My little helper

The other day i was out mowing the lawn and Emily really wanted me to hold her, but obviously i couldn't so our mower has this bar that is the her hight and i pulled her over and had her help me push.

"i love to mow the lawn mommy!!! " i know she was thinking this :)

Run cat, RUN!!!

This is Emily's cat, Boots and i don't understand why, but she loves to smother and pick him up and choke him. She puts him in a tight hold and won't let go, and the wierdest thing is... Boots won't run away!!

She tackles him to the ground and puts him in a death grip...

Can Boots breathe???

Giddeon, Emily's cousin saw her attacking the cat so he came over and layed on top of him!!!

Poor Boots, poor, poor Boots!!

My lover is 29!!!

On August 8th (Michael's birthday) his family came up to our house for a get together/birthday party for him. I can't believe that he is 29!! Here is Emily helping her daddy blow his candles out.

Need i say more about this one...

Emily loved to wear the bows off of daddy's presents in her hair. She would put them on her head and then pull them off and then put them on again and pull them off...

This is Michael and Emily, Julie and Giddeon, John and Noah.These kids are pretty close in age and when they get a little bit bigger... watch out!!

Boating at Deer Creek

We went up to Deer Creek with my parents and Derek and his family to tube and ski. It was a really nice day to go. It wasn't too hot, but not cold either. We had so much fun :)

Here is Michael and Sadie... Ya know, i have never seen my dad ski!! In all the years that we, well, my dad, has had a boat i don't think that i have ever seen him not driving. He would always be the one in the boat driving trying to fly you off of a tube or somthing. It's good to know that he can :)

Sophie and Sadie: Derek and Carole's cute girls!!

Derek and i went on the tube and it was so much fun :) We got thrown around so much that i bounced into the middle and he flew off, then as my dad was going around to pick him up i hit a huge wave (probably our own wake) and flew off myself.

This is Michael and Emily on the tube just chilling by my mom. We stopped and swam for a while.

Sadie and my mom

...And finally Emily fell asleep right as we were headed back to the dock to get out of the lake... go figure!!

Pioneer Day

This year we went down to Levan for the 24th of July. They did a lot of fun things for the kids and had some blow up things to play on. So i invited my sister Christine and her kids to come down and play too, but most of all i wanted her to run the 5k with me so i didn't have to do it alone!! Boy was that a really stupid thing to do...let me explain. About 11 days before we went down i found out that they did a 5k (they call it a "fun run" ) so i thought to myself...i've been trying to loose some weight and i've been working out, so yeah i could do that no problem. Wow was i ever wrong. When they say that you need to train for a 5k they mean it!! So my goal was to not come in last place and at least i did that :) i was number 24 out of 30. Christine was number 10 and Candra (my neice) was number 11.I'm Pretty weak eh? Well next year will be diferent!!
Anyway, the kids got to be in a pig chase (small town, i know) this is Shaylee here in the brown shirt. She didn't really want to do it. Christine had to pull her out. This is Janice,Melenie and Audrey(my neice on Michael's side). They are on the far left (inside the fence) Audrey is in the green shirt, Janice in the pink and Melenie is right by her in the white.

They got to go on 4wheeler rides and we took them to the dairy to see all the cows and they sucked on thier fingers. Michael took them up deep canyon and caught a fish for them in the river with his bare hands.

Then at night there was a good dinner and some music.. and to end it all was a pretty good firework show. I was sooooo tired that night. :)

Mess??? What mess?

Emily really enjoyed her spaghetti!! She is to the point where she doesn't want help when she is eating her food and she just wants to do it herself. Soooo... after trying for a few minuets to see if she would eat from my fork (and having no luck) i put it onto her tray so that she could do it herself... little miss independent :) Well, this is the result of self feeding with messy food. She went strait to the bath after this one.

wow it's hot in Arizona!!!

Michael, Emily and I went to visit Michael's sister Camille and her family in Arizona and boy it was HOT!! We were sitting in the airport waiting for our flight and the screen that had all the flight info said that the temp in Arizona was 109 and it was only 8 in the morning!!! I don't think that i will ever take for granted the temp here in Utah ever again. At least the air is not hot on the really hot days here. :)
Camille and David have this big watering trough that they fill up for thier kids to swim in as a swimming pool. it's really cool. Michael and Emily had lots of fun with the kids. Bryce was very concerned that Emily didn't have a diaper on for part of the time and he wouldn't get in the pool while she was in it.

We were lucky enogh to have Camille keep Emily for 2 days while Michael and i went to one of our resorts. Wow, it was the first time that i had ever left her over night somewhere before and let me tell you.... i LOVED it!! We would go to the pool at night and they had to cool it instead of heat it and it felt really good. I swear that you would walk out of the condo at 10 pm and the heat would just hit you like a brick wall!!