Pineview Reservior

Miss Ariah in all her curly haired glory!... We went to Pineview with some friends and it was sooo fun! I love watching the children have fun with other children. Its the best when you get a good sized group and the kids just do their own thing and have a blast. We had a great time, lots of sun, swimming to the buoy, floaties, and food. We stayed for like 4 hours and could have stayed longer. I love going to the lake even over pools. Their isn't many people around and you can just sit back and relax vs. constantly doing a head count at the local pool. Going to the lake is one of my favorite summer time activities.
This is friend Joshua. Don't you love his floatie.

My friend Chalyce, her little girl Bailey and Ambra.
We had friend Carrie and fam, Julia and fam, Chalyce and fam, Jen and fam, and my little family.
Mr. Colie sportin Scooby Doo.
Ariah and Brighton, they are 1 month apart in age.
Ambra's good friends Autumn and Bailey.

Thanks everyone for coming! We had a total blast.

Happy Happy Birthday!

So, Adam's mom turned 65, and she was up for her BDay. We all went up Little Cottonwood and had prof. pics done. We are going to get her a 16x20 framed picture. We also had a few family shots done and this was one that Adam's bro took from the side. Not exactly looking at the camera but, just to give you an idea.

Glenda on her 65th!

We ate at Chili's. Ariah and daddy sharing a drink. My kids love to eat or drink anything daddy does.

Fourth of July!!

Ambra and Cole with thier faces painted.

This is back at our house at our BBQ. The kids were so funny. They wanted to put on their own little parade. They tied their bikes together with jump ropes and threw pretzels to the crowd (instead of candy). They sang and clapped and played drums. We had quite the entertainment.

Well I have officially reached dorkdom! Actually I probably reached it a long time ago. We wore matching shirts for the fourth of July and guess what!! I loved it! We had so much fun making them and the kids thought they were the coolest things ever. It really was fun. We started the day at the Layton parade. I love parades! We went with our good friends the Loosli's and the Hadley's. Glenda, Adam's mom came was up for the holiday too. We had a wonderful day! After the parade we went over to the carnival in the park and then back to our house for a BBQ. That night we of course did the fireworks. The kids liked the ones we did in our yard better than the big ones the city puts on. I thought that was weird. They were kind of getting bored. I bet it was because we weren't right under them. We have a pretty good view from our house and so we watched them on our lawn. It is always more exciting when you are right in the action. Anyway, it was such a fun day and it was wonderful to have Adam home.

Adam's mom brought Ariah this cute little dress. Perfect for the fourth.
Adam's mom, Glenda.

My good friends Kandice and Chalyce.

Slip n Slide Fun!

So Kamie, Mariko and Kaia came over to play and she FORCED me onto the slip n slide! She is sooooo immature!!

Just Kidding, I think it was the other way around. How can you not love doing kid stuff. It is too fun. There is something about being 29 though that makes it really scary and almost impossible to go from standing to belly slide in one motion. My knees was the farthest I got. OUCh, slip n slide rash.

Happy Birthday to me....

So we had a birthday carnival for Adam and I...to bad Adam wasn't there. I was pretty upset about that one. Enough about me sad story, it will be a happy one soon I just know it. Anyway, we had Adam's mother and two brothers over with their families. We also had my mom and grandma and brother with his GF over. The above picture is Adam's longtime friend Dave and his daughter. They were up from Lehi and were able to join us. It was fun. Our carnival consisted of lots of contests with fun prizes for the winner. We did water balloon volleyball (above), miniture golf, batting, bocci ball, three legged races, relays with eggs, and of course who can have a birthday without cake and icecream. We had a wonderful time and wished so badly that Adam could have been with us. SOON! (that is what I keep telling myself).
Adam's brother Ethan and I were the winners for the three legged race. To bad our plan to stay together and not run got foiled with all the pressure and we ended up in a heap. Still won though.

I'm 29 this year!!! Wow, entering the dark tunnel. I don't really think about my age, but maybe that is because I have always been "young". In your twentys your still young. Well next year is it. I will officially be middle aged. No, I just barely got out of high school didn't I? Didn't I just barely finish doing stupid things in college and taking all the dares my roomates would come up with at Dixie College? ( I won't mention what those dares were). Aren't I still a newlywed? I must be. It's weird to think that 30 is looming. I need to get in the mindset of "30 and loving it".

Grandma's 91st Birthday!!

Again, too lazy to turn the picture, but you get the picture! My beautiful grandma. She is 91 and has accomplished much in her life. She was Mrs. Utah, a pilot, baptized in her 80's, a proffessional and renowned seamstress, a college graduate and world traveler. She has so many neat stories. What a wonderful woman.
We had a little family party for her in my backyard. My mom, uncle, and cousins came.
Grandma spit all over the cake when she was blowing out the candles. Nothing like a little spit with your birthday cake right?

Sunday in Arizona

We went to the Phoenix temple on Sunday morning before church. It was lovely, with such beautiful grounds. We went into the visitor's center and got to see some of the videos.
Sorry I was too lazy to turn this picture, but it's a cute one so I had to post it.
Ariah loved the drawers in the hotel room. Another hiding place for her and just her size.
We went to church with Josh and Amy Hadley. It was so nice to finally meet them and get to know them. They are fun and have a fun family. My camera wasn't working so I didn't get any pictures of them. I was only able to squeak out this one of Ariah and thier little girl Brooklyn (same age) playing the piano.