Dinner with Friends

Dinner at the Lemkes with so many great friends! I'm publishing a picture from at least 5 years ago just so that we can marvel how many new additions we've met/created since then!!

Park fun

String Lake

We piled the Haspela crew and the Krasula/Lowenfels crew into the Haspelas spacious minivan and motored up to String Lake on Thursday. What a scene in the car! I wish I had taken pictures, but there were 4 car seats between me and the camera in the back! We had to pull a manouver that looked a bit like crowd-surfing to get Miles' car seat into his base in the back! It was hard to take pictures at the lake - trying to find a balance between keeping Miles in the shade, but also away from mosquitos... thank goodness for extra hands at the lake, one of those "it takes a village" moments for sure!

Teton County Fair adventure with Haspelas!

The Haspelas are in town, hooray! We had a morning adventure to the Teton County Fair on Friday, starting with a bus ride... animals, pony ride, fake cows to milk, tractors to peddle, lemonade, mini-trains to ride - exhausting good times!

Thanks Aunt Sue:)

Madelyn's obsession for the day- her new pink tutu from Aunt Sue! She wore it to swimming lessons this morning and refused to take it off until she was right at the pool's edge!

Also Miles in his hoodie towel, and Madelyn blowing bubbles tonight.

Faces of Madelyn

A Day in Kelly

Maddie, Miles, and I packed up and headed to Kelly to visit the Hoovers this morning - breakfast on the porch, playtime with the chickens, hoolahoops, swings, lizards, and Kelly Elementary playgound! So much fun! Miles, of course, slept through the whole trip

A peaceful morning moment

This morning Madelyn spent a few minutes out on the porch sketching. It was so peaceful, and made the artist in me smile... at least someone in the fam is finding the time! I love her little red crocs in these pictures



A few more picts of week 5;

Weekly Happenings

Well, our weekly rhythms continue - swim lessons, a few days of school for Madelyn, Wednesday Peoples' Market, and lots of park time... Miles went for his one month check up - looking right as rain (still a little yellow, but not a concern). He's now 7 pounds 7 ounces - strangers still comment on how tiny he looks, but I'm thinking he's really filled out quite a bit! He's starting to loose that true newborn look and is having far more awake time, is a bit fussier (still mild in the scheme of things!), and squawking a bit more too!

Madelyn is doing well with easing into the big sister role. It seems to get easier each day for her, and she's more able to express what she's thinking and feeling without completely falling to pieces. Today she told me that she wanted me to only pay attention to her and not Miles. We've talked a lot about how it's OK to feel like that sometimes, sharing a parent is hard! But on the flip side, she also was so excited to take a nap with Miles in the room today that I couldn't get her to sleep until Miles was in his rocker right next to her bed. She said, "Now I won't be lonely when I sleep!" Oh how true that will be in a few months when Miles moves in to her room permanently!! I hope she'll still be as excited!

Here's Madelyn's picture of the week, I thought it was a great one, and shows her perspective well:)


A few pictures of Miles this week:



And, tonight Madelyn decided to tell Miles a bed-time story, which I caught on camera:)

Madelyn's photography

Madelyn has been practicing taking pictures ... here are a few of her better shots from yesterday:



I was hoping to take a picture of both kids dressed up in their "cowboy" duds, but alas, Miles didn't really like the idea. Anyways, it was a sight to see, you'll have to embellish smiling faces on everyone:)

old movie clips

Here are a few old (like 2 weeks ago) movie clips that I just couldn't get to post until now...
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4th of July weekend

A fun weekend, balancing out-and-about with catching up on some rest! Pizza night at the Windsor's on Friday night, a fun hike up Cache Creek on Saturday morning (Madelyn walked most of the way on her own! Impressive!), and we had a great time at Tate's 3rd birthday party yesterday.

Here's a picture of Madelyn all dressed up for the hike... Madelyn has been extremely independent minded these days about getting dressed by her self - she is often spotted these days with clothes on backwards (on purpose), jammies during the day time, dresses at night, etc. We just go with it because, hey, she'd doing it on her own, and that saves us the trouble!:) The mitten/sock on her hands were her last minute fashion decision to protect herself against mosquitos.





Miles has been starting to fill out... he had surpassed his birthweight and was 6lb6oz at his 2 week checkup last Friday... I'm starting to see his face and limbs smooth out (no more wrinkly skin!). He is still sleeping for most of the day, but really alert when up, enjoying to stare at his polka-dot sheet. He's moving his head around from side to side and able to hold it up for a few seconds on his own... fun to watch the process of "becoming a person" unfold again!