Bugs

Each morning Annalyn wakes up very happy, laughing and talking!

This morning she was exceedingly happy because she saw a BUG on the floor.

The earwig was slowly crawling in a random pattern on the floor and Annalyn was FASCINATED!

She wanted down off the couch to watch it more closely, but didn't even try to touch it. She bent down and tried to find it when it went under the coffee table. When it started moving toward her she wanted back up on the couch.

After about 5 minutes, I scooped up the bug on a piece of paper and showed it to her.

"What should we do with the bug Annalyn?"

She took my finger and toddled all the way through the kitchen, the living room, into my bedroom, and finally into the master bathroom where she proceeded to lift the toilet lid and point inside.

I dumped the bug unceremoniously into the water and asked her, "what now?"

She promptly pushed the flusher and waved her little hand "bye bye" as the bug disappeared.

Wow - 4 months!

Remember us?

Well, we're still here!

Sorry it's been so crazy long since I posted on here. I used to post often while Travis was traveling for work, and when he stopped traveling and was home with us every day I didn't feel such a need to post pictures. Sad though that excuse may be - it is the truth. Blogging was pushed to the bottom of my neverending list, and has just now resurfaced.

Wow I forgot how much I enjoy it! So much has happened in the last 4 months.

Enjoy some pics and brief explanations of where we've been while we've been MIA from the blogspot world...

The Love of My Life!

Travis and Sherise ~ May 2010
We got family pictures when Annalyn turned one.

These are just a few of our favorites!

Sometime in early summer I domestically tried my hand at homemade Strawberry freezer jam. Not as difficult as I thought and so worth it!

Random Family Home Evening

Travis came home from work and wanted to make a giant chocolate chip cookie.

(apparently, a coworker was having a cookie cake that evening for a birthday party)

So we looked up instructions and tried it ~ quite successfully too!

The whole evening was much to Annalyn's delight who got to lick beaters and eat cookie dough (yes that is a Broulim's apron - go Rexburg)

Vacation for 2 Weeks in Idaho!

Annie (sherise's sister) was baptized in June! Here's Annalyn with Great Grandma Shanna after the baptism.

Annalyn's newest cousin Andrew Edward Archibald was blessed the same weekend.

Here's a pic of all the grandkids! (except Princess Kaitlyn)

We took a day hiking trip while in Idaho.

Annalyn demonstrated quite clearly why she was supposed to be a boy - she loved the dirt, the water, the weeds, and mostly...THE FIRE!! Cute pic of Shaina, Adam, Aranae, and Annalyn

Dawni Jo got Married on June 12th to Michael James Hainline

The wedding was beautiful, but A LOT OF WORK! We decorated it ourselves (and the weather didn't cooperate so it was moved the night before indoors). I sewed all the dresses and made the bouquet - which for my 1st one didn't turn out 1/2 bad!

Here's the really amazing part though...

My mom made this CAKE! She's so talented!

We took some amazing Oldham Family Pictures!

And then headed back to Texas!

Where we swim almost EVERY DAY! Thank goodness for a large neighborhood pool! Otherwise we'd be inside all day every day because it's 100 degrees with disgusting humidity!
This girl is a water bug. LOVES IT! Likes to swim by herself without my help, goes underwater and everything! She'll be a better swimmer than I am by the time she's 2. I think some of that comes from growing up in Texas - we Idahoans don't swim much...

4th of July was thrown in there somewhere. We celebrated with good friends and great food!

Oh and Eclipse was in there somewhere too. Here's just one group of friends I went with. The midnight showing was so fun! I'd never get a "bling" t-shirt on my own, but it was fun to do with my awesome friends! Now I wear it sometimes around town and Trav says he feels like he's with a 15 year old...guess I'm trying to stay young...

My sisters Hannah and Shaina came to stay for a couple weeks! We love just being together! We did take a weekend trip to Galveston (down on the Gulf) and here are a few pics from that.

We took a family weekend to Galveston to see the flight museum another weekend this summer and here are the pics from that...sadly the B-17 (something like that) that Trav wanted to ride in wasn't there the weekend we visited. BIG BUMMER!
Well, mostly here's our life the last 4 months summed up in one picture!
Happy Summer to Y'all!