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!!

Freemont Indian State Park

First of all... i have no clue how to flip this picture so that it looks normal, but any way we went to Freemont Indian state Park for Emily first camping trip!!

We hiked all over and saw some cool indian carvings and paintings. There was this one that was a painting of a blanket and it was 16 feet by 4 feet. the story of it was that this Piute indain lady
lost her baby and she couldn't stand that fact that her baby was burried and all alone so she came back and painted a blanket to keep "it" warm.

this is Emily and dad before taking a nap in the tent

Hiking all over kind of reminded me of goblin valley. it was so cool all of the different formations of the sand a stuff.

On sunday we had a little mini church and sang hymns and my mom gave a lesson. I helped Shaylee draw hearts all over a paper plate and then she would color them. It was lots of fun.

Memorial Day

This year (as always) we went to Brigham City cemetary to put flowers on my grandparents grave. It was soooo cold this year! The girls (Aunt Silvia, mom and christine) put the flower arangements together. We always bring the flowers from our house and make the arangements there. it's a tradition that was started back when my grandparents were alive. it's nice.

Emily had lots of fun playing with all of the cousins and chasing everyone around. We played "who can see?" a game i made up for all of the little kids. i would say... who can see a... flag or who can see balloons and whoever saw them first would run to them and try to beat everone there and then we would do it again. it sure kept the kids entertained :)

Las Vegas

I went to LV with Emily and my sister and her kids in April so that we could see our cousins from Hawaii that were there doing stuff for Miss USA. We got to see the fountains and do lots of fun things. Christine and i went to a circ show and that was AWESOME!!!