Well we had a nice surprise yesterday :) After making announcements to the ward and sending e-mails to all the neighbors about the break ins......did I mention our cars got broke into 2 times. Once Tuesday night and again on friday night. Tuesday I told you they stole my TomTom and Friday night they sifined all the gas out of both of our vehicles. But anyway back to the good news.....we told everyone in our neighborhood either in person or by e-mail about what had happened. So pretty much everyone is on lookout now. But on the way home from church our neighbor just around the corner from us found our TomTom in their bushes in the front yard. We went and got it and it is still working. Unfortunately the people who found it picked it up so we couldn't get fingerprints off it. I am just glad to get it back! Now if we could just find where they put our gas......not likely but I can hope. At least it was less than $100 worth of gas. The TomTom cost more than that. So we really lucked out. I would still love to catch the people who did it!!
Sarah got her braces off today. She looks so good!!! She can't stop smiling and looking at them in the mirror. My little girl is growing up to fast!!!!! I love her tonz!!!

So today both of our cars were broken into. They took the navigation system out of mine and that's all. In Troy's they broke the dashboard and tried to get the stereo system out but failed and just ruined it instead. Dumb asses!!! The officers were able to get some fingerprints but who know if they are mine, Troy's or the kid's hopefully one of them isn't so they can catch the stupids!!! Luckily the retards didn't take Troy's $3,000.00 worth of tools he had in the back of his car! Arggggg some people are soooo stupid!!!!

Things have been kinda weird here since Alexis has gone home. The kids are in school and it is pretty quiet during the day. I have had a wave of emotions and it just seems to be getting worse. I have been cleaning the house and I keep finding more of her things. It sets me off every time.

I get to have phone calls with her starting today which is good:) I am very excited to talk to her tonight. She is just such a sweet little girl! The kids have really missed her to.

On a lighter note. We have been having fun with our chickens. We have five now. One is a white leghorn/barred rock mix, one Rhode island red, two rose comb Rhode island reds and one silver lace Wyandotte.

The Rhode island red and one of the rose comb Rhode island reds are laying eggs. The other rose comb should be laying any time now. The other two have a few months to go.

The silver lace is the most friendly of them all. The Rhode island reds all have attitudes! I guess we will eat them first! That'll show them!

O.k so summer is nearly over. The kids have two more days until school starts. They are ready to go back but not ready to go back. This summer has just gone to quickly! We haven't been able to do anything super fun. I really wanted to do some camping but it just didn't happen this year. We hope to get the boat running this winter so we can use the heck out of it next summer. We have had some really great rain storms and one very impressive hail storm. The kids and I got a little freaked out it was so bad at one point. I took a video of it because it was so nuts!

Summer is here in full swing! Holy cow it is HOT!!! It has been in the 100's already. The kids are all tan from being outside so much.
We have two chicken's that Teresa gave us and they are so much fun. We like to watch them and check for eggs. Dustin is a regular chicken catcher! He can just scoop them up. Sarah is so funny because she is afraid of them! She will hold them but not pick them up or try to catch them. FUNNY! Rat girl is afraid of a chicken!
Every one is doing good and feeling good. I sure hope it continues. :)

So we went to SLC this weekend for Kevin and Alisha's wedding. It was nice and the kids had fun. Everything was kinda crazy and confusing but it turned out good. Jimmy, Cameron and Dustin took almost all of the pictures I have on my camera from the wedding and most of them turned out pretty cool. I was impressed!
I think we got to visit with everyone for a short time and the kids loved to see their cousins again. I am so happy to be back home in the sunshine again though. My fans are running and we are in shorts and T-shirts. :) One of my tomato plants must have gotten blown over though because when I went out to check on it this morning I had to very gently stand it back up and smash the cage back down into the ground. I think it will be ok but we will see I guess.
Sue is coming to our house tomorrow and I need to do some cleaning so I guess I will stop procrastinating......

For some reason my cauliflower went funky. It was growing good and then the tops of them went kinda a purple color and almost looked like they had gone to seed. They were all spread out instead of tight together. Any way I pulled the worst one out and left the rest to see what will happen. My tomato plants are doing amazing and same with the beets. The peas have seemed to slow down and we haven't seen any peas on the plants yet. I have been so busy with kids and paperwork I have kinda neglected the garden for the last few days. I do know it is getting watered because I have seen Sarah out there doing it. She is amazing! She even did the dishes and picked up the house last night. I love it!!!! We planted corn in our front yard. I hope it grows just so the neighbors WILL think we are weird. Kuz we are. :)

The weather has been so nice for the last few days the kids have been constantly outside. I have my windows and back door open cuz it feels so nice! I think I will take the kids to the splash pad this afternoon when I pick Sarah up from school. They have been begging all week!

Cameron won some races on field day at school.

I think he is blinded by the sun in this picture :(

Sarah on crazy hair day!

Alexis on the day we brought her home. :)

Alexis being a goof ball!