The weekend

We had a great weekend! We have going on a lot of family bike rides, and I love it! I would ride a bike around everywhere if I could! It is really great because Elizabeth is no longer in need of training wheels, so she is keeping up so much better. (she is actually faster than all of us now).
We had a really fun family party in the park Friday night, and the kids all played and had a great time with all there cousins while the adults talked and enjoyed lots of yummy food! Alexis has not been feeling very well, so she just stuck around by grandma and cuddled most of the time...
Saturday I started of my day by having a yard sale with my friend Stephanie. It was really nice to get ride of some things that we don't need, and get some money out of it also.
After that, we went to another party! It was a party for the Bears! A team that Ryan has been playing with for the past couple of years. We had a great dinner, which was in a very cute park that had toys, and a pond with fish and ducks. The girls and I went over to the pond and feed the ducks for a half an hour. They loved it, and didn't want to leave. After that we went to a swim park that they had rented out so we had it all to ourselves! It was such a great time, and the girls had so much fun! Elizabeth stayed in the water until 9:30! Brytlee was cold so we had to get out a little earlier and Alexis still wasn't feeling her best so she didn't really swim that long. We all went down the water slide a couple of times, and Brytlee was so dang cute going down it. She was cold, but just flexed her little body and would say weeee, but in a funny cold voice.
We had a great weekend, but sadly have no pictures to remember it by.... I hate it when that happens.

Funny story

When we went to Park City a couple of weeks ago, it reminded me of when I went with my bestest friend in the world, Lindsy Reed and her mom to Park City.... I was invited along so I could help Lindsy in her golf tournament. I was going to be the Catie and carry her bags for her.... but around the third hole, I made her carry her own bag, and started chasing frogs, and birds, and they had to keep telling me to shhhhh... I hadn't every really been golfing before, but after it was all over... I was so fired!
But we went to our hotel, and found out there was no pool... so we went across the street and found one in a different hotel. There was some really snotty girls there that didn't want to get there hair wet, and so when we went running towards the pool and did a canon ball.... they were not very happy. They all came over one by one and splashed us.... (it was funny)
I had such a great time on this trip and it was so much fun to be in the company of a friend I truly love like a sister!

Butterfly

Elizabeth caught a Mon ark butterfly! She was so excited, and Alexis was so jealous! Alexis caught one last year, and has been trying to catch one again ever sense!
We played with it for an hour, and it would just crawl on the girls arms, and sit on there fingers. Then we let it go, and Alexis was really mad about that also!
Brytlee didn't know what to think about it.... she didn't really like it to close to her so she was freaking out a little when we put it on her head....

Happy Birthday Ryan

Ryan had a birthday! He is one year older, and wiser and handsome too...

The kids all loved the frosting on the cake!

fireworks

Sara invited us to the Melaleuca party for the fireworks, and it was so nice! We had a really yummy dinner, and all sorts of deserts and ice cream bars. They also had a program with live music, and then the fireworks! They get better and better every year, and it is so much fun to watch them with my girls!







We almost had our whole family there. Greg and Jackie were not able to make it. Cindy is six months pregnant and is just starting to show a little . She looks so cute!Alexis and her cousin Conner. They play together so good. On Saturday night Alexis was able to spend the night at his house, they were in a room that has two twin beds, and when they went to sleep they were in there own beds, but latter when we checked on them, they were cuddled up together in the same bed! It was so cute!

Parade

We went to my hometown for the fourth this year, and had a ton of fun. We started of the day with a parade, and lots of candy!
We ran into our cousins and it was fun to hang out by them, and talk. This is Shanna, we are only seven day's apart, and were best friends all growing up. We always have so much fun together, and would take turns staying at each others houses in the summers. (they live in Montana, so I would fight to stay with her all the time!)
this is Shanna's sister Shara, and my sister Annette, they were also best friends!
This is my sister in law Sara! I cut her hair before we went to the parade, and she looks so so cute!

Summer fun

We have been having lots of fun outside! I am loving the weather, and so glad that it is summer! Brytlee is such a cute little girl, and I just thought these pictures were so cute of her!

I did her hair in pig tails, and put some new bows in that we got from the fair.
I love her eyes!
Elizabeth and Brytlee are the only ones that are not afraid of getting cold! They love to get into the water and swim (sort of) you can't really call it swimming if you are walking on your hands....

We went to Grandma and Grandpa house yesterday, and had so much fun! I took the girls on a four wheeler ride, and we stopped at a smelly cow farm and I let them pet the baby cows, and we played with the cousins and had a really good time. But when it was time to go, Alexis was acting like a pill, and wasn't listening to me at all. Ryan had to stay and help his dad do some work, and so she wanted to stay with him. I had to tell her no, and so the whole way home she wouldn't talk to me, and then as soon as we got into the house she started to draw.....
Then she came up to me with a sad look on her face and handed me the picture above!
She told me that the big one is me, and I am mad and mean, and the little one is her and I am making her cry and sad.
I thought it was funny, and we had a talk, and made up!

We went to a fun little fair thingy in the park this weekend, and it had the huge blow up slide, and bouncers. My girls loved the slide,and went down more than I could keep track of. I even went down with Brytlee a couple of times, and it was a lot of fun.


Brytlee loved the bouncer and the little boy working at it was in love with her. He would run around playing peak a boo, and when the time would run out he would kick all the other kids out, and I would try to get her out, and he kept telling me to just leave her in... so it worked out as a great baby sitter for a good half an hour.
There was a lot of fun things to do in the park, and we went around buying hair bows, cotton candy, snow cones, (we are so healthy) and all the fair stuff.
I even ran into a Rigby girl, Tyree Kinghorn. (that isn't her name anymore...) and she was three weeks from having her second baby boy. It was really fun to talk to her and see what she was up to.
There was some fireworks that were at 10, but the girls kept telling me they needed a nap, so we went home and they all went to bed at 8! It was a great day!

All by myself

Brytlee is in such a crazy stage. She really wants to do everything herself, and she has been throwing fits about feeding herself. I really don't want her to do it because as you can see, most of the food ends up all over her. But while it is summer, I have taken her outside, and let her try it out a little.She is so proud of herself


She is such a cute girl, and I love her so much!