Girls Weekend

My sister-in-law, Holly, was able to arrange for us to have a Girls weekend in September at a condo in Utah. So, a bunch of us girls packed up our crafty stuff and headed off for a weekend away.

We enjoyed some Farr ice cream on Saturday night BEFORE dinner. :0) It was SO good...
Obviously Tessa and Montay enjoyed theirs too. :0)

Holly brought Olivia with her too....her very firls Girls Weekend.

Here's Holly making some hair bows...

Lyndsey and Tessa hanging out....

Montay showed us all her mad sewing skills and made some aprons and jammies for her girls for Christmas. Can I just tell you how impressed I am? I had no idea she could get her sew on like that!

By the time we were done it looked like a tornado had gone throught the place. We had so much fun though....thanks so much Holly for hosting such a great weekend! We are going to have to do it again REAL soon!

Tiger Football

My nephew, Jordan, is a senior this year and so we wanted to make sure we made it to at least one of his football games. We went to their first home game {which they won!}.

The Jerome Tigers had a great football season this year and thankfully Jordan made it through the entire season without any injuries. {Last year he ended up in crutches}.

Great job Jordan!

Bass Lake 2009

We love Bass Lake and I'm pretty sure we practically lived down there this last summer. Here's just a few fun pictures from various trips down to the lake....
Mackenzee became more brave every time we went down there. By the end of the summer she was going out to the deepest part of the kid section {where she couldn't reach} so that she could "practice" her swimming.

Maggie and Mackenzee enjoying a canoe ride.

Me and Montay taking Riley out for his turn in the canoe. Look at that water!!! It's like a mirror!

Yeah....the two toddlers had fun together...for the most part. :0)

Landon and Genea out on the dock. Landon passed the mommy swim test this year and so he didn't have to wear a life jacket out to the dock. He loved it!

Papa, Alina, Greta, and Riley coming back from a canoe ride.

Papa always brought his fishing poles and would spend hours helping the kids catch and release fish. It was busy work...the fish at Bass Lake are ALWAYS biting. Seriously, all you have to do is drop the line into the water and the fish come swimming. Two seconds later you will have a fish on the line. The kids think it is so awesome.

Holly and the kids getting ready to swim out to the dock.

Baby Olivia even got in the water. SO cute!

We can't wait until next summer so we can go and play some more.

Still got it!

My sister-in-law, Holly, and her kids came to visit us this summer and we had so much fun. We took them down to Bass Lake for a little swimming and I got both Holly and Crystal to have a cannonball contest with me.
Here we are getting ready for the big jump...you can see how excited Crystal was. :0)

One, Two, Three....ready....GO!

Who says moms don't know how to have fun???

(August 2009)

Winning the Mommy of the Year Award.....

What do you do when you hear your daughter crying outside and find her stuck LIKE THIS....

You make her stay in the hole and grab your camera to take some pictures. Such a nice mom I am right?

(August 2009)

First Day of School

Monday was the first day of school. Because my sister, Crystal, has been staying with us her daughter, Genea, got to be able to go to school with Landon this year. Normally I take my kids to school on their first day, but both Landon and Genea were WAY too excited to ride the bus to want me to take them. So, instead I waited with them at the bus stop. :0) Landon, being the almost 10-year old boy that he is, decided that the studly outfit I had picked out for him for the first day of school was not the right choice. He did wear the shirt I wanted him to wear....but he covered it up with his BSU hoodie. The brand new stylin' jeans I wanted him to wear....got shoved aside for some old worn out shorts. His reply when I asked him why he wasn't wearing his jeans?......
"WHAT? I like these shorts."
Yeah....good times.

Here is Landon, our next door neighbor Noah, Genea, and a new friend that just so happens to be in Genea's class. They all wait together at the bus stop and it has worked out so well.

The boys were super excited to see that their favorite bus driver, Shane, was their driver again this year. Apparently Shane is the nicest bus driver out of all them. That's what the boys say anyway....

The report at the end of the first day was a good one. Genea made friends in her new class at school and LOVES her teacher. Landon's friend, Hatim, apparently came home early from Africa and so he was able to be at school on the first day. Hatim and Landon get to be in the same class this year.

I guess this means so far so good. Of course we haven't even gotten through week 1...

Girl Time

Greta came and stayed with me for a little bit in August and Mackenzee just loved having her here. Greta is such a girly girl and Mackenzee ate it up.
We had a "Girls Night" one of the nights and I gave the manicures and put makeup on them. If you look closely you can see that the girls picked a different color of nailpolish for each of their nails. I think every color in my nailpolish box was used. Of course, neither girl was interested in having their hair brushed. :0)

We played princess music afterwards and the girls got their groove on. They were so funny twirling around in the living room.

Gotta love these girls!!!!