We can't forget swimming!

Part of summer fun is the swimming that we get to do up at Grandpa & Grandma's house. We do this at least twice a week!

Joshie is Going on a Mission!

Man I'm getting old. My nephew Josh got his Mission called a couple months back and got his call to serve in Lima, Peru. He is so excited. We are so proud of him. We got to go with him to the Manti Temple about a week ago now to take out his endowments. Since then his has gone several more times, all to different temples in UT. He is going to the St. George temple this week. He would like to go to all of them, but I don't think he will make it. He goes into the MTC on the 21st. It was such a great experience to share this with him. We are going to miss him while he is gone, but he will make a great missionary!!

Just for Fun. Kelten was really cute when he saw this picture. He was convinced that Josh really had gotten up on the steeple, and couldn't figure out how he did it and why they would let him!

Camping With Friends!

We got to go camping with some great friends a few weekends ago. This time we went up NeboLoop Byway which is gorgeous. I'm not a big fan of the actual camping part of camping. The tent, the cold nights, the uncomfortable bed, etc..... But my kids love it and I enjoy the day part of it, so we made a compromise that we would go camping at least once a summer, but we would try and do a lot more day visits to places and get out in nature a lot more. We are doing very good on this bargain and the kids seem to be loving the summer this year. We are hardly ever home. We just did the overnighter thing and I didn't actually get up there until almost 10 that evening. We went up a little earlier and got everything set up, and then I had to go to work. That was so hard to do. It wasn't fun leaving the family to enjoy the adventure, to go and massage people. Oh well, I made money right?

Our little tent site, I didn't completely rough it. We brought our double areobed. Pretty comfortable but I still froze.

We did a lot of exploring while there. It wasn't long but we did a good job of having fun!

There was plenty of water to play in, and I think that overall was the kids favorite part!

Someone has cut some logs into chairs, we have gotten pictures in them before but couldn't resit making them get pictures again. We found some big hollow logs on the hike and the girls decided they need pictures with them.

While at the river we saw a cool spiderweb, it was small but just perfectly they way you imagine spiderwebs should be. Along with the spiderweb was what we thought was a spider with a blue bum. They pulled me over to take a picture of it. When I got my zoom lens on it. We realized it was a egg sack, gross!!! There will soon be probably hundreds of those spiders running around, yuck. I'm so not a spider fan and for some reason, eggs hanging off creatures really grosses me out!

We had so much fun with the families we camped with and can't wait to do it all again next year. You guys are the best and we loved spending time with you!!

Some of Utah's plant life!

Beautiful!!!!

The kids were pretty tuckered out by the end of the day, but still enjoyed seeing the sun setting.

I think TJ sums up what the rest of us were wanting to be doing! Sleeping kids are to adorable!

I love the landscape up in the Mountains of Utah!

Mona Canyon

I'm sure that the canyon that we went up in , is not called Mona Canyon, but since I don't know the name that is what my kids and I call it. This canyon is pretty much just up the street from our house and we have been there a few times, and my kids love it. The love to beable to explore and hike. The 3 oldest are getting old enough now that if the babies start getting tired, I let them wander around on their own as long as I can always hear them. I think we spent about 4 hours up there, picnic lunch and all. It was a good morning.

Tay's Birthday!

Tay for her birthday, just wanted to do something fun with her cousin KaDi, she wasn't sure what but it couldn't include her brothers. I realized that I had the perfect set-up to give her a girls day out. I set up the day so that her and KaDi got to have Pedicures and Manicures, as well as Taylar getting more done to her hair. Then we went over to the Nephi Scrapbook store and the girls and I made Magnet boards, complete with vinyl cut-outs and magnets. We topped it off with going out to lunch and then swimming. The swimming they had to share with the siblings, but they had a great day without them until then. The best part about the whole thing was not only did I get to spend the day with Tay (which by the way she is getting so grown up), but I also didn't spend a penny. I love the fact that I can do trade!!!Aren't they Cute!!!!
The Salon treatment!

Making the magnet boards!

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!!

Good Quote

I need to do a little more dancing, and a lot less waiting!

June 20th 11 years ago!

11 years ago on Father's Day our sweet baby girl was born. She was almost 3 weeks early and what a great surprise. Can you get a much better Father's Day gift, then having your first child born on that day?! If you're going to have to spend your day in the hospital on a holiday this is a good one. Todd has been in heaven ever since!

I couldn't ask for a better man and Father in my life. Todd is amazing and gives to our family so much. He brings so much to our kids, he is their life and they are his. There isn't a day that goes by they he isn't surrounded the moment he walks through the door from work. I have to fight for his time, the kids can't get enough.

I love you Todd, you are my everything!!Todd and his Baby Girl!!
What a stud!

I love this picture!

Happy Birthday Taylar. You are an amazing daughter and I don't know what we would do without you in our lives. You bring sunshine everyday. You keep us grounded and help us always remember Heavenly Father in our lives. You are sweet, caring, giving, responsible, devoted, and silly. Even though the rest of the world doesn't always get to see that side of you. We were so blessed the day you arrived in our home. I can't wait to spend the next 11 years with you and any years to come.

My Baby Girl 1 day old, getting ready to leave the hospital!

She is my beautiful girl! She is both beautiful on the outside and inside!

Schools out, summers here, what have we been doing for the last month?

This last month has been so busy for us. End of school is so crazy, with end of school projects being turned in, testing ( It looks like Knightin will get into preschool again next year and will do some further testing to see why he is behind) and of course parties and programs. Then Todd and I have been working on Camperworld signs, the yard (which sprinklers were put off for about 3 weeks, due to having to finish signs), massage business is picking up. Work for Todd has been crazy we are getting some overtime, but home stuff has been progressing slowly. Todd has also been called as Elders Quorm President which has been a busy add on. (Lessons, a talk in Sacrament Mtg., meeting, meetings, have I mentioned meetings, then some more meetings, we are excited for the challenge though). Summer breakfast has started at Camperworld, swimming, playing and park lunches has started for the kids. Singing lessons for Tay. We have been to the Zoo, celebrated my dad's birthday, Cub Scout Day Camp, Dentist and doctors, trying pathetically to work on a garden, raking rocks again, putting in an electric dog fence and continually re-digging out our trenches because the rain keeps filling them back in. I don't think the sprinkler system is ever going to get done some days! Then something we didn't have to work on ourselves but were excited to get was Todd's Blanket, which I designed for him. We had a good friend put together the top, and a lady from my mom's ward put it all together. We got it a couple of weeks ago and Todd loves it. The Summer has just begun and we haven't even put a dent in the things that will be accomplished during the next couple of months, we will see if I can stay up on my blog a little better.

Now for a few pictures!

Every Year Mona Elem. puts on a Spring Fling. Every grade does a different dance. It is a fun evening to go see the kids preform.Tay was in Fifth grade this past year and that is the year to do the May Pole! They do several different things besides the traditional wrapping of the ribbons, some are pretty complex they did so good!
Ki's grade did the country dance performance. We do not own any cowboy clothes, so we borrowed some. The hat and shoes are a little big, but it worked.

Kelten's class did a surfing, summer fun dance. They all made their own cardboard surf boards. Kelten was very proud of his.

Knightin was having fun running around and dancing along with everyone else. He is too cute!!

We asked my dad what he wanted for his birthday and pretty much all he told us is he wanted his grand kids, so that is what we gave him. We thought it was a fun way to give him what he wanted and a few other things that the kids picked up that reminded them of their Grandpa!

Taylar also sang for my dad. We are working on her shyness and she did pretty good, still wouldn't look at him though.

Here is part of our pathetic garden. Since I don't have a ton of time to work on it and Todd definitely doesn't. It is up to the kids and they are doing great. But because we didn't know how well they would do, we didn't do really anything special to our rocking ground. I'm surprised that anything is growing. The other problem we had is we planted about 2 weeks to early and had a couple of freezes, so lost most of what we planted. The broccoli served and is thriving, the peas made it, a few corn, a couple of carrots, a cucumber and one of our tomatoes, though it almost died and what use to be a big plant is now starting from ground zero, but is finally getting some growth to it.

Here is Todd's Quilt. Those who know Todd, knows he loves to draw, well his little trade mark is the lighting bolt. This he puts in almost all of his drawings and from an earlier post you know that the ring he designed for me has a lighting bolt on it. So when quilting especially in this buggy barn style was becoming popular around here in Mona and Nephi. I asked my Friend if I designed a lighting bolt design that could be sewn, if she would put it together for me. That is where it all started and we got it completely finished and home a couple of weeks ago. Todd loves it!

My sisters, nieces, Tay and I all went to the General Young Women's Conference. Tay got to experience her first time in the Huge Conference Center and got to see the prophet. She had fun and enjoyed the talks. I can't believe I almost have a young women in my home.

This is one of the 4 signs Todd and I have been working on for Camperworld. This has taken such a long time. It is a 4' x8' (full sheet of sign board) everything had to be cut out and painted by hand. Several coats of paint were put on it all. I am glad to announce that it is finished and will be heading up north on Tues. I have to of the other small signs done and still working on the 4' x 4' swimming pool rule sign, but almost done.

It does look better then this picture, at this point I hadn't filled in the nail holes or put on the finally semi-gloss coat on verithane.


Tay had been wanting her hair short again, but I have a hard time, since I want it a little longer. So I have been stalling. We finally gave in and it is cut again. She is going to get a little more cut off. I have to let her get what she wants, I know that I wouldn't want someone telling me how I had to do my hair. What happened to my little girl that I was able to dress up and do her hair however I wanted. It's fun to watch her though, start to grow into the young women she will be.

Headstart, where Knightin went to preschool this year gave out free tickets to the zoo for their kids and their families. We couldn't pass that one up so off to the zoo we went. the babies had a blast and were so excited to see the different animals and the 3 older ones still loved it, I guess seeing animals that can't live in your home never gets old.

Being involved in the Cub Scouts for the past 2.5 years has allowed Todd and I to go to Day
Camp for the past couple of years. It has been fun, especially since Ki is in scouts. We get to watch his excitement has he experiences these different things. We had a group of 18 boys go this year, 4 didn't come. That group can keep you busy. The ages range from 7 to 9. The boys got to shoot arrows and BB guns, make and shoot of rockets (Ki's happened to be one that went the furthest, it is amazing how far a paper rocket can soar), do some science experiments, take the rafts out and collect floating balls and some relay races. They all had a blast.

Our group of boys!

I think this is the perfect capture of the fun that the boys were having!

A fun picture of Todd I caught sitting on that very cool tree. He was watching the boys do their water relay.

Some snapshots of the different activities.

Rafting experience!

Well, that is us caught up. I look forward to sharing with you all some more fun through out the summer!!

Happy Happy Birthday Knightin Dear!!!

Happy Birthday to my little "Earth Day" boy!!

Knightin is such a happy, silly boy and we are so blessed to have him in our lives.

We love you Kni, Kni!!!!