Thirty Three

From June 28 to Sept 12 Kevin and I are 2 years apart...IE, I am 2 years older than him....and boy does he love to remind me of that! So with that said, Happy Birthday to my sweet husband of almost 11 years!! We had a lovely day with a whole 8 hrs away from our kids!!! It has been since my birthday that we have been alone without our sweet children, way too long, and we very much enjoyed ourselves today!!! Thanks Rhonda for watching them and feeding them and loving them! H A P P YB I R T H D A YK E V I N!

Dinner Prayer

Noah's dinner Prayer tonight:
(he doesn't get the closing of the eyes yet during prayers)

Heavenly Father:
Thankful for this day,
Thankful for the food,
(Pause)
....OHH we have CORN....!!!
( quiet snickering all around....including the parents)
(Pause)
I think he was ready to eat it at this point.....
Please bless it
Maybe Jesus Christ, AMEN

Oh Noah, there is never a dull moment with you around, even during prayer time!!
I just didn't want to forget your sweet prayer tonight!!!

Lake Powell

We had the awesome oppurtunity to go to Lake Powell this past weekend with Kevin's dad, and it was the BEST time ever!! All in all we probably spent 30 Hrs on the lake and we had a BLAST! Every morning we would get up really early to get on the lake and spend all day swimming, tubing, exploring, rock jumping, seashell hunting, eating, and just hanging out, and at the end of the day we would drive back to our hotel and get showered and go out to eat! The kids thought it was the best place ever! They never wanted to leave, even after spending almost 12 hrs in one day on the lake! We all slept VERY well every night (to say the least!) We are so lucky to have a Papa that loves his grandkids and will do anything to make them Happy!! Thankyou Papa for a very fun weekend! Showing us their muddy hands

the kids with their Papa

Noah was not so sure about this...

But he loved to drive the boat!!

The girls loved to swim with us!

The most beautiful scenery!

Kevin climing a rock to jump!

the girls got in on it to!

Allie's favorite part(finding seashells)

Our Family!

"FIRST"

Yesterday donned a new school year, the girls were VERY excited to start the new year!! We have a lot of "firsts" this year here are some of them!!

1. Brand new school, "first" year opened!

2. "First" time walking to school, no more buses!

3. Hadlee is a "first" grader this year, her "first" day staying all day, and "first" day eating lunch at school! (WHEEW...that was a big one....) but she did awesome!

4. We tried Early Bird this year, might be a "first" or a last!! (morning's rough, but having them home earlier is great)

5. Because of the early schedule Hadlee woke up before 7, that's a"first" for her!!

6. Noah and I joined the girls for lunch at the school for the "first"day of school!

7. I was the "first" one up in the house yesterday, (Kevin is ususally,well let's be honest....., ALWAYS up before me!)

8. If you write and say "first" a lot it starts to sound wrong!

Well there is a recap of our "first" day of school a lot of fun and new things for us and we're excited to see what else the new year brings. Hope everyone had a great day!!

San Diego

We took our family vacation to San Diego in the middle of June, it was a lot of fun, our kids had never see the ocean, so they were VERY excited to experience it!! We had one good day at the beach playing in the water, hunting for seashells, digging holes, and filling buckets apon buckets apon buckets with water/sand concoctions!! But the rest of the days it was quite CHILLY!! But that 1 day we were there for 8 HOURS, so I was good with it!! We also visited seaport village and saw all the Huge navy ships with the helicopters and planes on them, and that was really cool to see! We also took the kids to the San Diego temple, Allie thought it was the most beautiful temple she had ever seen!! I have to admit I agree Allie!! I love that temple :) All in all, we had a great time and can't wait to go back again!! Someday we hope to stay at the beautiful hotel in the back ground of the first picture Hotel Del Coronado.....:)

Hair today....Gone tomorrow!!

Hadlee and Noah both got summer hair cuts about a month ago...Hadlee donated her hair to locks of love, and LOVES her new tangle free hairdo (and so do I) It is soooooo much easier to brush, and no more crying every morning when we have to brush through the mess!! Noah got his head SHAVED in AZ by my brother, I didn't plan on shaving it so close, but he didn't have any of the attachments on the hair trimmers! It was quite a shock to Kevin when he got to Az, but he grew to like it!! He has so little hair anyways his head was so tan after we shaved it and it was like a little pile of pixie dust that flew away!!

This is how WE roll!!!

I LOVE summer, and one of the best things about summer is we get to hang out at grandma's and papa's house on Sunday and just hang out....this is why my kids love it......they are so spoiled they each have their own jeep to roam and race the entire yard, while we just watch and laugh!! What fun memories for our kids to have, I remember my MiMi and PaPa's yard in Bountiful, it was Huge like this one, and we would have so much fun there......Oh the good ol' days!!
(So neighbors, this is where we disappear on Sundays)!

New Family Pics

We Finally got our family pictures updated by our very talented friend Hillary!! We had a blast, and I think they turned out great!! She was awesome and so patient with our kids, who, were not so patient (i.e mr. Noah!!) Thanks for taking our pictures Hill!!

P.S. You can go to her photo blog from the link to the right and check her out!

I guess I deserve This?????

Ok....so I finally got on a blogging "high" and decided to do alot of posts and catch up......but my computer had other ideas!!!!! Oh what fun!! It crashed and it has been at P.C laptops for a couple of days.....so sorry I really had good intentions to do June and July all at once with May but May was all I got. I had to highjack my MIL computer to do this post, so stay tuned..........

Playing Catch Up.....

Got to play with cousins!!

Soccer for Haddie

All my brothers together at the baptism!

(and me)

Important milestone for Allie!!!

She was Baptized on May 2!!

We've been busy, here's a peek of what happened in May for our little family!!!

#3 for NOAH!!!

Happy Birthday to our sweet NOAH!!! Apparently lately the only time I blog is when one of my kids has a birthday!!! Sorry I have alot to update.....and promise I will soon.....

Noah has brought so much joy and happiness to our family, and keeps us on our toes!! We hope you have a great day NOAH!!!

MY BABY IS 8!

Happy Birthday

to YOU!

ALLIE

WE LOVE YOU!

I can't believe You are

8 years old today!

You are the sweetest

daughter,You are the best

sister,You are the nicest friend

to everyone You meet!

We love you and wish all

your HOPES and DREAMS

come true everyday!!!

This made me sMiLe :)

When I am having a bad day or moment I can remember this:

Turn on BAMBI and watch Noah GIGGLE my worries away!

fUtUrE fIReFiGhTeRs!

Noah and I spent the day with Aunt Wendy, Jordyn, and Peyton. Had lots of fun eating at my Favorite spot in Bountiful, Cutlers! Jordyn and Noah of coarse played at McD's, and had a ball! We topped off the day by stopping by the firestation that my brother works at and Noah thought it was the BEST thing ever to sit inside the BIG fire truck! Thanks Uncle Tyler!

The morning...

SOO.... this is the new GAME...
Hadlee is Batman and Noah is a COWBOY/PIRATE/PRINCESS
together they fight EVIL crime in the basement catching the JOKER and other VARIOUS criminals!
I have no Idea who picked Noah's costume....

ARIZONA!!

Finally some warm Water!

Just Swingin.....

All the cousins with their new Webkinz

I have no Idea what she is doing!

Who cares that the water is 54 degrees!!

I had to bring back some memories of something that was ALIVE and GREEN!

D9 you remember the Hippity Hop?

Cute Allie in my Parents tree

Hoover Dam.............I don't know if I will travel on the new bridge when it is done! We always have to visit Ronald in St. George!!

So we decided to take a little trip to AZ to see the SUN!! We had lots of fun spending time with Nana and Papa, Ryan David, Jenna, Sumner and baby Sara Jane!!

We were very SPOILED with LOTS of sunSHINE and very WARM weather.

Spent Tonz of time in the water and at the park, and of coarse eating IN and OUT BURGER as often as we could!!

It was definitly a good break from all the COLD weather here in Utah!

But good to come home and see our DADDY!