For Grandma and Grandpa

Ever since we had our "Christmas-in-July-with-a-Moroccan-Santa-Clause" in Nauvoo, Grandma and Grandpa have been begging for pictures of all the kids in their Moroccan outfits. Here they are (finally).

Randomness of Children

Ok some of the things my children do are just plain bizarre. Here are the pictures to prove it. I don't know what order these are in, but between taping a face shut, eating while sleeping, being told to smile nice and covering a face with shiny stickers my children always make me laugh. The gymnastics in the living room wasn't so hot, but she was trying to be a cheerleader. Someday I will write a meaningful post again.

Well, it's been a while...

I'm not even going to try and catch up on everything that happened since my last post. Here is a brief timeline though:
July 4th - Celebrated in Charleston
mid-July - Road Trip!!went to Nauvoo for Hillary and Jake's wedding
July 30 - Adrianna's birthday
Aug 14-17 - Guffey Family Reunion in Gatlinburg, TN
Aug 15 - Closed on our house!
Aug 20 - School started. Homeschool that is. It was a little rough at first, but is smoothing out slowly but surely.

Amidst all the big things were of course little things like a weekend trip to NC just for fun, Shiloh learning how to can peaches and pears (both grow very abundantly here and my kids can pick some pears), and of course our church callings. With all that in mind, I'm just going to randomly post my favorite pictures from over the course of the summer. I'll try to label them if I can recall details. Anyway, enjoy! Hopefully things will be settling into a routine now so I should have a few minutes now and then to get on and update my posts.

Part 3

Lydia's birthday was the 28th. We started the day by washing the cars as a family. Jason had more fun soaking the kids with the waterhose than anything. Although since it was 90 degrees at ten in the morning who could blame him.



We had a little family party for Lydia that evening. Jason made her birthday cake. He figured this would be the last time she wouldn't really have a strong opinion on the subject. It was an angel food cake with a cool whip frosting that had fruit in it, pineapple, bananas, strawberries and then blueberries on top. It was very, very good!




Lydia had been getting phone calls all day long with people singing happy birthday to her and by the end of the day she was singing it too. Our little dress up queen.

Part 2

So after the primary activity came Father's Day. Daddy got just what he always wanted, a new grill! Complete with accessories. We didn't get pictures of that though. Here is a picture of daddy with the kids at bedtime though.


Some time in the next couple of days I managed to get this shot. Lydia asleep in her food. Like mother, like daughter so I'm told (Ok I've seen the picture of me).


Then we went to Georgia to visit Skye and Ryan and Ryan's parents, Doug and Donna. We swam in their new pool.






Cami and Skye got a kick out of Adam's "baby Speedo".


Adam had a real knack for finding any hard plastic handles and chewing on them.



I have a couple more shots of him in various rafts but out of respect for myself and fear of my sisters I decided the public didn't really need to see those. Suffice it to say they aren't the most flattering pictures ever taken, although Adam looks adorable in all of them.

The swimming wore him out and while adam fell asleep on a chair...


Emily and Adrianna were helping Donna make an ice cream sandwich cake. It was Yummy!!!!



We had a great time and managed to learn how to make smocking for dresses and even found time to play a few board games with Skye and Ryan before we had to head back home

What a Month: Part 1

It has been quite a month for us so I'll break this up into several posts. After Lily was born we spent a day or so with Nana and Poppa before we headed back home. On a trip to wal-mart Adam was in his carseat and I was helping Emily pick out a new swimsuit Adam started screaming, it turns out Lydia, who was also in the buggy, was biting him. I took these picture a couple hours after we got back. Yes, she got in some trouble.

Emily and Jonas are really big helpers, they even got Adam down for a nap all by themselves.

We had a primary activity before Father's Day. The kids all made a little present for Dad and then played water games like a water balloon war between the Nephites and Lamanites and tug of war over a baby pool full of ice & water. Preston and Lydia weren't too interested in the water games but they loved the bubbles

All in all a great success, even Adam had a friend.

Cami mentioned our visit to Skye and Ryan for a few days. It was a lot of fun! That will be our next installment.

A Blessing and a Baby

This has been an eventful week. It started off Sunday June 1st with Adam's baby blessing. I never did get a picture of everyone, but with Jason were his Dad (Mike Guffey), brother Jacob, brother-in-law Grant, my brother-in-law Ryan, and our bishop. All the family came down from NC and Skye and Ryan came up from Augusta. We had a great time seeing everyone and the kids got to spend time with their cousins.

Adam's outfit was made by Ryan's mom, Donna, who is marvelous seamstress. He talked (cried) through the blessing because we forgot his pacifier, but there were some beautiful things said nonetheless.

Poppa Mike was able to enjoy some time with the man of the hour.

The kids last day of school was Thursday and we celebrated by letting them stay up late and watch movies.

And finally Cami had her baby today, Saturday! It's a little girl and though you will probably get the same info on Cali, Cami, and Mom's blogs I have the pictures first.

She went in a little before 6am, started having good, hard contractions and asked for an epidural at 10:30am.

And then we all rested easy for a few hours. Sorry I couldn't get my pictures to rotate the right way, I'll work on that.

Lily Jewell Guffey made her appearance at 3:05 on 06/07/08 ( I think that is so cool!)

She is 7 lbs 2 oz, 20 inches long, has reddish blondish hair (what little there is of it), and great lungs and vocal chords which she practiced using to their full extent.

The little family is doing wonderfully and Cami was so awesome! You would never know she just had a baby!

It's been a great week!