Happy 85th Birthday Grandpa

We were able to bring Grandpa home for a few hours to celebrate his Birthday. He seemed so happy to be home and have his family there too.

Hummm, can you tell they are related?

Happy Birthday Grandpa! It was so fun spending the day with you.

Farewell to my Friend

Last Thursday I had a going away party for my friend Rachel. We have been friends for as long as I can remember and I'm going to miss her so much. She will be spending the next year and a half serving a mission in Baton Rough, Louisiana.

5 Days in Zion

We spent some time in Zion with my family


Karson, Brinley and Kaden reading

The pool was so much fun, especially when we had it all to ourselves!

Dustin and Troy (they almost got us kicked out of the pool)

My Dad is so cute.

Hiking in Zion

Oops, I forgot to pack the baby backpack so Brinley got to ride on Dad's shoulders

My cute sisters

Still hiking

Is that a yawn?

And... She's out

We spent a day in Bryce Canyon

It was so incredibly beautiful!

I guess we should have packed an extra change of clothes for Brinley, but we didn't. Here she is showing off her pretty pink fingernails.

We swam every night and Brinley LOVED it! Ok, the pool not so much, but we couldn't get her out of the hot tub.

Amanda, Steve, Jessica, Troy, Dustin and I hiked Angels Landing

The hike was amazing, but a little scary at times. As you can see, we were pretty high above ground.

We also did a little bit of biking

and we were so sad to leave this beautiful place.

welcome to our family/the most exciting post ever

As you can tell by most of the pictures we post on our blog, we were in desperate need of a new camera. Welcome to our family Canon Rebel XS!
Lots of pictures to come!!

Miller Motor Sports Speedway

Last weekend Troy, Sabra, Dustin and I went down to Miller Motor Sports Speedway

Sabra won go cart tickets and the boys were all excited because these go carts go 4o m.p.h.

They were so excited that the sneaky buggers managed to get themselves a free ride in these blue go carts.

We stopped at the Gateway on the way home for dinner and shopping for sunglasses. You can't get much shopping done with two boys around.

Welcome to Brinley's House

We bought a new patio set and fortunately it came in THIS big box. So, while Dad put the new patio set together Brinley and I turned this box into a house.
Here she is making her house into a home.

She played in it for hours and hours and now that we know how to keep her entertained please send all of your gigantic cardboard boxes our way.

Here is Brinley putting the finishing touches on her house. You can see she has even furnished it. She is such a fun little girl!