Summer 2010

So my forecast for 2010 hasn't turned out anything like I thought it would at the beginning of the year... Starting with having to cancel our Oregon Coast trip because of a great job opportunity - it was a total bummer, but sometimes you have to do the grown-up thing, right? But it wasn't for nothing, Kasey landed the job that he had been after since he first started the electrical apprenticeship! And our summer has been pretty LAME to say the least! Half of it was spent apart, and the other half was spent moving, and having to stay in Rawlins because of on-call weekends...

Swimming Beauties...

Isla may just be a jump-aholic :) She loves the trampoline!

We went for a family hike earlier this summer. I have quite a few pictures but these are a couple of my favorites:

Miss Adiee had her hair pulled back in a nice ponytail and a crown (the jeweled headband she insisted on having...) After climbing mountains and a few re-adjustments this is what her hair looked like - a MESS!! But still beautiful to say the least! :)Pretty little Mikenna!
Isla loved throwing rocks into the creek, she was very particular about which ones she was going to throw! :) Funny little thing!
Just a couple of our pictures from the camping trip from the post "Go Ahead and LAUGH!!" The one camping trip we went on this summer - which is unheard of in this family! :)
Kasey and his brothers had been planning a camping trip for a few days in the Big Horn Mountains but they changed their plans so that they could include us since he had to stay in Rawlins for his on-call weekends, but a lot of good that did... He couldn't even stay out there with everybody because there is no cell phone reception! So we all spent a lot of time going to town to hang out with him, so again a camping trip that didn't count (not to mention it was freezing and windy) :/ But it was sweet of all of them and their families for trying to accomodate us :)
It may have been cold and windy, but that didn't stop the kiddos from having a good time :) They picked me a bouquet of wild flowers, we saw a family of big horn sheep when we went to check out the dams, had a picnic at the park in Sinclair so Kasey could come during his lunchbreak, and went to the prison museum.

Fourth of July weekend, Kasey was stuck in Rawlins by himself and I spent it with my family at my grandparents place at the lake. I was going to drive to Rawlins to be with Kasey, but he wanted the girls to see the fireworks. Turns out we wouldn't have missed anything because the city of Rawlins put on a decent show, but hind sight is 20/20... We were on the phone during the display so he could hear Isla's reaction to the bursts of fire in the sky since she was just a sleeping baby during this time last year. During this weekend, I got french braids in Adiee's hair for the first time and she LOVED it! She is always begging me to braid her hair because I do Mikenna's all the time but her hair wasn't hardly long enough - note all the stray hairs around her face, but who cares... It made her happy and that's what counts :)
There was so much excitement that weekend, Isla passed out on the couch because she wasn't about to close her eyes on purpose and miss anything!! haha :) She looks so sweet!

I was looking through some of our pictures to use for this post and I found this funny one, it was moving day and the girls were having a blast sitting in Kasey's kayak.

That's it for now... :)