Summer Events

I just wanted to wish everyone a happy and safe summer. Since we live out in the boonies, we are unable to get decent internet service. That means that I won't be able to be on the computer too much during summer. We have big plans so I'll have lots of pictures to eventually post. Stay tuned.

More Camping Pictures

I love this puppy!

One cool dude!

Chillin out with Mama eating my grapes!

Blowing kisses to Auntie Carol.

This camping stuff is hard.

Mama takes a nap....

Kevin, Keltie and I went camping last weekend with Kevin's parents, and his aunts and uncles. We had a great time with everyone. On Saturday I decided I needed a little nap. Well, I could hear a lot of laughing from around the campfire as I was trying to sleep. I heard a lot of stories when I woke up, but didn't see the proof as to what they did to/with Keltie while I was sleeping until today. Thanks Carol for the pictures. I know social services will be after us soon. :)

Nice mohawk!

A girl after Daddy's heart. Bottoms up!

I think I've had too much. (This is what my Daddy looks like sometimes!)

I guess now I know better than to take a little nap!

Does she have chicken pox?

Kevin asked me early last week if I thought that we should go camping over Memorial Day weekend. I was torn because I wanted to go, but didn't really feel like getting everything ready. Eventually we decided that we would go. It made it a lot easier to get ready because Mom and Dad let us use their camper. We headed up to Miller Dam Friday after Kevin was finished with work. Thankfully one of his friends from work had gone up earlier that day or we wouldn't have had a site to camp in. It seems like we got everything set up in record time. (I guess I should say Kevin did that since I was watching Keltie.)

As soon as we got out of the truck the mosquitos started in on us. Unfortaunately, we forgot to bring Keltie's bug net along so we knew it was going to be porblem. She was an absoulte trooper Friday night. She sat and played by herself and even tasted the dirt. That would come back to bite us later since she was up for a couple hours Friday night and even threw up. I don't know what was in the dirt.

She woke up Saturday morning and it looked like she had the chicken pox. She had so many bites on her face and hands. It was so cute, but yet we felt like awful parents. Lucikly, she doesn't really realize that she has them so she wasn't itching them. I walked her around in the stroller and a little boy was riding his bike alongside me and asked if she had the chicken pox? All weekend long that's what we heard. She was good girl about it though. Saturday we went to visit her cousins who were camping near us. It was neat to see all the girls together. Keltie loved looking at the frogs and even took a little swim with them (on accident of course).

On Sunday we got visits from my parents, Kevin's parents and Kevin's aunt, uncle and cousins. It was great to see all of them. They are usually camping right alongside of us so it was nice that they were able to visit. We took Keltie down to the beach and let her play in the sand. She loved it! She is really learning to notice things now. Everytime she saw a dog over the weekend, she would point at in and wave. She is coming really close to saying the word hi so everytime she waved she would yell "hiiii." It was just so sweet.

We came home early yesterday to get some things done around the house. Of course we had like four loads of laundry to do. Of course, the neighbors picked yesterday to spread manure. Oh well, that's country living. We can't wait to do a lot more camping this summer.

My attempt to get a close up of her "chicken pox."

Little Lady

Our little girl is truly growing up. These are just some candid shots this morning. It's much more difficult to take her picture now that she is walking since she doesn't want to stay in one place anymore. We are so thankful for her. As I drove her into daycare today I couldn't help but smile. We were jamming a way to her music and she just had such a big smile on her face. I hope she brings a smile to your face as well. Enjoy!

Walking

We can now officially say that Keltie is walking. She has been doing this for quite awhile already, but we never considered it her main mode of transportation until now. She is walking all over the place. I took her to my spring concert last week at church and she was a ham. She was walking up the center aisle and would stop and look back at me and wave. She would move further a little bit more and then start dancing. Needless to say, I don't think any of the kids were focused on the concert.

Last night after her bath she was carrying around a little plastic bucket and making laps around the recliner.

Outside Dining

We put our deck on our house last summer and loved it. This year we decided we needed to put a railing on it so that Keltie could go out there and play. Kevin was able to get it finished over the weekend and got the baby gate done yesterday. Now we know that Keltie can go out and play and if we need to run quick inside to get something, she will be safe. We enjoyed out first meal out there with many more to follow. Thanks for working so hard on it Kevin.