Ahhhh Summer!

So we've been busy jetting around the region. We spent some time in Bear Lake on Friday for the Mackey Family Reunion. I got to see some of my cousins and Aunts and Uncles that I haven't seen in a few years so it was really nice. We had a good time there and then headed down to SLC. On the way we stopped in Randolph to see my neices Bailee and Falynn reign as jr. Rodeo Princesses. We got to see them ride their circle at the beginning of the rodeo. They did such a good job. I didn't take my camera with me....

Then on to SLC to hang out for the weekend. We celebrated Josh's grandma's 85th birthday on Sunday where we got to see all his cousins and a few of his aunts and uncles.

Now today I'm heading up to Star Valley to pick some raspberries at my Grandma's house, yummy, and then we are packing up for another family reunion is Bear Lake for the weekend. It sounds and feels like a lot of running around, but I figure we might as well get real good and tired before summer ends and it gets really horrible and cold. I love summer!

I've also temporarily misplaced my camera so I don't have any pictures of our latest adventures so these are some old ones. I just have to put pictures with each post, right? :)

Presley is showing some sassiness in this awesome get up. I wish that came in my size....
This is Teag busting out of his PJs. I squeezed (is that a word?) him into these little things and apparantly he thought that was funny.

Happy Summering!

Silly Sisters

I left Teag in his chair eating Cheerios only to come back and find this sight:

The girls had their fun with Teag and he didn't seem to mind either.

Goofy Kids!
This is a picture of some of the little neighborhood girls that my kids get to play with, basically on a daily occurrence. Cute little sweeties! Avery and Presley are in the middle and they are pretty much BFFs. When they play house, they say, "I'll be the mom and you be the sweetie."(Sweetie means daughter). I think its so cute.
This was Kenady at our Luau party. She thought she looked sooooo beautiful. She did :)
My good friend gave me this cute apron and rubber gloves, complete with ribbons and lace, for my birthday. I wore it most of the day ( not the gloves). I love them!

Busy Busy!

I've decided that I officially suck at blogging.  There have been a bunch of life experiences that I missed blogging about, but only because we have been so stinkin' busy doing much more important things.  Like,  

Building a car for the giant purple bear. (That was a tough one).

Looking adorable/puking all over a lot of things.
Looking way too grown up so that mommy gets sad, and that feeling that I just want to squeeze his cute little body, both at the same time. 

Going on a 16 mile bike ride in Richfield up to Big Rock Candy Mountain.  Ya thats right.  I pulled Presley and Teag and Kenady rode her sweet Schwinn the entire way.  I was so proud of her.  
This was about one mile into the infamous ride.  She's all smiles.  Along the way however, we got rained on and hailed on.  During the hailing part the smiles disappeared and turned into sobs.  I had to promise her hot chocolate so that she would keeping going through the stinging cold hail.   She was such a trooper.  

When we got to the top, 8 miles in, we went into the convenience store to get some ice cream.  Kenady found a pink heart "diamond" that was about as big as cantalope and said, "Mom, I think Dad would really like this for Father's Day."  Very sly, she almost had me ;)  

Riding dirt bikes.  This is something Josh has been thoroughly enjoying this summer.  He got a new dirt bike, but the funny thing is, he doesn't really like to get it dirty.  I keep telling him its a "dirt" bike, but I don't think he gets the picture.
Jumping dirt bikes.  I can't believe he does that.  Looks scary!

I can't believe summer is half way over.  We are going to try to go full speed until the end of August so we can have as much fun as possible before the frigid winter comes again.  

Maybe I'll try to get at least a couple of posts in before that!

8 Years of Awesomeness

Today is Josh and my 8 year anniversary.  Yeah for us!  Even better, we still love each other.  Its been an awesome 8 years and I can't wait for more.   Here's some pictures of this day in time 8 years ago.  

I don't think he reads this blog to often, but  To Josh:    You are the best husband ever.  All the wonderful qualities that I married you for have just magnified over the years.  I feel pretty lucky.  I love you!

The Shirt

Everyone has a favorite item of clothing.  Usually it will only last a season or perhaps a couple of years until it gets slightly worn out and then replaced with a new favorite.  My dear sweet husband is very loyal to his clothing and will continue to wear them, ( it, in this case) FOREVER.  Here is a picture of Josh when we were dating.  He is wearing his absolute favorite shirt.  Someone from his mission gave it to him and oh how he has cherished it.  When this picture was taken, it was probably only one year old.  Still looks fresh and new.  Both Josh and the shirt fit into this category.  Josh probably weighs about 50 lbs. lighter in this picture than he does now and that is a good thing.  He was a bit skinny back then.  

This a picture of this same shirt that has been worn at least once a week for the last 10, thats right, 10 years.  The front view:

And the back view:
I love (not really) how he continues to wear this shirt once a week even though it is hanging on his shoulders by threads.  What I love even more is that I still hang this shirt up on a hanger.  Old habits die hard I guess.  I guessing by 2010 this shirt may accidently get ripped right down the center in the washer...wink, wink!  Then he'll have to find a new favorite, ohhhh so sad.  I'll have to be careful though, he has an Old Navy St. Patricks Day shirt that has the year printed on it of 2004, that is quickly catching up to this one.  That one might have to get left at the Gorge on accident :)  

Orange Julius Fiasco!

Picture this, two little girls, drinking orange julius ( their mother so kindly made them with her new Magic Bullet blender, I love that thing).  One little girl decides not to use her straw and drink directly from the cup.  But that darned Orange Julius is stuck to the bottom of the cup, "I know," she thinks, "maybe if I tip it all the way up...." and then it happened.  The entire contents of the Magic Bullet Blender smoothie cup came "unstuck" and fell right on the little girl's face, neck, shirt, skirt, barstool, and the floor ( that was freshly mopped a couple hours before).

From the other room, the mother who had just settled into a nice relaxing 10 minutes of Dancing with the Stars, hears screams, cries, scurrying and more screams and cries.  She decides to ignore it for a bit but after about 15 seconds of that she realizes what may have happened (on her freshly mopped floor).  Sure enough, to her dismay that is exactly what happened.  The little girl is crying for two reasons, her orange julius is now all over, and she is freezing.  The little girl's sister is frantically trying to help clean up (knowing that mom had just freshly mopped the floor). What a sweetheart.

So this mother is clearly upset, I mean who wouldn't be, right? There is Orange julius all over the island, barstool and a trail of it from the island to the sink that the older sister has made with attempts at cleaning it up.  Anger was the first reaction, but after seeing this sight of this poor little girl, shivering with a horrible look on her face I couldn't help but.......laugh. (And take some pictures of the poor little girl.)

I still giggle when I see these pictures.  Maybe I'm a mean mom for laughing, but some things cannot be helped.  Poor Presley!

We almost had Teag looking at the camera in this one.  Maybe one day.  
My little baby is now 6 months old.  I can't believe it.  He is already sitting up and already teething (Yeah for me!).  Its all exciting but at the same time so so sad.  No more 3-6 months clothes.  Boo-hoo.
At least he's adorable.

We've had a great couple of weeks.  It started out with Josh's fight which I already blogged about but didn't put any pictures.  So here are a couple.  This first one is after his fight.  (I think he looks hot  :D )

This next one totally stinks, but to be honest, was actually the best picture I took during the fight.  I shouldn't even have been trying to take pictures I was screaming and jumping, hence the poor picture quality.  He's the one on top.
So that was the nitty gritty of the fight.  He did a really good job.  
This is our kids on Easter morning.  We had a great morning seeing what the Easter Bunny brought and me getting to dress them in these adorable clothes that I totally splurged on.  
This is Teag wearing his "TAPOUT" shirt, except it says "NAPOUT."  Josh couldn't resist buying this little onesie that Teag will out grow in approximately 4 weeks.  Ah well, its cute.

We got to go to Star Valley for my Dad's 50th birthday.  I can't believe he is that old!  Just kidding Dad, you don't look a day older than 35!  We got to dye Easter eggs and do all that fun stuff.  Grandma Stella hid about 155 eggs, filled with tons of candy and about $75.00 in quarters, gold dollars and two dollar bills.  Since there are only 6 grandkids hunting, Kenady and Presley made out like bandits.  I think they found $22.00 between the two of them.  It was a lot of fun.  Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for the best Easter egg hunt ever.  We can't wait till next year!

After we got back from SV we packed up and headed to Las Vegas the next day.  We drove the entire way stopping only twice.  I thought that was a pretty good feat seeing as we have a 6 year old, a 3 year old and a 5 month old baby.  The kids did great travelling.  We were able to spend an awesome relaxing week at Josh's Mom and Dad's new house.  We had so much fun soaking up the sun and the kid had fun getting spoiled by Grandma and Grandpa.  They have a pool in their back yard and even though the water temperature was only about 60 degrees, that didn't stop my children from swimming each day.  Its the Wyoming in them I guess.  They had a great time.  

We got to go out to Hoover Dam and spend a couple days looking at attractions such as the Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay.  We also spent a couple of days shopping and of course the whole week was full of delicious food.  Josh's parents had a Cafe Rio just around the corner from their house.  I think Josh ate there about 5 times.  He did mention that he is "Cafe Rio'd out" for  a while.  Kinda funny.   

I should be getting some pictures of our trip soon but we had a great time.  Thanks Shaun and Marla for letting us bombard you for an entire week.