as of recently:

 jaden and i hanging out in the yard together.
casey mowing the 5 foot tall weeds grass.
cheesecake factory with some fun couples in the area.

casey continues to study
while i continue to look for a job,
what fun.

onto better news:

happy 31st anniversary mom and dad! woot woot!
look at you two, so cute from the 1st year til the 31st year,
can't wait to celebrate mine and husband's 31 years together!

logan, my brother

to mi hermano logan:
happy birthday brother!
i love you.
i'm pretty sure you don't read my blog but either mom or blair will and they will show you this.

8 reasons why you're an awesome brother:
1. you used to play tickle monster with me and tickled me til i peed my pants.
for some reason, i thought it was fun.
2. you married blair and had annalee and phoebe.
i love those 3 girls so much.
3. you teased me the least when we were younger, thank you,
even though it was because of you i broke my arm when i was 6...not pointing fingers or anything 
4. whenever you see me you call me "kimmm-berlay!"
i kinda like it.
5. you had the biggest head out of us 5 kids as a baby and your pictures show it's cuteness.
6. you live in arizona
that's not really a trait but i am jealous of the fact none the less 
7. you made the coolest twisted balloons like ever.
8. you love playing games and making fun whenever we visit you,
it's so much fun to be around you.


yeah that about sums up my love for you at the moment.
happy birthday brother dearest!

ps- how about you get that video chatting camera to work so we can video chat, eh?
k thanks, bye :)

little things as of lately:

playing with little jaden a lot
driving without the gps would be a disaster. i love that little device.
jaden and myself hanging out in the backyard full of white clovers, 79 degree weather, and slight humidity.
very perfect 

mother's day consisted of chocolate chip pancakes,
monkey bread,
mexican lasanga
double stuffed oreos.
dandelions are everywhere here in indie, we play with them lots.

"field" of white clovers.
hanging out in the hammock.

and my handsome husband in the hammock too!

hey mom,

why my mom is the bomb dot com: (1 day late)

she's like always has had kitties around,
she wore cool jump suits when she was pregnant,
she took cool pictures with my dad back in the day,

"she" got through law school with 3 little boys,
and then she had a fourth boy.

she actually blind folded herself to play pin the tail on the donkey with the 3 little boys.
she was always taking us kids swimming.
she put us in the best halloween costumes.
she let us all ride motorcycles growing up even though it's not the safest of hobbies.

she gave birth to me :)
she the lit the turkey on fire which is quite funny i'd have to say.
she always let us snuggle in bed with her.
she trooped us 5 kids around everywhere to do fun things.

she taught us how to work and how to have fun.
she put 80 candles on her dad's birthday cake.
she does balloons, which is awesome.

she jumped on the tramp in super cool spandex pants with the 5 kids and dogs.
she let kirk way too short of swim shorts, heh heh.
she had all 4 boys on 4 different baseball teams in one season, talk about super woman! can you imagine all those practices, games, and treats after games?!?!

she lets me steal borrow her clothes

she's constantly going going going.
ex: hiking timp in 1994? with 5 kids down at aspen grove
hiking timp with me in 2010.

yeah, i think she's pretty awesome if i do say so myself.
thanks mummy, i love you!


and to my MIL:
casey said you were pretty darn fun growing up.
and i'd agree that you're pretty darn fun now!

welcome to indiana

so....

we made it to indiana!

we're happy to be here and have our summer "officially" started.

out of the kindness of their hearts, we are actually living with casey's brother and SIL for the summer.

it was either live 45 minutes away from them and pay expensive rent,

or live with them and help them wih rent.

we chose the latter, you see.

we're incredibly grateful for this time to be with them and are excited for our summer adventures together!

casey studies for the DAT from 9-6 with an hour lunch break and then goes off to sell.

i'm amazed by how hard he works for our little family.

i love that man.

i on the other hand,
have been diligently going to place after place with my resume.

no luck so far, but hopefully something sometime will come along.

we're having a blast with the toddler running around the house.

jaden, our nephew, is so much fun!

he loves casey and calls me "ber"
(which melts my heart).

we're very excited to see him grow this summer!

cody (the brother) and camille (the SIL) are simply a blast.

i am so excited for our summer together.

they also have tons of cute/fun friends around the area
and are sweet enough to let us join in their festivities with them!

such as cinco de mayo!

yummy mexican food,
a bajillion rambunctious kiddlings,
along with funny adults
and games made for a great time.

look for more updates about our indiana summer!

valley of the sun

some of our activities in arizona:

we played jenga one day, we forgot how much fun that game is.

as soon as i took these 2 pictures, it fell:)

we did a tiny little celebration for phoebe's first birthday!
she is so stinkin funny and cute!

annalee learned that there's not only fun games on the iPad but kimber's phone too.

i can't believe how much she knows when it comes to technology!

as you can see from the photo above, we put her hair in curlers.

if i do so say myself, those curls were the cutest things i ever did see.

casey insisted we go to bahama bucks everday, everyday. ha,

few understand how much casey loves his bahama bucks.
casey always gets cream soda and cotton candy and i blue raspberry and watermelon

we went to baskin robin's 31 cent scoop night while we were there,
can't get better than 3 yummy scoops for 93 cents!


we played at the park and wore out the girls

and lastly a few randoms:
1. we did a lot of running while we were there, which was so nice, my mom came along with us on her bike, and one day annalee joined us in the bike trailer.
2. i saw lots of sunscreen in the stores, i love sunscreen! sunscreen means summer!
3. we visited my nephew tristan in utah on our way to WY
4. casey and i watching the royal wedding in WY :)

today

today we:

-woke up at 4:40 am
-drove 12 hours from AZ to WY, yes we're sick of driving already
-went from 90 degree weather and sun to 30 degree weather and snow
-watched the royal wedding, so beautiful in every way!
-caught up on the last 2 episodes of the office, how sad!
-were stopped once, but no tickets, yay.
-took a quick pit stop to visit megan and tristan
-will go to bed past midnight

pictures of az activity to come

a little bit of this, a little bit of that.

so many other great little things have gone on too!

1. we love doughnuts lately. love them. thank you krispy kreme doughnuts for existing.

2. we finally did our free bowl for the semester.
we both did horrible, but it was a nice break in between packing.

3. i love curlers lately. love them. sponge, or hard. yes please.

4. packing. boo. we made cookies in the middle of it.

5. once the az family got here we showed my niece, annaleee, all the flowers, it was fun.

6. more in-n-out happiness along with driving driving and more driving.
we took my brother's dog down to az for them

 

that's that.
we're currently in az visiting family.
soon we'll go to wyoming.
and after that we're off to indiana for the summer!