Roadtrip to Tennessee!

Jaimee and the kids took a little road trip on Friday to Knoxville, TN to visit our great friends the Morgans. For those of you who don't know, Holly and Ike Morgan have lived in Kentucky for the last 4 years going to dental school, and they have two cute kids Makai, and Beck. They moved to Knoxville in May. Jaimee's best friend growing up (the fabulous Shelley Francis) is Holly's older sister, so Holly has just always been a part of my life. I miss her so much since she's moved. It was so fun to be here in Lexington together and she was the closest thing to family that I had here. I've decided when you live away from your family, its really nice to have someone that lives by you that has known you and your family just as long as you have and shares the same memories of growing up and the same hometown. So--Kelsey and Makai were the best of friends and Kelsey's been missing Makai so much since she moved, so we had to take a trip to spend the day there. They played dress ups, and we went to this fun "sprinkler park" in Knoxville--a park that just has all sorts of different water fountains that shoot up or spray and the kids can run around in them. It was a great day to be together--thanks for the fun times Morgans!

The Morgans, and Makai and Kelsey


Ellie loved the sprinklers, and Kelsey and Makai had fun playing dress ups together.


The water guns at the Sprinkler park were a big hit with Cameron. Ellie and Beck are cute friends too!

Lunch with Dad

We met Dad downtown for a picnic lunch today. It was a beautiful day and the kids always love seeing Dad during the week when he's at work. Thanks for working so hard for us Dad! We love you.

All-American Kid

Here's the slugger!


Go Tigers!



Cameron's playing baseball this summer. He's doing great! He has some great coaches that keep it fun for all the kids. Cameron's focus on the game is improving, but he still forgets what he's doing sometimes. Last night at practice he was out in the field and the ball was coming right to him and he was ready but then got distracted by a ladybug and missed the ball. Pretty funny! He did earn the "game ball" though on his first game, which was a big deal for him. It's fun for us to go and cheer for him and its been a great season!

4th of July!

Mac and Ellie playing in the puddles.


Kelsey and Cam with their sparklers!

We had a great Fourth of July--good food, great friends, and fun fireworks! We went to a BBQ at the Hyde's (they were great hosts!) and our kids got along really well. Ellie entertained herself in a puddle of water outside for quite some time. The boys played the Wii. The kids loved the fireworks we had until Ellie decided to reach out and grab the lit end of the sparkler I was holding and burned her finger pretty good. Ouch! She's fine now. Nothin' like the Fourth of July!



My good friend Debbie (with her twins) and Ashlee (with new baby Gray).

No lip gloss!

Tonight there was a slight altercation between Cam and Kelsey which left Kelsey with a cut, bloody, fat lip. Kelsey was very upset about the whole ordeal and when I told Kelsey that she had a cut on her lip she expressed her greatest concern through her tears, "Now I won't get to wear any lip gloss!" I wish I had a picture of the big, fat non-glossed lip--but it was just so funny I had to write about it. Only Makai Morgan will understand her pain I'm afraid! She also said as she was crying, "Does the Savior feel sad when you have a big cut that puts blood on your lip?" I assured her He cares about her lip. Oh the drama our Kelsey June brings to our life....

The Spiky Look

Cameron asked me recently if he could try "the spiky look" with his hair so we had cousin Keenan teach us how and we spiked it up for church today. I think he looks awesome. What do you think?

Painting with Pudding!

It was rainy a few afternoons this last week, so the pool was not an option so we had to get creative with something to do so I let the kids fingerpaint with pudding. It was definitely messy, but kept the kids entertained for awhile!



Ellie skipped the fingerpaint part of the activity and just went right for the full on face method!


Kelsey just started to get silly after awhile, and Cameron was the only one who actually understood the concept and came through it all mess free!