Happy Birthday Ursula!

Stacey turned the big 2-3 on August 3rd. My parents threw a little party for her that day. The kids swam in the little pool on the deck and we ate cheese fondue for an appetizer and then ribs, chicken, corn on the cob, fruit and pasta salad. It was nice to celebrate Stacey's birthday with her and we hope she had fun.

There were about a million bees flying around us since we were eating outside. The entertainment for the evening happened when my Gramee swatted one of the bees and it hit right on the top of my hand and stung me. I thought it was hilarious. No one believed me that I had really gotten stung until I showed them the red bump that was starting to form on my hand! Good times.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Side note - Ursula is a name I have called Stacey since she was a little girl. Not sure why...it just stuck!!

Emma Jackson - A new bundle of joy

My Brother Nathan and his wife Amy had their baby on July 28th. Kaiya, Ella and I were able to go and meet her when she was in the hospital. She is such a cute little baby and we are excited to have the new addition in our family!

What have we been up to?

Cirdan -
Cirdan has been busy booking jobs and running the Moving Company. They have had a busy couple of months which has been wonderful! Last weekend they had 11 guys out on moves!!!

Cirdan and his friend, Greg Mattson, have gone to 2 Seahawks practices in the past week and will be going 2 more times before training camp is over. They are in their new practice facility on Lake Washington. Staci (Greg's wife) and I will be going with them this next Tuesday.

Kaiya-

Kai has been busy with dance class (she's in hip hop right now), piano and swim lessons. Swim started this past week and its every morning for 2 weeks. She has really enjoyed learning how to swim and I think I will have her continue to the next level. There are 5 kids in the class and all of them go to her school so she was pretty excited about that.

Bailee (2nd cousin) came over and stayed the night. They had fun playing and all I heard all day was little girls giggles.

Kaiya has been such a big help this summer and I am sad to see it ending soon. She keeps her room clean and makes her bed every morning without me even having to remind her. Kaiya is great with Ella and Ella has enjoyed playing with her big sister.

Ella -

Busy body little girl. She has been playing, chasing Cheeto (Kaylee's Chihuahua) around the house, pulling Kaiya's hair, getting into the cereal cupboard, making messes and falling down.

She has been making the funniest faces lately. Here is her most recent silly serious face...I have caught myself making that face when she gets into something so I wonder if that is where she picked it up.

Me -

I have been driving Kaiya around to her activities, trying to keep the house clean (after Ella makes her messes) and helping with Puget Sound Moving. I have started to wake up early every morning again to walk/run with my mom. Its funny how I feel like 7:00 is SOOO early now that I don't work.

All of us -

We LOVED the hot days we had here in Western Washington. The girls liked playing on the slip n slide, and running through the sprinkler. Stacey and Casey came over a few days to get out of the heat and relax in our air conditioned house. It was fun to have them over.

We went to Lake Wilderness last Monday with some families from our ward. Kaiya had fun playing with her friends and Ella loved putting her feet in the water.

The Wednesday before Ava moved to Milwaukee we drove to Tacoma and took her out to dinner. We went to TGI Friday's (the slowest service on the planet) and then went and got a cone from DQ. It was sad to say goodbye to her but we know we will see her in a few weeks when she comes for a visit! Cirdan has been able to talk to her on the phone a couple of times.

Kaiya and Ava were in the back of the car talking on their pretend phones. Kaiya would pretend that she was booking jobs for PS Moving and Ava followed her lead and did the same. Their facial expressions were so funny.

Here are some cute pictures of Ava...

We bought Ava a bag full of activities for her road trip to Wisconsin. One of the things that Kaiya wanted to Ava and here were Big Sister/Little Sister necklaces. They were showing their necklaces off in this picture...

Friday morning I was talking to my dad who mentioned that he wanted to go watch the Blue Angeles practice. I got off the phone and mentioned it to Cirdan and we decided to pack up the kids and go to Seattle. I cant even remember the last time I watched them fly and Cirdan hadn't been for years. Kaiya had fun and loved how loud they were.