Dance anyone???

Look who started dance!

Kaylee's award!

Kaylee is such a good artist! She entered The Christmas Lamb show. The Springville Art Museum puts it on and only 70 out of 430 win.

She did a great job of drawing Mary and Joseph. She was so proud and she looked beautiful!

Getting her award. She got a $10 bill, a special silver dollar and a pack of gum!


The whole family!

Ward Camp out

We went to our ward camp out up at Heber Valley Girls Camp. That place is amazing! The cabins were great, the kitchen and the pavilion was awesome and the ropes course was fabulous! Here is a family picture in front of our cabin, They had a ropes course you could go on. You had to climb up a 35 foot pole then walk across a wire then take a zip line down. Here I am at the top of the zip line.

Here is Kaylee going down the zip line. She wasn't scared at all!

Here she is walking across the wire!

Here is Cory going down the zip line.

Here is Cory helping Ashley whittle a stick. Because Ashley needs a pointy object to play with, right!?!

Here is a girl from our ward teaching Kaylee and her friend how to do it.

Our cabin stayed up playing games. Here we are in a heated game of scrabble! I know, crazy!

Here is Ashley with her friend Doul jammin out to music. They were hilarious.

Here are our bunks. Cory was wonderful and blew up the air mattress for me! We had a fun time!

The past year...

This is for you Hillary! The last summer we have done a lot of fun things. My mom and dad took me and the girls up to Scofield to go fishing for the day. We had a pretty successful day catching 13 fish. Not bad for their first time fishing My dad helping Kaylee get her fish in.

My dad helping Ashley reel her's in.

Waiting for the fish to bite!

We went up Payson Canyon to have a hot dog roast with my sister's family. They were up their camping. The girls had a blast playing out in the woods, climbing trees and finding all sorts of treasures. Here they are with their cousins by the camp fire!

They spent a lot of time climbing this tree. Every time Ashley got up I would hear MOM I can't get down.

Kaylee turned eight this year and had a birthday that seemed to last for a week. She loves to draw and paint so I had my good friend make her an art cake! She loved it.

She wanted to go to Brick Oven for her birthday dinner. We had spent the whole day out on the lake and we were a fine shade of pink and exahusted but we are always up for Brick Oven.

For her party we took a group of friends and cousins to see Despicable Me. They loved it and for those of you who have seen it, the youngest girl is exactly how my Ashley is. Ashley lives in a world with unicorns too and loves to make annoying sounds and ask if she is bugging you. Here is the group!

Before we went to the movie they all came to the house for cake and ice cream and playing outside. It was a fun day!

We took the kids on a hike to the Grotto. It is the perfect hike for kids and they love to play in the water at the top.

My mom made Karate Kid head bands for the kids (We had just seen the movie). They stuck a pose and thought they were pretty cool.

Of course we went to Lake Powell and this time we made the trip up to Rainbow Bridge. It is truly amazing. Cory was loving the fact he was able to finally take his own boat down. The past three years he hasn't been able to take it down.

My sisters and I took the kids up to Olympic Park. They had a ball. Plus it was a nice escape from the heat. We did the Silver Bullet (Alpine Slide). Ashley loved it. She kept telling me to go faster.

The kids loved to watch the skiiers go down the ramp and land in the pool. We spent about 20 minutes just watching them. I was amazed at how young some of them were. There was a 10 year old out there doing it.

In June we took a Mexican Cruise and loved it. The girls loved goint to camp carnival every. Here we are in front of the rock formations at the end of the Baja of California in Cabo. We saw seal, colorful fish, dolphins and sting rays. Very Cool!

At one of the stops we went to a resport and used their beach and pools. Cory went down the water slide head first (not noticing the sign that clearly states do not go down head first) and hits his head on the bottom of the pool and cuts his forhead open. Thanks to our trust surgeon and he lovely assistant, they got him sutchured up! As payment we took them to dinner that night on the boat and told him to order anything off the menu, on us :D I thought we were quiet thoughtful.

Ashley learning how to boogie board. She didn't quite get the hang of it but she sure had fun trying!

Kaylee loved boogie boarding. She became pretty good at it. Much better than mom!

And last but hopefully not least we were at a families house and they had just caught a baby fox a month earlier. It was nervous when the girls were around (I don't know why with Ashley around. She is amazing with animals...um maybe not). Cory was able to hold it and i have to admit, it was quite cute.

Family Pictures

For those of you who are still following my blog (I doubt it) here are some updated pictures of my family. We had my sister take them a couple of weeks ago and it reminded me why we don't get pictures taken often. Cory hates smiling, Ashley can't smile normal, Kaylee is always smiling and my smile is masking me telling Cory and Ashley to smile normal! I was happy with how they turned out. Thank you katie, you are awesome!!

I'm Back!

I know it has been a while but my sister has been after me for months to make a post. Here are a few pictures from the last six months (not in order of course). This year for Halloween my mom and I dressed up as Minnie and Mickey Mouse. We had a parade around the school and Ashley and my nephews came to watch.

Kaylee and Ashley wanted to be Fairy Princesses this year. I attempted to make their costumes and am quite proud they turned out.

This is Cory's brother, Riley and his fiance Shar. We are excited to have her as part of the family. The girls love these two. Ashley figured out how to make foam darts stick to her face.

This past summer we went to Flaming Gorge and Kaylee learned how to repel down a small cliff that was by our campsite. She loved it!

We spent many days out at the lake cooling off this past summer.

The girls and I went hiking up Payson Canyon with my family. They love to be outdoors whenever possible.

My family also hiked Timp cave this summer. The kids were quite the troopers and so were the adults! What a beautiful area.

Kaylee caught a lizard at Lake Powell this summer. She didn't want to let it go but we convinced her to let if go home!

This is just a typical picture of Ashley. She is such a cutie and keeps our lives interesting!

Toothless Annie!

I had my camera at school today and found Kaylee outside with her friend. I thought I would snap a picture of her to show what a beautiful girl she is. She loves to jump rope at recess!
Kaylee has lost 5 teeth within the last three weeks. I thought I would capture this awkward stage in a child's life and share it with you all!