Autumn makes us laugh.

Autumn is talking just like a grown up and of course she does allot of repeating of what we say. Somewhere along the line she thought it cute to say " I like your hair, I like your shirt....I like your boobs". Well we thought it 'cute' and funny (especially the two teenagers) until...We did a overnight trip to Tucson when Rachel was in California just as something to do. We visited my grandma and wen to the zoo. We got a hotel and went for a swim. Well of course a man was down there swimming and Autumn had to tell Karen "I like that man's boobs". We tried to talk to her about how we shouldn't say that to people etc. Well a little later here comes a larger man.
We could see Autumn staring at him and tried to keep her at the opposite end of the pool, but every time we went close she tried to say it and we had to distract her, not funny any more. So we get home and I do a long talk to her about being something we don't say. Later she sits on my lap and lays on me and says "I like to lay on your boobs, but I am not to say I like your boobs, you're not to talk about your boobs so... I like your face". I was laughing and trying not let her know I was laughing but she kept repeating it until I said "thank you". Boy she says something new every day and of course she has the audience too! Jack told her she was crazy and she says "thank you!"

Rachel turned 18!

Wow can't believe Rachel turned 18. We cooked a nice big Italian dinner for her on Thursday the 14th. On Friday morning her and my niece Courtney and two of their friends drove to California to go to Disneyland and the beach. Rachel wanted to spend her birthday at Disneyland and they did! They had a blast. It was hard to let her go on her own, so hard to see them grow and be so independent. She is enrolling at Phoenix College, wow another college kid.

June 2011

I can't believe how fast summer is speeding past! Already July! We didn't do a whole lot for June but it sure went fast. Kyle returned to Arizona June 2. He had a slight worry about his diploma which could have caused him to return to Iowa for school for another month, but all turned out and his diploma should be in the mail any day. He moved right across the street! He's getting a good deal on a three bedroom house that some very good friends and adopted grandparents are renting him. We will miss our friends. We thought it would be awkward to see him move in but all seems to be going well. He has made it his little home already and just bought furniture. We had to get vanilla wafers for him to keep there for Autumn because the lady Joyce always had them for her. Kyle is still at Quick Trip until he finds another job in his field.
Rachel is also still at Quick Trip and is planning her birthday trip to Disneyland in two weeks. Kyle was so nice as to give her his old car. She paid for a friend to fly out to Iowa and he drove it back along with Kyle and his tuck and she will keep the car. Nice brother!
Karen wants a job and is looking other wise she helps out with Autumn and hangs with her friends.
Autumn is still a hand full. She is in swimming lessons and loves it. We are still looking for a good friend for her to play with but until then she has her older siblings to occupy her. We have been doing summer movie fun, 10 movies fore $7! So every Wednesday we have a movie. She is into Despicable Me now and has seen it so many times! She says the funniest things and keeps us laughing. She kept her ears covered the whole drive over and up until they started the fireworks. It was funny seeing her walk with her hands over her ears and once they started she says " see they are not so loud, they are beautiful".
Jack has been riding his bike to work three times a week even in this heat! Been saving gas money and with me not working! Hopefully July will slow down and we will get some rain.