Underneath It All

Only 16 months ago, Eva looked like this. She was quiet, still, innocent and clean. I never had to use stain remover on her clothes and only had to bathe her 2 or 3 times a week. She wasn't sneaky or mischievous. And when I left the room I knew she'd be in the exact same spot when I came back.

(Photo taken by Meggan Hayes of Composure Photography)

Eva is now the opposite of everything that she was 16 months ago. She's loud, and sneaky. She's always getting into stuff that she shouldn't be. She climbs and hides and every time I say "no" she gets that look on her face and then laughs. She doesn't care about being disciplined and usually just smiles at me the whole time. And now I have to bathe her EVERY night. And sometimes even in the middle of the day.

How did I end up with a boy that is clean and organized and methodical and quiet and a girl that prefers to look like this?

My parents keep telling me that Eva learned how to do everything from me, but I don't believe them. I'm sure that as a child I was calm and sweet and always well-behaved.

In the Groove Again

Back to scrapping...

I take frequent brakes from scrapping but when I do get to it I do at least 10-20 pages. I LOVE digital! Here's some of the pages I did this last week. I think my 2009 album might have to be printed into 2 volumes. I printed 2008 with 100 pages but I'm already at 103 pages for 2009 and there are still 4 momths left in the year!

At The Cabin

Jen and Mar invited us to their cabin a couple of weeks ago and it was great. So great that we're going back this weekend. Although without Jen and Mar (have a great trip!). We floated the river (twice), went to the farmers market, rode bikes down the canyon and ate great food. Glad we could fit it in before the summer ended! Thanks for the invite guys!

09 WindFest

Last weekend we went to the WindFest in Spanish. We actually went last year too and had such a good time that we wanted to go again this year. Rusti came with Mandy and Kenz and Kevin and Shan came with baby Logan. The weather was perfect!

The kids got to make kites but we couldn't get them to fly. We thought maybe it was just us but when we looked around it seemed that nobody could get them to fly. Eva didn't seem to mind though, she just wanted to eat hers.

Since the WindFest celebrates the windmills and "going green" all the booths have to do with saving energy. We got to ride Segways. Kevin and Danny were the first to go. They seemed like naturals.

Then came the girls turn. It just felt really wierd to me! I thought I was going to crash thte whole time. Shannon and I went pretty slow but Rusti had no fear.

We also rode large tricycles. Eva really liked to ride but she kept trying to sit up so it made it hard to pedal.
Danny and Kevin also got to ride the zipline but they both said that the harnesses kind of hurt. We didn't get any pictures because they went while we were making our kites. Danny and Kevin also got to test drive a smart car but I can't get the pics to upload for some reason. Oh, well.