Sweet Six!

Our sweet girl turned 6!
We had a Hannah Montana party! She loves Hannah! All her cousins were here from my side and also her favorite baby cousins from the other side.


She waited so patiently for breakfast in bed. She has always been our early riser. She wakes up at 6:30 to 7:00 every day. Since she was born. It's a good thing that she is so patient to wait for the rest of the family to wake up or it would be a problem. I think she enjoys waking up when the house is quiet and playing by her self. Anyway, she waited until 7:30 in her bed wide awake. She is so cute!

Birthday Cake and lots of presents!!!

She lucked out because I found this awesome doll house at a garage sale. She wanted her own "not one of J's old ones"

All her guests....

I had to add this pix of my little niece...doesn't she look like a cabbage patch doll? She is so cute!


M is our little angel. So sweet and sensitive. I actually hurts to discipline and tell her no! We all love her and are so blessed to have her in our family.

Family Reunion 2009

This year for our annual reunion on my side, my kids were in charge of the activities and the theme. (every year we rotate among the siblings, in who plans it) Well, as you can see from the pictures, these activities were a hit with the kids...and SOME of the parents!
The theme was "The Circus"!!








We played throw the canning lid on the pop can

Swinging cousins...


Winning prizes...

Grandma dancing...



And the Finale...an old fashion pie fight!!!


This was a sad story...well not really :) These two were not wanting to get in on the "fun" SO someone (who shall remain nameless...SHAYLEE) took a pie and swooped them both in one shot!!!! It was pretty funny!


E said, "this is my dream come true....to get hit in the face with a pie!"





Some of us didn't enjoy it as much...

See, they got revenge!!!!

Remembering 9/11

More Summer Fun!

Here are some little pieces of our summer!

We decided to go to a drive in movie! It was so much fun. We put an air mattress on the floor of the pick up and then loaded it with as many blankets and pillows as we could and all fell asleep. Then poor Dad had to drive us all home! Good memories!

Isn't that so sweet?!


All the kids took swim lessons but this year E really progressed! He can swim alone now! The kids look forward to swimming lessons all year! And frankly, so do I! Sitting all alone for 30 min is worth every penny!



My next door neighbor's kids have these dogs. She calls them her granddoggies! When they come to visit her she will call my kids to see if they want to play with them. They love it and so do I. We will probably never get a pet so this is the closest contact they get!

There is this cute snow cone shop in town that has the best snow cones! We went there with the kids library coupons and enjoyed them. They put a wading pool by the shop to soak your feet on the hot days!

C got his braces off! Yay!

Don't you love it when they all get along!

I can't believe summer is over! I'm going to miss it!

Fourth of July!!!

I know it has been months since I have blogged but I now that I have a little time of my own (my kids are in school) I have time to document our lives!!! I love it!!!
So here is our 4th of July:



This Grandma and the "crazies". They really liked the hiking part of hiking! I wish I could bottle their energy!

Even Grandpa made it up the steep hike to the waterfalls. It was worth it!

This is the two sweet brothers on the ferry to the waterfall hike!

They kids got to go bungee jumping (well a kids version)! They loved it!



J didn't like to go fast on the alpine slide! Notice the annoyed people behind her who also couldn't go fast! SORRY!!!



This is a shot of the glorious Tetons (well it looked more awesome when we were there)

Cute Victor parade

First fourth of July, it was so fun! We went to Jackson Hole, Wyoming with my parents! They kids loved it. We rode the alpine slide, hiked around Jenny Lake, went to this cute little parade in Victor, and watched some great fireworks! It was great!

School Days...

Here we go.... I have to say summer was really great! I am going to miss the never ending nights, the carefree days, the sound of kids playing outside in the back yard, the eating out on the porch...It was a wonderful summer full of memories. my kids are at the perfect age, I have been told that this is the "calm before the storm". It feels very calm and I'm really enjoying it.




Hopefully they don't act this way for their teachers!!!

This is a fun tradition we have. I remember doing it when I was going back to school! The kids lay out their clothes on the floor and make a person with their new school clothes. It helps me on that first day get them all ready because they already know what they are going to wear. HAVE YOU EVER GOTTEN FOUR KIDS READY FOR THE BUS!!!!!!! It is crazy! But anyway...










D wanted to do one even though he is staying home with me....


Isn't this the cutest picture? I love to see them getting along and especially with scriptures in hand!!!

Girls Camp!!!

I went to Girls camp again this year ... I had such a good time! The girls and the leaders in my ward are so incredible! I really enjoy my time with them. I thought that it was really interesting going as an adult because when I went as a youth, it seemed like we just had alot of fun. But as an adult I realized how much work went into making it a very spiritual experience for them. It was very spiritual even for me. It was rejuvenating! I needed it!


We went on this awesome hike. When we got to the top of this beautiful mountain there was this monument telling the story of this YW group that came on this same hike 50 years (or so) ago and were struck by lightening and killed. Can you imagine? It was sobering, I can't imagine being the leader and having to tell the parents of anything that went wrong to any of these girls. It would be horrible. But it was beautiful (and exhausting) hike.



It brought back alot of memories because we had camp in the exact place that I had Girls camp when I was a Young Woman. It has this huge and long slide and I have VERY bad memories of that slide!!! I broke my leg on it, first day of camp as a Fourth Year. So needless to say, I took the stairs.