Grandma and Grandpa visit!

Taylor, Grace and Olivia all started soccer this last Saturday and we had some fun visitors also!
Taylor loved that Grandma and Grandpa Judd could come to her game!

While they were here, Grandma made skirts for the girls. (in less than 24 hours too, she's amazing!!)
We tye-dyed some shirts...
made homemade granola bars, yum!
Grandpa Judd helped Rob plant an avocado tree and a fruit tree..
and they built a wall in our back yard so the sprinkler system would work better...
Rob and his dad also sanded our entire piano so that grandma Judd and I could paint it white. It took them over 5 hours to sand it and it took us all together over 10 hours to complete it!



It was so much work but so worth it! I'm so grateful to finally have a working piano in our house. Now I just need my girls (and I) to take lessons!!

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Judd, we love you!!

First day of school...

I can BARELY handle that all of the girls are in school right now. It's only 3 hours that I'm by myself but it makes me really sad that they are soo grown up. I seriously try not to cry every time I drop them off, it's soo pathetic. I love them soo very much and as hard as it is raising 3 girls I might have an even harder time having them leave me every day!

hot arizona...

Two weeks ago we went to Arizona. On our way there we stopped in Yuma and stayed in a hotel with the kids for the first time. It was a lot of fun. It was 107 degrees out so we went in the pool that night and went in the pool the next morning. The girls loved every second of the hotel room!
We then went straight to Robs brother's house in Tuscon. The girls had SO much fun hanging out with their cousins. The girls had fun watching movies...

playing dressup...

feeding goats, ostrichs, and...
lorikeets. (never heard of them but the kids loved it!)
They played in the back with sprinklers...
oh and we fed some deer too! (sorry a little out of order) We also went swimming and got a babysitter so that Rob and I could go out with Scott and Cheryl. We had a great time and can't wait until next year! :)

camping

Rob took Grace and Olivia camping in our backyard while Taylor and I were out of town. They loved every second of it! I think Rob loved it too since he didn't have to travel too far! Being right next to a house is my kind of camping! :)

Meghan's visit...

My sister, Meghan just left my house and I'm a little in depression! :) seriously though she is my best friend!! I flew last wednesday to Salt Lake to help her move. We started packing her stuff that night and all day thursday then on Thursday night a bunch of guys helped us move their stuff in a truck. We woke up on friday and drove 13 hours to Mesa, Arizona. We spent the night in a hotel that night and woke up early on Saturday morning because a bunch of other guys were helping us move into their house at 7! It was really hard work but soo much fun to spend time with Meghan and her kids!

Then on Monday Meghan and I drove to San Diego where she stayed at my house for a week. It was soo much fun! We went bowling, roasted hot dogs and made smores at the beach, went to Knott's soak city and Knott's berry farm, had a barbecue with my whole family at my house, went to the lake to feed the ducks and just had a really great time hanging out with family!!