Our cute girls

These are some random pictures of the girls.

Taylor is really growing up. She is actually becoming a helper around the house and with Natalie. If we are ever going anywhere she likes to pack her backpack with random toys and I am always to put some sort of lunch (actually just snacks) in her backpack. This is Taylor ready for a morning of Visiting Teaching.

My kids have all been able to fall asleep in random places and positions. Natalie is no exception. If you look closely I think her pinky toe is actual blue from the weight being placed on it.

A random side note: As some of you may have known Preston was gone all last week for a security convention in Las Vegas. He got home LATE on Friday night. On Saturday morning we were all sitting around the table eating breakfast and I said. "Isn't it so nice to have Dad home and eating breakfast with us." Right after I said that Natalie says from her high chair. "Yeah" It was really cute. She was very cuddly with her Dad all that day. It was her nonverbal way of saying she really missed him and that now all was okay in her little world.

Preston's New Ride

Yesterday Preston (or should I say the Lock Shop) bought a new "work" truck. This will be the vehicle that we add our shop logo to. Also he will be putting a lift gate on the back to use for small safe deliveries, so they don't have to use the trailer all the time.

The truck is really nice. I am shocked that he bought a black truck to be honest, because that was the biggest thing keeping us from buying one of the other Escalades we looked at. Preston went and looked at it last week and fell in love with it. We discussed it and then he bought it on Monday. I didn't see it until he drove it home. It is pretty snazzy and I can see why he wanted it soo bad. It is lifted and has big tires so I had to literally pull myself up by the steering wheel to get in. I will not be getting in that thing in front of anybody until he gets a step added to it, although I am sure I looked graceful to any onlookers. ;-)
The nice thing is that it has a back seat so we can all fit in it if needs be. This way we can still have 2 family vehicles once we ever sale the White Escalade. He already took the truck on a road trip to Las Vegas for work. Hopefully he will still love it when he gets back.

FINALLY :-) :-) :-)

Taylor is letting me style her hair. I still get the occasional struggle to brush her hair but more often then not she lets me style it. Lately I have been curling it with a curling iron and she loves it and I have convinced her a couple time to let me put braids in it. I think it looks really cute and many (especially her Dad) make a big deal about it so she will want it done again. I think she is starting to like the pampering part. Here are some pictures from one of the times she let me braid and curl her hair.

Family Pictures

When we went to Eagar for the 4th of July Weekend Preston's Mom had arranged a photographer to take some pictures for us. They turned out cute. Here are a few of them. Just an FYI if you click on the picture you can see it bigger.

Preston's Parents (aka Nana and Grandpa) with all of their 8 grandkids. They were very pleased and proud to have all their grandkids with them for the weekend.

All the cousins on Preston's side of the family. We color coordinated the families with matching shirts. The kids ages at the time of this picture are 11, 8, 7,6,3,2, 10 months and 5 months. The little boy to the right of Nathan is Daniel he is 7 1/2 months younger then Nathan and they are really good friends. Daniel lives in Eagar and whenever we go visit they are inseparable and they get along great, never really even disagree.

I had to post this picture because it tells a story. These shots were some of the last ones we took. Nathan's face says "please get me out of here I am putting this smile on so this whole thing can be OVER!!" Taylor is ecstatic because she had been asking the whole time to hold Natalie in one of the pictures so we finally let her. Natalie's face explains why we were so reluctant. Once again this was after quite a few other pictures.