AF Canyon

Because of the forest fires we weren't able to go to our favorite spot up the canyon, we headed up for family night Monday and spent some quality time around the fire. My favorite.

Kayak

My friend julianne invited us to go kayaking by her house, the kids and I did this last year and it was such a blast, so when the invite came again we were excited. Big Russ got to join in this time too.

Sunday dinner

Did I mention it's birthday month yet? We celebrated Big Russ and trevans birthday Sunday at my parents house. Cinnamon rolls were on the menu! Peggy Sue Buns came through again! We love Sunday dinners.

Party!

We celebrated kaden and trevans birthdays at matt and Sara's house Friday. What a party, great food, water and family. The kids loved the relay races up and down the huge slide.

Colorado Cousins

We love to see our Colorado cousins as much as we can, when we get together it's nothing but fun! Their ages are perfect and they get along so well. We will miss you guys!

Birthday month!

I think we are celebrating seven birthdays this month we started with Laina's birthday party last night. What a sweet little girl she is, Mike and Mauri had the family over for dinner and cookies... and when I say cookies I mean awesomely good, delicious cookies! Let the parties begin.

Cousins

The kids are getting their fair share of cousin time from the Staker side as well as the McMurdie side. We got to go swimming today with the Smith kids, they were all in heaven! After swimming for hours we went to lunch, I could tell it was a good day when Logan fell asleep on the ride home (probably from going down the slide at the rec center about 100 times!)

Fire Season

No rain for 30 something days, hot, dry air isn't a good combination for fire season. These are a couple of pictures i took while driving, one from a fire in Lavan and the other above Alpine just started a couple hours ago.

Manti Pageant

 We drove down to Manti Saturday after the parade to go see the Pageant. I haven't been for about 15 years, it was fun to take the kids.

 This is the temple Russ and I were sealed in, so I love to go back and visit with the kiddos.

 Weston and Gage came along, some of the grandkiddies with Grandma.

Play

Of course we got to play a little last week too. We got to go to the Lehi Roundup barbecue, stock parade and rodeo with my whole family. They were such fun nights I love the roundup!

Work-ation

All last week we got our workout in, we did a little, er I mean a LOT of summer cleaning at Russ' parents house.

We filled 2 dumpsters, 2 Uhaul trucks, 4 scrap metal pick ups and a DI run. We were so grateful Christy and the kids were there, we wouldn't have been able to do a fourth of what we did with just us! I was so proud of everyone working together to get this done.

Potions

We came home last night and the kids were so happy to see grandpa. He had a scout meeting where he took Popsicles so he had a little dry ice left over. My dad is a kid at heart and is more than happy to play, they played with this stuff for a good hour.

Last Day Of School!

First day of school 2011-2012

Last day of school 2011-2012

 It's finally here, the last day of school! It's hard to believe it's over, actually, time has gone by so fast.

The girls got to have pajama day on their last day and were so excited to wear their jammies to school.

 Every morning Logan and I wave and throw "I love you" signs at the girls through the window.