Alpine Days Tradition

This year the kids, Bryan, I and Mom ran out the door just in time to do the toddler trot at 8:30 saturday morning. They get a prize and just jog or run or in our case with Mayley WALK around a little block in Alpine!! of course she had to pee the whole time and there was no where to take her so she was a little upset.Bry got Hunter to take off Running!! He was so dang cute!
This is our all time favorite picture!! CLASSIC of how the bubs runs!
At the end they got a yummy sucker from Peppermint Place and a 1st place Ribbon. My parents friend was the one in charge and handed out the ribbons and made sure everyone felt like they got 1st place :)
May was happy after the fact she got a ribbon and a yummy sucker!
Papa takes them down to the parade every year in the wagon. Our favorite line of the day is when Grandma came past us in the van and hunter yells out "There goes Rhonda!" We were laughing hysterically!
This cute lady is Laura. She is my parents neighbor! We love her lots and she is married to a BYU film teacher who was in one of Bry's favorite movies "Napolean Dynamite!"
My Dad hanging out with Heidi!
Parker and Ali always come with us too! :)
May was so cute and waved at everyone in the parade! Hunter of course LOVED the john deere tractors!
Getting tons of Candy!!!
Cute kiddos waving at Smokey the Bear!!
We got a ton of balloons at the parade and stuck them all onto the weenie dog Heidi!! She is such a fun dog!!

Popsiscles and Lettuce!

Hogan's first popsiscle!! oooohhhh I think its really cold!! I love watching my babies make a mess of themselves!! Its seriously makes me happy!My visiting teachers brought me over some seeds for lettuce one day. So I thought...I'm just going to go plant them in the garden by my tomato plants. and guess what?!!? One head of lettuce came up!! We had BLT'S for lunch one day! DELICIOUS!


I had no idea what amazing feeling it is to get your own garden vegetables!! It was such a fun day :)

Good friends and Family!!

We have a special connection with friends here in our neighborhood. Heidi and Jared!! Heidi went to High School with me and lived in the same stake as me. We have a had a lot of the same experiences such as being in the High School Musical West Side Story together, being at girls camp together when our friends little sister passed away, and then now we live in the same ward 10 years later!! We have tons of fun together. Jared is friends with Jeff Clark's Wife (brys neighbor growing up). Its seriously a small world! Heidi is expecting a baby girl in November! We are excited for her! It will be her 5th baby! They invited us over for a BBQ with their family a couple weeks ago for their little girl Hailey's birthday party!!We also have another connection. Brad (bry's bro) is best friends with Brandon...(who is Heidi's Bro). They went to High School together and have been to Hawaii to spend time with Brad and Kerri! Brandon married kiersten about a year ago. Heidi's Dad's name is Bryan too!!!
These two are best friends for life!! They talk too much in primary class and we just found out that they are going to be in the same kindergarten class this year!!
So here is ONE MORE obvious connection! Heidi's oldest brother James married my cousin Brandi! So James has been part of the Redding family forever (it seems like) so we get to see them more than anyone and its fun to hang out with someone from my side of the family as well!! We love Brandi and James!
The kids had a blast jumping and playing with the other cousins on the trampoline!

We are glad Hailey and Mayley can be best buddies! We love Hannah and Jenna too (hailey's sisters). We are grateful to have shared experiences with Heidi and Jared. They lost a baby boy who would've been Hogan's age last year. I got to go to the graveside service and comfort Heidi when she needed to just come over and cry! We love them lots! We are so glad we are friends for life! :)

The Many Faces of May

We Found a funny setting on our photoshop that inverts the picture and takes the very focual point and makes it the biggest part of the picture. We have tried about everyone in the family to see what they would look like. We have laughed for hours doing this!! This is one of our favorites of May!
Dressing up silly!



What a beautiful girl she is!! I love this pic of May!
Her Scary funny face :)
Her "I don't like loud noises" face!
Silly look at me face!!

I know I'm dirty and like it face!!!!

AND....She's Off!

The day before we went to Payson Lakes with the Call Family I had just finished talking to bry about teaching Mayley how to ride her bike. He said, "No, Lets just wait until after Payson Lakes!" LIterally a couple minutes later May comes running inside the house and says "Dad, teach me how to ride my bike!" She was off in NO time. She was really quick to learn and it was a fun and exciting day! She LOVES to ride her bike everywhere now! We are happy for our little Mayley girl :)






Then we have the Bubs who loves to just pull anything behind as a trailer. He insisted that we put the bike trailer onto his bike! He had a blast pulling it around all day!
Me and Hogi cheering on May and Hunter :) Good job honey for teaching the kids fun things!

Pictures of Kids

24th Parade and Fun!

We always have a children's parade every year during the 24th of July around the neighborhood in Tooele. We woke up the saturday before and ran over to walmart to fix mayley's bike to ride in the parade. Right we May went to ride her bike the chain fell off so she ended up riding her scooter which she is really good at too! We happened to catch up with our ward which was perfect timing. My favorite part of the parade is that Mayley kept following the float in front of us forever and didn't realize that we had stopped. I had to go chase her down!

After the Parade we went over to a park and played some fun games! Hogan found some grass to chew on.
Hunter fished for a dinosaur.

Their favorite thing was the obstacle course.
















Bry picked out a new camera a couple days ago! He LOVES photography. This is our favorite of May and Bubs!