First Campout of 2008

Grampa Chapman, Logan, Joshua, Jonathan and I went camping the weekend of May 30th. We went to South Fork campground up above Pineview reservoir.

The boys love to get out and camp.

And they love to build camp fires!!

We wanted to go to Monte Cristo campground but the Camp Host at the South Fork campground said there was still 5 feet of snow up there, of course we did not believe them so we had to go check it out for ourselves Saturday morning.

Low and behold there really was at least 5 feet of snow up there. This is the entrance to the campground. No way we were getting the tent trailer in there.

So we decided to just play in the snow!!

Over all we all had a great time for the first camp out of 2008!!

Alexander's First Birthday

May 26th brought Alex's first birthday!!

We were in Idaho at Grandma and Grandpa Stacey's for his birthday. Alex decided (well mom decided) that he wanted a jungle safari cake. So Grandma baked her special carrot cake and Shanna and I decorated it with frosting and animals. Alex loved it.

He loved it so much that he got sick of waiting for mom to give him another spoonful that he just grabbed the cake and started to shove it in his mouth, It was really funny to watch.

Happy Birthday Joshua!

Joshua turned 7 on January 4th, 2008. This was the year that he got to have two birthday parties. We had a party with the the family on the 4th and a friend party on the 12th. It is good that we only have the friend party every other year because Shanna and I would go CRAZY otherwise.

For the Family party Josh wanted a Batman theme so we found the batman collection of hotwheels and put on his cake. It had the old 60's style Batmobile and the new Batman Returns style Batmobile.

Joshua got some of his favorite books, I SPY. He also got a new watch, a rubix cube, a marble run game and an mp3 player that he loves.

Joshua had 12 friends from school and the neighborhood here for the party on saturday the 12th. We had pizza and cupcakes, played games and had a lot of fun! Josh loved it because they were all his friends and they brought great gifts!!

Happy Birthday Joshua!!