Summer Vacations! (aka Picture Overload)

Bear Lake with Justin's Family

The lake is really full this year so you can walk out forever and still touch. The kids loved it!

We couldn't get them out of the water...especially this one (see below)

I keep telling her she's a mermaid. She LOVES the water!

Ahhhhhhh!!!! Sticky Monster! I seriously just had to take her to the spigot and give her a bath. She loved every bite though!

Jackson with Monica's Family

Out on the boat....love it!

Driving the boat with Grandpa. So fun!

The little team! Luckily we didn't get dunked because Alyssa (can you see her face???) would have freaked.

The bigger team did get dunked but had a blast.

TJ got to surf!!! Thanks to Uncle Logan he was able to have fun surfing behind Tyson and Lyndsey's boat. He loved it, thanks Uncle Logan!!!

And thanks to Uncle Dustin, Brenden got to surf as well!! You can't tell, but he really was having fun! Thanks Uncle Dustin!!!

This was definitely a highlight! Future dentist Uncle Logan did his first extraction and pulled out Brenden's first tooth on his 8th Birthday!! What a birthday present, right??? He was SO happy!!

TJ and Justin went fishing, of course, and caught another 20 fish or so! That is the best fishing spot!

I could look at this picture all day, I love it!!!

I love this one too! What a sweetheart. She is quite the trooper. She Loves camping and the water! She has no fear and will jump into that freezing water and swim away.

My sweetie! Love you!!

Are there water princesses?? I think so!

The swimmers.

As you can see we had a lot of fun this summer. Lots of sun and water (once July finally came)! Thanks to our families for some fun vacations!! Hopefully we can do it all again next year!

Here is a video of TJ and Logan surfing. Sorry it's sideways.

Finally Summer!

Now that it is finally summer we can go have more fun! This is a fun place close to our house. There are lots of things to do there.

This is TJ and Brenden on the go-carts.

Justin and Alyssa during mini golf.

Kate totally got into it. It's hilarious. She will hit the ball once then pick it up and take it to the hole then hit it in the hole. So funny!

Brenden at mini golf.

TJ at mini golf. Love the face!

Justin and Alyssa driving the go-carts.

We've had a lot of fun. Summer is going by way too fast!!

Alyssa's Dance Recital

Alyssa had her dance recital the end of May. She did such a great job! She loves it and I absolutely love watching her! This is her with her cute teacher.

With Mom

With Dad

We love you Alyssa! You did a great job!!!

This is For Liz! =)

OK, so thanks to Justin for painting the color I wanted in the girls' room, thanks to Liz for spending half her scrapbooking day cutting out all the vinyl for me, and thanks to Tami for helping me put it all up!! Thanks to all that helped, the girls' room is finished and looks darling!!! I could not have done it without everyone's help! And with no further ado, here are the pics!

Isn't it so cute??? I love the brown with the purple!

This is the view from their window. Love it!

The purple chalkboard.

This was a plain white dresser and I thought it looked boring....so I added some of the flowers!

This is a magnetic board. We used the Rust-Oleum magnetic paint and I would NOT recommend it! It calls for 3 coats and we did 6 and it is still not very strong. Bummer. But it will have to do for right now.

Isn't it so cute??? I love how it turned out. Thanks again to everyone who helped!

Update (Finally!)

Easter Morning.

TJ at his piano recital. He did so well! I am very proud of him. Great job TJ!!

Girlies reading books to each other. So cute!

Our first campfire of the year! And we feel like we're in the wilderness, but we are in our backyard! It was a lot of fun.

Nice view, right??? I LOVE it!!!

Bird watching as well.

Sticky!!

Alyssa roasting a marshmallow. Yummy!

Pictures of the house are coming, I promise!! We just have to get the rooms clean first. =)

BBall Game and New House!

One Monday afternoon I got a call from my sister asking me if we wanted to go to a pro. basketball game, for our local team. Yes! Of course we do! So we found a babysitter and headed to the game. We were excited but didn't know where the tickets were. Hahaha!!! It was AWESOME! The tickets were for the FRONT ROW! My feet were on the court, it was so much fun! We got to go to the VIP dinner and get popcorn at half-time. It was so much fun! Thanks T and Z!!!!

See, feet on the court, and that was my chair right next to us.

My Sis and Me....Yay! We won!

I don't think I've ever seen Justin this happy and excited. It was definitely Justin heaven!!

I can't remember where this was, but it's my cute boys playing DS.

And they both played basketball and did a great job! Way to go boys!!

And, surprise, we are moving! It came as a surprise to us as well as everyone else. We had been looking off and on because there are so many good deals out there, but this one found us, and I fell in love immediately!We are moving about 15 min. north of where we are now to a smaller town. It is a good compromise because Justin wanted more land in a more rural area (it is .63 acres), and I wanted it to still be close to shopping and civilization, which it is. It is on a cul-de-sac and, as you can see, we don't have any houses behind us at the moment. I'm sure there will be someday, but the lot sizes are bigger and the homes are further apart. So now......if you know of anyone who wants to buy our current house, let us know!!!

This is the gorgeous view behind our new house!

See, no neighbors behind us!

This is our cul-de-sac. Yay! Kick ball, night games, here we come!