Tribute to Angie

This is for my very special special friend Angie. I hope she gets a kick out this. Apparently she is not apart of my scrapbooks enough... LOL this is cracking me up. She is in Hawaii now hopefully enjoying herself in the sun while we are all stuck in the snow. I am a little jealous...in a hateful way ;) Anyway, just wanted her to appreciate my effort to stick her in here. HAHA. Love you Ange!

WOW for Chad

I caught Chad in the act! You are now viewing (Dec. 20) the very first time Chad held Justice since she was born. I feel special being part of this. LOL.

Trains

I know Christmas is long over but I wanted to show you all what I meant by "Christmas Trains." Each year my family gets together and makes trains out of candy. It's so much fun, mostly because all the candy is there for eating! We had a really good turnout too!

Horse Riding

Late November Chad, my mom and I took the kids down to Jason and Angie's house to ride the horse. Dixie wasn't quite ready and she kind of tossed off Marquez when we weren't expecting it. We swapped out the horses and besides my mom breaking a toe, everything went just fine. LOL. At least Marquez wasn't afraid to keep riding!

California

Here are some of our Cali Pics from August. (I am not very good at this blogging thing!) We stayed with my Uncle Jason and he showed us a great time!

We went to the beach one day and it was so hot outside. It really was a perfect day at the beach because the water wasn't too cold. It was just about right. We played in the ocean for a few hours and even tried out the boogie board. I wasn't very good at that at all, but Chad seemed to get the hang of it after a while.

We also went to an Angels game that same day. I wished we would of had more time so we could have gone on a different day... I was worn out from going to the beach! But it was a pretty good game, the Angels had a really good lead so we left a little early to beat the traffic... their apponent ended up coming up really close and the Angels ended up winning by default. We were all kind of bummed that we missed those last few innings.

I love my trips to California... I hope Chad liked it too so he'll want to go next year! :)

7 Peaks

My work's summer party was at 7 Peaks on August 1. Because Chad's not really into stuff like that, I got tickets for my entire family to come. I wasn't really wanting to go, at first, but having Paul's kids there made all the difference. How kids love to play in the water...

My work provided the food, drinks, tubes, and don't forget the dippin dots! I think that might be the real reason I went ;)

Marques loved to go down the slides in the kiddie pool. He'd even start to go when no one as the bottom! That kid is fearless. He was so happy to just be there, even when he was shivering and cold he still didn't want to leave!

Miranda enjoyed going down the lazy river with mom and I. We stuck her and Marques on the tube while we floated down with them. They loved it! It was a really fun night.

Camping Trip

My Dad and Step mom came down weekend before last and spent some time with us.
We decided to go camping up Spanish Fork Canyon and found a really great spot right next to the river. My brother, Paul brought his two kids and they were seriously a riot to have there! They loved playing in the water and got dirty and we all had a blast!

We brought our pup, Mac, along for the adventure. He's never been in water before (other than his occasional baths) so we thought it would be fun to see if we could teach him how to swim. The water was very cold and I think the current kind of freaked him out but he was swimming like an expert before too long! That was probably one of my favorite parts was watching him try and figure out how he could avoid the water and still get the stick he was trying to fetch. It was pretty hilarious!

One night we stayed up pretty late trying to see some constellations and some stars that are outside our galaxy. I got impatient and went to bed... It was cold! But Chad and Amy stayed up with my dad to see them. It's amazing how many stars there really are!

Chad's dad let us borrow his four wheelers (thanks again!) and that was fun. I took Mac for a good run while we were there. He's never ran beside a four wheeler before and didn't quite get the idea of running along the side and instead ran right in front of me. I thought he might be toast a couple of times. The morning we left we went for a longer ride up to see the reservoir that's up there. There is also a drop off that you can hike down to that is pretty scary.

I was glad we got to spend such a great time with my dad while he was here. Everyone seemed to have a lot of fun!