We had a ton of baby birds in our backyard through out June. They were so cute. We found our firsdt one while hanging a peanut butter birdseed treat out in the back yard. We ended up leaving it on the ground for him to eat. I think he got thirsty though and ended up jumping into the pool. :o( sad. The same happened to the second. I’m not sure what happened to the third, but we didn’t find him in our pool. We left a little bowl of water out for this one hoping to avoid the mishap of the others. Here’s the fourth one.
His feathers were a little more full. He had a brother or sister come help him figure out how to fly. It was precious. He at least made it over the wall.
I’m not sure why we’ve had so many baby birds this year, but the kids loved it!
Baby Shell is about 4 1/2 months old now and usually I’m antsy to start my babies on real food at about 4 months, but not for her. So the other day I decided we’d try her out with some puffs.
Do you think she liked them? Isn’t she the cutest!
Nothing like a couple little helpers feeding her puffs all the time!
We drove up to Utah from the cabin for the Stubblefield Family Reunion. On our way we stopped at our old house to show our kids where we lived and to take a look. Sad, sad, sad. Micah said it wasn’t as bad as he expected, but it was way worse than I expected! I guess I knew it could go that way, we sold it to a guy who was going to rent it out, but it sounds like he’s had a hard time keeping renters in there (obviously… if he would keep it looking even a little nicer maybe he’d be able to find people to rent it).
This is how it looked when we moved in
This is how it looked when we moved out
This is how it looked this last visit
Oh well… we’re glad its not ours!
The reunion was in Heber, and it was beautiful. The first night, we (well actually just Micah from our fam) tie-dyed our family reunion shirts. Each family made their own design and they all turned out great. On Friday they brought in a big bouncy water slide. It was so fun, but the water was oh so cold! Jackson would play until his lips were blue and then come in, take a warm bath and head back out. He did that 3-4 times.
One of Jackson and Lacey’s favorite things at the family reunion was shooting rockets! We don’t have too many pictures of it, though.
There was also a pool table, ping pong table, media room (which we used well), and a great kitchen full of delicious food! We took a trip down to BYU one morning.
We were lucky to get to hang out with Tim and Audrey before they took off to Africa. Audrey treated Lacey like a princess and painted her toe nails… then Lacey looked at her unpainted fingernails and told Audrey in a concerned voice, “Look, they’re empty.” So Audrey kindly painted her fingernails too! Lacey loved it! Then we all went bowling together. We had such a great time and the kids keep asking now “where are Timmy and Audrey?” Back at the cabin, one of the nights instead of the Talent/variety show we’ve done in the past, each family was asked to bring a homemade music video for everyone to watch. They were funny … here’s ours:
We had such a great time. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!
We took all day Sunday to drive home from the family reunion. We pulled in about 6:45, got completely unpacked and settled, got the kids bathed and to bed, and then Micah took off to the airport after repacking. He had a conference most of this last week that he needed to be to by Monday morning. It was in Canada, so he took a red-eye flight over to be there in time. I knew we’d need a few out of the ordinary things to do this week without him coming home every night. We swam a lot while the baby slept, and one day we went to the Children’s Museum of Phoenix. It was a lot of fun and Jackson has asked every day to go back. We were glad to be in the company of the Woods and Kings. Lacey’s favorite part was painting the playhouse size castle and playing with the kitchen stuff. Jackson’s all time favorite thing was the car race track. Mommy’s favorite part was the noodle forest – I wish I could have played in there longer! Everyone save your pool noodles for me – I think I’ll turn our living room into a noodle forest ;o) Rachelle was pretty content most of the time (after the car ride over) and slept for quite a bit while we were there. Some other things that the kids loved: the 3 story climber, a plinko board, wind tubes, the cactus that spiders jump off of, and all the ball ramps! We did have a great time, but then it got me thinking… I think I could make most of those things – maybe its time for a little creativity in our home! Was that the purpose of the museum? It sure got our imaginations going!
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For the 4th of July we went to the cabin. We had a blast! That place keeps getting more and more fun for us. We arrived about 7:00 on Friday night and were warmly welcomed by the Woods, Andersons, Kings, and Mamama and Papa Dad. As we drove into the driveway they came out wearing patriotic hats and headbands, waving flags, and cheering wildly for us! We could get used to that kind of greeting! Then they put hats and headbands on us, gave us flags and started the music for a fun patriotic family dance and sparklers.
Saturday, we went fishing at Fred’s Lake with everyone, and although it was a very fun and successful fishing trip overall, none of us Stubblefields caught anything.
That evening we had a fire, made smores, and Jackson and Dad headed to the fireworks while the tired girls went to bed.
One or two of the days we walked down to the train house… and I think his newest addition is our favorite:
We went down to woodland lake to catch some crawdads one evening.
We played hard all day every day with cousins – What a great time!
