the bob master

(this bob is the most amazing stroller. guess i haven't used many others, but i'll put a word in for it and hopefully convince my brother in law that he needs to get one since his wife does work at rei afterall ;)

This is what consists of my days, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Two cute babies. Putting up with our jogs. Clara is an absolute doll. She loves anything you do to make her laugh. This just might have to be an arranged marriage. ;) ha ha Her mom, Jenna, and I have been jogging those days. Jenna kicks my butt into gear. If it weren't for her, I wouldn't be losing this extra baby weight. :) Thanks Kort. :) She's been training for a 10k and it's been my goal this year to at least do my first 5k. Yes, pathetic I know, that I haven't even done one of those my whole life when I've been so active with sports and what not. I guess that's what marriage and babies do to you. This is a good excuse to get ready for one. Which, I think I'm ready to hit one up this weekend in Nauvoo, Illinois!!! I'll let you know if I survive.

standing tall

Kort is always going into the kitchen and pulling himself up on the chairs. That was one of the reasons we tried to block it off. He's been pulling himself up when the dishwasher is open, but I don't have the camera by me when he's doing that and I don't dare leave to get it afraid he'll grab one of the knives or something.

The top one I caught lately. He had actually taken a step over that toy to where it shows him. He pulled himself up on the toy to his left and then changed to the other one. I don't know how he did it. Then he loves the paper shredder to stand up to and even things lower than shoulder height he'll still stand up, like his carseat.  He has been grabbing onto the bottom of my pants and pulling himself up that way also. He's got way too much courage to do all this, but I guess that's the way you learn!

the munchkin is mobile

I've been trying to get a good enough video of Kort crawling and this is all you're going to get for a while ;) ha ha If you look closely, you can see 4 different types of crawling. 

1. on his hands and knees.

2. hands, one knee, and one foot. 

3. hands and feet

4. army style

(the little musical you hear is a card that our friends gave us that kort just lights up every time we play it for him. sorry if it's inappropriate for your ears;) 
he is getting into everything now! we tried putting an extra shower curtain rod with a blanket over it to block off our kitchen entrance (it's bigger than a door entry) but after a week of trying to get things figured out, he crawled through the blanket. we're thinking he's going to be walking, or taking a couple of steps, before we move out of this place in a couple of months. he's pulling himself up onto anything even if it's stable or not, which has caused some falls :( i'm catching random places of him doing that and i'll post pictures here soon.

Mower County Fair

Clay had fun editing the tire photo and it's become one of my favorites!


We only made it to the fair for a couple of hours before Kort started getting grumpy, but we had fun playing around on the tractors taking pictures, obviously.


Our fair food: fried cheese curds (aka mozzarella sticks), fried s'mores, and ribs on a stick (our favorite!).
I'm glad I at least made it to a fair this year, in hopes to make up for the years missed at the Cassia County Fair, in which I will be missing the maple bars, dutch oven, scones, commercial building, and everything else :) ha ha Hope all you Cassians have a blast this week!

p.s. It's also my sister's 10 year High School reunion!! Ahh! Looks like fun :) Watch for them at the rodeo!

washington to minnesota

time here in our new place has already been going by fast! i am behind on posting about our driving adventure to get here. not many pictures taken, but i'll just sum up the trip.

we woke up early the 5th of july thinking we would get out on the road by 1:00. well, you can never underestimate all the odds and ends that you have and trying to get it packed. luckily, we had some help from the missionaries and some friends from church help pack the truck. that part didn't take too long. however, our landlord is a clean freak and we wanted every penny of our deposit back so we were cleaning everything. we really only had the downstairs to clean (the living room, 1/2 bath, and kitchen). but that dang kitchen....it was already 3:00 and we set a goal to leave by 5:00 now. out of the blue our friend stops by after work to say good-bye if we were still there. she was an angel! she helped clean the kitchen and then her husband stopped by also (who had been helping clay all morning long) and we finally got everything cleaned and left the place to get on the road at 6:30. we can't thank everyone enough who helped us move! well, we got to a place that was 2 hours away, 4 hours later, thanks to traffic so we found a hotel and got some sleep. the one thing that was great is that kort slept through the night!!! ok, moving on to make this short. 

day 1 - stayed in ellensburg, wa.

day 2 - on the road through coeur d'alene, id, bozeman, mt and stayed just outside butte, mt? i forget. 

 the picture above looked so much better in real life. the sun rays were just spectacular with this sunset!

and clay decided to give kort some beef jerky to use instead of his teething ring. he sure did love that stuff and got super mad when he'd lose it.

 day 3 - got a late start but got through montana, wyoming, and got to rapid city, sd. we got there early enough to make a trip to mount rushmore!!!

 (washington, jefferson, roosevelt, lincoln - sadly, i didn't know the 2 middle ones until i read the info)

 all the state flags with the lit mount rushmore! it was awesome!

 the badlands! you would have never expected to see this with all the flat, prairie land around you.

 day 4 - exit south dakota, enter minnesota! these turbines are everywhere! guess we can expect lots of wind :)

our lovely cabin in the truck. we definitely got a diesel truck this time. we got a gas guzzler with our move to washington and died/overheated on every hill/pass going 10 mph. i don't think we hit lower than 40 with this thing through the hills! 

i just hope we never have to move like this again :S we will hire packers and movers if i have anything to do with it ;) a short plane ride here would have satisfied me enough instead of 1600 miles driving.

kort's adventure

ok. clay had too much fun putting this together. we've both put it on our facebook, but i had to put it on here :)

new entertainment

This was the first time I put this toy on something other than carpet and it just dawned on me that there are wheels on it for a purpose...so did Kort. Enjoy :)