once again these pictures got loaded in reverse order, so look at them from bottom to top if you want them in chronological order. augers update: he is growing like a weed! he is 9.5 months old now and wearing 18 month clothes. he is a crazy fast crawler and he cruizes around everthing he can hold onto. he is getting tan and his hair is bleaching out. we feed him just about everthing now, and just recently he decided that he no longer wants two naps.
thomas is just working away. everything seems to be going pretty well on the farm. thomas is also getting tan ha ha but his hair does not bleach out at all lol. i, on the other hand, am getting my nice red glow for the summer. i have been working in the garden lots and spending as much time as i can with drew and ariel while they are here.
these are the best of my pictures for the last month. . .

last night drew, ariel, rick, and jolyn all came over for dinner and to help us rip out our giant stump in the middle of the driveway. rick brought his chain saw and thomas brought the tractor. after lots of digging and cutting and pulling, they finally ripped it out.
drew drove the tractor for a bit :)

this is the final product

they ripped it in half before it came out

auger loves the tractor

auger is still working on figuring out how to drink from a cup

he loves drew and ariel. . . and he really wanted those strawberries

our visit to seattle . . .

royal sunsets . .

he loves strawberries

could you resist this ?????

This last weekend we had an awesome time in utah. We drove down thursday night and spent friday, saturday, sunday, and part of monday with my extended family. my uncle jason let us stay at his house. we went to lagoon, jump on it, and the park in lindon. thanks to vikki and her family for planning an awesome reunion!

auger has been starting to figure things out now that he can get wherever he wants. it's getting tiring trying to follow him around and keep him from tearing things apart.

he knows how to turn on the water in the bath tub . . .

the mosquitoes attacked him when we went outside. i felt so bad the next day when his eye was all swollen

he climbed into his toy basket once. that was all it took, now he doesn't do it anymore

he also figured out how to turn the light on and off in the dryer. .

he was pretty proud of it :)

auger is the happiest kid alive but man he is getting to be a handful. he climbs on everything, eats everything, and is a very very fast crawler now.

The weather has started to warm up finally and life has been crazy! Two weeks ago we all got to visit Terry and Elaine in Seattle. It was so nice to see them. They took us everywhere that they have to go and we really got a feel for how life is for them lately. Their apartment was really nice, but honestly it takes a lot of room to house the whole Hebdon family so Adena, Greg, Brayden, Tawny, Thomas, Auger, and I stayed in a hotel room. Auger got stuck in the closet as usual. We thought it would be a disaster trying to get all three kids to go to sleep at the same time but it worked out pretty nicely (except that auger talked to himself for like an hour in the closet before falling asleep). We took Auger swimming in a pool for his first time. He loved it so much he wouldn't get out. Everytime grandma Hebdon would take him out and dry him off he would walk her back over to the side and try to get back in. He succeeded a few times haha.
Since we have been back to Royal life has been moving a million miles an hour. Farming has picked up and the summer activities are starting. My garden is basically planted. Auger is crawling normal finally. He is also pulling up on everything and walks everwhere as long as he can hold onto something. He broke two teeth through last week and has been pretty miserable so i think he is still working on a few. Now he has two on the bottom and one on the top.
This weekend we are headed to Utah for an Allred family reunion. We are so excited to see everyone. Cross your fingers that Auger is happy and friendly for everyone!

I splurged and bought Auger some killer John Deere boots two weeks ago. They are the cutest things i have ever seen. I bought them a size too big so hopefully he can still wear them when he starts walking.

this is the walk from Terry's doctor's office to the apartment

the view from the doctor's office

Auger made a friend in the cancer center

sleeping arrangements

we borrowed tawnee's swim diaper. really masculine don't you think?

Auger's friend came to visit. they are only a week different in age.

bath time with the cousins :)

good morning daddy