July 2011

I love the 4th of July...summer, matching outfits, fireworks and hanging out with family and friends!  

This year we spent the 4th with the Guenters.  It was so much fun. We enjoyed great food and entertainment. 

Dancing with her first love and her last (Addyson says she is going to marry Coleman)!

I thought Ella was going to be scared but she loved it!

1 year pictures

I know her birthday was in April but we have been a little busy so you get them 3 months later.  Her hair has grown a little but not to much in 3 months.  That would be the only difference.  She is such a fun addition to our family!  I couldn't imagine life without our little Ella. 

These pictures capture Ella more than I can tell you.  Especially the first one...she loves to glare at everyone!  And the other pictures are when she doesn't get her way... I took the tooth brush from her! Thanks mom for making her one year outfit!

These pictures were taken on the same day.  Just new hair and outfit!    

Purple Lady

After I was done taking Ellas picture I started to clean up and Addyson asked if I would take hers.  So I let her do her own hair, (thats saying a lot) pick out her outfit and put herself in her own poses.  Thats right- all I did was snap a few shots.  I think they look pretty good...I guess she has had a lot of practice!

Yum Yum

Oh how I love living next to my parents that produce this!!!  We really do live off the land in the summer time.  All we need are a few cows, pigs and chickens and we will be set!  

Things in papa's garden:  tomatoes- juliets, early girl and more that I can't think of.  Cucumbers- armenian & japanese, asparagus, egg plant, butternut squash, zucchini, peppers- italian & jalapeno, white & red onions, cantaloupe, basil, parsley, potatoes...to name a few.  Then we have over 10 different fruit trees.  In the fall/winter we have an avocado tree (my favorite), citrus trees, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, cabbage, beets, fava beans, sweet peas...  I hope I got everything!  Lets just say we live off the land a few months out of the year!  Thats not counting our boysenberries that we sale every summer!  My dad is amazing at keeping things growing around here and we are pretty good at not letting it go to waste!

Happy Girl

1. This is Ella's little hide out!  She will sit there until you find her.  And when you do she cracks up!

2. Ella trying on my shades.

3. Addyson showed Ella our cool off spot!  There is a vent at their feet and in the summer it blows lots of  cool air...we all fight over it on hot days!  They love to stand on it in their church dresses and watch them blow.

4. You have to be very careful around Ella.  She has been know to take other cousins/sister blankets that look like hers.  My mom makes every grandchild a blanket.  They are all the same besides the color.  She is color blind or really doesn't care and will take it!  She and Milo have had a few run ins and that is Addyson's in the picture.

5. This is Ella's new trick!  She does it ALL the time.  

Noah & Addyson's Photo Shoot

We are so happy that the Weibells moved back to Visalia!  Addyson and Noah have so much fun together and get along so well.  They were down stairs playing and came up in this fabulous attire!  I had to pull out my camera... oh what have I started!  They wouldn't let me stop there so they decided to have a little photo shoot (I had no say in their choices so don't judge)!

Playing in the Sprinklers

It's amazing how entertaining one little sprinkler can be!  They played in it for hours!  I knew Addyson would love it but I was pretty shocked how much Ella liked it.  She would just go right up to it!

June 2011

What a year can do!  She was a ham up on that stage!  Last year I didn't think she would get on the stage and this year she was all over that stage!  The theme this year was "Shirley Temple" and it was sooooooo cute! Whoops. misspelled recital :-)

1.  Grandma & Grandpa with Addyson

2. Ma with Addyson

3. Uncle Scott with Addyson

4. Emily with Addyson (After coming Emily is signing up to dance with Addyson...Yeah!)

5. Aunt Heidi with Addyson

6. Landon, Matthew and Alec Weibell & Kaden Kartchner with Addyson

Thank you everyone who came.  You guys ALWAYS make Addyson feel so special! 

Beach Trip

Steve had a CE course at the beach so the girls and I came with!  While Steve was in class we went to the beach...sorry babe!  

I LOVE these pictures!!!  I don't need to say anything the pictures say enough.  I am so in love with those two!

1. Addyson found this hill.  They were entertained for hours with it!

2. You can't go to the beach without looking for shells.

3. This girl had sand EVERYWHERE!  Look at her eye lashes!

4. So serious

5. Ella's smile

6. Addyson loves the beach!  It doesn't matter how cold the water is...she is in it!  She loves to play around in the sand.

7. Ella loved the pink chair.  She didn't know what to think about the sand at first so she hung out on the chair.  It didn't take her long before she was playing in the sand and running in the water!

Lazy Summer Days

I love summer! Playing in the yard and it being light out forever!  Waking up and the girls and I hang out in bed together until we want to get up...sorry daddy someone has to work! I love being around family and having no worries about making sure we are on time for school, dance, softball, etc. I could go on and on. 

I think I say NO more than any other word these days!  Ella loves to get into troubles!  But she is so cute so we just laugh or pull out the camera!  She loves to be in Papa's garden and eat tomatoes right off the vine. ( Ma makes a killer boysenberry shake that Ella LOVES.)

Happy Father's Day

Addyson was so excited to give daddy his Father's Day card that we made!  Ella...not so much !!!

This picture was on his card that we made.  We talked about how grateful we are for him in so many different aspects of life.  The first one being Church- His love for our Savior, his service, how he honors his priesthood and how he lives the gospel everyday. Work- I am so grateful that I get to be home with our girls.  He works hard so I don't have to be out of the house.  He is good at what he does and he is good to people.  Farming- He works hard at work and then comes home and works HARD out here!  I love living on a little bit of land and he makes that possible for me.  Play- Steve is a family man.  We always come first in his life.  He cracks me up all the time.  The girls and I love when he gets home because we just love being around him.  He has such a positive attitude towards live.  Happy Father's Day and thank you for being the man you are and the father you are to our beautiful girls.

Happy Birthday Addyson!

I am done blogging birthdays...they are to depressing for me!!!  I can't believe she is 7!  That means next year she is getting baptized!  It always seemed so far away and now it is almost here!  Don't get me wrong, I am very excited about her getting baptized but 8 years old is old!!!  

I am so proud of this girl!  She surprises me daily.  Yeah, she acts like she is 16 sometimes but she is so sweet.  She loves to help others and is a friend to everyone.  Her personally shines so bright and she always means well.  She is smart, fun, entertaining, etc. We are so grateful for her life and the wonderful life she lives.

Her favorite color is red so I tried to make everything red...it was not easy!  

We all had such a fun day!  Addyson has so many wonderful friends and family that are so good to her.  Thanks

May 2011

The luckiest mom in the world!

Being a mom is seriously the best job in the world.  I wouldn't change it for a thing.  And to top it all off I have the best two daughters in the world (Ella was taking a nap during this picture)!  This year I was able to share mothers day with my mother-in-law and my two sisters-in-law.  We all got spoiled and had such a fun day.  For church I teach the 14-15 year girls (which I LOVE to death).  Steve wanted me to sleep in and just be lazy so he taught my lesson on mothers day for me.  He is such an incredible man with such an inspiring testimony.  The girls loved it and so did I!   

Weibells

Addyson maybe the oldest but she has a lot of boys that are going to be looking out for her.  They are all so good to her and make her feel so special.  We are lucky to have them as part of our life and so happy they live close now! 

On the 5 acres 

Living out here is soooo much fun and soooo much work (well for Steve it is)!  We all work hard but we also play very hard.  I love my family, I love where we live and I love my life!

 Softball

Oh no we have a good little softball player on our hands!  Its been fun but a little hectic with softball AND dance.  So I am going to have to let her pick one...please pick dance!!!  But really she is pretty good.  They have the coach throw 3 times and if they don't hit it they pull out the tee.  Lets just say Addyson never needed the tee!

Addyson loved to play Catcher!  She was pretty good...I guess those days with daddy and her playing in the backyard really paid off!

It was a lot of fun going to her games.  She took it seriously and played hard. We even had a mom on her team recruiting her for next years team. She thinks she could skip a level and play with the big girls!

So Sad

It is still a little hard to talk about this but I guess I will give it a go.  One of my favorite trees on our land is/was this tree.  It was in a good spot, gave so much shade and it was beautiful!
We had a CRAZY wind storm...and that was the end of the tree!  If you walked by it you could hear it splitting and it was becoming a bit dangerous.  Steve's friends John and Andrew came and helped us out.  Thanks.  Then the Weibell boys came and helped clean up the work...you guys are awesome!   

Little Friends

We had some friends over for swimming, playing and some good old BBQ!

April 2011

Happy Birthday Ella!

I can't believe it has been a year!  It really does seem like I just had her.  She loves to be outside, eat and play with Addyson. Its been fun to see her little personality develop. Addyson and her couldn't possibly be any different. She is to herself and very weary of strangers. She's not afraid to give you a dirty look and if you happen to get to close you may just get slapped. 

So whenever someone says "Ella" Steve, Addyson and I always repeat back "ella ella a a a under my umbrella"(for those of you that didn't get it, its a song) So I thought that it would be appropriate to have an umbrella party for her.  It is not very easy to find umbrella stuff so I threw in rainbows.  It turned out to be a umbrella/rainbow party and it was so much fun!   

Everyone was helping me out with my craziness!  I can't thank everyone enough!

I know this is a lot for a one year old!  But lets be honest is wasn't just her her...I kind of like throwing it all together!   

I know I am a little or a lot cheesy but we all wore a color of the rainbow.  I needed a couple more kids...sorry blue and yellow!

Ella liked her cake but liked giving it to all the grandparents more!

1. Papa with Ella and Milo.

2. One of Ellas little boyfriends Caleb.  They are going to love this picture on their wedding day!

3. Second mommy!  Ella loves Aunt Katie she sometimes thinks she's her mommy.

4. I have the best husband because he gets into all of this craziness with me...well I should say he supports me in all my craziness.  His idea- he made Pina Coladas for everyone!  And how cute is the girl holding it!!!

5. Aunt Amy and Jackson taking a break on the trampoline.  

6. Katie you better watch out Scott has a little crush!  June is pretty cute!

7. Ella and Aunt Amy

8. My girls are in heaven!  They have their Weibell boys and Kartchner boys...doesn't get much better than that!

6 going on 16!

This statement is sooooo true!   

3 handsome Boys

I am so proud of my brother DJ.  He has been through a lot lately and has every right to feel a little sorry for himself but has not and stayed strong for his boys.  We love his family so much and pray that he will continue to be the man that he has been.

Easter

Every year we have a big Easter party (its kind of a family reunion with my dads side).  This year it was out at our place and we had a blast!  

1. There is an egg toss every year and my family has never won...except this year!!!  Whoever wins gets a dollar and goes down in the egg toss history book, so good job DJ and Matt!

2. Cousins, cousins, cousins!!!

3. Nick and Steve talking about how they married into such a crazy family!

4. My cousin Jimmy rocking his shades.

5. Jake, Addyson and Gwen.  I love the smile on Addysons face.  Thats one happy girl!

So because I hosted the Easter party we had to wait to do our family easter baskets!  So at 9 o'clock at night the easter bunny finally had time to leave the girls their baskets!!!

1. It doesn't matter what time she gets her basket- she is happy!

2. Ella's basket.

3. Ella doesn't know whats going on...all she knows is that she is tired!

4. Addyson's basket.

5. I love that girl so much...she is such a trooper with everything!

We had such a fun and BUSY day!  I am so grateful for family and to be surrounded by such wonderful people.  It is so much fun to get baskets, go on egg hunt, have egg tosses and eat GOOD food but more than anything we are grateful for why we celebrate easter.  

Birthday Time!

Happy Birthday dad, Matt, Landon, Alec, Collin and little miss Ella!  6 birthdays in April in the Radmacher family!!!  Poor ma had to make 10 cakes so that no kids felt left out...thats my mom!  The bottom picture is all 18 grand kids except for Heidi's twins Will and Nash.