bottlecap jewelry

These girls are into bottlecap necklaces. You have the necklace and it has a piece of metal on it and then you have these bottlecaps that have magnets on them and you can interchange bottlecaps to match your outfits. Well, Sierra found about 28 bottlecaps on the ground when we were camping at the beach at the beginning of June. We washed them and spray painted them silver and yesterday these girls decorated their very own bottlecaps. I had all the supplies there and they just decorated all themselves. They did such a great job! They turned out so so cute!
Today Sierra bought magnets for each of them with her own money. She has them stored on her bed and LOVES where she has them and LOVES showing them off. She couldn't wait to show her daddy when he got home and she even had her brother wearing one of them to daddy's softball game.

A YAY DAY!

This morning the kids had a dentist appointment. It was Ashton's first time! He did so so great! He was so brave. I had to be back there with him but he just did whatever he was asked to do. Sierra got an 88% score on brushing and Ashton 83 1/2%. You have to get an 83% to get a special prize out of the special cupboard. So they got so many prizes, one out of the drawer and one out of the cupboard and a balloon, they were thrilled!
The best part is that they both had NO cavities! and look how sparkly white their teeth are! :)

and then tonight we finally got to meet our newest niece, Melanie! She is so beautiful and so perfect. We enjoyed every minute of holding this sweet baby!

What's up?

Went to girl's camp late Thursday night with mom and Chris, they were doing the activity for the stake on Friday morning. Had a fun day with the girl's, climbed the rock wall, sat on the beach and enjoyed their sweet testimony's Friday night. Stayed up with girls till 2am, played Mafia that was fun! and then woke up at 6am to get home for Sierra's swim meet. Got home at 8am. Jake had her at her meet, I met them there. She once again swam great! We swam against the Summit Seals. She swam breast stroke in the Medley Relay and they got 1st. She swam individual Breast stroke,

Butterfly :),

and then Freestyle in the Freestyle Relay.

Came home and took a shower after being gone camping and then went to sleep for about 2-3 hours. I was exhausted! Can't imagine having had been at camp the whole time, I would have been a zombie! While I was sleeping Janelle came and got the kids to go swimming with Bryce and Curtis. Went to Janelle and Terry's to see Bryce and Curtis one last time because they left this morning with their dad, and our kids were there.:) Ate dinner and played games, heads up 7-up and Alibi.

Today gave a talk in Sacrament meeting. Ate dinner at mom's, kids went swimming.

The end.

The newest news on baby Melanie...

Look at this sweet baby, she has had a rough start. She is the sweet angel sent to Travis and Miriam, Melanie Esther. UPDATE:she was put into the NICU last Sunday June 20th. She has had a bacterial infection and pneumonia. If everything continues to go as planned she will be released from the hospital tomorrow and mom and dad could not be more thrilled! Our family looks forward to meeting the newest member of the Young family. Congrats to Travis and Miriam.

Our first pick...

Hurricane Harbor and meeting a new sweet face...

Today we went to Hurricane Harbor with Janelle and Bryce and Curtis. (Crystal's boy's are staying with Grandma and Grandpa for the week.) We had so much fun in the sun! Grandma is so fun, she is right there doing everything! She even went on Tornado with Bryce and Curtis. Way to go Grandma! :)
We hurried home to take a shower and then over to my Dad's house. Step-sister, Trina and her husband and new baby are living here for the summer, so Dad, Tori and clan all got home from Utah on Monday and it was so fun to go over and meet this sweet little guy, Kai, for the first time. I LOVE his sweet smile, Sierra is talking to him in this picture and he smiled at her.
We ate hamburgers and homemade french fries, roasted marshmellows over the BBQ and made s'mores. We visited, held baby, what a great night!

Surf Rider Beach

My sister, Sophi, wants to be adventurous this summer and try a new beach every week. We live is So. Ca and we always go to the same beaches. Today was Surf Rider beach. It's in Malibu. It was a beautiful day. Don't think we will ever come back to this beach but it is so fun to try a new one. There was seaweed all over and...
sea slugs lined the shores...the girls, Sierra and her BFF Karlie, were having so much fun...

collecting them.

The kids were having the time of their life. They were burying each other,holding sea slugs,

and there were tiny waves so they were all in the water. (Except Rossi, he was a little nervous.)

Stay tuned for our new beach next week! :)