Ashlynn is loving this

The first few days Cambria went to school Ashlynn was sad that she left without her, but then she quickly learned that she could do whatever she wanted. I let her play in Cambria's room the first few days and watch a movie and she didn't make a mess, then she just started pulling everything out and getting into Cambria's jewelry and losing things. This made Cambria mad.
So I started locking Cambria's door while she was at school. It seems mean but Ashlynn broke some stuff and lost some jewelry, and for everyone who knows Cambria, she is very weird about her stuff. She didn't like Ashlynn in her room while she was away. Also I did not like cleaning up the mess. Ashlynn would pull stuff out just because she thought it was funny.
She tried really hard to open the door, it was hilarious.
She was saying "push"!
She has also been falling asleep around the house because she does not like to take naps anymore but she still needs them because she is tired.
Note to self: one zucchini plant is sufficient, zucchini grows very well in our backyard.

Fashion Show and First Day of School

Cambria was so excited to have her grandparents over for dinner yesterday. She helped make pizza on the grill, it was so good. We even got out our fancy punch bowl that she always begs to use, for her back to school dinner. Then she did a fashion show. I only got pictures of 2 of her new outfits because she had started showing off her new clothes when we were still getting dinner ready because she couldn't wait.
When she came out she would try hard not to smile, it was cute.
Has anyone else noticed that kids backpacks are getting a lot bigger? This is the hugest backpack I have ever seen. I tried to get her to let me take it back to the store and buy a different one, but she wanted a backpack with Rapunzel on it so bad. I searched everywhere for Rapunzel, but they were sold out. Oh well, she will just have a giant backpack. Also, this picture makes it look even bigger, haha.
Ashlynn was singing to Lady Gaga in the background.
The traditional back to school photo by the front door. I don't think I have any from when I was little, one of my sisters please post some! I'm sure we look hilarious.

Getting in the car with all of her school supplies.
She was really excited, but I was nervous because all summer she was saying that she was scared to go to school. She also made me paint her nails last night.

Aaron took some pictures of her in her classroom, at first I thought it was weird to take our huge camera to her classroom, but all of the other parents were doing it too.
The girl sitting next to her was in her primary class last year, so I am glad she has someone to sit by that she knows. They were laughing really hard because they both had the same barbie folder from walmart.
Aaron took this picture, I think he was having a harder time leaving than I was.

summer fun

We went camping with Jp Marriott and his family while they were in Idaho. It was the first time we have slept in a tent with Ashlynn, we weren't sure if she would even lay down to go to sleep, but she was really good. We were in our little tent but two twin mattresses fit perfectly in it and so we were really cozy
Ashlynn had fun running around and getting dusty.
Cambria thought riding in this thing with Jp was the coolest.

On our way home from the cabin one day we saw a baby moose.
We had a few thunderstorms at night and they liked to sit outside and watch the lightning.
We grew this zucchini in our garden. So far we have eaten some for dinner, made zucchini bread and we still have more left of this one, AND we have a few more that are ready to be picked in the garden. I think I am going to try to freeze some.
Our onions were not quite big enough yet...
Ashlynn was using this pepper as a phone. We grew this too. We have maybe about 10 peppers growing right now. I think I can freeze those too and use them for fajitas and stuff.
Our carrots and green beans are looking good.
Any finally, it's her turn to be a big sister!

4th of july/birthday party and other stuff

Cambria had her first friend birthday party, and she loved it! I am only doing friend birthday parties every few years for my kids, so when they get a party we can spend more and have more fun. It was hard inviting kids because every house in our neighborhood has a bunch of kids, and she has friends from church, t-ball, and preschool. So we ended up with a lot of kids, but it was fun.
I didn't think to take pictures until they had already been playing for an hour and had stopped to eat. We had hot dogs, cheetos and cupcakes. I didn't get pictures of the cupcakes either because they got eaten to fast.
The people who own this set it up at 8:30 in the morning and didn't pick it up until about 9:00 that night. We seriously played outside ALL day.


Cambria's favorite part was opening her gifts, she got a lot of cute things.

After the party we had family come over and play.





I have no idea what I am going to do when Ashlynn turns 5, it has to be as much fun as this was.
She loves yogurt, she always licks the bowl clean.
I saw Cambria doing Ashlynn's hair the other day, how cute is that?
A while ago I posted pictures of our garden. This is our first time growing anything, and next year we will do a few things differently, but we actually have stuff growing! This is our huge zucchini plant.
And here is a zucchini, it looks good!
A red pepper. Well it will be red someday...
Onions.
corn
and carrots. We also have green beans, peas and cucumber but so far we can't see any.