Newborn Photo shoot

Girls Camp

Outdoor fun

Father's Day

In case it isn't dark enough to read:

What Dad's are:

helpers

lovers

pretenders

teezers

lafers

and most of all.....

Famely Guys!

Dear Dad, I love you so so

much! I think you are the Best Dad

in the whold wide world! You are

so great at making us laf. My friends

say you are fat! But I think you are skinny.

Love your dauter,

Sekoya

One year older!

As tends to be our fashion around here, we celebrated Sekoya's birthday for a week! Tuesday was the actual day she turned 8. She woke up to her usual birthday poster and balloons, then her favorite- a cinnamon roll for breakfast, a treat at the dairy with her friend, lunch at Subway with almost everybody in the family, and then swimming later. Wednesday we had her friend party. Now, don't even ask me why I let her talk me into this. I really dislike friend parties! She chose a rockstar theme and most of all the details right down to a red carpet down the hallway. They came dressed as their favorite rock star, decorated cardboard guitars, sang karaoke to their favorite songs (mostly Justin Bieber), had cake and ice cream, then played outside. I put my extensions in Sekoya and Katera's hair so they could be Hannah Montana and Taylor Swift. I didn't think I needed any help because Nixon should have been napping. Funny how things don't ever go as planned! He would not go to sleep when he was supposed to so I was dealing with a fussy baby and a bunch of silly eight yr old girls at the same time. NEVER again! Thursday Jason got home so we could have the family party. We did s'mores in our back yard. Then the kids had fun throwing cheese balls in the air and trying to catch them in their mouths. This birthday was a little strange for me. Sekoya is beyond the 'little girl' stage and doesn't play with toys. Her birthday list that she wanted was: art kit, itunes card, clothes, and a snow globe. Easy enough! We surprised her with a trip to girl scout camp in August. She is way excited for that.

Fishing on the Boulder

Tuachan.......

or so we thought. I should be posting pictures of the girls and us at Little Mermaid, but it got cancelled. We didn't even know until we checked into our hotel that afternoon and it was too late to get our tickets changed to the next night's performance. It was a really sad day! At least the kids got over it quickly. Jason and I are still fuming about it. So we spent the weekend playing in the sun and water. Kacey and the boys came to our hotel and spent half the day swimming. Then we took them to the splash park. I so wish we had something like that in Richfield! Later in the day the kids got to play with some more 2nd cousins when we had a BBQ with the Crofts' family as they were sending off two of their boys to Iraq. Don't forget the shopping. I was able to hit a few of my favorite stores and spend money that I didn't need to spend. I think I was hoping some shopping would make me feel better about not getting to see Little Mermaid. It didn't work.

Memorial weekend

I have gotten really, really bad at taking pictures. There's just not much time in between all the bottle feedings and diaper changes. I am going to make a better effort to take more pictures! Memorial weekend was also the last day of school for the kids on Friday. We hadn't really planned anything since the weather was not going to cooperate again. I wanted Sekoya to have something fun to do for the last day of school so we pulled the travel trailer in front of the house and let her and the neighbor girl have a sleep over in it. We roasted marshmellows in the back yard and they stayed up until about 11:30 watching Gnomeo and Juliet. The next day was spent getting the trailer all ready for a summer of camping. After it was all ready we decided to take it up to Fishlake. It was just and itch that had to be scratched! We couldn't stand to sit there and look at the trailer that was ready to camp in and not take it on the mountain. We ended up staying in the cabin or the trailer the entire time we were up there. The weather decided to be cold and windy- which is what we have had a lot of this spring. After attending church at the lodge we came home to have lunch with Jason's cousins that were in town visiting. They have three girls right around our girls' ages so it was fun for them to play. Monday we didn't have any big plans. The power went out at 9:30 am and didn't show any signs of coming back on any time soon. So we went to Home Depot and loaded up on flowers and vegetables for a day of yard work and planting. It was actually really nice not to have any electronics pulling at any of us- including the Ipods since the batteries were dead with no way to charge them. We were beginning to wonder if we were going to need to get out the generator to plug our freezers in when the power finally came back on at about 3:30 pm.