Alice Turns 3!

 It's crazy my youngest is three I've never been able to say that because we always had a baby in the family. 

Alice is the perfect caboose for our family. She is shy at first but she has a lot of personality once she warms up to you. She loves rainbows, unicorns, and Ghost Spider. After three boys I was so excited to finally have girls so I didn't always have to make a super hero cake; well, I ended up making my THIRD Spider-man cake for my daughter ha ha. 

Happy birthday Alice!

Elizabeth

 While Dustin and I were on our trip Elizabeth had dance camp. She loves going to dance camp every summer. I was bummed that I missed her dance recital but grandma was great with taking pictures and recording it for me.

Then Elizabeth went to Kindergarten camp and loved it! She is so ready for school.

Summer Time Part 2

 The beginning of the summer my camera broke! I was so sad and sick to my stomach since I loved that thing. I've told myself my next camera I was going to upgrade to a professional one but we didn't have the funds for that. Well to make a long story short and me going back and forth, I waited two months till we had the funds and I purchased a REALLY nice camera, it's so nice I'm still learning how to use it, and the camera is so good it shows imperfection even more-- and I need to get better, so I'm excited to keep learning and growing in photography. These three pictures were the first few pictures I took trying to figure it out. It was so nice to have a camera after two months of not having one.

End of July Dustin and I went to South Dakota to study art under Thomas Fluharty for a week. It was awesome! First thing, South Dakota is gorgeous and I had no idea!

It was also great to just spend time plein air painting and just drawing all day. We would work on stuff then Tom would give us feedback and he had so much knowledge and he gave me many good pointers to help move me up to the next level in art. We also got to spend time with his wife, Kristi, she was amazing. It was such a great week, they became instant family. We had a lot of good discussions of art and deep discussions about God and our Savior, it was just "stinkin' cool" as Thomas Fluharty would say.

Summer Time Part 1

 In June we went boating with some friends which is always fun.

We celebrated Father's day with a prank to all the dads at church, we bought every guy the same tie, here is a picture of some of the men. All jokes on the side, Dustin is seriously the best dad we could ask for.

End of June and beginning of July all of us siblings came to Utah to celebrate my parent's 50th. It was such a great time, I love spending time with my family; anytime I'm with them I get a little glimpse what heaven is going to be like.

While I was there I got to go to the temple with Michelle and Michael. I also posted some pictures of Michelle's flowers here, her yard is amazing. 

All of the kids and some spouses at Brick Oven. So grateful for my parents and the example they have set for us kids.