river is 4

while at don's, i also took some photos of river for her 4th birthday and in her new skirt and shirt!

here is a list of things i don't want to forget from the past year:
-She barters and makes deals like the best of them
-Why did the banana go to the hospital? Because he wasn't PEELING well!
-Loves gymnastics
-Everywhere we go she thinks she needs a treat
-Everywhere we go she asks for stickers or suckers from total strangers
-She will finally watch almost a full movie-tangled. She loves it.
-Do you want me to use the ssager(massager) on your back?
-Says Hers instead of she (her's not being nice)
-I'm just faking
-She has a cute lisp. -thpenther (spencer)-Quethadia(quesadilla)-thitherth(scissors)
-Oh that's a good one(when cutting paper)
-She likes to dry(draw)
-Constantly bargains
-Shaushage(sausage)
-Squitamo or skeetamo (mosquito)
-Is she going to begas(vegas)?(while watching the voice)
-We need to get rid of these because they smell stink.
-Someting(without the h and emphasis on the t)
-Balloom(balloon)
-I'm a good helper buddy(when she's being helpful to kg or me)
-My hair is gnarly(snarly)
-Chocky road(rocky road ice cream) :)
-Fiveteen(fifteen)
-Eleventeen
-lemolade(lemonade)
-dith fee good?(does this feel good) when she's rubbing my back or playing with my hair

i'll be sad when she loses her cute voice and funny phrases but hopefully we still have a good year yet!

christmas dresses

i wanted to get official photos of their christmas dresses. i chose this location because this is where don lived until recently. don is our bus mechanic and has worked his magic to keep it running for us. i was sad that he had to move a bit further away in garden city. i love this old, rundown house!

Belated Birthday brag.

KG gave me a stereo and speakers for my birthday. We went to Best Buy and picked them out as we were heading out of town for Labor Day weekend. We intended to put it in as we had time. I have put new stereos and speakers in two of the cars I owned but that was more then 9 years ago. KG had never done this before. He ended up doing it all.
For one thing there was just not room for two of us under the dash board of the bus. For another, our minds work different and therefore, when you're trying to figure out wires and a number of other things, you're likely to just screw each other up. He got frustrated several times but in the end, he got that sucker all hooked up and I now have tunes! Seeing how hard he worked to get it done for me makes me appreciate it that much more too. He also knows how much tunes mean to me. It has been a source of stress relief ever since high school. Back when things were so rough and dramatic, I would skip school and just drive all day! I would crank the radio and sing/scream at the top of my lungs and cry. It always made me feel so much better. I only do that when I'm in the car alone so now that I have a little side kick, it's less frequent. It's just amazing how much of a difference a good song makes after a stressful meeting or a PMS kind of day! Thanks KG for all your hard work. I love it!
Here are the two back speakers, which I did assemble into the boxes.

Here is one of the front speakers and the stereo, which is hard to see.

Family Reunion #4

Last weekend we went to our final reunion of the summer. This is the one I look forward to the most! It's the Campbell Reunion and consists of my mom and all her siblings and families. I love being around my mom's family and being at my aunts house. We have so many fun memories there!
We left Boise around 1:00 pm and made stops along the way to gas up and give the bus a rest. Our stop in Burley presented a slight problem. After we gassed it up, it wouldn't start. Luckily we were able to pop the clutch so we weren't worried but we stopped by a Checkers to have the have the battery checked. It was fine which led us to believe it was a problem with the starter. We'd figure it out later. Once we got to Idaho Falls we went straight to my cousin Bobette's for my Brandon's Eagle Court of Honor. I had lots of fun playing with Lorelai while Flower enjoyed my cousin Tanya and her cell phone.


We then went to my Aunt Peggy's for a bon fire and singing. Flower loved my Uncle Dirk's guitar!

We then hooked the bus up to my Aunt's electricity and hit the sack! Flower loved her bed way up high and kept peeking over the edge at us below.

Saturday morning several of the boys in the family went paintballing. My cousin Kevin showed up and informed me that he was going to get our bus up and running before we went home. He thumped on the starter and it started right up so that narrowed down the problem. My other two cousins and my Uncle Bob joined in and pulled out the starter.



The rest of us had fun playing in the yard and getting things ready as the family trickled in.


Everyone was there by 2:00 pm for lunch and homemade rootbeer!


Don't let the cute faces fool you. These two butt heads every since meet in May. They are both strong willed and fight to the end. they kept fighting over the football. My uncles finally gave Jerom a basketball and took it gladly. So we thought. He hurls it at Flower's head and takes his football back. :)

It just kept going back and firth until finally Flower pulled out the biting trick so we had to get involved and she lost the battle. It ws quite the entertainment for the rest of us. :)

Flower just loves my Uncle Garth. We were told numerous times by his children that the feelings were mutual and to watch out cause he just might try to take her home. ;) I loved watching her with all my relatives. A slip and slide was set up and enjoyed by all the kids!

There were several games of horseshoes being played as well. KG got a great shot of this beehive way up in a tree above the horseshoe pit.


While I was napping with Flower, some of the lady's decided to soak the boys playing horseshoes. Well, they couldn't have that so a couple of them grabbed my Aunt Peggy and put her in the kiddie pool!

As the night was winding down we decided to go to dinner with Ryan, Amanda and Lorelai before they headed back to Boise.


KG and Flower then went to my sister's hotel to swim with them while I went to Walmart in search of things we forgot like blankets, we were very cold the night before, a swimming suit for Flower and other bus finds. Unfortunately Walmart was out of everything related to swimming so KG took her in her clothes! :)
Sunday we left around noon and had lunch with our friends Heather and Jake.
We then took the back way home and stopped at Crater's of the Moon. It was fun but gosh I can't stand the wind! After touring the visitors center, KG and Flower hiked this hill.



It was a really pretty area and we had a great time hiking around.

We had a really great time and enjoyed seeing all the family!