Our Crazy Life

So I have been busy with baby showers, baptisms, 4th of July, girls camp, and planning a family reunion. I am so sorry that I haven't been really good with updating but I am hoping that life will get a little better in the next month or so. I am so exited with he way my friends baby shower invitations turned out. I used my cricket die cutting machine to do the entire thing. It was a lot of work but they turned out so cute it was worth it.
Her shower is this Saturday and I am really excited for it. Then Sunday my parents and brothers from Pennsylvania are coming in for the family reunion. We are having our first and most likely last Bird family reunion. We rented a cabin in Flagstaff and are going there on Monday and have something planned for everyday that we are there. My Aunt and Uncle from UT will be driving down and meeting us at the Grand Canyon on Thursday.

CASSIE'S BAPTIZED Three weeks ago our niece Cassie was baptized she turned 8 in May but missed the stake baptism day so had to wait till the end of June. She did really good Robert Shelley's husband baptized her that was really nice. Then while she was getting dressed Ellen had prepared a cute video of pictures and music of Cassie through the years for everyone to watch. It was a really nice day.


4th of July Our 4th was really pretty uneventful. We took Ryan to my Grandparents house then all the family that was in town went and saw Hancock. It was really good it turned out different than I thought that it would but I still really liked it. So on our way to the movie we saw smoke coming from Riverview area we thought that it was a store on fire however as we got closer we saw that it was a car in the Walmart parking lot that was on fire. So we had time to kill so I told Blaine that we should get a closer look. Then I said besides everyone likes to watch a good fire and firefighters. It was funny because Blaine heard me say that and he was like I'm standing right here. Oh well what can you say when it comes to firefighters everything goes out the window. Anyway so we actually got there before the fireman did and right when the gas tank exploded. After the firemen got there it was only a couple of min before everything was out. I guess there was a tow truck driver there most likely having lunch at Arbys and saw the car on fire and he went out to his truck and backed his truck up to peoples cars that were parked next to the car and pulled them out of the way. He couldn't get to one mini van that was parked next to the car so that van caught on fire. It was so cool to watch it all happen. I feel bad for the people though. Can you imagine going to Walmart to do your shopping and then coming outside to see your car's windows smashed out and black. I really felt bad for the lady of the mini van because she had a baby and another small kids with her when she came out and her van looked like they had it loaded to go out of town. So that was the extent of our fire works. Then we had some friends that live on our street over for a BBQ and we set up the little pool and crazy water hose in the front yard and let the kids go wild. They all seemed to have a lot of fun. So sad that Central Christan church didn't have there fireworks show this year so the only fireworks what we saw was the people down the street and the ones on TV. I watched the ones in New York, DC & Tempe and we decided that we didn't like the ones at Tempe town lake. We tried to get a better affect with the fireworks by going down to our friends Tim & Ashley's house to watch the fireworks on there big screen so that made it fun.


WE ARE MOVING :) :) :)
We are so excited to let everyone know that we are moving out of my in laws into our own place. We are staying in the ward which is what we wanted. We are renting a 2 bedroom town house. We are planning on moving the weekend of Aug 8th. We can't move before then because there is no time. We are in Flagstaff all next week till. Then we come home and then Blaine flys to Sacramento for work for a week. Fly's home that Sat then I leave for girls camp thatTues and will be gone till Aug 2nd. But sometime in there I am planning on painting Ryan's new room. The room at the moment is decorated so cute for a little girl with flowers and everything so we need to make it a little more boyish because I don't think the flowers will go with Ryan's firetruck themed room.

So that is just a little of what is going on for the past few weeks. I hope to do better with posting in the next few weeks. I hope to post stuff next week of our fun relaxing vacation. Relaxing is the key word for that.