Summer Lovin'

Warning do not scroll any further if you do NOT want to see a LOT of pictures of Wesson

We have had so much fun so far this summer! Our first water adventure started with our hose! We had a dead spot of grass (embarrassing) so Ryan got out the hose to water it for awhile. Well what kid needs a pool to cool off when there is a hose? 

(ps ignore that Wesson is in his pjs it was only like 9am but they boy has a sense of adventure that will NOT be deterred)

he ALWAYS runs like this with his arms back! so cute

So much happiness...it MUST be summer!

I feel like this is a picture I will cherish forever! Like when I do the senior add in the yearbook when he is in high school kind of cherish!

But the best fun of all...

THE SPLASH PAD!

There is a brand new one by the ol' in laws house!

It is FABULOUS!

I love my camera by the way, these are the sweetest pictures! (and there are a lot but you were warned...)

No fear!

I have the cutest kid EVER!

They crack each other up it is the CUTEST thing! I love these two!

I just love Ike in this picture, dramatic much?

Not only is he a cutie but he is a sweetheart too! Look at him help his cousin up? 

The comedian and the tag-a-long! 

I wish I would have got a picture of whatever they thought was so cool

He would play in there ALL DAY!

And be as happy as can be...

I hope Jaelyn looks at our blog because I think this is the sweetest picture EVER!


Here is to a summer of more adventures!

california here we come right back where we started from...

We took a little trip to California over Memorial Day for a few reasons..
1. To see my brother graduate from Stan State
2. To paint my Dad's house
3. Celebrate my niece's first birthday
4. We hadn't been on a vacation in awhile and NEEDED one (although it never feels like a really vacation to go home...)
5. To pick up our NEW (to us) TRUCK & BOAT!!!! (thanks Dad!!)

Wesson's newest facial expression: The Scary Face

Mommy & Daddy don't have any cool toys. We only brought lame books and such but this sweet lady was more than willing you entertain him with her fancy-schpancy Ipad thingy!

It was SO much colder than I ever remember SF being! But it was so fun to take Wesson all around, he was FASCINATED but everything and everyone there! Mostly the sea lions. He still asks "can we see Oma's (that is my mom) sea lions today?" evidently she owns everything in California...

Our family in front of the "BIG BIG BRIDGE" still FREEZING but I love this picture, so worth it!

Are cousins not the cutest thing in the world?? These two could not decide if they like each other or not?? We'll have to get them together more often!

I love my grandparents! Hands down they are the greatest grandparents. And Wesson LOVES them! He still talks about his Mimi and Poppy (all the other great grandkids call him Pappi haha) you can't tell in this picture he is laughing hysterically.  I can get the video to load! err! But I love every picture of Wesson with them! Thank you Grandma & Grandpa for being the greatest examples to me of EVERYTHING! loving, service, non-judgmental, patient, forgiving...I could go on forever! And aren't they SO dang cute?!

So throw in getting to see the cutest grandparents in the world, a day in San Francisco, dinner with my cutest high school friend and HER BABY! (WHY DID WE NOT TAKE PICTURES EMILY?!!) Some good old fashion quality family time. It just happened to be a fabulous trip! 


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I guess we'll be back! 

If it smells like a rat...

I feel like I have told this story 3 TRILLION times. But the blog is for posterity right? And it really is WORTH repeating! So if you have heard it already you can just keep hanging out on Facebook or get back to Pinterest I guess! :)


Last Wednesday night Wesson and I were outside in the front yard. We have an island in our yard with trees, bushes and flowers. We have planted everything but the bushes so they are quite large. Wesson was busy playing "garbage trucks" (he is seriously obsessed with garbage trucks...but i guess that is better than like Winnie the Pooh right?) I decided I would weed the island, I was just going about my own business, I lifted the leaves of the bush to weed underneath it and out of the corner of my eye something kinda fell out of the bush. I look over and see...

As you can imagine I  SCREAM. And not like a quiet gentle scream, like BLOODY MURDER. Like I was being stabbed! And no one came running to rescue me?? COME ON NEIGHBORS!! I leap over the bush. I grab Wesson. We fall to the ground. I am screaming. He is crying. This was traumatic for everyone. I call Ryan. It goes something like this:


Ryan: Hi baby
Jess: A RAT A RAT A RAT!!!!!!!!
Ryan: What?
Jess: AT OUR HOUSE! A RAT!!!!
Ryan: I can't understand you
Jess: A WHITE RAT WITH RED EYES STARRING AT ME!!! I AM SELLING THE HOUSE!!!!
Ryan: That is just someones pet, put up a sign that you found it! 
Jess: I THINK IT IS DEAD, IT WAS LOOKING AT ME!!!!
Ryan: Then put it in the trash can...
Jess: YEAH, I AM GOING TO TOUCH IT. GOOD BYE!


So I proceed to call EVERY man I know. Jeff, my next-of-kin. My father in law. My neighbor. My friends. With no luck. FINALLY...my AMAZING neighbor Carrie comes home. She tells me, get me some paper towels and I'll throw it away. (AH-MAZING right??) She throws it in our garbage. I love her. Ryan comes home that night and CAN YOU BELIEVE has the nerve to get upset because we just threw it in the trash and then it will decompose and stink up the trash can, we need to put it in a bag or something...blah blah blah. I was NEVER going to look at that rat again so I told him he was on his own. Our week got really busy and he didn't think of it again. I on the other hand told EVERYONE I saw from that day on about my encounter with Satan's pet rat! On Saturday morning we were both home and I asked Ryan if he had put it in a bag, he said he hadn't and he would go do that now while I was inside getting Wesson ready for the day. Moments later Ryan comes in laughing this evil laugh...(you know the one...) he says, "I want to start by saying I love you, but you are a RETARD"...






THAT RAT IS FAKE.




And it was.

oops. everyone gets one good rubber rat story right?