really cool.

BOYS WILL BE BOYS

Rylan had his friend Hunter come over today. They wanted to jump on the trampoline with the water on. I figured it was hot outside and that would be a fun thing for them to do. I was in the kitchen sweeping the floor and just kinda keeping an eye on them. I went up stairs long enough to do Paislee's hair, five minutes at the very most, and this is what I came back to. They had mud from their heads to their toes. It was not only all over them, but they had been throwing mud balls at the dogs. They got back onto the trampoline so they could get all the mud off of them.

OUR LITTLE TALKER

Paislee has been very much in love with the telephone lately. All she wants to do is call Grandma or call Aunt. Well we can only half the time get Rylan to talk on the phone. He is much to busy playing. Jordan's mom has been out of town this week and the kids have really missed her. Yesterday after listening to Paislee asked to call Grandma Coache all day. I really mean all day, about every ten to fifteen minutes she would say "Call Grandma" So when Jordan got home last night I had him call his mom. Paislee talked for a few minutes, but then Rylan wanted a turn. After about five minutes we went looking for him. This is what we found

For a little boy that doesn't like to talk on the phone, he was sure comfortable.