LIttle Cheerleader

Abby got to sign up to do a cheer camp this summer. It was about a week long and at the end of the week the girls got to be on a float at the Kaysville 4th of July parade. She had a lot of fun and learned some cute cheers.

Camping at Strawberry

Jared actually had some time off work so we got to go do one of our most favorite family activities, CAMPING. It was the first time in a long time we used a tent. Yes, we are spoiled and get to use his dad's nice trailer usually but this time we did the real deal and tented it. It was so much fun. We went up to Strawberry reservoir. It was such a beautiful time of year, the end of June. The nights were a little chilly but we got to have fires and snuggle close in the tent. During the day we went fishing, four wheeling and played with the dogs. It was so nice to have a break from the stress of life and be outdoors doing what we love.

Relaxin' and fishin'

Emma likes the dirt and rocks more than fishing

Lazy dog

Meeka is looking for rocks to chew on

Daddy getting all the poles ready for his girls

Beautiful scenery

Abby of course caught lots of fish

Had to stop for a snow ball fight

Amazing little girl

Homemade string swing

Funnest swing ever

I caught some too!

Fairview

For the past few years, our whole family has taken a trip down to Fairview over Memorial Day along with my mother's side and we all rent cabins at a resort there. This year was our last year going. It was definately bitter sweet. It's a fun place and we get to be with our cousins but the weather isn't always great but I'm hoping our family will still continue going on some sort of family trip each year because we all really enjoy it. This year we spent one of the days down at Palisades State Park playing in the water and on paddle boats. It was a lot of fun. It's nice too because we get to see Brooke and her family.

Naughty cousins playing on the stairs

I loved this tree!

So cute!

Love the hats ladies

Crazy aunt Nelly took them out of the boat and they jumped off!

Stylin' in our paddle boat

Beautiful Baptism June 4, 2011

This was one of Abby's most important birthdays this year, she turned 8, so being baptized was an important goal for her. We haven't been to church for quite some time so when we started going back in December, we decided to have Abby take some discussions from a family in our ward the Peterson's. We went over to their house and they also came to ours to discuss the importance of baptism and to make sure Abby was ready to be baptized. She and I both really wanted Jared to be able to baptize her so we waited until June when he was ready to do It. It was a wonderful and spiritual experience for us all. It was so amazing to see her in the font dressed in white with Jared holding her. We bought the most beautiful white dress and she looked like a princess. Mont confirmed her and it was very kind and beautiful too. It was a great day to have all the family together and a day that I hope Abby will remember forever because I will.

Adorable daddy and daughter

Family photo (Emma was probably running around somewhere)

With Grandpa Jeff

Best Friends Forever

Cute cousins

At the font

Cute Cousins

Friends from church

Beautiful Princess

3 white dresses poem

All of Abby's wonderful gifts-she also got a scripture case from Aunt Brooke and new scriptures from Grandma Sherry

Sweet sisters

April 2011

April is always a fun busy month. We have Easter and Abby's birthday. We dyed Easter eggs the week before Easter and made chocolates and then had our
our traditional Easter egg hunts at my mom's and at grandma grape's house. And of course the "business" portion of Easter where the kids empty their eggs that are filled with money and then have to give/receive more money depending on their egg colors. It's a great tradition game that grandma does and we will always do.

Grandma always makes sure the adult kids have to find an egg too. This year I wanted to do something special for Jared so I bought him a new wedding ring (since I lost his) and I hid it in his Easter egg. It was hidden in a pretty funny spot too, in Jeff's pocket (precious cargo, they didn't want to risk hiding it). Jared found it and I told him to open it in front of everyone and boy was he suprised to find a ring in it. He was pretty dumbfounded and confused and when I started laughing and told him it was for him, he was very happy!

Yay for dying eggs!

  

 The "before" eggs

 The "after" eggs, they were beautiful!

 Colorful eggs Abby!

 Delicious chocolates

Yum Yum

Cousins! (missed the Anderson kids and Hogge kids) 

Lots of eggs = lots of money

Havin' fun finding eggs

"Business" time

Cute cousins

Adult cousins- not as cute as the kids (haha)

For Abby's birthday I planned an indoor carnival. We had lots of games, face painting, hot dogs and of course cotton candy. It was a ton of fun and a lot of work but I had lots of help and it turned out really fun.