Our Summer Recap

We did so many fun things this summer I wish I was more on the ball to give some pictures their very own post.... Oh well, here goes a doozie of a tale!

This little lady learned how to ride with 2 wheels! My family was at our cabin for the weekend, Toby's training wheels kept getting stuck in ruts of dirt and she would get high centered and really upset. TJ kept trying to talk her into just take the trainers off, but she would NOT! So I then told her Daddy would not take them off, but he would just raise them up so they wouldn't get stuck in the holes. She agreed and needless to say, 8 minutes later goodbye Training wheels! 

 TJ brought some of his guns to the cabin so Jerica and I humored him in attempting to shoot. He was very patient :)

 I absolutely adore Twiner days with my girls! Luckily Toby still thinks it is fun :)

 We went to Maple Lakes up Payson Canyon for a family night. The girls LOVED it. Anytime there is a picnic, water, and dirt my girls are in Heaven!

 For my birthday this year TJ gave me photography lessons. I am so glad that my mom took them with me! We had a lot of fun trying to figure out what in the world we were doing! Hopefully my brain captured some of what he was talking about :)

 We had a fun evening in Nephi for the motocross races. One of TJ's buddies rode in the pro-racing round. It was fun cheering on somebody that I pretended I knew :)

My handsome dude turned 30 in July! His birthday was on a Sunday and he had to work-Lame. So I threw a BBQ in his dad's back yard for our families. His birthday cake request was a white chocolate blueberry cheesecake. Delish!

Camping at TJ's family cabin with a trip to the Muddy is a must! I love that Toby is old enough that she can enjoy it. Well, for the first 10 minutes anyways!

TJ told me that all the many years that his grandma and grandpa came to the muddy to fish, his grandma's feet never once touched the water. Every time he would lift her on his back and carry her across! So far in 8 years of being married, my feet have never touched the water :)

 My little 'BIG' girl turned 5 in July! Her birthday was on a Wednesday and it was right in the middle of girls camp! I snuck home early that morning to be with her when she woke up. We had breakfast together, opened presents, and she then chose Carl's Jr for lunch. I had to get back to camp since I was the director I couldn't be gone all day. TJ then took the girls to my parent's house and they took them up to our cabin for a family reunion. Friday I got home from camp, unpacked, unloaded and cleaned everything up and then headed to the reunion. Long week and I was exhausted!! But, ooohhh it felt so good to have girls camp done! I was joking with one of the leaders that if there was ever a time TJ and my relationship was rocky, it was the week before camp. Really though I was kidding! Ha, but I am sure I was driving him crazy.

 The following Saturday Toby had her first friend only party. There was quite the litter of puppies running around! They LOVED that they got to eat out of a dog bowl on the floor :) Oh, to be 5 again and enjoy the simple pleasures in life!

 We went to Fiesta Days rodeo with Nana and Papa and our friends Ben and Haley.

This was a trip that deserved its own post, but I'm lazy. We went South to Escalante to hike Death Hollow. We got to camp around midnight, in bed around 1, and up at 6:30.

Bright and early we started our 12 mile long hike. Kyle and Tahsha who are engaged to be married in Oct! Kyle and Britt who are engaged to be married in Sept! Then TJ and Steph who are 8 year long married oldies who got the privilege of being chaperons. Lucky!

 The destination for the 12 miles lead us here to prudential plaza (I think) We swam and jumped in this teeth chattering pond. We played around here for around  2 hours and than had to hike back out.

The trek was in water and out of water, in water and out of water. For some reason I could not stay standing. I kept turfing it. I came home with some battle wounds- Yep, and I was the only one too. So fun though, I would go back in a heart beat. Wearing different shoes!

Every Friday is our Grandma Jake day. We visit, let cousins play, and eat lunch together. I look forward to this every week. I grew up a half mile away from her so we have always been close. I love that my girls now have a relationship with her!

 My cousin Kristen put together a awesome treasure hunt for the kids with a real buried treasure in the garden under the "X" It's things like this that make me say "Dang, I wish I was a cool mom!"

 Sadly this little family had to move away to AZ for school. Lame School. We miss playing with Kate, Archie and Annie!!

This August in St George my family saw Aladdin at the Tuacahn. Last August we saw The Little Mermaid and said "Whew, we will NEVER do that again in August!"

 We rented a condo so we could all be together! That made the trip! We hung out at the pool ALL day on Saturday went home ate lunch and headed back out to swim! Such a fun fun vacation!

 My Toby girl Started Kindergarten this year... Sniff. I am still unsure how I feel about it! I don't like the fact that she is gone every day! From here on out she will be gone every day for forever.... It makes me sad.

I drove her the first week of school. I had to, I needed to. I wasn't ready to let this little bean of mine leave my side for the bus. That would mean letting go a little more. As you can see, she was really upset about the fact that she is a bus girl now!

 My baby is no longer a baby she is now a toddler. A naughty naughty toddler! The last two days in a row she has brought me an egg which she pulled out of the fridge, dropped, and broke.
A funny story though- She loves to pull yogurt out of the fridge by herself and if I don't catch her in time it is usually opened up over the carpet. After scrubbing the said substance off my floors I scolded her and told her "No more yogurt out of the fridge!" A few hours later I hear the fridge opening and closing. I go in the kitchen, open the fridge and find a half eaten yogurt with a spoon inside. Scout never took the yogurt out of the fridge, she was sneaking bites instead. Oh, Funny girl!

This little girl absolutely adores Tangled! She watches the movie EVERY single day, sometimes twice. She now owns 3 "Punzel" dolls thanks to her Mammy, Nana, and Grandma Jake!
A few days before her birthday we had our Slip n' Slide party with our families and friends. This year, was our 3rd year running and did not disappoint! My father in law has all the awesome pics from the party, They may be blog worthy when I get them :)

The morning of her birthday I go in her room to get her, only to find a half naked happy baby!

 Lots of park days with our Awesome friends!

We love Mister Ty-Laroo! Toby and him always get along so well!

Of course we can't leave out happy cute little Ally!

Toby has learned to whistle, I see this face All-day-long! I do not want to discourage her new found talent of whistling, but seriously little girl sometimes you make my eye twitch.

Goodbye long blog post,
Goodbye Summer,
 Hello Fall
           *Please stay a little longer than 2 weeks! I am really not ready for snow!