Cute Pictures in the studio

As I mentioned in the previous post, when we were in SLC the boys played a little dress-up. Well that kinda caught on, so when we got home Owen thought that he got to dress up all the time. He was obsessive about it with himself, but totally crazy about dressing up Eli. As though he was his little doll. He was all, "Mom Eli wants to be Batman today!!" and would freak out until I dressed Eli up the way he requested. Well that went on for a few days until I once again hid all the costumes. Poor Owen:(

I fixed my studio lighting during one of those days and needed to test my lights out. Here are some of the pictures I took.

Salt Lake July 2009

We went to Salt Lake for 10 days last month. Those days were Jam packed to the max. Here is a little of what we did.

played dress-up a lot

hung out with cousins

Grandma Cathie's backyard is the funnest!

did slip and slide for the first time!

Eli got in the kid play sink fully dressed!

Millcreek 4th of July Parade

went to a cabin, had some pizza and played with cousins.

Went to a petting zoo, and rode a horse

Eli not so sure about the horse

That's just the stuff we took pictures of.

Racker Family Reuinion

My mom is one of TEN kids. Because she has such a big family, we rarely get to see all of our cousins. Over the weekend of the 4th of July we finally had a reunion. Eight of the ten Siblings were able to come, which is an accomplishment on its own. The crazy thing is, that I don't even think this is half of everybody. Because of Facebook and blogs I have been able to catch up with a bunch of my cousins, but It was great to see everyone in person for sure!

8/10 siblings
Brent, Joel, Steve, Annette, Beverly, Stan, Evan, and David

8/10 Racker siblings and their spouses

Some of the Grandkids

Grandkids and their families

This is what Owen did the whole time!

Overheard in a Dream part 1

Spencer and I have many things in common. Sleeping schedules are not one of them. I am a go to sleep late, sleep in kinda gal. Spencer's idea of sleeping in is getting up at 7:30am. So anyway while I am staying up late next to him I often overhear him talking in his sleep. I would say as a general rule he does not let his nerdiness overflow into real life too much. He has the blog and hopefully gets most of the scifi out of his system on that. His Dream's however, well I suspect that they are filled with this crap.

From time to time my sister will do this thing on her blog where she quotes her little girl. Her daughter Nina will say the weirdest things, so they post it, and it's funny. I have seen this before on other blogs and it's not really even interesting, for sure not funny. You know what I'm talking about.

Not like this: "I wov woo mommy." -not funny kid

More like this: "I wish Jesus could make you a nice mommy." -nina

So I have decided to start a new, possibly re-occuring, post.

Here is the first installment of

Overheard in a Dream

Spencer had been asleep like 40 minutes, when he looks over at me and says

"Do NOT wake me up!"
and I laugh and say
"what?, you are so weird, I didn't say a thing"
to which he replies
" unless there are triplets"
I then laugh again out loud, and ask him
"what in the world? triplets? what kind of dream are you having babe?
to which he says
"I am not asleep. It's not like I have ever deblt with zombies before either!!"


I trust that you my readers, will let me know if this is like " I wov woo mommy" so I can discontinue, if needs be.

Smokin Hot Deal

Have I got a deal for you!! Okay our BFFF's (best family friends forever) the Suites are selling their St. George Condo, and for a steal! I have had the pleasure of spending a lot of time in this beauty, and I am telling you, this place is AMAZING. Go now, Check it out. Tell all your friends how HUGE it is, how they could have a family reunion in it. How awesome the storage space is. Ect. Ect. Tell anyone who might be interested. If you are the person who passed it on, and the place sells, YOU get $1000!

I am hoping that the purchaser wants to be our best friends too, so we can continue to enjoy it's awesomeness, I can dream, no?