Fishing with Dad

The first Saturday in September we needed to take a break from all projects at home and got out to enjoy some sunshine! We packed up the kids fishing gear and headed up Provo Canyon. This is a fun park where kids can "catch and release" for free. We didn't catch a single thing, but we sure tried!!! The kids loved going up to Heber afterwards to eat at their favorite - "The Train Place"!!! Ü

Taking off the cast!

Yippee!!! Time to get that stinky, itchy, dirty thing off! I will miss being able to spot her from a mile away, though!!!

Jackson (notice our little lefty!) putting the finishing touches on her cast!
The most worry I ever saw on her face in the whole 6 weeks of her broken arm ordeal! John wore his pink tie in honor of the big day!

so brave!!!

Catching Up - Future Cheerleader?

Mahlia was asked by our cute neighbor to participate in a tiny tigers cheer camp. They had 3 dance classes and then they performed during half-time at a friday night football game. Mahlia couldn't have been more excited to learn a new dance and shake her booty at Mom's alma-mater. (Mom was pretty excited too!) So, here is my little drama queen shaking her stuff at OHS.
This is a piece of the old gym floor. They are rebuilding the school, so it was fun to see a piece of "history" (seriously? history? I can't be THAT old). Ü

Halloween 2009

My bride, warlock and puppy. So cute!!!

Jackson made the cutest little puppy! He loved to run around and "yap" at everyone!! He's just adorable if I do say so myself! Ü

I'm not one for scary costumes, but Joseph was a warlock for his 2nd grade Halloween program at school - thus, he was a warlock for the week!

Mahlia told me that she wanted to be a bride for Halloween oh, about August. (I think it had a lot to do with this experience) I thought, "great! that should be easy enough!" Well, it wasn't! I allowed it to cause me a GREAT deal of stress and even locked my neck up so bad I couldn't move my head! It was crazy trying to find a white dress for a 3 year old!! Needless to say, the DAY OF the primary halloween party, we found this beautiful dress on 60% clearance and Cinderella's closet. It was perfect! We had a very happy bride!

Summer 2009

We had a hard time about mid-summer with the kids getting along. So, we came up with the idea that they could build a snowcone by making good choices! Everytime we took the kids for a snowcone they wanted big ones. And I mean, this place made BIG ones! So, we decided to let the kids earn a big snowcome... and you can see they did it!!! These are some seriously happy faces!!!

One evening we decided to drive up to Gardner Village and walk around. We LOVE that place and got some cute pics!

This is how the kids drive in the van. (when they aren't fighting) I love it! And I love their messy faces from getting treats and the candy store!