Monday, August 9, 2010

PARK CITY!!!

Me and my friends have made it a yearly tradition to go to park city for a girl's weekend. Thanks Ashley for all of your hard work in planning it!! It was lots of fun! I didn't take too many pictures because I didn't want to pack around my camera. eating dinner at baja cantina

We went to see The Other Guys. It was pretty funny!! We had 11 people this year! This is everyone but Misty, Lindsay, and Tabitha. I didn't get any pictures of us all together.
misty brought her baby CiCi. She is adorable!! I am so glad that I was finally able to see her!We got the EXACT same condo that we had last year. It was really nice!
hot tub anyone???
hot tub gossip is the best!!! Me and Ashley stayed up ALL night talking the first night then we all stayed up till 3 am the 2nd night. I figured I went 43 hours without sleeping. I was a little tired when I got home!!Of course, we couldn't go to Park City without doing some shopping!!
When we got back to the condo we had to show everyone what we bought
these are most of my purchases for the day. I finished up the kids school shopping Yay!! oh, and I also got us all new shirts for our famly pictures and some big star jeans which I LOVE!!
While we were there Lindsay cut my hair and put in a few blonde extentions. I love it! Thanks Lindsay!! I am so lucky to have my friends! How many people do you know that are still close to their high school friends 10 years later??? We are pretty spread out as far as where we live now but we always try to get together a couple times per year. I can't wait till next time!!!

Monday, August 2, 2010

Panic!!

It all started a few weeks ago... My kids both learned how to ride their bikes without training wheels. They were so excited and ever since they have been spending hours every day on their bikes. I had decided that now that they are riding without training wheels, they need to wear a helmet. My plan was to add helmets to their christmas lists.... well, lets just say I will not be waiting for christmas. In fact, I ordered their helmets this morning. The panic began last night... It was starting to get dark and Mackenzie and Gavin had gone into my room to watch a movie. A little bit later, I hear a knock on the door- I open it up and there is a lady that I don't know standing there with Gavin. I don't even know what she looks like because all I could see was my son. He was covered in blood... his face, his shirt, and his pants were bright red. My first thought was that he had been hit by a car. I froze- I didn't know what to do. I wanted to rip off his clothes to see where all of the blood was coming from. Then I heard her say that he had crashed on his bike. I grabbed him and took him into the bathroom, layed him down, and Dallas and I started taking off his clothes to see where the blood had come from. Thank goodness it was just his nose!! He must have sat there with his nose bleeding for a few minutes before she came to help. I didn't even know he was outside playing!! I guess he went out and was riding bikes with our neighbor's kids. He slipped off the curb with his bike and face planted it into the road. One of the kids ran and got help. I wish I had taken a picture of him before we cleaned him up because it was quite a sight!! I wasn't thinking about that at the time though! After we got him cleaned up the damage didn't look too bad. He has a HUGE bump on his head- it doesn't look too big in the picture but it is! He also has a fat lip and a cut up chin - and his knuckles on one of his hands are pretty scraped up. we woke him up every 2 hours last night to make sure he didn't have a cuncussion. Thank goodness he is okay!! The panic I felt when I first opened that door, I don't ever want to feel again!!

and this is how Mackenzie looked yesterday morning when she woke up. They had slept out on the trampoline Friday night with Dallas. Saturday her eye looked a little swolen. I asked her if it was a mosquito bite and she said no- Avery had thrown a flashlight and hit her in the eye the night before. Well, Sunday morning her eye was so swolen she could hardly open it. It was so sad. She cried because she thought the kids at church would tease her so Dallas stayed home with her. I gave her some benadryl and an ice pack and by the time I got home from church, it looked much better!

A DAY AT THE CIRCUS!!
Saturday the traveling circus was in town so I took Mackenzie, Gavin, and Mackenzie's friend Kolby. The kids had fun. Me- not so much.. I feel bad for the poor animals!

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The Andersons

We had a little Anderson get together over the weekend of the 24th. Everyone came to my house and set up tents in the backyard. We missed Erick, Leslie, Bryn, Kyler, and Koby. It was fun to get together and see everyone. The kids had a lot of fun playing together. Avery just ate chalk

Mackenzie coloring with sidewalk chalk
and Avery eating it. She was eating an orange popsicle, but I guess she thought the chalk was better
Mackenzie and Sara with Kenzie's new kitty
The kids colored their own cups and tote bags
This is the look Avery had on her face in about half of the pictures I took over the weekend. Priceless!!
Mackenzie and Gavin decorating their bags.

Avery and Taylor taking turns drinking from the hose
Friday night the kids did some sparklers and Avery LOVED it!! As soon as hers was gone she would start begging for more

Kyrie loved them too!!
I love this picture. Avery was a grandpa's girl. She LOVES her grandpa. If she could see him, she thought he needed to be holding her. All day Sunday after everyone left, she kept saying "Gompa Go??" Then when I was putting the pictures on my computer every time she would see a picture of him she would say "Gompa!! Gompa!!" and she would do this thing with her hands reaching out to the computer that she does when she wants to be picked up- like he was going to jump out of the computer and hold her. Then I would change the picture to something else and she would start crying. Waiting for the parade to start!
Saturday morning we went to the parade. again, Dallas drove the fire truck and took Mark, Mackenzie, Sara, Dusty, and Rylee with him
After the parade, the guys played the saltine game. You have to eat 6 saltine crackers in one minute without taking a drink of water. Doesn't sound too hard does it?? well, it's impossible- and pretty funny to watch!!
Mark Braden
Chris
Grandpa
Dallas
Then they played horse granny style. That was pretty funny too!
Rylee The kids painting T-shirts
One of the few pictures I got of Gavin. He won't let me take his picture anymore. In fact, I didn't really get any pictures of any of the boys... Every time I had my camera out, they were nowhere to be seen!!
Gavin, Jaxon, Dusty, Alek, Hayden, Rylee, Taylor, Sara, and Mackenzie taking a picture to send to Bryn and Kyler
Saturday night we did some fireworksJaxon, Mackenzie, and her friend Kolby
Avery loved them- here's the face again!!
Joye hated them!! She would not let me see her face.

Thanks everyone for coming!! We had a great time!