Nyah's Baptism

Well, we she did it. She got baptized. That was a tear jerker moment for mommy. She is growing up way to fast and there is nothing I can do to stop it. She was so excited and was not scared even for a moment. I am so proud of her!Daddy's Little Girl, growing up before our eyes I still want to take her out to get some nice pictures of her in her dress. I will post them when I do that.

Connor's Blessing Day

We blessed Connor in June. It turned out so nice. We had a lot of family and friends in attendance. We did the luncheon afterward of course, it was a nice end to our INSANE weekend.

It hard to even get a decent family picture, Jayda looks thrilled. That's okay.Jared and his son!We could not have pulled this weekend off if it hadn't been for the huge amount of help we had from friends and family. They helped with food for both after the baptism and the blessing, helped take our kids to places they needed to be, helped with the birthday party, helped do Nyah's hair for the baptism. You all know who you are, so THANK YOU!!!!
I had to post this, my friend found this lady that makes these awesome cookies. I thought they where so cool. We had some for the baptism and the blessing. If you look closely some of them had their names on them as well.

It turned out great! We pulled off the huge weekend of birthday party, gymnastics performance, baptism and blessing! It's exhausting even thinking about it, but it got done and we enjoyed every minute of it.

Lake Powell

We got to go to Jared's favorite place in the world again this year. . . Lake Powell. We went with my parents and some friends of theirs. We camped in Paige and then put the boat on the Lake every day. It was so much fun. So, Keira's absolute favorite place to ride in the boat is in the bow. Well one day she was right up there similar to this photo only without Jayda and we were riding along and then all of a sudden she just fell backward hitting the floor of the boat. We did not hit any waves, there was no sudden jerking of the boat, oh no she had fallen asleep and fell back! I am so glad she didn't fall forward!!! After that I had to keep checking on her to make sure she was not asleep sitting up there.

They loved to go in the water in their tubes, they could have done it almost all day.

We went to the dam which was neat to see. We also went to Rainbow Bridge but of course I had forgotten my camera that day. My mom had hers so we did get pictures but she has them and I have not gotten them from her yet.

Our little boater.

Jayda loved getting the boat all muddy and then washing it off with the watering can, it was very cute.

Keira was VERY safe (unless you count the falling asleep in the bow of the boat incident) as you can see she was going to make sure she would not drown. She has her life jacket, her tube, and shallow water. . . very cautious!

Out little baby boater, he was so good. He wasn't a huge fan of the life jacket but he didn't put up much of a fuss. Every time the boat was moving he would always fall asleep.

Jared got to water ski, he was very happy about that. It has been a while since he has been able to.

Proof that I did go on our vacation.

My parents friends that came had a two daughters, Nyah's and Keira's ages and they all got along great. Nyah talks about Mckenzie all the time and has been writing her letters since the trip.

We had so much fun and were not ready to come home. We would love if we could go every year to Lake Powell. Of course Jared would live there if we let him.

4th of July Star Valley Style

Over the 4th of July we went to my good old home town Star Valley. We went for a family reunion and had a lot of fun. Since my parents live here now, we don't get to go there very often so it's nice when we do go.

Nyah and Keira got invited to be on one of the floats in the parade which they thought was wonderful. They had a good time waving flags and throwing candy.Jayda had fun watching the parade. She got very daring running after candy that was thrown in the street.Attempting to get all my kids in a picture and have it turn out decent is pretty much impossible at this point I just pick my battles and choose the one that is not the worst ha ha. As you can see Connor especially loves these moments.No visit to Star Valley in the summer is complete without visiting the Red Baron so we went there for food and ice cream which Jayda LOVED!We got to see my old house I grew up in. Wow it has a lot of memories! It is sadly not the same though. It is now trashed inside and really disgusting. It makes me sad.Of course we did fireworks and we got to do the really fun ones that go very high as they are not illegal in Wyoming. My kids didn't know what to think. But of course we had sparklers first. I love how she has her blanket in her mouth. Only in Star Valley would you have to wear a coat out to do fireworks in July.

We had a great time there, it has been forever since I have been there for the 4th of July, I think since the year Nyah was born so that would have been 8 years ago. It was nice to go back again.

Summer BBQ

Over the 4th of July weekend we decided to have a big BBQ at my parents house. We had a lot of people come, some of our friends, my bro and his friends, some friends of my parents etc. It was a TON of fun. We ended up with a HUGE water fight, including the big blow up water toy my mom has, water guns, water balloons, the hose, pitchers of water, etc. No one was safe and everyone got dumped in the little pool on the water toy whether you had clothes on or swim suit. Nyah randomly caught a butterfly that crawled all over her head it was CRAZYWe hatched a plan to get my brother in the water with his clothes on, which included one of my friends calling him on the cell phone and all the guys had to pitch in to help because he put up a FIGHT!!!!We were of course successful!Of course Cameron was next!After their pool run in and all wet.

We had TONS of food and all hung around visiting and laughing.
When it got dark we pulled out the chairs for the fireworks. Of course right in the middle of it all the automatic sprinklers came on and everyone went running and screaming. (To bad that was not on video!)

We had these GIANT marshmallows my mom got and Becky decided to play "chubby bunnies" she got 3 of those things in her mouth! (I should also post this pic on facebook, I know Beck would LOVE it ha ha)

Jayda and Tylie just wanted to watch cartoons together.

It was so much fun! We should do it again.

Cherry Hill

So we just recently went to Cherry Hill. My family goes there every year as a family reunion. We have been going since I was 10 years old (so, a LONG time). We love it and it holds a lot of memories for us. This year, Jared's family decided to also have a family reunion there the same weekend we would already be there which was nice for us, to kill two birds with one stone so to speak.

Jared's grandma Joy got to join us and she made a "club" for all the grand kids called "The Screaming Yellow Zonkers" so now we decided to extend the invitation to the great grand kids as well. So we had a ceremony for the kids to be initiated into the "club" by getting a cup of water dropped on their head. As you can see Connor was somewhat less then amused with this. According to Jared they got off pretty easy cause he had to be dunked in a creek. Grandma Joy had a grand time getting all the kids wet. The kids had a blast playing in the water everywhere.
Even Connor got his fair share of fun.

They got to play with their cousins.

Jayda's highlight was to play in pirates cove with all the water toys.

We had fun going on some of the slides with everyone

All in all it was another fun year at Cherry Hill and we look forward to next year!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NYAH!!!

WOW, I can't believe Nyah is 8 years old already!! Her birthday was on June 1st. It went by so fast. It's sad for mom, she is transitioning from toys to "tween" things. For her birthday she got a CD player and I made a CD for her with her favorite singers; Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Taylor Swift, and Selena Gomez. She has now been in her room listening to her CD. She is getting so much older, and way to fast.

For her birthday, I checked her out of school and we went and had a picnic lunch together at a park. Then I took her to see a movie. She got to choose her favorite dinner and desert to eat that night, which she chose "diggaroni" aka Beefaroni. For dessert she wanted lemon bars. After dinner we opened her gifts, which she got the CD player, CD, a CTR ring, some new scriptures with her name on them, some colored pencils for marking her scriptures, a scripture tote. She also got some money, clothes, make-up, etc from grandparents. We sang "Happy Birthday" to her with candles in her lemon bars and that was her day.

On Saturday she gets to have her party, which is a Taylor Swift party. We will post more pictures of that when it happens.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NYAH WE LOVE YOU!!! She absolutely adores her baby brother and is always wanting to hold him and kiss him.

She looks so old with her haircut, of course she now wants it long again, so it was short lived.