The Brian's Blog: June 2010

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Spring Pictures

Blakeley had her pictures taken. They turned out AWESOME! I love them so much, her photographer Cathy took us to this awesome tulip garden. It wasn't the best day and Blake was a bit of a stinker the whole time but thanks to Cathy's awesome skills you would never know it!

Some of the pictures are above in my blog header and here is another one of my favorites...

Click here to see my darling daughter and more of Cathy's amazing work!

I love my little girl I sure wish she would stop growing up so fast!

Every time I tell her to "Stop growing!"

She says "...but I yike to grow!"

"I want to grow bigger and bigger and go on the school bus!"

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Lagoon:lots of fun...and much more to come!

We took our first trip to Lagoon! Blake had a great time naturally. Rob aka "Disneyland Dad" (thanks Ashlee for teaching me that term; it describes Rob perfectly!) used his extra money to buy us Lagoon passes this year. I'm still not sure who is more exited about it, Rob or Blake! He is such a kid at heart. Blake had some fun...

...and she also learned that sometimes rides can be scary! She begged and begged to go on the Dinosaur Drop ride (shown here!) You can see she is all smiles before. This ride is like the Rocket. It takes you up and then drops you. Oh how quickly she learned that she didn't like this ride at all! I had to turn around, I couldn't watch-she cried the whole time. It made her a little apprehensive of some rides for the rest of the day! We keep teasing her about the "egg ride" being her favorite and she replies "no, I don't yike that wide!" Poor girl! We had a fun day and it wore her right out which is always nice. We are hoping this will be a fun activity Rob and Blakes can do when I need some alone time with the babe!

Celebrating Josh!!

Memorial Day was extra special this year! Our first one since Josh passed away. It was great to all go visit him together as a family.

Grandkids

It is such a pain to get a good picture of these kids so
tried having them be silly to see if that would help!

Rob brought each of the kids a balloon to send to Josh in Heaven. It was cute because we told the kids to let their balloons go and they all looked at us like we were crazy! So Rob asked them where is Josh? Hudson (4) said right there in the ground (pointing to his grave.) Rob reminded them that though Josh's body is in the ground his spirit is in Heaven. So that is why we are going to let our balloons go so they can float up to Josh in Heaven. After hearing that the kids were all excited to let them go. We counted to 3 and then they let them go, they loved watching them float away until they couldn't see them anymore!

Six little balloons for Uncle Josh. It was very sweet!

Birthday/Stay-cation!

It was my Happy Birthday over Memorial Weekend so it was filled with lots of fun! We had our annual Costley Family Stay-cation that weekend too. For lunch on my Bday we went to Costa Vida and Fat Cats (cause apparently it was Blakeley's Bday) Just kidding, we really did go there but it was because she has the time of her life there so it makes it fun for everyone!! Here are some pictures of her at Fat Cats. She is crazy about the Merry Go Round, played a few other games, and was so excited that she got so many tickets cause they were "taller" than her!

We went to dinner at Pizzeria with my family and then kicked off the Stay-cation by celebrating my bday!

Rob was the Ping Pong Champion this year!

That night we roasted marshmallows and made smores. The guys got up early on Saturday for a golf tourney and then we met them at Jeremiah's for breakfast! So so yummy!

We went swimming at the Clearfield Aquatic Center. Here are Joss and Blakes in their suits that Grannie Sheryl gave them for Easter!

Blake waiting for the slide, she didn't want me to take the picture until she went down the slide, so she was mad and wouldn't smile...and Rob...he just likes to fuel the fire!!

She loves to slide with Dad!

The girls had a great time swimming! Blakeley spent most of her time in Josslyn's floaty. It was shaped like a Jet Ski and Blake thought is was lots of fun!!

The girls flew Balloon "Kites" it was kind of windy so the balloons didn't want to fly too high!

Blake doing a Memorial Day Tribute Dance for us.

The girls got to plant a pumpkin. They are going to help them grow and then they can have them to carve this Fall! I thought this was such a cute idea and Blakeley and Papa go out to water/check on them every time we go to my parents! Blakeley planted one for Townley too!