Denver trip Aug 2010

Here is everybody that was at my Great Grandma's 100th Birthday, (Ty, me and the boys are all in orange) my Dad is on one knee on the left with my Mom right behind him, and my brother is in the very back row center in a green shirt. In the pic on the right, is the 5 generation pic, My Great Grandmother is in the chair, my Grandma Pat is is standing behind her, then my Dad top right, me and then my boys! How cool is that! (don't you love the look on my face!.. classic!)

Here is my Moms side of the family, My grandma, my mom, me and then the boys! The pic on the right is just (from my parents down) us at the national history museum (minus my Dad who is taking the picture)
The following pictures are from the wrestling match that occurred in the food court at the Museum... Just love my boys!



Here we are at the Museam of Natural History, The kids loved the fossils, Cameron kept walking up to stuff and holding his arms like Vanna White and saying "look at this!" Here is Mom, me and Kevin, we had a blast! and the kids traveled great!

Summer time!

We have enjoyed summer to say the least... We had swim lessons, and going to the drive-in hitting the Hagermans fossil museum, and the National fish hatchery.. lots of fun!

Here are the boys in the back of the van waiting for the movie to start, it was a double feature, Despicable me and Toy Story 3~

SWIM LESSONS~ We went as a family again, Kevin in the big boy class and me and Tyler with Cameron in the tadpoles class... last year of enjoying "family swim lessons" sniff, sniff!

the first time he needed help, the second time, he needed no help, he did it himself!

Kevin jumping off, never got a good picture of him in the air, but he did jump on his own! (they made them wear life jackets because of previous accidents)

Plus the the 8th of August was my great grandmothers 100th birthday, so we headed to Denver for the party! My cousins amazing wife sent this picture she caught of us, Now I am trying to get the rest from my Dad, my kids are her 5th generation so we got some pics of that!

The Garden

We have been enjoying the ease of gardening this year, with an automatic watering system and 1/3 of the garden in grow boxes life is easy! Take a look!

Here are the roma tomatoes along with carrots and some herbs...

Here are the pumkins sprawling across the front with cucumbers and cantaloupe growing up the trellis' in back.

The corn.. tall and beautiful this year...

Plus we have invited some fun friends to our garden.. SEE~

Ok, I'll zoom in for you! Here he is just chillin on a pumpkin leaf, the boys just love going out to see where he is hangin out!

This year is the first year the kids are big enough to really get the garden, Kevin climes the fence every time he wants a tomato, goes and finds a red one and asks me to cut it up for him! Cameron's favorite are the cucumbers, and they both are waiting patiently for the corn to be ready so we can eat it for a month strait!

It sure has been a great year, we have been enjoying lots of good bugs which means fewer bad bugs!

Thought I would share this with you...

I laughed pretty hard...

A Conversation

Kevin has been very in to snakes lately. He has a rock in the end of a tube sock he's been carrying around for about a week which he has dubbed "snakey". So, one day I was home with Kevin while Catherine was out. When she got home, the following conversation took place...

Kevin: Mommy, Mommy, come see the snake I want!
Tyler (to Catherine): I was showing Kevin pictures of snakes on the internet and now he says he
wants to buy one.
Catherine: I'm ok with that as long as he's willing to hold it.
Tyler: shocked dumb look on his face while jaw on the floor.

Two days later...







Oops! I think Mommy was thinking Kevin wouldn't actually hold one.

This post brought to you by Tyler.

Family Pics 2010

The boys had a blast taking pictures this year, mainly because they got climb and play on the rocks and dirt, see the fish, and find fossils....So what do ya think? My how we have changed in 7 years!

Happy Anniversary!

Happy Anniversary to the only man who is willing to deal with me for eternity! A lot has happened in the last 7 years, and we have so much more to look forward to! Can't wait to see our pictures we took this morning and looking forward to our Eclipse date tonight! I love you so much and sure am glad I made the right decision ALL those years ago when I was 18. Love ya much!

Wardle reunion 2010 part 1

I wanted a picture of out shirts.

Our couple picture ( also known as our "before we lose a whole bunch of weight and look amazing" picture)

Hike picture

Our horse family picture

Kevin's horse pic

Cameron's picture

Tyler almost getting up on the wake board.

my babies...

me and Cameron on the tube...

Kevin... right before he went under!

Cameron being cute on the boat.

That is all the reunion pics for now! I hope to be collecting the rest from everybody else! 4 wheeling, beach pictures you name it! We had a blast!

Before we left for vacation we had some fireworks.. the kids favorites were sparklers!

Summer fun!

the boys wanted to get out the slip-n-slide and yesterday was the perfect day! they loved it!

It was especially fun after Dad came home and jumped on with them! Between the slip-n-slide and the bubbles, the backyard had at least 4 inches of standing water at the end of day... but I think it was worth it!

A sneak peek...

So we decided to redo our guest bathroom it is tiny and the ugly yellow/white that it always has been... Here is a before...

Here is the pre-after!.. I haven't quite finished the little decorations that will make the place great!...but me and Tyler really love it!

What do you think?

Before and After Home Improvement

The front door: the plain jane construction door, and apparently I didn't take any "afters" with the tape off the door, lol. I'll have to do that later!


Before: plain jane, white, same as when we bought the joint look.


During: my message to Tyler, his message back (he added the 2) :)



After: the exact color I saw in my head, the cabinets just "pop" P.S. don't make fun of my messy fridge, I was on a "free from kids time line" I will clean it now that the kids are back.



So what do you think? not bad for a couple of days without kids huh?... but thats not all, we have a few other projects that got started but are not quite finished cause I was missing my kids too badly... but before and afters will be up soon!