Cosetti Confetti!

 How can you resist that smile? She is turning one in a couple of weeks and isn't quite walking, but crawling like crab. Everyday shows more promise. Cosette is very active and tries to keep up with her brothers. She is my hip ornament and I enjoy her company ever tick of the day. It is so fun having a girl! She blabs all the time and can say "Mama", "DaDa", "Ambumb"(Ammon), 

 Out with the boys washing the Land Cruiser. There's always been a fun off-road vehicle in the family.

 She's a great dishwasher

And loves to unload too.

But don't ask her Dad to change her dirty drawers because it's a fit busting out. He gets stressed and sweaty and starts yelling orders out like a captain who's loosing a ship upon a raging sea. Sometimes I think it's easier to change it myself to guarantee a much happier moral throughout the cabin, but on second thought, it's good for the captain to mop the deck sometimes, no matter the attitude.:)

Family Reunion

The cousins are together again! Look at all those smiles.

            The mayhem started at Ryan and Whitney's....... the boys brawled for a good part of the day.

 Oliver took Calvin DOWN!

Family Reunion 2010 was a blast!!! It was this weekend that was monumental for Calvin. He just decided to take off on his cousin Paxton's bike without training wheels! He surprised us all. He also took off on his cousin's motorcycle and almost gave me a heart attack.....he was headed straight for a fence and wo-hooing in excitement the whole time. He was in more control than I thought and steered away from the fence right before I passed out!

Calvin at the talent show telling his jokes. He did a good job except for when he almost got booed off by the "Paxton Peanut Gallery."

Ilene's Baby Shower

What is my arm doing?

Football in the field. Look at that landscape!

Rhett with Curtis.....a father, son moment.

 Cascade Lake

Miss CoCo Loco

Ryan on kid duty.

Oliver being a stud

The Bills! Love the pose Heidi!

Miss Rebecka

Ryan with Wade

The Comptons

Heidi with Sidney

Cousin Sidney with CoCo



Labor Day

Nugget Chuggets as Calvin calls her or Cosetti Confetti is on her way to walking.Otherwise this has been her view.Thompsons invited us to there beach house in Gerhardt. Such beauty! The weather was sunny and warm, the best I have ever experienced at the Oregon Coast. Great way to spend the weekend before school started!

J-P was carrying her around like a bucket and she just laughed! She would kick the air like she was running to get momentum to fly. Hillarious to watch. Guess you had to be there.

More Summertime Favorites

It's the Macy's Day parade at the ranch

Notice the specatacles....funny-ha, ha! Note our relocation. Good times.

 

 Caught in between two HUGE black horses, I was a bit intimidated.

 

I love Oliver's face!

 

Oliver's 4th Birthday Party!

What's a party without a piñata? We did it in the neighbor's yard because we

 didn't have the right party tree.

Candy!

Oliver has wanted a Star Wars themed birthday party since Calvin had his, so we obliged.

He said it was the party he always wanted......how sweet is this boy?!

Pirate sword from Grandpa

Legos! Oli's fav.

Fourth of July

On the fourth, we celebrated by going to a live reenactment of the Civil War. Something happened to me that was very unexpected......I almost burst into tears. The emotion over-came me watching these men fight.

It felt very real and it provoked a lot of thought about how much sacrifice our fore-fathers went through to give us our freedoms we easily take for granted today.

Cosette didn't like the cannons being shot, I don't blame her - they were loud. Although, she shows no signs of distress. Isn't she the cutest.

These people who do these reenactments are very involved. They all come and set up there time-period tents and camp out for days. It is very impressive to watch.

The boys absolutely loved it!