Hmmm 10 years!

Jared and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary on July 15th. I can't believe it's been 10 years! He says it seems a lot longer than that because we dated for so long :) Any how we've been through a lot together, and I'm lookin forward to many more anniversary's to come.

We went to Vegas for a couple of days to celebrate. ( Thank you Mom for watching the munchkins) We didn't do any thing extraordinary. I guess when you've lived there before it's not as exciting. But still it was a nice little get away. We ate at our favorite mexican place and went and saw the pirate show. (Jared's favorite;) ) We went to the toy store to pick up some treats for the kids and they had this awesome Captain Rex dude from Star Wars the Clone Wars, he was built out of Lego's! We are kind of pathetic because this is the only picture we took down there and it was more for Zac! It was hotter than hell and we were glad to come home to Orderville. (where it's been hotter than hell... go figure!)

Then we loaded every one up and went camping on Cedar Mtn. for a few days. We had a lot of fun. We made a nice little sand pile/box for the kids to play in.

Zoe was so funny. The first night when it started to get dark she told us she didn't want to stay camping. I told her to bad we were doing it any way, but she just kept repeating herself. Finally Jared turned on the lanterns and she told us " she loves camping!"

Keira loved it. She has a tendency to just wander so we really needed to watch her closer!

Zachary loves the outdoors and wants to know when we are going again. He loved riding in Dad's truck and being his big helper.

Waiting for popcorn to pop! We can't go camping with out it ;)



Happy Anniversary Jared! I love you:)

Highlights from our weekend

These are a few highlights from our Fourth of July weekend!

Zoe enjoyed her blue slushie :0

We did a little fishing. Zachary caught a huge stick! Not bad for a first timer!

Morgan did a few Keira lifts.

We had a yummy impromtu bbq in the backyard with Mom, Dad and Mo.



Zachary did a little bike riding ;)

About a month ago Jared got himself a new truck! Well it's new to us. And the kids love Daddys truck. It is very loud and reminds us of his first truck he had in high school! Any way He and Zachary spent a lot of time together this weekend just the two of them bummin' around in the noisy thing. Zachary was in heaven.

And of course my favorite past time.....NAPTIME!!!!!!
You gotta love it ;)

We hope you all had a fun and safe Fourth of July!

So......

Well this is how I've felt this week! On Sunday our computer got a virus and it stole all my pictures :( I've lost this past years pictures! (because I procrastinated getting them developed and also getting a flash drive as a back up) Not my smartest move yet. But most of the important stuff birthdays, christmas, halloween, easter, kindergarten graduation are on my new best friend MY BlOG! Thank goodness for this small miracle. Yeah another lesson learned the hard way. Apparently that's the only way I learn. (Yes Mom you were right!) Now on to taking tonz of pictures to make up for the lost ones. DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Havin' a Good Time

We've been having lot of fun this summer already, and much more to come too. The kids have played and played and played. And at the end of the day they just crash! Usually in very unusual places. Especially Zoe as you can see in the pictures :)

They have been pirates and searched high and low for treasure!

We've had many tea parties :)

Like I mentioned before, fell asleep wherever!!!


For memorial day we hosted a very fun family cook out in our back yard. We will for sure be doing this much much more this summer. Yummy food and excellent company :)

And what is summer fun without STAR WARS BATTLES! Thank you uncle Morgan. You're the best to entertain these little monsters :)

They have pretty good moves don't they?

I had to put this on here. Morgan has to take breaks every now and again to text someone ;)

And most recently Zachary completed swimming lessons!
He did AWESOME this year. I told him this was the year he was going to take off and swim. I said he was to big for his tube and he needed to just DO IT! And he did! I'm so proud of him
way to go Zac :)

Kellin, Kelsey and Brandy are just great! The kids all love them and they are so good with them.



Zachary showed us how he can swim from the four to the four all by himself :) Kelsey told him "Zachary when your Mom comes on the last day to watch she will be so surprised she will faint!"
He got all worried and asked if I will be okay? (I think he was thinking about when I fainted on him and his Dad after I had the girls and we had to rush back to the emergency room! Not a fun memory for any of us.) So we reasured him I would be fine, just surprised he could swim so well ;)

And after swimming was over Grandma treated us to an ice cream (a much needed large coke for she and I) The girls were excited because they were feeling very left out because they wanted to swim in the pool too!

Wiggle Car Races

We have these awesome wiggle cars! You sit on them and wiggle the wheel back and forth and that makes you go forward, then when you want to reverse you spin the wheel around and wiggle it again and you go back wards. They are a blast and any one can do it.
The other day my little brother Morgan was bored and came to visit, and usually with him something entertaining always comes up :) He and Zac started racing, it was so funny! They would push each other over and run things over, they even weaved around the girls. Fun was had by all.

Now every day the kids want to know if Uncle Morgan's going to come race ;)

KINDERGARTEN GRADUATION :)

YAY! We have survived Kindergarten:) Apparently when you've learned the chicken dance you get you'r diploma. Just kidding, I say this because I believe at all kindergarten graduations they do this dance. ( I did when I was in kindergarten) Zachary's graduation was this past Thursday. It was cute and he did a very good job. I'm really proud of him. Kindergarten was a bit of a struggle this year for both of us. He survived getting his bee turned (getting in trouble) for flipping the lights on and off, (I blame this on the electrician father!) scaring other students in the bathroom (cool echo) yelling in the bathroom (again the echo) jumping off the swirly slide, and not going down on his bum (because it was fun he tells me :) and many other mischievious things. He was kicked out of school and had a fun parent/ teacher/ principle meeting ( like the second or third week of school ) But.... WE HAVE SURVIVED and Aunt Mannie you better watch out because first grade here we come!!!!!! (We're so excited ) Now on to fun things like SUMMER:) :) :)

Gotta Love T-Ball

T-Ball has been a lot of fun this year. I find myself coaching Zachary's team. Which has been very interesting. Zac was way excited, which made me happy :) Probably because I'm never able to go with him on school activities because of the girls. But so far I've been able to arrange for the girls to be taken care of while I help Zachary's team. This year we've decided he does best to throw with his left hand, and bat with his right. We need to get him a new mit. He was taking off his mit before he would throw the ball! Weird child, I can't figure him out ;)

Zachary was a very attentive first base man!

What a cheeser.

Part of our cute little team. Five of them were gone.

One, Two, Three, SWING!!!!!!

Way to go Zachary.