Hello Summer!

She's pretty darn cool in her sunglasses.


Her gang of buddies at the pool (Kim M. hung out with us for a day!)

Enjoying our evenings in the hammock- getting some love from Cole.

Eatin' at Hula Hut, down by the lake.The Children's Museum- ya, she's still number one in our book!

Utah Trip

On our way up to Jackson Hole we stayed in Salt Lake & Logan for a little while. Even though we make it back about twice a year, it seems there are so many friends we want to visit with- and not always the time to do so!

Here are a few of the highlights:

Erin (who now has 3 very cute boys- one of which took our pic!)
Danelle *Sr. where we got our daughters name from if you ever wondered! and her family at their cabin in Star Valley.A group of Calif. High School friends: Erin, Emily, Jamie, Becky (& Zach- not pictured) and we all have girls-7 total!!!

Four Generations - of blue eyes! Nice cheesy grin Danelle...
And the awesome Hunsaker's are always fun to see- Blake is one of the few that survived as Lane's rommate at college.
Zack and Lane golfing. Feel free to ask Lane how many times he golfed or fished on this trip ;)

5 Year Anniversay Trip

Happy 5 Year Anniversary to us today!!!Eating at Bordeaux's for our Anniversary dinner- amazing food!

We celebrated by going on a trip up to Jackson Hole, Wy... just Lane and I ;)
(and now Lane can't stop thinking about how we can somehow live there...)
Lance (one of Lane's college roommates) and Corrina Anderson came up for one of the nights we were there and we had a lot of fun walking around town shopping, eating out, & relaxing in the hot tub. Can you believe these mountains!
This is the same spot that Ansel Adams took his Teton/Snake River shot below... Lane has it hanging in his office he likes it so much.
We also headed up to Yellowstone and got to see Old Faithful! Cool- but smaller than I thought.

The view from the top of our hike. We had a day of some rain and cooler weather but it was still so nice to be in the mountains again.
Home on the range... lots of buffalo.

I honestly couldn't ask for a better 5 years of marriage! We have been so blessed and I only hope that we can continue on the next few years and be just as lucky!

Happenings of the Week

This week we:

• Went to a kids carnival at the parkFound out Danelle is a domestic goddess and loves to do dishes just like her mom in dressy outfits. *she is all things water these days!
  
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• Played at Goin' Bananas, a place with inflatables for lil' kids.
  

• Introduced Danelle to (toddler) story time at the library. That's her up front with the teacher. Maybe going into nursery next week for the first time will help a little... She eats crayons too.
  

And had play dates at the park and the pool (forgot to take pool pictures- but come on I photographed everything else!)


* this really is for Lane in case he ever asks what we do all day.... :)

It's signing time!

(she does get a little distracted but I FINALLY got her on video- as Aunt Jensa requested!)

We started out teaching her a few basic signs (food, milk, all done and more) so that eating time wouldn't have to be so messy. She loved doing signs so much that we kept teaching her more... Believe me we never intended her signing to be "Hey look at how smart my kid can be!" It was just simply because we didn't want to deal with whining or tantrums! (and what parent does!)

Here are some of the things she can tell us now:
food
milk
all done
more
cracker
cheese
bananna
help
cat
dog
flower
bird
sleep
outside
shoes
ball
hi (bye)
eyes
nose
mouth
daddy

Any requests for the next sign we teach her?

WANTED: 1 boat (and willing to sell soul for it)

Oh how we would love to own a boat! We almost had one given to us, but after it not working out we have had to turn to some new friends to hold us over with theirs until we save enough $ (or win the lottery....) not sure which will happen first...
I'm mean for real- how many places can you go boating before Memorial Day? In the beautiful land of Texas it can be done! Granted it was a little on the cooler side (70's), it was still a nice day to be out on a lake- AND we learned to wake surf! Both Lane and I love to wakeboard but had never tried wake surfing- it was awesome!

Danelle loved the boat too! We had tested her on a short boat ride before but this was about 5 hours and she loved it! She even swam in the water with us!Snuggl'n with her daddy. (I think this was his favorite part of the day)Don't mind the paleness... it is only May...
Here's a clip of Lane channeling his inner child- using the rope swing... and at the end of the clip you can even hear Danelle giving her approval! :)

Swine Flu?

This is what happened to our poor little thing after taking amoxicillin for a few days (Dr. says she's ok- just shouldn't take "icillin" medications anymore).

Doesn't it make you itch just looking at it!?
Day 1:


Day 2:
Luckily for her- it doesn't itch though.

Any suggestions as to what we should say to others when we have to take her out in public? (she's not contagious and it will take several days to go away...) I know I won't be able to stay cooped up in the house with such nice weather.

We've already been asked if she has chicken pox... ;)

Happy Mother's Day

Wieners!

Over the weekend we went to the 12th Annual Wiener Dog Races/Fair!

Whats that you say!? You've never been to a wiener dog race? ... well, behold it in all it's (video) glory:sorry, the video once it's up on the blog is not quite as clear. *youtube it if you want to see some better clips.


Danelle loved seeing all the dogs! Her new favorite word to say is "Dutch" who is the long hair dachshund that Lane's parents have.

* over 600 wiener dogs were in the races that were all day sat. and sun.!


She also loves to eat banana pancakes on Saturday mornings... followed by a little dancing with her daddy.

Girls Trip

I have always wanted to go to PARIS! And who better to go with than a bunch of girls!

The Eiffel tower is gorgeous at night!
The architecture there is so beautiful- and the food is amazing!
But...until one of us learns a little more French (or Italian...Jensa) we'll have to just visit the one a little closer here in:
All girls trips should include:

• Good Food & late nights
  

• Waterfalls, palm trees and lots of sunshine
• Shopping
• Chocolate
• Entertainment/Shows Cirque Du Soleil was great!
• Games & Gambling what! there's gambling in Vegas!?

• Hanging out with fun girls! *and meeting new interesting people

A special thank you to my wonderful husband for being amazing and watching Danelle for 5 days while I was away!