Raspberry Panthers

    

Kali & Meg played on the same team this year, and Jason was their coach.  It was quite the season.  It's funny to see the difference between the 6 yr olds and the 7 yr olds.  The 6 yr olds half the time would be in La-La-Land, and the first three games Meg was playing on the field and ran off the field to pick me some flowers, delivered them to me, then returned to play in the game.  The 7 yr olds were much more determined to get goals and to win the game.  Kali & Meg got thier first goal this year!  They were so excited about that!!  I know that they don't keep track of winning/losing at the U8 level, but for us soccer players (Jas & I) we just couldn't resist not keeping track of how the girls did and who made goals.  We were ALMOST undefeated!  ESPECIALLY when U8's aren't supposed to have goalies.  We were the ONLY team that NEVER used a goalie!!!  Here is our record for the year!

5-0  WIN

2-4  LOSE

{It was 80 that day though, so they were exhausted}

4-3 WIN

7-2 WIN

1-0 WIN

3-0 WIN

3-3  TIE

7-4 WIN

Scentsy

So in addition to marketing Artisty Cosmetics, I decided last week to be a Scentsy Consultant.  If you don't know what Scentsy is, they make wick-less candles.  They make ceramic warmers that melt jam packed scented wax.  They are considered the 'new' Salt City Candle and are very popular!!  Everyone who looks at them seems to really like them.  

So if any of you want to Host an Open House for free products, need to order new scents, or just curious of what they are . . . Let me know.  Here's my website.

www.scentsy.com/lisasmedley

Cabin on the 4th

The kids LOVE going to my parents cabin!  That is an understatement to say the least!  Owen for about a year now has been thanking Heavenly Father for "the cabin" in his prayers . . . seriously!  They love jumping off the dock and swimming in the lake.  Owen LOVES boat rides!  This year was especially nice with the 78 degree weather . . . wish we could be there all week with the forecast looking the same. Hope everyone had a great 4th of July!  Here's some cute pix of the weekend . . .

 

Owen and his fishing pole!

Meg & I giving everyone waves while they were in their tubes

The warm weather couldn't keep them on the dock!

Canoeing in the trees before my parents burn this sucker!

Incentive

This is Owens incentive to go potty.  It doesn't look like much, but it is working!!  For the girls it was a sticker chart.  I bought a lot of stickers and put them in a bag and every time they went, they were excited to add a new sticker to their piece of paper hanging in the bathroom.  

But for Owen, stickers are not the way to go.  I laminated this gum ball machine and used it originally for the girls when they clean their room or finish their homework . . . and the reward for filling it up . . . CHUCK E. CHEESE!  Owen was on board for the original use of this, and so I figured it was worth a try to use it for potty-training.

This is how he's doing so far.  I don't tell him this, but every time he has an accident, I take one off {to kind of prolong the reward}.  

I don't have any more diapers, and I refuse to buy more.  So we'll see how much more of this potty training I can handle.  So far so good!

Owen

Owen is now the BIG 3!  It's crazy how fast he is growing up!  He cracks me up ALL the time.  Jason says that I'm a 'softy' when it comes to Owen.  If he asks me for anything in the cute little polite voice of his . . . he's most likely to get it.  I just LOVE it when he says things like "I want to go to YOURS house" . . . "you coming to OURS house" . . . and "Cow-ie" for Kali, and "Hewo" for Hello.  He just melts me!  And he's such a BOY too!  I LOVE IT!! Of course he's my first boy, and I'm bias, but I swear he's gonna be all sports!  He's good at anything he tries . . . and I love that he looks like a little surfer boy!  

Gull Rock

Last week some friends and I went on a 10 mile RT backpacking trip.  We drove to Hope and hiked along the inlet to camp at Gull Rock.  Gull Rock is almost directly across Turnagain Arm from Anchorage.  About a half hour into the hike we spotted a black bear up in a tree just 10 feet off the trail.  He was only about 15 ft up the tree just staring at us.  It was pretty cool!

I was so excited to go on this trip so much that I didn't care that I was 6 months pregnant, I just REALLY wanted to use our backpacking gear that we got last year at REI's $.83 sale!!  I had EVERYTHING I needed in my 25 lb pack, except a stove.  I carried a two-man tent, sleeping bag, sleeping pad, extra pair of clothes, rain coat, Mountain House meals, water purifier, water, leatherman, a gun, and some misc things in the top pouch.  Surprisingly the strap around my waste was very comfy and supported my protruding belly.  I didn't get any braxton hicks till we got back to the car the next day.  On our way home we ate at the yummy Coast Pizza place in Girdwood, and saw Mountain Goats off the Seward Hwy.  I told Jason that I want to go again somewhere before I get really uncomfortable in the next coming months!

Me, Julie, Kia, Julie

Our black bear friend

This is our view from our tents looking straight at Anchorage

Half way to Gull Rock (almost looks like an island)

Our new 2-man tent!  LOVED IT!!!!

Graduation '09

Meg's Kindergarten Graduation was today.  It was very cute.  We went to the school to hear all the kindergarten classes sing some songs, get their graduation certificates, and eat cookies!!  Grandma and Grandpa have a tradition of making Candy Leis for their grandkids who graduate Kindergarten & High School.  Meg forgot all about them, so when they had her close her eyes, she was SO EXCITED to get them.  Her favorite one was with Swedish Fish!  It was a very exciting day for Meg, but I think she is MOST excited that school is almost over . . . I think I might be in for the long haul since she is ONLY in Kindergarten :D

{Mrs. Hardy}

It's A . . . . . .

18 weeks has FINALLY come . . . so we found out today what we are having and we are THRILLED!!!  I told the girls when they went to school that I would have a suprise for them when they came home that was about what we were having.  We had them close their eyes when we brought the cake out!  Meg didn't know how to read it and thought it said happy birthday {my sister was over too, and today is her birthday}, so I think they got confused a bit.  But it was great fun!!  We are very excited to even things up a bit!  Here is a cute video of the heart beat and of him waving his fingers at us!  

Hula

Just recently, a friend of ours in our ward came home from BYU-Hawaii for a week.  She dances at the Polynesian Cultural Center, and decided it would be fun to teach the girls in our ward how to dance while she was here.  

Prior to her coming her mom taught all the moms how to sew a Hawaiian Pau skirt and shirt for the girls to wear at class and at the performance.  

As soon as I was done sewing the skirts, the girls asked EVERYDAY when Nelli was coming home so they could  shake their hips!!!

They only had classes Monday-Wednesday for an hour a day, then performed for all us parents on Thursday!  It was too cute!  They LOVED every minute of it and are STILL singing and dancing weeks after!!  

So now the BIG talk in our house from the kids is that they are planning to "save" their hard earned money for ... HAWAII!!

#4

Ok .... so I have REALLY been neglecting this bloggin' thing!!  

    

BUT for a very good reason!!

We are expecting our 4th (AND last I might add!) kiddo around October 7th.  It's been a mess around here the past two months!!  My pregnancies were never this rough.  I've been REALLY sick, just sinking into the depths of the forbidden COUCH!  But just as expected, 14th week came around and I'm doing MUCH better!!  My poor kiddos, I've missed EVERY signup sheet with a deadline that they could possibly have at school, and our food storage ran out of cereal I swear the 2nd week of being sick!!  

So with all that said, yes we {jas & I} would like another boy ... while our posterity for some reason would like another girl!!  Including Owen, but I don't count that since that is ALL he knows :D  Plus he's a big time follower when it comes to his sisters!  

So keep posted, cause heck yes we will find out!!!