around the house - august

swimming at Manilla Ponds . Friends and eating from the garden . biking with new friend, Lindsey . homemade pizza . . Neilson park . hiking to timp cave (tay loved the cave a little too much and would not let me hold her, we had to get a ranger and take a secret path out) . . dress I bought in Knoxville . breakfast at Kneaders for Lew's birthday . Snowbird with just Tay while waiting for Justin at the race office . giving a Cody look at Neilson Park .

kindergarten and 2nd grade

. Ellie and Mrs. Williams . . Hadley, Mia, Rian, Ellie, Lily .

mccall

. Calley and Taylor . McCall this year was a blast. I was so happy Justin could be there, he's been gone most of the summer getting ready for our races. We drove up on a Monday and spent the night about 30 miles from McCall. The next morning Lew, Justin and I rode our bikes to McCall while the others drove. We spent the next few days on paddle boards, boating, biking, running, relaxing on the beach, and swimming.

around the house - july

. cooking class at Real Foods (so good) . boating . sleepovers with Ethan and Molly . . Sunday naps in Mapleton . Spanish Fork Rodeo . Motorcycle Rides with Grandpa . Justin's 15 yr high school reunion . . corn growing out our window . making a car with grandpa Nicol . snuggling with grandma Nonnie . summer bike riding . . cookie making . tennis lessons with Calley . summer days in Mapleton on the four-wheeler . nap time . . Calley, Ellie and Taylor . Ellie and sick Tay . Mom and sick Tay . Picnic in the canyon with Rainer cherries .

how to take care of a baby

HowToHaveABabyBrother from courtney bankhead on Vimeo.

Just a little video we made to send to Kelty and Walker in Baltimore. Jessica had a new baby Zeth and we missed being with them this summer.

around the house - june

. shopping for flowers for our new house . last day of 1st grade in Mrs. Vickers class . Running the incline trail in Colorado Springs . Favorite library book of the summer .

la nay ferme

I was so excited to learn about La Nay Ferme this week. I was bummed that Jacobs Cove was no longer here and even more bummed that a community that professes to eat "wisely" also can't support even one CSA. The farm is located by East Lawn Cemetary (better soil up there, maybe? bad joke. :0) in Provo. They've got partner gifts each week from local businesses and a local restaurant includes a dressing as well. Something I've never seen before in a CSA and I think it's rad. And hello? Edible flowers? YES PLEASE. They will also be doing Farm to Table dinners there this summer which I can't wait to try. Check it out and join!

so sweet

Professional pictures are something I really want to do better at getting. We did some trade with my friend Amanda last year and I finally got around to scheduling her. It was really last minute, which made it not stressful at all. I love them. What a great time in our lives. Our kids are still so little and so innocent.

little bunny tay tay

My little bunny Tay Tay turned 1 on April 27. She is our world the last year. We all love her so much. Cody says he doesn't know what to do because he want to eat her. I know how he feels, I just want to roll her in a ball and put her back in my tummy, because I can't get close enough to her. Every morning Justin gets her out of her crib (sometimes before she wakes up) and brings her in our bed with all of us. She crawls over us, sits (or stands) on our faces, steals our phones, kisses us and makes us laugh. The night of her birthday a huge windstorm came through, knocking over trees - very fitting for our "Tay Tay Tornado">. Taylor had two parties, this one was for my family, and the one with cousin Rusty is forthcoming. The theme of the party was, "Use whatever I have on hand" and it worked out pretty well! This wall paper has been traveling around with us for 4 years, for now it served as the photobooth backdrop. Party favors were flowers wrapped in burlap. The poster in from the Knoxville where Tay was born. Instagram photos and my kitchen-aid with pansies.

south fork with gma nonnie

A little Saturday morning hike with my mom and the kids. We built boats to float down the stream and on the way home got caught in the Utah Valley Marathon traffic, after 40 min it was apparant we were still an hour from the mouth of the canyon with 3 tired and hungry kids. I pulled into the closed off lane and went for it. Got pulled over a quarter mile from the canyon and got a lecture. So worth it.

around the house - may

This little four-wheeler is at grandpa's and grandma's in Mapleton. Cody loves it. Here he is helping grandpa do some farm chores.

calley

Last night I took Calley's senior pics. I still have never taken the time to learn how to use the manual function on digital cameras - I know what I should do but I just can't find the right button! So I was a little nervous. But we got some good ones! Thank goodness for Photoshop. I remember Calley as a 2 year old coming up to me and holding my hand when I first started dating Justin. Ahhh now that's crazy! The announcements.

ashley's business cards

Ashley also had me design a business card and logo for her biz. We went out on a limb on this one, adding in a couple accounting jokes. The concept behind this card is kind of a woodcut print, with a vintage scale illustrating her name, Perfect Balance. What do you think of this card? It's quite a stretch for Ashley, who is very conservative, but I think it adds some memorable humor to the stereotypical boring accountant. The back is similar to Brittany's, but with a general ledger (client: Rusty Busty - such financially responsible babies!). If the print is too small to read, the jokes say, "Eveyone stay calm, I'm an accountant" and "10/9 accountants can't count".

brit's business cards

My sis-in-law asked me to make up some business cards and a graphic for her tax folders. She wanted them feminine yet professional. I love doing business cards because they are so tiny you don't get burned out. She does mostly tax so we put a 1040 tax form on the back. Her baby Bridger is getting a head start on his tax return! (he's on the form).

color me rad

Last week our fam got more colorful than my Grandpa Anderson's language. The guys Justin bought the Dirty Dash from also own Color Me Rad, a 5K that leaves you covered in chalk of every color. It's a photographers paradise. Justin went over early to volunteer and the kids and I ran part of it, then hung out at one of the stations and threw chalk at runners. The kids were in heaven!