Kaylene

Yesterday morning Michael was sitting down at breakfast with Kaylene she was having a hard time keeping on task of eating breakfast before church, so Michael was helping her by feeding her every now and then she said this

Kaylene: mine, mine, mine, mine

Michael: ok

Michael: take one more bit then
Kaylene: Ok daddy it’s you’re all done

Michael came into the kids room told me about it and I could not stop laughing

Camping at Lake Roosevelt

The Tracy Family Reunion this year was camping for a week, we went to Camp Evens outside of Kettle Falls.  I have not been camping in 12 years the last time I went camping was at girls camp but camping with kids is different we had dirt everywhere all day long.  Some of the things we did are

 Play in Power Wheels

 Go Hiking

 The View of our Hike

 We hike up to a Mine this is Michael re-opeaning the Mine

they did see a bat in there

                                                   The pite in the mine it was a big drop off

                                                                         Snack time

                         

                                          My attemped at make a duch-oven birthday cake for Kaylene

                                                                Hiking we will go

                                                             skipping rock with Dad

                                                                         at  list trying too

                                                                              I love

                                                                                 you

                                                                              this much

So Dirty but having a fun time

We had so much fun

Thank you all for making a grand week for me and my family

If heaven wasn't so farway

In 2008 all in about 8 months my Great Grandma Long, Aunt Karen, and Aunt Ana all past away, the one that was the hardest for me and most of my family was Aunt Karen.  Great Grandma Long was born in 1920 and was 88 when she died. She lived a great life doing all kind of things and living life to its fullest we have great stories about her some you would not even believe was about a proper lady.  My Aunt Ana was a little younger and had lots of health problems she still lived a great life.  The one that I have been thinking a lot about lately is Aunt Karen she died in a car accident, Karen was a character, sometime good and sometimes bad everyone in the family has this kind of stories about her, most of the stories I think now would make us laugh.  I am not sure why I started thinking about her as I drove one Saturday but I was and as I was thinking about here the song by Justin Moore If Heaven wasn’t so for away came on the radio. I then started thinking of the song it helped me close that thought process what a great song.  I still will think of her often my new calling in Bear Den Leader she loved Scouting

The Joys of Growing

This last week Michael THE II has been eating baby food this is his first reaction to everything he eats

 MORE FOOD PLEASE

 NEVER MIND!!!

 KAYLENE HELPING FEED MICHAEL

Also this week Kaylene climbed on the changing table with a diaper with out me in the room I am not sure if she was going to change herself or, call me when she was up there and lying down.  I think it might be time to start potty training

He has decided food is very good and could eat the whole jar; he is now eating baby food 3 times a day.

4th of July

Celebrate freedom. I am so proud to be an American and to have the freedoms and rights that we have.  I am also very proud of the men and woman who serve our country.

So to celebrate the 4^th of July we had a breakfast with our ward came home and took naps so we could watch the fireworks downtown it was a great day.

 Family picture

 Dad playing with the kids

 Kaylene wanted to hold Michael so bad this is how the ended up

 Kaylene and the glow stick and flag

Kaylene stayed awake for all the fireworks and liked them after the first two

Michael stayed awake also and did not cry once

My Sister-in-Law asked if we had any great memories of Disney world this is one of mine

Friendship Basket

In Relief Society we do a friendship basket the point of it is so we can get to know the sister in the ward, our ward is made up of mostly students and there families.  On Father’s Day I was given the basket.  I know I am interesting I know I have talents and hobbies what where they and what could I find that was cheap and cut that I could put together? It took me two weeks but this is what I find.

          
Pop corn bucket-I love movie

          Blind fold- Meet Michael on a blind setup

          2 Baby Ruth- I have two babies

         Bath Salt- I love baths

         Car cloth-I have worked on cars

2 Cars-I love to travel my favorite way to travel is road trips

Scrapbook exploding box-I like crafts and sawing

Cutco peeler-I like to cook and my favorite peeler is cutco

Candy-I love junk food any kind

I am sure I can come up with more but this is my list