A happy farewell to T-Ball

Don't get me wrong. Jaxon loves T-Ball and I'm sure Alan really enjoyed coaching the team, but it was just too darn HOT and who's idea was it anyway to have T-Ball games at 10,11,12 am in June & July?? For little kids?? Are they retardo??

So although it was miserably hot, I am sure we will start looking forward to next T-Ball season soon especially since Hallie wants to play too...

Notice how Jaxon totally smiles and looks at the camera right after swinging? He is so funny:)

And this is classic of my kids taking pictures of eachother while I am not looking

(that's a whole other blog post in itself).

Summer Fun

Don't you just love Summer time? Swimming, boating, camping, vacations, the great outdoors? I absolutely loooove summer time! And I have really been enjoying EVERY single second this year. I keep thinking of all those LONG winter months ahead and it makes me want to do more outdoors:) I hate being cooped up for so many months...hopefully someday we will move somewhere were it isn't so freakin' cold in the winter and we can enjoy the outdoors year round! Wouldn't that be nice?? In the meantime.... here are a few fun things we just did... in the great outdoors:

Last week I headed up the canyon ...

I had such a great time playing kickball...

Barbequing

Roastin' marshmallows

And just plain having fun...really wish you all had been there, it was seriously soooo fun!!

Don't you just love the canyon??

I am SUCH a nerd, I know, but we really thought it was funny at the time - hahaha!

But for real... I took Alan and the kids too and we invited our dear, dear friends...the Dorny's.

Oh what fun we had...

I'm pretty sure that the guys were there too, but apparently we were too busy having our own little PHOTO OP to take any pics of them!

I heart my watch

I just had to share this with y'all! I found this DARLING watch through Stacia and I ended up ordering it online. It is called a Bumbles and I really think it was a good deal for how friggin' cute it is! I mean, isn't it so cute? I want to get another band, maybe with red in it!

So long, farewell

This week was a sad one when we had to say goodbye to some dear friends of ours...the Crossley's. They packed up and headed to Montana on July 18th!! We will miss them so much. Especially Summer who lost her Best Friend Mackenzie! And Hallie STILL asks to play with Alexiss!! When is she gonna realize that gone forever, means GONE FOREVER??

Hopefully we will stay in touch forever and do boating trips at Flaming Gorge every Summer. We have a lot of good memories with the Crossley's. I'm pretty sure they make me laugh harder than anybody I have ever met!

Summer & Mackenzie Hallie & Alexiss

Stacey & Eric (otherwise known as Beebo)

You guys Rock! We will miss you!

And I will get a picture of James on here...

As a silly side note...my kids think that the Crossley's moved to "Hannah Montana"... way cute!!

Arthur Family Reunion

So... at Alan's family reunion we went fishing at a fish hatchery in Kamas. It was the first time I have EVER caught a fish. I DO NOT have the patience for fishing. I have tried twice before, but seriously, who can stand waiting THAT LONG doing NOTHING until a tiny little fish decides to bite your line?? Seriously, don't I have better things to do?? I am totally the same with golfing. How do they sit and wait so long? Just SITTING there?? I will never understand it.

So when they said fishing, I had my doubts, but I thought the kids would like it, so we tried it out. And the fish hatchery is the ONLY way I will fish. I couldn't believe how quick we ALL caught fish! It was express fishing at its finest! So, for all you busy people out there...it's the only way to go... so you can get to doing whatever it is that you really NEED to do!!

As a funny side note...there is nothing funnier than your kids walking up to a bucket with a live fish in it to look inside and seeing their reaction when the fish literally JUMPS out of the water onto the ground... I have never seen Hallie jump so high!! Good times...

4th of July 2008

Can you believe these pics??? My way talented little sista Elli took these with the camera I totally covet!! She has a gift and I am so jealous!! But it's a good thing she brought her camera because like a dummy - I lost mine (which I later found RIGHT next to my computer-LOL).

My pregnant Sexy Hot sister and her family came out for the holiday and we had so much fun! It was probably the best time we have had with them out here. I was sooo sad to see them leave! My kids love their kids and we love them, so it's so fun to visit each other. We started the day off with Alan running in the freedom festival 10k and me and Summer ran the 5k! It was way fun and I am so proud of her!! Then we went boating all day with the Hugh's and then had a jummy barbeque at home with my parents.

I love holidays!!

June... In a Nutshell

We had family night up in the Canyon with Summer's friends McKell and Mackenzie. We started out with a BBQ, climber some rocks, played some soccer, and ended the night with a bike ride up to Bridal Veil Falls. It was a great night!

We went to the Springville Arts Festival with Stacia and Sandee. It didn't turn out to be all we had expected and it was a hot, but we had a great time sitting in the shade, eating pizza, and visiting. We also ran into Tanya Roylance (who really needs to get a blog going - heehee). In case you are wondering, Jaxon's face paint is spider man, Hallie's is Ariel, and I think Sydnee's is Piglet?? Any who, the kids had fun!!

So, you could probably say that I am creating monsters. My girls love to shop as much as I do! And that's scary!! This day in June we headed to the Mall with guess who... McKell and Mackenzie! These girls have become inseparable. It's a good thing that I love them to death too! They are so fun to have around. Alexis also came to hang out with Hallie.

This is Tyson with Grandma Audrey. She is Alan's grandma and we love her to death. Tyson practically crushes her frail little frame, so she couldn't really hold him for long, but long enough to get a cute pic! Tyson was really mesmerized by her too, it was cute!

Chamber group

Orchestra class

June ended with Suzuki String Institute (Violin camp). It was a long week, but it was also an amazing week! We always have so much fun and I am continually amazed at how good the kids are there. Institute is all day everyday for a week and you have anywhere from 3-7 classes a day - we had 6 classes this year, so it was a packed day. This was Summer's third year at institute and she was finally old enough to be in a chamber group. We were so excited! It was a group of eight 9 year olds and they played a double quartet . It was freaking amazing looking around the group and thinking...these are 9 year olds! They were so good. Can't wait for institute next year, especially because it will be Hallie and Jaxon's first year!

...And that's June!!