I love the mountains, I love the rolling hills.....

We went camping last weekend with my older brother Mike, his wife Amy and their four kids. My little brother John, his wife Tiffany and their baby Kaylee also came. We loved it! I was freaking out on the way up there because of some serious looking dark clouds. As we got closer it started to pour. Needless to say, I was not happy at this point. Then we missed our turn and went up a little higher toward the rim, it started hailing. The whole time I was telling David that it wasn't possible to camp in weather like this, that we weren't going to be able to find Mike, and that we should go back down to Payson and get a hotel room. Well, David refused to go back until we found the spot we were looking for. As we got closer to the spot, the rain started to let up and David found Mike. Everything worked out great. It never rained again and the weather was great. The girls told us later that while we were lost they both prayed that the weather would get better so we could camp and that we would find my brother. Ahhh, the faith of little children. We really had a great time.
Sorry people, I know that there are a million pictures here, but it was so much fun, I couldn't leave anything out.

David is the best. I thought you would all like to see the man I fell in love with. He gave me this look and I was sold :). Who wouldn't be?

This is my little brother John, isn't he so cute :)!
This is his wife Tiffany and their baby Kaylee. Aren't they cute too?
Joelle and Josie were hardly ever separated. Between playing Spirit (the horse movie), and finding worms at the creek, they never had time to be bored.
Katie loved the outdoors. Walking on uneven ground didn't even phase her she just kept going and going.

Marcus kept finding walking sticks for all the kids.
No worries, no one got hurt, it was all fun and games.

Emma was the biggest helper with Katie all weekend. Anytime Katie would cry she would find her and take care of her. Katie was pretty happy with it all. Emma carried her everywhere.
We hardly ever saw Jake. He was happy to lose himself in the great outdoors.
Here is David doing what he does does best.



How cute is my niece Kaylee. She was a very good baby on this camp out.
We went down to Haigler Creek on the 2nd day. It was the highlight of the whole camp out.






Katie would have stayed in the creek all day if she could have.

The water was FREEZING! But the boys were brave!

Emma Has a Blog!

Emma started a blog today. She is so ecxited. If you would like to visit her blog it is in my family section titled Emmalee. She would love comments :).

Poor Jacob! He was waiting for his corndog to cool and fell asleep like this, sprawled out on our hard kitchen chairs. Oh well. I guess he wasn't that hungry.



Emma started a blog today. She is so ecxited. If you would like to visit her blog it is in my family section titled Emmalee. She would love comments :).

I can't believe it's been so long!

I can't believe it's been 2 weeks since I blogged. How sad! A lot has gone on in the last couple of weeks. My sister Wendy came to visit from Wyoming. It was so much fun. I loved having her here. I was the lucky one who got to lodge her - :) - and 3 of her little kids. The other 3 got to stay with Mike and Amy. I bet they think they were the lucky ones. I had my 10 year old niece Maricela, my 5 year old nephew Sam and my 3 year old niece Jasmin. They were a blast. Jasmin has a smile that could melt the hardest criminal. She was so cute, but I must say.... she does not like going to model homes. I was trying my darndest to prove to my sister that she wants to move back :). I hope it worked, I miss them so much! We really had a lot of fun. We went swimming and hung out at Mike and Amy's and watched movies and ate lot of take out (which, of course, I loved). Thank you Wendy for the great vacation!

Sam and Ben were so cute together. They are just a few months apart so it was fun to watch them together.

This is my sister-in-law Amy, who I love. She is more like a sister than an in-law. She is the best!


Jake found out that he could ride this little bike... he was quite proud of himself (even though we have pretty much the same one, and he has been riding it for a while - oh well).

This is Maricella. Sweetest, funniest little ten year old you ever met. I loved chatting with her all the time. She LOVED looking at model homes. She was so cute. She is completely ready to come back. This is my sister Wendy (right) and my sister Julie (left). Wendy is the oldest and Julie is the youngest. This was taken at Deseret Book (the one by the temple, that is where Julie works). All five of us sisters and my sister-in-law Amy had a girls night out on Thursday. We went to the bookstore, dinner and the Temple. It was the most fun I have had with all my sister in a long time. We missed the other sisters-in-law. There will be a next time, I promise. I had my camera the whole time and this is the only picture that I took. I am an idiot. I just forgot. Either way, it was an unforgettable night. I love my sisters.

Emma thought it would be fun to bury herself with ever stuffed animal we own. She was laughing so hard they kept falling off. It was great.

The 5th of July

We took Katie swimming for the 1st time on July 5th. She was the happiest she has ever been. She loved it and took right to it. We have since been about 5 times and she lives for it. Of course I forgot her swimsuit this first time. My sister-in-law Amy took these pictures. I thought they were so fun. She also got some more of our latest swim party. Wait till you see Katie's new swim suit, it really is to die for :).