12,000 FT, NOT A FOURTEENER- BUT CLOSE ENOUGH!!

Our family reunion was in utah this year. mark's family owns a cabin up towards sundance where the kids had fun playing in the near by creek and swinging in the hammock. The first day we went to cabela's and the kids enjoyed the stores many spectacles. The next day we all had fun at seven peaks water park- especially brinley she couldn't get enough. After a whole day at the park we were exhausted and crashed early that night. we all got up early the next morning to hike Mount Timpanogas to the very top, which is a little over 12,000 feet. It was such a beautiful yet painful hike, through the many blisters and sore muscles it was worth the trek. The week in utah was fast and crazy. We drove over on a saturday and spent a couples of days with my family. It was so nice to see some of my siblings that i hadn't seen in a while and spend some time with them. We then packed up are stuff and spent a night at our friends house before heading up to the cabin for our family reunion. As we got together with our friends, we all realized that we had know each other for almost 10 years now. we all met in a young married byu ward 10 years ago and we still get together at least once a year and stay up to the wee hours in the moring playing games and laughing until we can no longer keep our eyes open. it was so fun to see them all again but as the next moring approached we packed our stuff up once again and headed to the cabin. We finish out our week playing cards games with the family, hiking, swimming and just having a blast together. My children were very happy that they got to see 2 grandma's and 2 grandpas and they had so much fun playing with cousins and friends. It seemed like we had been gone for weeks only because of how many times we moved around and of all the different activities we did, but we so much enjoyed, as always being with family and friends.

SO MUCH FOR REMEMBERING!

WE GO TO THE POOL JUST ABOUT 3 TO 4 TIMES A WEEK AND I ALWAYS FORGET TO BRING MY CAMERA AND WHEN I FINALLY DO..........


Objective: take some fun pics of my children playing together at pool.

- ok, before we leave for the pool i will try to get a couple pictures with the nice camera at home with the kids in there cute swim suits ( jace was sleeping during this photo shoot) - check

- next, remember to bring our not so nice camera to the pool to take some pictures of the kids- check

- quick, grab the kids before they get in the pool and take a quick picture of all of us together, maybe even get everyone to look at the camera at the same time- sort of check

- finally, take some memorable picture of the kidos playing in the pool- ok, well maybe not, camera's battery needs to be recharged- figures!

well it's at least i have one more picture than i had last year at the pool! and yet according to the date on the picture jace hasn't even been born yet-lol!

JUST A LITTLE SOMETHING TO SAVE FOR THE GIRLFRIENDS!

so I was taking some radom pics of the kids and i just happened to catch jace while he was starting to poop. I couldn't help myself, I know he is just going to love me when I share these pictures of him later in life!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACE!

MY BABY IS ONE! this makes me so sad, but he had a wonderful birthday. i spent most of the day making his cake which i had hoped would have turned out a little better ( it was just different from what i had in mind) but it still turne out. we had his birthday party around 7:00 that night and we had invited friends and family to come over and celebrate. i have a tradition that i started and for my kids first birthday i make the inventations and make there cake. so as i did with jaron's and brinley's birthday i made jace's inventations and decided to send one on to my parents so they could at least see it. however i was very surprised that night when around 5:00 i got a knock at my door and there were my parents! they decided to drive over from utah to come to jace's birthday party- after all they were invited since they got an inventation. we all had fun watching jace try to figure out what was going on and celebrating my little man's b-day!

**love you mom and dad! thank you for your wonderful visit and all that you do!**

Jace chatting with his girfriends!

Brinley's Room!

So i finally finished brinley's room! well kind of, the only thing left i want to do is put crown moulding up but who know's how long that will take to be accomplished. My inpiration for the room started with the cute poka dots i found in a jc penny mag. Of course i am always finding more things that i would love to add so i am sure this isn't permanent. (sorry there were just some angles i could not take good pictures of, so you only get some of the room.)

PRICELESS

ok seriously, i can not help but to constantly love on this child-he is as cuddly as they come!

LUAU AT GRANDMA'S

Every other year mark's parents have a luau at there home. It has become a church ward event plus anyone else who would like to come and enjoy the food and entertainment. With this festivity they always have a HUGE pig in which they cook in the ground in their backyard. This year grandpa brought the pig by our house a day before the party so the kids could see it before it got cooked. We tried to see if jace would sit on it but he did not like it at all. After the ceremonial digging and retrieving the pig from the ground, we eat the grandious amount of food brought by the many that attend. Later we all got to enjoy watching the beautiful dances performed by the native islanders of Tahaiti. Their costumes were amazing and very beautiful- I think they had at least 7 costumes changes but i will spare you the many, many pictures. Mark and I went to hawaii last year and were able to see some of the same dances and yet they are just as interesting and amazing as the first time we saw them. Sorry about the mass amount of pictures but it was hard to only pick out a few.