JUNE

 

His new favorite arts…created just for him:)

Summer collaging with my gals one day…

 

NOELLE DATE

 Huckleberry breakfast   

ace @ 8:30 Michaels @ 9

maaaybe Target & 5 below

lunch  grilled cheese/jamba 

the pottery place @ 1-4

Cold stone 

WE DID EVERYTHING ON OUR LIST. THIS NOELLE. SHE IS HILARIOUS AND KNOWS WHAT SHE WANTS. NOT A HUGE SHOPPER SO WE SPENT MOST OF OUR TIME EATING AND PAINTING. FOUND A NEW FAVORITE POTTERY PLACE IN MODESTO! SHE SPECIFICALLY WANTED THE GRILLED CHEESE FROM STARBUCKS. HA. WHO KNEW?! TIA STEPHANIE:) WE TALKED ABOUT OUR HALLOWEEN KITTY, HOW SHE WANTS TO EITHER BE AN ARTIST OR TEACHER SOMEDAY & IN BETWEEN ALL OF THIS SHE GOT UP ABOUT A MILLION TIMES TO SWITCH HER PAINT COLORS AND GET NEW FUN TOOLS TO USE (IN HEAVEN WHEN SHE IS CREATING!) HER ONLY PAINTING PROJECT WAS FOR GWINNA’S BIRTHDAY. SWEET GIRL. (Also who knew it took so long to layer one color three times?)

As soon as we left girls camp kick off we started to order fun new gear for it! 

The girls got to babysit Aria TWICE this month. FULL days too! They loved it and were so excited to know how to get her down for a nap. Proud of themselves:) She is just adorable. 

Took Sia for her first Orthodontist visit. Just like Gwinna she is going to be a phase one, phase two patient. No fear, this child. 

Hilmar Cheese for funsie. 

Selfies in 5 Below

One of the many batches of cookies Noelle has made this summer.

YIKES. How is it possible I look worse with make up on?!

 I let these crazy gals do my makeup back to back one day. 

The moment after she realized what our shirts had on them:) Great Grammy turns 90! This woman. She is the best. Such a strong little lady who can never stop moving, working, living life with all she has in her! 

Finally using this cork board she made me to decorate with:)

Pool party with the Dahlins/Murdochs and old friends. Hot dogs & strawberry shortcake & chats with Eli about life, Eldon, & our own personal issues. 😁

Girls camp. I drove 5 girlfriends up & walked around for a bit, hugged Gwinna three times and each time promised I was leaving soon. Ha. Hard moment for me but man alive so worth it. 

Watching nostalgic movies while she was away. Missing my own mama watching this one. “Hi, I’m Carly Simon” chills. I love this whole scene. 

I hope some of the girls called dad “cute” in their letters. 

Basically worked on this all week for her… 

Home. Safe. Thank goodness. So happy she went and grew and she truly did! We can tell in the way she prays and how she shared her testimony when she came home that this was a meaningful moment for her spiritual growth. She also promised she would lead our brief testimony meeting at the end of my lesson that Sunday & she did and it was awesome! ❤

Father’s Day fun. The girls said dad “disguised” his voice as his Thunder Clap character in his new Silva Injury Law videos. Silly boy. 

Baby boy cousin time💙 

I love this detailed picture Noelle drew for MJ for Fathers Day. Him sitting in a chair with the cat on his lap, laying in bed (farting-green poof) with me saying “eww,” his preworkout container with his two thermoses he uses daily, his favorite meal lately (bagel and eggs) and him lifting dumbbells😂💚

Crafting. One day we got brave and tie-dyed shirts! Lils…if you’re reading this I keep forgetting to tell you these are t shirts I’ve saved from Remi’s birthday party (most color washed out)! 

In the living room crafts…Noelle needle felting, Sia doing rainbow loom rubber band bracelets and Gwinna making pom balls!

Noelle made me a garland with a cow and Michael Joe one with a kitty! SO CUTE. 

The pom ball is from Gwinna, which I also really love! 😄

This girl. NEVER a serious or smiley picture. Her fathers daughter. I am happy she really just wanted to PLAY  hard with me all day! Water slides! Woo! Too much fun. SO many stairs. We went on one (like 6 times at least) that you get shut in a tube like thing and it drops you straight down. Crazy. She did not slow down, even when we stopped for lunch she would run over to the smaller slides with the toddlers. I got, quite possibly, the BEST berry sorbet ever at the end of the day. She is a mint chocolate chip girl. We discussed gymnastics, theater class & our very favorite rides all the way home.  

Sia date

target in the morning (toy section made me happy - still my baby)

McDonald’s breakfast for her😖

early to Manteca stopped in at Ross for a slime kit and lemon heads

great wolf lodge- ALL of the slides for 5 hours!

ice cream on our way out 

Just the perfect shade of orange, I think. He loves it. He has wanted a hummer for a long while. 

Hm…need to take pics of all of our tie dyed shirts! Cute Noey with her awesome rainbow one! 

Could not help myself…JOANN!!!!!

This girl now! SHE has stamina for SHOPPING! WOW. I think I did a better job keeping up with Sia at the waterslides;) ha. We did have a lot of fun. My favorite moment was just sitting in the mail with her eating auntie Anne’s pretzels just talking about EVERYTHING. Shopping & talking. She is my good friend nowadays and such a brave, kind one too. Almost every place we went in she was complimenting someone on their nails, hair, outfit…:) 

Gwinna date
💜Target 
💜Ulta
💜Mall
-Sephora
-auntie Anne’s
-kids cotton
-Tilly’s, dicks- only to look for water bottle
-mystical Lucero
-buckle
-Jamba
-sees
-box lunch
-victorias secret 
💜5 Below
💜Trader Joe’s
💜Ross
💜Tj maxx 

Looking through old pictures with Grandma one day. She is so organized with her photos! Notes on almost every one of them too. Some made me laugh (pics of her naked as a child and one note read “not another one”) 

Her favorite one is “out in the field with mom & dad.” 

She showed me her tool chest full of old framed family pictures! SO AMAZING. All old, gorgeous frames and I told her I will be happy to have a whole wall full of them someday. 

My crafties…

So funny to be scrolling and come across my funny husband on social media. 
We also pass his billboards going to and from Modesto ( girls GCYA summer camp this month ….so DAILY back and forth) and always say “hi dad” 😆

Reading in Coach wooden book
How quickly do I ask God for forgiveness?
Humbling question…
John the Baptist (Peter too) did not stop preaching even though it meant his life on the line. 
Why isn’t this the easiest thing in the world for me to do right now!? Share my thoughts share my testimony. It would not mean my life is in danger…at this moment, anyway. 
Sincere. “Without wax” Roman artists would fill chipped statues with wax…when we are sincere biblically translates as “without blemish, pure, wholesome, genuine, true, or sincere.”

Shopping and Noelle at Crustacean station (GCYA summer camp) wearing a snake! 

This was a fun day. Kristen taught us all how to make her focaccia and pesto pasta.  Mostly me and Gwinna hung out with the boys and went down memory lane playing with old food toys:) Best. I told Soph I TRULY never mind … in fact, prefer, hanging out on the perimeter. Funny because at the pool party I was hanging out with Hyrum and the chickens and Eli walked over and said something about chickens being cooler than people, Hannah? Hm……😋 I am just a weird one, I suppose. 

Sia made 2 BOY friends and got both of their moms numbers so we can set up play dates😝 Stephen and Amari. Cute, silly boys. SUCH a fun show, as usual. They sang a Grease song & one from Newsies..always such fun music! Noelle had a bigger part and had 13 lines that she was stressed about memorizing but did such a great job, delivered so well!  Sia was front and center in her dances smiling and moving with purpose and (of course me and Soph noticed this) being watched on both sides by her peers for the moves! She just LIGHTS up on stage, always so fun to watch.  

Notes on talk on Sunday~

“Given us the gift of being where we’ve been” 
“Doesn’t matter how well we love and show love- we already have value through Gods love for us”

Snickerdoodles this time!

Started our Jenga repainting project!