What We've Been Up To

We have had a crazy, busy and fun summer - thus very little posting! I have been terrible about taking pictures though, so I snapped a few this morning so I would have something to blog! Mya and Kylan have been busy playing outside with Abby, playing with cousins, going to the lake and hanging out in the house when it's took hot outside.

They really like to try to catch butterflies. Kylan has only been successful once (he was SOOOO excited), but they keep trying!
They've been very patient with their puppy Abby who is still very much a puppy even though she is getting so big! She and Mya especially have a love/hate relationship!

Kylan is getting ready to start pre-school in a couple weeks. I told him yesterday that next week he gets to go meet Mrs. Stark and then the next week he officially starts. He had the funniest look on his face and I asked him what that face means, he told me he was making that face because he was "just so excited". I think he is really going to enjoy school! Braden and Kylan are finally old enough for sleepovers, so everytime they are together they are always trying to figure out how they can spend the night at each others houses! It's pretty funny! He is also counting down the days until it is September because that is when dove season opens and he can go dove hunting with his dad (no he doesn't shoot yet, but he pretends to and he loves to pick up his dads shells).

Emmit is just busy turning into a little boy. He is working on walking. He would be a little better at it if he had more than one speed - he just tries to run and so he face plants pretty quickly, but the few times he has gone slow he has taken quite a few steps! He can point at what he wants now and he is trying to say more. He can also follow some directions which is nice! His favorite words right now are "hi" "ut-oh" "bye" (while waving) "mama" and of course "dada". He also loves to do patty cake and give fives and bump it (with sound effects). He is just such a sweet heart, except that he will only give dad kisses, no one else and only once-in-awhile with dad even! But he is the smiliest thing ever and is so happy most of the time (unless other people try to pick him up, I don't know why all my kids are like this, but they are)! He just follows his brother and sister every where and thinks he is as big as them!
Kylan reading to Emmit

We have also spent a lot of time working on our old house in town. Our renter moved out the end of June and so ever since then we have been working on and off here while looking for new renters. Luckily we finally found some new ones and they are moving in tomorrow! Along with having some electrical work done, we did some cosmetic work and then LOTS of cleaning! Here are some pics I took to put on craigslist. I like the one of the kitchen because Emmit is in it!

And we painted the living room and dining room. They were the same green as the kitchen, but we decided to paint over it because (1) it needed to be painted and (2) a lot of people didn't really care for the green! Thanks to my dad and Tonya this went pretty quickly! Also, Laine helped us out with a lot of other things around the house, like removing a couple pine trees from the back yard and re-grouting around the sink in the kitchen. The kids were also very patient and good most of the time!