Longest post in the history of blogging!

Ok here goes the spewing of the camera! Hold on tight!


First we have pictures of our family carwash day! We had a lot of fun! Our car was getting really gross and we are a little short on money so we decided to do it the old fashion way!






After washing the car we decided to take a swim in our HUGE pool! I pretty sure there was more bodies in the pool than water!

Mallory found her new favorite books! Fancy Nancy! We love her! So one day we decided to decorate her room just like Fancy Nancy does. So we spent all day making decorations and such and then we put them up in her room. And sadly she hung everything up just at her heigth which is also Ben's heigth and before I could get a picture of her room all fancied out tornado Benjamin hit. Sorry Mallory. But here are pictures of us making the decorations.

It didn't take long for Benjamin to realize that the markers were sented markers! Hail Hitler! Hehehehehehe


Sometimes he isn't very smart! But who is at 2!



This next part is slightly graphic! If you have a queasy stomach skip it! If you are a mother it is no big deal! You have been there done that!

If you could hear what happened when I took this picture you would have heard Ben yell POOP! He was so happy! Thats right, Ben is potty trained!!! I couldn't be prouder! He just turned 2 in June and he has been showing signs that he was ready for quite awhile so I decided to go for it and it worked! I don't have to change diapers anymore!!!! I am free!!! It is wonderful. Thank you Ben. Well until the next baby comes, no I am not making any annoucements!

And here my big boy is with his very first poo in the potty!!!!


I just love to see him in his big boy unders! It reminds me that it has been weeks since I have changed a diaper!!! LolAnd what a cute tooshie!!
Please pay no attention to the mess!
When you can' t find your own unders its ok to borrow sisters Tink unders right? Hahahahaha



In June we went to the Science Museum in Phoenix with our friends the Hansom's. They had the really cool lego exhibit there. The things people build with legos are just amazing!

What cute little princesses, and dragon!
Ben wasn't scared at all! He is all boy!
But Mallory is such a wuss sometimes!
Fun fun fun!

rChad finally let me hire my very own dishwasher!
And then he hired his own washer!


One night in July Chad came home from work to this sweet dog chillin in our front yard. We decided to let her stay the night in our backyard. That one night turned in to two nights, which turned into three nights, which somehow turned into a month!!! We did everything we could to find her family. She was such a sweet obviously very loved puppy. But after a month of not finding her family we decided we couldn't keep her. She was a pit bull and I know lots of people really say that they are good dogs, but I just couldn't get past their attacking nature. We named her Roxy and had a lot of fun with her for a month, but then we found her a new home. I really miss her, I think we need another dog! Here are pictures of some of the good times we had with our Roxy.
My floors were really clean of crumbs for a month! I miss that for sure!


Since we didn't really get to plan a summer vacation this summer we decided to spend a couple days with my family in Mesa. Its only an hour away but it still felt like a vacation. I guess you would call it a staycation! Here are a few pictures of the kids having fun.

This is my niece Sydney. Isn't she a doll! The first night we were there we realized that Sydney and Mallory had matching jammies. Mallory was very excited about this!

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This is the 4 youngest of me and my sisters kids. Ben, Sydney, Mallory, and Hailey.
Then a couple weeks later they decided to come out to Surprise to stay a couple of days with us. We had a lot of fun! We ate good food, went swimming, and enjoying being together! Here is another naked baby picture of Sydney, isn't she so cute!We sorta have a tradition with these three bathing together when we get to stay with each other. They are getting so big this tradition won't last much longer!

If anyone is still reading this (I highly doubt anyone had enough stamina to last this long!) you now get to see pictures of our very last minute trip to Las Vegas! Chad's dad works there a lot and he was staying there is a really nice hotel suite and he called and invited us to join him. We were only there for about 24 hours but we had a blast!

I was actually really nervous about the 5 hour drive since Ben had only pen potty trained for a couple weeks. But he was a champ! Making a boy pee on the side of the road is much much easier than a girl! Here is his first road side pee!! Go Ben!

Chad's dad watched the kids for a bit while Chad and I had some "adult" fun! Well as adult fun as you can get in Vegas as mormons! We gambled one whole dollar!! It really wasn't very fun. But we felt like we had to at least try it!Here are the kids enjoying a swim in the HUGE tub that was in the suite.
We took the kids to some fun places. The M&M World was pretty fun. We saw a 3D movie and saw lots and lots of M&M stuff! I have no idea why Mallory is such a wuss around things like this. She is a weirdo sometimes.


We also did something that I was not to thrilled about. We went to this aquarium place in the Mandalay Bay that is supposedly the only zoo in America that displays only preditors! You heard me right only preditors that live underwater! Now if you know me at all you will know that this just about killed me! I hate water and all living things in it! Especially sharks! And we stood inches from them! I don't think my heart beat at all the couple hours that we spent there! We had to walk through this glass tunnel where the sharks were just chillin and the floor was even glass!!!! I ran through that part! The pictures are really dark cause it was really dark throughout the whole place so click on the pictures and see if you can make out all the preditors!
Jelly Fish!





Here is one last picture of my sweet kiddos. I am pretty sure that I missed some good stuff that we have done this summer, but they will have to wait for the next post. I am very tired and off to bed!