Fabulous Fourth!

We went to Vernal for the 4th of July this year. We spent all weekend playing with cousins, riding four wheelers and the "magic carpet," eating popsicles (and wearing popsicles), running through the sprinklers, feeding the cows, catching candy at the parade and having a magnificent time. We have been home for a week and a half and I think we are still recovering!

We also went to the Dinosaur Quarry (although the actual quarry is closed, the rest of the area was open) outside of Vernal. That was really fun too. Cole and Macie earned their Junior Rangers badge and were sworn in and everything! It was great, as well as boiling hot :)

Justin Celebrated his 33rd Birthday!

We had a yummy dinner for his birthday, ribs (his request, not my idea!), and a cake. And the cake is a sorry attempt at a golf ball. My sister Lesa made a golf cake that put mine to shame!

And yes, Cole and Justin have rib bones in their mouths, what carnivores!!

This is becoming a habit.....

I will spare you all the excuses for letting so much time go by without an update. Here is my update!

School ended, my job of 7 years ended (not by choice) and the summer was upon us! We have had a funny combination of being busy and lazy. One might ask how that is possible, it's hard to explain but it is possible :) We have been busy playing, eating Otter Pops, figuring out a new job and all that comes with it, slipping, sliding and riding bikes. We have been lazy enjoying the air conditioned house with all the ceiling fans humming happily, reading good books and watching movies while eating popcorn and brownies. I am getting skinnier by the minute!!

Here are a few pictures of our summer time activities.......

This is just being silly (and thank goodness those are clean!)

Cole and Macie built a "fort" using our coffee table. Being the fun mom that I am, I let them sleep in it. Cole read Macie a few books and then they actually went to sleep!

Cole and "Barry" or "Beary" (I've never thought about the spelling) are playing a little Mario Kart. They both look pretty excited!?!?

Catching Up

Little Toothless (Cole lost his 2nd top tooth last night)

Macie's preschool field trip to Thanksgiving Point Farm

I picked Macie up from preschool and all the kids walked out wearing their "Ant" hats, it was sooo cute!!

Macie gets to play soccer this season! She told me she kicked the ball "a million times" in the last game. It's been a cold, soggy season so far. Hopefully we'll get some better soccer weather!

Easter and Elizabeth's Blessing

Cole lost a tooth the day before Easter, so we had the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy at our house on the same night!

Cole turned 7!!

We invited Cole's friends over for a fun party that was WILD!!

Macie turned 4!! She got to have fun party this year too! We had fun friends and cousins over to celebrate.

This is how Macie felt on her birthday.......she was a total puke-literally!

Cole played basketball again and it was a blast! Below is a picture of Cole and his buds Tommy and Kaden. Above is Cole dunking the ball (not with any help of course!)

This is a small attempt at catching up from blog laziness! I just go through phases and I have evidently been in a non-blogging phase. I pay for it though because now I have a million and a half things to post and it's totally overwhelming!! Oh well, it's my own fault. PS...the pictures at the top are the most recent. It's way too much work to move them around so you are getting kind of a look back from yesterday to basketball in February.

Wonderful Wedding Weekend!

Ok, so the alliteration may be a little lame (or "wame" as Macie would say), too bad - I'm leaving it!

Anyway, my sister Rachel married her true love, Clint, on Saturday. They were nice enough to invite us (of course they didn't have a choice, we totally would have crashed it if needed!) to a very fun dinner at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building on Friday. It was delicious and fun. One of the best parts was that it brought back so many fun memories for me! Justin and I did that very same thing 10 glorious years ago, in that very same room so naturally I LOVE it.

Then on Saturday morning they were married in the Bountiful Temple. It was a lovely, sunny, beautiful day, thus the "wonderful wedding weekend."

We're excited to have Clint in the family and relieved we didn't scare him off before everything was legal!!

Here are just a few shots of the millions that were taken. I wish we had a good one of the whole group. Oh well.

Who needs a Barbie when your favorite cat Twizzler loves to play dollhouse with you?!?!?

Happy Valentine's Day!

Some people really know how to be romantic!!

Disclaimer: This is not Justin!