These are a few of my FAVORITE THINGS! -Cort

1. Going all day long in only a diaper.
2. Wearing shoes, since it means I am probably going to get to go outside
3. Watching the horses, and making horsey noises

4. Snuggling, Sleeping, Eating, and doing all sort of things with my stick horse "Scooter"

5. Opening things, any kind of things including jars of jam :)

6. Trying to hop in the shower when mom and dad are trying to shower.

7. Playing in the dirt

8. Carrying things that have handles

9. Playing with hard, dirty, rusty tools and junk around the yard and house.

10. My BINKIE :) :) :) :)

11. Fruits and veggies, but mostly fruits

12. Cell Phones

13. Brushes and Brooms of all kinds

14. Boxes, Tubs, Pots, Pans, etc...

15. Smiling and Laughing

These are just a few of Corts Favorite things! :)

July Activities

Clif, Wendi and Cassie ran the Hospital's 5k this year on the fourth of July, they all placed in their devisions and Clif got first place overall too.

Playing in the irrigation on the lawn at my parents house, the last water turn came too soon this year :-(

My neices were awesomely brave and took Clif's challenge to try muttin bustin at the 24th of July Rodeo. Ashlyn is in the the top pictures, Amie in the middle pictures and Afton in the bottom pictures.

I got to watch Clif practice with his horse harley for the pickup race in the rodeo. After a few tries she was doing pretty good and ended up winning with Kemp Hamblin in the rodeo in st. johns. Harley is in the first four pictures, the last two pictures are of another horse clif was trying to teach but he wasn't interested in hopping into a pick up at all as you can see!

Samantha Belle Browning

Our baby girl, Samantha Belle Browning, arrived July 26th at 7:51 am weighing 8 lbs, 2 oz and was 21 inches long. Life is sure different now with two kids but we love them both and are happy everything went well.

camping pics

Cortarooness Time

Helping daddy drive up the mountain

Going for a tractor ride on grandpa's Tractor

The result of helping daddy in the garden

One of the "Favorite" spots, the woodbox, you can put all sorts of things in it :)

Helping daddy landscape the front yard

What a Weekend

Clif had a fun weekend, first with playing racquetball with Cassie, he swung and hit himself in the face causing his nose and mouth to bleed. His tooth went all the way through his lip.

Then the next day Clif was working on tearing down a camptrailer and got a matchsize sliver in his wrist which had to be cut out and then stitched. It has made his arm mostly useless in a lot of ways for several days and almost had to have surgery :(

here is one of us too

Easter

For Easter we went to the XXX Ranch which was a really neat place, we attempted family pictures down there but had a few focusing problems with the camera so we are hoping to do a round two soon. I still wanted to post some anyways just for fun.

The Before and After

Clif around Christmas time, he had already been losing weight for a month (about 15 lbs I believe).

Clif in late March after having lost about 75 lbs.

Cort's Birthday

drooling leaves marks

red knees from the first few days of crawling