Summer Pictures...

Here is a fast update with pictures of a few things that we have been up to

Family Night at the Bees GameOur precious baby Drake's Blessing. I feel so blessed to have such an amazing husband and an amazing father to our children. Jeremy did such a great job blessing Drake. I feel truly blessed to have him in my life as my partner and best friend. It was such a special day for our family. Thank you for all of those that supported our family.Drake's first hair cut. His mohawk was getting a little long. I cut about an inch of the top!Addie learned how to ride her bike without training wheels at the end of July. Go Addie!
Crazy Dad!County Fair

Drake just chillin while his sister's are playing at the county fair.
Drake's hair grows way too fast. He is starting to get crazy hair again.

Addie's swimming lessons. She is our little fish, she absolutely loves the water.

Our little stud muffin

What a good sister!
Jeremy's first building project. He made an awesome chicken coop.
Drake's second hair cut. He got a buzz just like his Dad.

Addie first day of school.
Addie's first soccer game
Family hike up Mt. Timpanogos

Swimming in Park City.

Up at our friends cabin enjoying the nice weather, canoeing and hanging out.
Thanks Ernests for the invite. We had a blast.
Fairy Festival
My happy little Drake. He doesn't cry unless he is hungry or tired. He sleeps 8 -12 hours every night, he doesn't wake up crying I usually go in to get him when I can hear he is awake and he is just happily playing in his crib usually sucking on his fingers. Drake absolutely melts my heart. He loves to cuddle. He adores Addie and is starting to get used to Elle (she is still a little overwhelming for him). I really did not know that babies came this chill and happy.
We love having him in our family.

Finishing Alphabet Summer

It has been driving me crazy that I didn't finish posting the end of our alphabet summer. This is only for my record to remember.

M
Make-up: the girls got to dress up and do their own make-up
Money: we cleaned money and had fun counting and separating
Mom: girls made special crafts for Mom
Markers
Moon
3 Mouseketeers
N
Names: we talked about names and made name cookies
Numbers
Nuts


O
Octopus (we ate octopus on a green ocean)
Ocean
Olives



P
Pioneer Village at This the Place Monument: I am bummed I totally forgot my camera. The girls had a blast. Addie's favorite thing was to search for gold!
Pink
Pumpkins
Pie: Apple Crisp

Q
Quilt (picnic on a quilt)
Quiet Books
Quiet Time
(Mom really enjoyed this day!)

R
Run
Ride Bikes
Raspberries
Rainbow crafts and pictures
Rocks

S
Splash Park
Stars
Starfish
Slurpee

T
Tent: went camping with the Smith Family and had a blast
Teeth

U
Umbrella
Unicorn

V
Velcro
Vroom
Vidia (watched Tinkerbell)

W
Water: played in pool in back yard
Wishes
Water colors

X
"X" Marks the spot: we had a treasure hunt

Y
yo, yo's
yummy cookies

Z
learned about zebra's
talked about the zoo (way to hot to take the kiddos)

I definitely started to slack at the end of the alphabet, and I am happy to be done with the last letters. It has been such a great summer, the girls have loved focusing on a letter each day.

I, J, K, L

I

Incredible Pizza to play games
Igloos made out of sugar cubes
Icecream

J

Jelly Beans in Jars
Jump on Tramp
Jello Gigglers

K

Kencott Copper Mines (random, we happened to be out in the area so we drove by)
Kites
Koolaide

L

Licorice
Lollipops
Lemonade (Addie had to let me know that these all had too much sugar, that we should only pick one)
L&Co Flowers (Played at Grandma's Flower shop)

We had a great time in Delta over the 4th of July. We love the small town celebration. It is so fun to be with the whole family. Grandma Smith had a really fun Princess Party planned for all of the girls (we have 9 girl cousins and only 2 boys). Fingernail Painting, Cinderella came and read a bedtime story and they got matching pajamas.

E, F, G, H and other happenings

This week I didn't have my camera with me, or I just forgot to take pictures but we still had a great time.

E
Watched Elmo
Learned about Elephants
Dyed hard boiled Eggs (the girls had so much fun)

F
Friends
Fun in the sun (we went swimming)
Gold Fish crackers
Swedish Fish
Fruit snacks
Fruit
French Fries
Flowers (Addie planted flowers from seed and they just started to bloom)
Painted Fingernails to be Fancy

G (was my favorite day!)
Hunted for Gold with some friends that are doing alphabet summer too. (I spray painted gravel gold and hid it in my gravel so the kids could hunt for gold. The kids absolutely loved it.)
Green grapes
Green Jello
Gold chocolate coins
Gogurt
Games

H
Happy
Hot=Herriman Splash Pad (I wanted to go hiking, but it was a little too hot!)
Played hopscotch
Made a hut for Baby Drake

I had a girls weekend up in Park City with some really good friends and we all had babies within 3 weeks of each other. We had a blast! It was fun to have a little break and spend time with just our new little babes. Thanks girls.


I have an amazing husband and a great Dad. While I was on my girls weekend Jeremy decided to go camping with the girls in the backyard, have a bonfire and roast hot dogs and marsh mellows. They had so much fun. Then to top it off he decided to be an over achiever and hooked the bike trailer on and rode to the swimming pool and took the girls swimming. Wow! I was very impressed... Go Jeremy!

I watched cute baby Austin for a day and we had so much fun. Drake and Austin are little buddies, they had so much fun together.
Off to the Riverton Rodeo. I don't know what it is about rodeo's but I love the atmosphere. We had a great time.