Sunday, June 13, 2021

A week with the Martins + Shi's Birthday.

June 6 - 13

It was so fun hanging with the Martins for the week. 

We did a little organization, ran a few errands, went on walks, and played with CalB, who pretty much rules the roost. He's definitely King Baby (if you haven't read that book, you should).




**how CalB feels during the walk for about 80% of the time**



**still not impressed**

That boy does love his food, though.






Shi took CalB's 9 month old pics.




See? King Baby.

**his little hands**




I spent the car time as we ran errands in the back seat with Cal.
On this particular day he fancied his toes ;-)



Shi and I were out a little later one evening - I think we were getting a treat (we are treat lovin' gals), and we saw something exciting going on nearby so we decided to go check it out.

Hot air balloons.



I think we were hoping for a lift-off, but when I searched about the event, it was just a go-see type of thing. We came. We snapped some pics, We made the long grasshopper-infested walk back to the car.



Shi and Kody have these horses out their back door. We tried feeding them each an apple. Unfortunately one of the horses was a little slow, so **somebody** got more than his fair share (3, because we tried to get an apple to the other horse twice), and **somebody** got none.


I watched CalB so his mama and papa could go out to eat to celebrate Shi's birthday.
Cal didn't LOVE his one-on-one Gigi time, but he managed as pleasantly as he could.








June 13
We celebrated Shi's 25th birthday at my mom and dad's house.
We had a yummy dinner, some delicious cake, and enjoyed the evening hanging out with some of our favorites.





We took some timer pictures... you know how well those always turn out haha.




I love this beautiful girl and am so grateful to be her mom.
Happy Birthday, Shi!

Scarlett found the old (dare I say antique) my-size Barbie that my girls used to love playing with. Guess what? Scarlett loves her, too.







Such a fun week. I love my people. ♥

Saturday, June 5, 2021

Pedicures, a parade, and a house update.

June 4 

Mother's Day pedicures, round 2.

I didn't get one, since my AL pedi was still pretty good, but I was there. I neglected to snap any action pics of Britt and Shi, or even a final product pic, but I DID snap a pic of our after-pedi treat ;-)



Love these mommas so much ♥

June 5
Eagle Mountain parade with the Andersons

This was one of those good old fashioned small town parades with candy throwing - I love that. We found a single tree for shade, but the Andersons also came prepared with umbrella chairs.


I may or may not have tripped - and fell - in front of lots of peeps. Good news is that I did not sustain injuries or holes in my clothes with my fall :-)



I was bummed to miss the full pic of Lightning McQueen


Can you tell I love marching bands in parades?




Scarlett picked flowers on the walk back to the car.





L dug into his candy stash.


Later that day I packed up my stuff and made my way to Shi and Kody's home for a stay. They so kindly took me to a local shaved ice place so I could get my fix ;-)


I'm not sure if CalB had tried shaved ice before...




Cal... it's JUST. SO. GOOD.



He must've liked it, because we snapped some darling pics of a very happy boy as we finished up.




For my own personal record-keeping, here's quick run through of house progress over the past couple of months:

April 7

April 30


May 9

May17


May 26
(I realized this day that the wall to the right of the door was in the wrong place. Boy oh boy, that was the cause of some anxiety. Luckily our construction manager was willing to get it moved before the floor went in. I am forever grateful.)


May 28

May 30

June 2

June 3

June 4


It goes so much quicker just scrolling through, doesn't it?
More updates ahead.