Youth Basketball Camp

Jeff did his first youth basketball camp at Elbert County and was able to raise over $700 for his team. He really wants to fundraise $3000 so he can take his team to Washington for a summer tournament. Fundraising is such a pain and is so hard, so we're not sure it is a realistic goal, but it would be so awesome for the kids if they would be able to raise enough money. The youth camp went well, even though it is great Jeff is now the head coach, it kind of sucks, because he hasn't had much of a summer break and school starts again in just two short weeks! Hopefully this new four day work week will be less strenuous for him:)

Bathtime Buddies

The girls are finally big enough to take a bath together and they LOVE it!

UGA Summer Camp

Jeff took his team to a summer camp at UGA and they got to play a game in the Colosseum where UGA's bball team plays. The girls and I stopped by to watch a game, it was fun to watch Jeff in action as the head coach! Their team is really good, they have won almost all of their games they have played this summer and the only ones they have lost have been to bigger division schools.

On a side note, our camera has a dark spot in the lens inside the camera! I am so annoyed, this is the second time it has had something wrong with it, last time we had to send it away during Christmas so we missed a lot of pictures and now it is summer when we take vacations, so I don't want to send it away again! Boo!

a new friend...

Two of these little guys decided to come to our house and visit on the night of Robyn's shower... we have never seen them before and we haven't seen them since so we are hoping they just came in with someone's stuff...I am learning all about bugs here in the south... when we were in Florida, I think Cheyenne got bit by a "flying Midge"...

Robyn's Baby Shower

Some of the cute girls at the shower:) Robyn is the one in purple on the couch.

The decorations...

A nice shot of everyone eating... notice I hung our pictures on our blank wall behind the couch.

cupcakes:

The treat table:

My friend Robyn is having her first little girl this August. We are so excited for her!! About 5 of us got together to throw her a shower. Good thing there were five of us throwing it for her because about 20 people were there! Robyn and Steve are the nicest and pretty much are always watching everyone in the ward's kids, so everyone is so excited for them that they are finally getting a little girl of their own!! They are going to be the best parents. The shower was a lot of fun, we had taquitos, black bean soup, taco soup, salad, fruit and lots of adorable/delicious cookies and cupcakes, we played a celebrity baby name game, a jeopardy game and a bingo gift game. It was so much fun:) We always talk about how weird it is that her little girl and Berkeley will be in the same grade in school... and Berkeley is 8 months old. This morning I went to get Berkeley from her crib and she was standing up, now all day she has been wanting to pull up on everything. She is just growing up so fast:)

Storytime

I love watching Jeff read the girls a story at night... I love watching Jeff with the girls anytime, really.... these are my three favorite "peoples" in the world!!

Girls Trip to Myrtle Beach

Before you read this, I want to warn you of a possible TMI at the end of the post:)

Wendi, Steph, and I rode together, we were so excited to head to the beach!

All the girls at the beach on day two:

In the elevator after our walk on the beach:

Dinner at P.F. Changs:

Two cute girls getting some sun:

Day one on the beach:

So a good friend emailed me a few weeks ago and said she needed a break and wanted to plan a girls' trip to the beach. I thought it sounded like so much fun, so I talked to my sweet husband and he said he didn't mind at all. When we looked at what weekends worked, the only one was Father's Day because of basketball and Jeff didn't even mind! We were all talking on the trip about how lucky we were to have such great husbands. We took two cars and left Friday morning. We got there and checked into one hotel room for 7 girls. It had 4 beds though so there was even room for one more:) We changed into our suits and got some Hardees for lunch which was suprisingly really good, maybe because I was so hungry??? Anyway, we spent from about 3:30 til 7 on the beach Friday. It was overcast a lot of the time, but we still had fun eating snacks and boogie boarding. That night we went to PF Changs for dinner. I had the lettuce wraps as my meal which was AMAZING!! We had an hour wait so we just walked around and looked at little shops while we were waiting. I found this sign:

After dinner we walked on the beach and I highlighted my friend, Andrea's hair. We went to bed sometime in the wee hours of the morning. The next morning, Andrea and I got up around 9 to go for a little run on the beach which was, of course, beautiful! Then we laid out on the beach until around 3:30 when we headed home. It was a fun, quick trip.

TMI (too much info) starts now...

It would have been more fun if I hadn't have been so dumb.... remember how I am still nursing an 8 month old, like 3-5 times a day? Well, my pumps take up a lot of room, so I thought I could just hand express my milk when I got full. I have done it before, but I didn't know that it was pretty much impossible once you become engorged.... I was so uncomfortable starting the first night, after dinner at PF Changs we swung by WalMart to see if I could find a pump. In my mind I was thinking there would be one for $10-$20. Well, they only had one and it was $30. I had pumps at home and didn't need to get one besides the current situation, so I decided to just tough it out which was a definite mistake. The next morning after my run I started to feel sick and had the worst headache and I think it had a lot to do with my little predicament. It was so annoying, because all along my plan was to stay up late and then sleep on the beach all day, but I could not sleep at all and I couldn't even lie on my stomach. On the drive home, I couldn't take it anymore and we stopped by a different Wal-Mart. They had a pump for $20 and I bought it and it was the best relief in my life!! Andrea told me I needed to take a picture for Jeff, Since there are no boys that read my blog, I wanted to document just how insanely big my boobs were...

I had two other swimsuits with me and luckily I even brought this one because my boobs didn't fit into the other ones (they barely fit in this one). I pretty much looked like a stripper with a bad boob job because they were hard as a rock and all lumpy! I wish it wouldn't have been so painful, but I tried to enjoy it since I will be done nursing in about 4 months at which time they will completely disappear! Although, I think I prefer my usual small to normal boob size which do not get in the way at all and don't make me feel so revealing.

Even with my painful situation, it was a fun trip and I am so grateful to Jeff for letting me get away from responsibility for a couple days:)

Jets Plus Bubble Bath equals

two-year-old heaven!

Swimming with the Clantons

Audrey and Austin had to squeeze in the one seat left next to the car seats... yes, we are saving for a van and we are not having any more kids until we get one either.

Baby Micah. Such a cute little rolie polie boy!!

Me with my smokin' hubby:)

Berkeley and Daddy (notice Jeff's buff shoulders and arms!!):

All the cute kids (except Micah):

Berkeley is such a happy baby:

Cheyenne swam with just the water wings for the first time. She loved it, but I was nervous the whole time!

Berkeley and I on the steps:

A few Mondays ago, when the Blum kids were here, we went swimming at our friends' relatives' pool. It was so fun! I think we spent like at least two hours in the pool and then we went to Moe's afterwards because kids eat free! It was so delicious to have a good healthy meal after spending so long in the pool. We love the Clantons, they are so sweet and so fun!!

Favorite Peoples

One time Cheyenne said, "I like Peoples. Audrey is my favorite peoples." Audrey and Austin are her cousins who live in Florida (they also have a little sister named Ansley). Anyway, Audrey and Austin came to stay with us for a few days and Cheyenne was in heaven! They brought their ipad and Cheyenne thought that was just about the coolest thing ever! I didn't take any pictures, but every time Cheyenne and Berkeley took a nap, Audrey and Austin and I played board games. Audrey won apples to apples, then Austin won life, then we played Monopoly and Austin was killing Audrey and I, but he said he was tired of playing it and really wanted to go Bankrupt... He ended up quitting and we divided his assets... I took the railroads and Park Place (I already owned Boardwalk) and Audrey took everything else which gave her several monopolies... anyway I think I probably got the unfair advantage with the railroads, because I ended up winning... Audrey was okay with it since we each won one game:) It was a fun weekend and we will see them again next week when we head to their house in Florida for some much needed beach time!!

Austin and Cheyenne have always gotten along really well... here they are at the park:

Berkeley sitting with Mommy in the shade:

It looks like Austin is pulling Cheyenne's hair, but he was just gently playing with it, it was so cute:

Cheyenne and Audrey playing in the bubble bath:

Audrey, Austin and Cheyenne in the pool: