summer lovin'

        We have sure enjoyed summer thus far..especially this last week. Nate, my oldest brother and all his family was in town from Cincinnati and while they were here we partied nonstop every day! We enjoyed barbeques, keeping cool at the pool, evening fire roasts, four-wheeling, birthday parties, water fights, and my mom even did a fishpond for the grandkids-which pretty much turned into Christmas in July!
        We also took Calvin on his very first hike. We went with the whole family up to Big Springs in South Fork. Cal loved every minute of it. He is such a happy baby.

Towards the end it began raining and got a little chilly. . . . . but it didn't bother Cal one bit. . . .  in fact he took a nap. :)

For the 4th Jake spent a good part of the day working on his family cabin while I hit up some family parties. We topped our night off with good ol' PG fireworks. I was a little concerned about the loud noise, but the rockets red glare put little Calvin to sleep.

                               Cal was showered with attention from his cousins!

fourth of july

Happy 4th of July! We had a great day celebrating america.

We slept in late,

 made waffles,

 went to a movie,

 BBQ'd with friends and family,

 and topped it all off with fireworks! 

god bless america.

the JOYS of July....

July has always been our favorite month-it not only has two fun holidays but both of our birthdays as well. This July was packed will all sorts of fun events....

the 9 day FaMiLy ReUnIon

For the 4th and the week after the Browns from Arkansas came to Utah for a visit. It was so so

so much fun having them here. I can't believe how much those kids have grown in the last year. Our week was jam-packed with fun activities every minute including stadium of fire, hiking stewart falls, tinfoil dinners in the canyon, going out to eat, roasting marshmellows in the back yard every night (thanks to TY;), and the list goes on and on. It was a constant party and we LOVED it. We love you folks from Arkansas!

Jakey and his girly fans


Ty Ty and Jake

and of course we can't forget the chocolate fountain party at our house

...I've never seen the kids so wired!!

CaMpIng TrIp..

Jake and I decided to take a weekend camping trip to Fairview. The outdoors are so beautiful and it was exciting to get away. We had a crazy time fighting off mice in the middle of the night until we were hysterical but we had a good time. In the morning we went fishing and pretty sure I caught the LUNKER

We made a target to shoot at....(if you can't tell its Sasquatch A.K.A. Big Foot)

OtHeR AcTiViTiEs...

We also attended the MLS Soccer game at the Rio Tinto Stadium, I bought Jake tickets for his birthday and it turned out being super fun.

On Jake's birthday we also went to Lagoon with some of the wild Browns. Thanks Claire for the discounted tickets!

so this is the only picture we got-yes it is the parking lot-we were too lazy to carry the camera around the park.

What a fun month it was!
-Au revoir