June 27

‎8 years ago today. young and in love. now, less young but even more in love.

headboard for sale

$12- fabric and batting not included :)

I made a super cute headboard with this plywood I purchased from Home Depot. I wanted to make a twin bed in Brooklyn's room into a daybed but the layout of the room never felt right to me.

This headboard can be yours for the $12 I paid for it. It is 78" wide and 48" tall at the tallest point. You could cut the sides to the width you need.

Sister Pictures

lots of new posts below

Letter Parties

One of our fun summer activities if having weekly letter parties. We try to get in some big girl fun during Charlotte's nap. Here's what we have done so far...
A party- color and read about alligators, watch Aristocats, find the hidden animal crackers, and have apples with caramel
(they've become much less planned since A haha)
B party- homemade bagels, blow up balloons, b coloring
Brooklyn with bagel dough and no pants

C party- invite cousin Olivia, make and decorate cupcakes, C book
Mackenzie's beautiful cupcake

all the beautiful girls and cupcakes


D party- pick one thing from the Dollar store, and then we went to Jamba juice and called it Damba juice
E party- egg race and toss, edible play dough

M's Pre Preschool Graduation

Mackenzie had Miss Leslie and Miss Britney for preschool teachers this year. Now she is so ready for kindergarten! She also enjoyed music and reading with Miss Sandy. I think she might be smarter than me already. Miss Leslie told me how much she enjoyed Mackenzie's sense of humor all year.

After the milestone graduation


Excited wave to her supporters


Karate performance


Mackenzie also participated in a mini music class taught by a lady in our neighborhood. She loved it! Here she is with her certificate and giant package of starburst after the graduation program.

B's Preschool Graduation

Brooklyn loved preschool this year. She constantly talked about Miss Jamie, her sweet teacher, and her friends Sophie and Jacob. She learned to enjoy letters, art, singing, and being a friend. Miss Jamie told me she was always like a little mommy making sure everyone was ok and everyone was following the rules.

Here are pictures from her song and dance filled graduation program:


Dancing with Miss Sandy and Grandma Jill


Getting diploma from Miss Jamie


And Char taking it all in

Shark Attack sprint tri

At the end of July Robert and I are doing the Spudman Triathlon in Idaho. It will be a mile swim (downstream in the Snake River), 24 mile bike, and 6 mile run. I wanted to do a sprint tri for practice so I signed up for this one in Riverton at the South Valley Rec Center. This one was 300 swim, 11 mile bike and 3 mile run. It was small- about 150 racers total. I loved it! And guess what...I came in first! ok ok so I came in first in the Athena division (only for those over 150 lbs)...ok ok there were only 10 people in the division. haha I'll take it anyway I can get it :)

************************* ATHENA *************************

Place Bib Name Swim T1 Bike T2 Run Official
===== ===== =================== ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= =========
1 194 Karin Smith 7:45 2:41 45:02 0:48 27:55 1:24:09.8

To remember

Loves of Late

**Doing/discovering things that make me feel young...bike rides, playing racquetball, listening to non-kid music in the car
**Mountain High yogurt (just the right amount of tang to sweet)
**Short hair (mine and the girls. Gotta admit I love B's super short do)(QUESTION: SHOULD I CUT BANGS??)
**Baked sweet potatoes. In microwave for <5 minutes. With butter, s&p. Me and Char love them. No one else will touch them.
**Swimming- the exercise kind
**Design and food blogs
**Adele's Rolling in the Deep
**Sleeping all night long
**Summer Fun Chart http://thecraftingchicks.com/2011/05/summer-fun-chart-and-photo-journal.html
**My google calendar. I just love that thing.
**8 year anniversary coming up and hubs and I still make a great team.

St. George avec Sutherlands

A great time was had by all.

Sweet Sis

After Brooklyn got in trouble for her self inflicted hair cut, she was crying her head off. Mackenzie wanted to make her feel better so she went and found a balloon, tied a ribbon onto it, and used tape to attach a cookie cutter. This is what we get when we go to Cookie Cutters (a kids salon here). She went to all that trouble to make Brooklyn feel like she was supposed to have that hair cut! I thought it was so thoughtful.

And she is also a great babysitter as you see above :)

Brooklyn's Jokes

Brooklyn (while I was patting her leg): "My leg is not a drum."
Me: Oh! It's not, what is it? (expecting her to say it's my leg)
Brooklyn: It's a tuba

When we went into the giant walk in fridge at Costco, Brooklyn said "Are we going to turn into food? Some giant people are going to come and eat us!"

I just love her little sense of humor.

Soon she'll be asking for the keys

I'm afraid to blink. My baby is turning into a big girl right before my very eyes.
Tricks include...
6 months- sitting up
7 months- 2 bottom teeth
8 months- goes from laying to sitting (she's all over the place rolling style)
8.5 moths- scooting on toes and elbows (soon it'll be a full blown crawl and I'm in trouble)

Those two bottom teeth are coming in nicely. I'm worried she'll be upside down beaver if the the top two don't start growing.


Charlotte had noodles for dinner the other night and it was cracking me up how she was literally shoveling them into her mouth.


AND the video.