Summertime

Look at these sweet faces! 

Zoo smiles! 

 Harry Potter! - "UnDesirable no. 1"

Lindon pool/park day!

I love spending time with the kiddos. They are the best.

Wausaukee, part one

In celebration for my parents 40th wedding anniversary, we decided to all get together at Randy & Elly's family cabin in Wausaukee, Wisconsin. Daddy helped arrange the whole thing, but we wanted to surprise Mommy with the reunion!
We have been planning this trip for over a year now, and holding in this huge secret from Mommy was huge! I was so scared I would ruin the surprise to her, I even dreamed about it!
But we did it!
She was completely surprised - success!
We spent the week relaxing on the edge of Elbow Lake with all the siblings & Randy, Elly, David & Elana! The 1920's cabin had so much character and charm, I think I could live there.
There was swimming, fly fishing, canoeing, sailing, porch-sitting, storytelling, and lots of ice cream! 

I do not have the pictures from the trip yet (hence this is "Part one") but I will share just a few that I have.

more to come...

Crawdad Canyon

In June Andrew & I drove down to St. George to meet up with Ryan and Kristen at Crawdad Canyon. 

It was our first time there and it was a great little camping spot. 

We spent our time playing with frogs

And kissing them

  

Swimming in the river

and soaking in the sun

and rock climbing...of course! 

We didn't try to catch any crawdads.
But that is what next time is for!

Target practice

Andrew recently bought his first gun.

He was pretty excited. 

(Although, if you ask him about it, he'll probably deny it.)

We went shooting up in the canyon.

It was my first time to shoot a gun,

And I shot better than Andrew!

(Although, if you ask him about it, he'll probably deny that too.)

Ari & Lincoln turn 4!

Both little boys celebrated their 4th birthdays this year. One Superman style and the other in Outer Space!

They are pretty great kids! 

 

Playing Catchup

My goodness, I have been MIA for the past few months.
You'd think I've been busy or something, but the truth is I'm always busy. So it is really just blog laziness.
So I now apologize for the outpouring of information from the last couple months of our lives.

Workin' Man

 So this week I made a little trip out to Moab to see Andrew (wait, make that 2 trips this week - but that is another story..). It was a beautiful drive and a nice little trip. 

 I stopped to take a picture of Wilson's Arch, which is the arch my family would always stop at when driving through Utah. My dad and I would climb to the arch in sun or snow!

I got to visit the rig:

 Now, doesn't he look so cute?

 Now that's more like it.......