4th of July

This is the girls marching in the Parade I was talking about.
The night before our church puts on the children's parade.
It is tradition to decorate the kids bikes with anything red, white, and blue.
The kids were excited since they learned how to ride their bikes they would be able to ride all on their own. They did awesome.
So the morning started off with the parade and the girls were in it so it was just up to Anthony to catch all the candy to share with his sisters when the parade was over. Let's just say he caught enough for the whole neighborhood.

Lindsey, and Hadyn marched with the girls.
Daddy had to go back to work after the parade, so that's why he's not in this family picture.
Then we finished off our festivities with a fish grab. There were these huge pools of water that were filled with bass and the kids according to age get in these pools and try to catch a fish with their bare hands. Mommy helped Anthony catch this fish and Alexis wanted to get her picture taken with it too. As for Allison she didn't care for the fish at all. She didn't want to smell it, let alone even think of touching it.

Cheerleading Camp

Allison and Alexis took a cheerleading camp the week before 4th of July. They learned several different cheers and then got to get a shirt and pom poms to march in our big annual 4th of July parade down main street. The songs were so easy to memorize I caught them singing them all the time. See if you can find the girls in the first three pictures, and watch for them marching in the parade on my next entry on 4th of July.

Our Summer Goals

When the kids got out of school for Summer break, we came up with three goals that we could work on and try to accomplish before they had to go back to school. The three goals were:

1. Learn to ride their bikes with no training wheels.

2. Learn to Jump Rope.

3. Learn to tie their own shoes.

Well I am pleased to announce the girls were able to accomplish all three! Anthony is still working on all three ( he mainly practiced riding his bike with training wheels but focused on not crashing). Good job guys.

Cousins

It is always fun when we get to spend time with my kids' only cousins Kyren, Melayna, Brayden, and Paysen. Kyren and Bobby enjoyed video and board games while they laughed about old funny fart stories. The rest of the kids and I enjoyed playing outside and later on lighting off our own fireworks show. Saturday 6/21/08. All the boys looking cute.
Paysen don't let your mom see Auntie let you hold Fireworks.
Alexis is a natural Piro.
Me and Brayden.
Girls will be girls.

Mormon Miracle Pageant

Talk about a really neat experience-People come from all over to see a live play of the Prophet Joseph Smith's life mixed in with the story of the pioneers and Christ coming to the America's. The Pageant is performed on the hill side underneath the Manti Temple. They don't even start until around 9:30 so it is totally dark and have a lot of lights to light up the hillside. My sister Shaela and her family drove down with their ward from Elko Nevada just for the Pageant and to do Baptisms for the dead. So Shaela and Kenny stayed in Manti and we got to have all four of her kids spend the night at our house. My Dad and his new wife Valerie decided to go on a road trip to go visit all of their kids so they got to my house the same day that I went to Young Women's Camp (see my earlier post) on 6/18/08. So they went with us too. Allison, Brayden and Melayna being silly waiting for the Pageant to start.





Those are some serious fishy lips!
Anthony loves to give everyone kisses!
MMMUUUAAAHHH!!!
Cheezer!

Summer Fun

Well I am going to try to back blog all of our fun summer adventures since I got behind and just didn't blog all summer. The kids got to start off summer with a fun camping trip at Otter Creek with daddy and our friends Wade, Lindsey, Brett, and Paityn Christensen. They fished, played by the water and of course had way too much yummy food.

Young Women's Camp 2008

OK, so can we just say that it has basically been all summer since I have posted. It has been a very fun and busy summer. OK so I was suppose to be able to go for two full days and one night to girls camp, but after my compressor on my fridge decided to go out the night before, my trip was cut short so I could go shopping for a new fridge. But here are some pics of us having fun with the girls while I got to go up. Our Camp Theme.
Our YW's Presidency showing our goofy side.
Sister Thomas with Cara, Sydney, and Shelby.
Me, Amy, and Dana with a few of the girls showing our 2SW pride (2'000 Stripling Warriors, our hero we picked for camp)
Amy & I proud of how we decorated our Cabin!
Now, for the fun Rock Wall.
The ascent.
Still ascending....
Almost to the top, I wanted to ring the bell at the very top but my arms said "NO MORE" so I gracefully glided down. LOL!
Andie & Kellie used their hair to help them look like male warriors for our skit. All in all I think the girls testimonies were strenghtened and everyone had a fun time.

Spring Recital

The girls did such an awesome job at this performance. We sat in the front row and were able get some really good video that you can watch below (make sure you scroll to the bottom of the right column of my page and turn off the music on the Juke box first so you can hear the cute music on the video). Allison's dance teacher Sharon Wall said that she improved tremendously from the beginning of the year and that she was so proud. She also said that Alexis' facial expression when the girls are licking their lollipops was her favorite and made her laugh every time they practiced the dance. These performances are the girls favorite. They stayed in dance just so they could wear real make-up and dance on the stage. They loved it. Good job girls.