SUMMER...

First smile on camera! He is smiling so much now, it is sooooo cute, makes my day!

Look at that face, how can you resist?? :)

Just a side note, this is suuupppperrrr long, I'll try to keep comments brief....and they are backwards....anyway, this is Daddy and Elayna at our hike with Jonathan's family, Elayna did the whole hike herself, Good Job Hunny!!

Grumpy miss Bri, wasn't too happy on the hike.

This was probably one of the funnest times of my life. Watching the girls with their cousins run back and forth, giggiling like crazy, as I chased them all around Aunty Gail's veranda! It is just the joy of my like to see my kids having fun with family. And what is so cute to see them with their other 2 little blond cousins the same age!

The 4 pretty princesses...there was a prince somewhere there (there are 6 kids on Jonathan's side all the same age, 5 girls and one boy. We were all together, just missing one girl).

My little Princess!

Having fun blowing up water ballons.

Best Buds!

3 muskateers! All getting into apples without us knowing...too cute! (This is Gail's little girl, Savanna).

Blond Babies!!!

All the Lee Grandkids that were there at the time (and me, Bri wouldn't sit without me) We are just missing 4 kids of Lisa and Lee's and all of Denise and Matt's kids. The girls just has a blast with all their cousins.

Now all the Boyer Grandkids! Only missing the one in Jess's tummy! :) As you can see it was 2 full weeks packed of cousins, first with Boyer cousins then with Lee cousin's....the girls just LOVED it!

Papa with Taylor and Brianna at our Tolman Reunion.

Papa and his sweet boy!

At the reunion chillin, it was so much fun. Just took some pictures of all who was there from our family. This is Tamanda, her niece and nephew (Tate's kids).

Beautiful picture of Jess and her daughter Shelby, so cute!

Tare bare, her man Jake, and Erin and my boy.

Uncle Blackie and Aunt Debra - LOve you TWO! So glad you came to the reunion.

And all the rest of the crazy bunch! Dad, Barb, Champ, Tanya, Tyler, Tate, his wife Loralie, Elayna and Jord, who was demostrating some Ju Jitzu Moves...it was too fun!!

Now at Calaway Park with Jess and her kids and Grandma. I went on this ride with Riley (Jess's oldest boy) cause no one else could go...I was so scared I was going to pee my pants, cause if any of you know me, I do NOT do rides. But it was actually soooooooooo fun! (Probably cause it was a kiddy one, and not too high) ;)

Me and Bri on the Egg ride.

All the kids hanging out at home watching a movie. They loved each other!

Our layer of Tiger's Grrrrrrrrrrrr! Jess did these face paints...it was so cute.

My Tigress

Aunty Jess turning 30!!!!!!!!! Crazy! We love you Jess!

Sleeping with Daddy....oh too sweet! I love these moments.

My cuties.

Went over to Alysha's to have a girly time with our kids. It was alot of fun, but the girls just LOVED all their dress up clothes. Brianna expecially loved this little number....she felt so beautiful!

Eating our pizza in a tutu :)

At Sycome on a hot day. Elayna was so cute, I went to go sun tan, and she came and copied me, so had to take a picture. I love this girl!

Daddy and his little man....

Well that just about catches me up. We had a lot of fun with family. However at the end of it all we had a misfortune, and Brianna had a bleed again, so we were in the hospital with her for another week after all this fun time. It was rough. To say the least. We are so happy, her surgery that will hopefully fix all the bleeding and the major problem is getting done on September 11th. I am sooo thankful it is so soon. How I pray for my little girl, she has gone through so much. Now to just enjoy the last of the summer....Hope to have some more fun!

Photoshoot With Taylor

My good friend Alysha took these amazing photos of Taylor and me. I am soooo happy how well they turned out, she did an amazing job. And I have to say that he is just the cutest boy, I fall more in love with him every day! He was so good for all these pictures too. It took us a couple of hours and he was awake the whole time and never cried. He is such an angel! So to see more, go to Alysha's blog (on my sidebar) and scroll down to her Photography tab. They are beautiful. Thanks so much Alysha!! :)

Well I cannot tell you all how excited I am that I will be selling clothes from this awesome company that my good friend created, called as you can see, Sweet Simplicity! It is such a terrific idea of bringing all the hot modest clothes we love from the states, all together in one store and selling them in Canadian dollars! Isn't that awesome!! No shipping fee's, no exchange, no guessing what might look good on you, and no waiting to get it in the mail. We have most inventory right in our homes (or yours if you throw a party!). I just wanted to let you all know that I will be a consultant, and if you would like to throw a party to have fun, buy some stylish clothes and win some great incentives, then just let me know. You can email me at
crystal@sweetsimplicityboutique.com And just for something special, if you throw a party in August and get $500+ in sales, you get a FREE DRESS! How awesome is that! So go check out our website at www.sweetsimplicityboutique.com (or click on my icon on my sidebar) and look at all the lines we are selling. Shade, Downeast Basic, LimeRicki, Mikarose...just to name a few. I know you'll love this company as much as I do!

A weekend of Celebration

Our front door to welcome those to the shower.

The fun game of guessing which chocolate bar is melted in the diapers...looks soooo gross! :)

Susan makes these blocks...herself! They are amazing, she did Taylor's name and some numbers

It started on Saturday, with Taylor's baby Shower, that my wonderful Sister in Law did. As you can see (although pictures do no justice) how beautiful she decorated it. It was so well thought out, so much fun with games, and yummy food, it was touching, and so wonderful to celebrate with all who came. I just had such a wonderful time. That cake by the way is a diaper cake! It was amazing! Below is me and my boy!

Then on Sunday was his blessing. It was such a beautiful day and wonderful blessing. We had those we loved there, but were missing a few, which we were sad counld't make it, but understand. We had a family dinner after at Jonathan's parents house. Yummo!!

Round of family pictures. His beautiful blessing outfit made specially by Grandma Lee. So special.

With Grandparents. Missing my Dad, he was in Idaho with my sister. I love this picture!

3 generations.

Cute Brianna. The beautiful blanket below was made by my Sister! Isn't she amazing! :)

Love baby faces!!

My sweet baby boy. I love you! So thankful you came to our family.

A Beautiful Wedding

So Last weekend was my Step Sister's wedding. It was so beautiful and we had so much fun. She is a wonderful girl, I love her, and her husband is so nice. Here are a few pictures from it (in backwards order, don't feel like rearranging)

This was at the very end of the night, they had a dance....Jonathan and I were sooooooooo excited to go to a dance that had good music. We haven't been dancing in so long, and it was so fun!! Taylor slept through the whole thing, music so loud and everything! :)

Me and my Beautiful Mom!

The reception/dinner/dance was at this beautiful ranch house out in Cochorane (sp?)

Mama and Papa.

OK, so this is the first picture, but you will see more, and how absolutly beautiful her dress and she was!!! Oh my goodness, I want it! She just looked radiant!

My sweet Brianna, I just cut their bangs right before we went, and she looked sooo cute!

Here is a good picture of the back of her dress. Soooo pretty!

That is Nicole's husband Kevin, such a nice guy. Anyway, they had a Catholic ceremony, it was very nice, and really interesting being Mormon, there were actually alot of similarities....just certain things done different, but very similar. Kinda neat.

Her beautiful bridesmaids...the 2 on the right our my other 2 Step Sisters.

So pretty!

Finally Elayna warming up to Taylor, and I got a picture to prove it! ;)

My sweet boy! Oh I love having a boy, he is so cute, I can't stop kissing him. Anyway, we had a great weekend, and I'll have to post this past weekend up soon too, cause Papa Boyer came up and we had fun.