It's GREAT to be 8!!

My baby girl turned 8 on February 27 and was baptized a couple weeks later.  She was SO excited to be baptized and I am so proud of her knowledge of the gospel.  She really understands what being Baptized means and ever since she has been praying that the Spirit will always be with her.  She celebrated her birthday with her friends at the movie, but she looked forward to her special day even more!  We were blessed to have lots of family here to support her which made the day even more special.  Her Grandparents gave her scriptures for her birthday and she was so excited.  When she opened them I couldn't help but cry I was so impressed by what a specialy little girl she is.  I wasn't alone though--my Mom was crying to!  What a blessing to have Haley in our family!!  Happy 8th Birthday Haley!



As I took this picture she didn't want to move--she found a verse that she really liked and just wanted to read for a while :)



Hunter's 6!!!

January 30 Hunter turned 6 years old.  We celebrated in true GI Joe form with a Birthday Bootcamp!  Complete with an obstacle coarse, camo face paint, and a nerf gun battle.  The kids had a blast and Hunter was in pure heaven!!

Hunter is such a loving sweet boy!  He is always willing to give hugs and cuddle!  His favorite food is Spaghetti and broccli.  He loves to play his DS and would play all day if I'd let him!  He is loving Kindergarten and looks forward to seeing his friends each day.  Happy Birthday Hunt!

New Year Photo Shoot

During our Christmas Break I had to go play with my new lens I got for Christmas so I loaded up the kids for a quick photo shoot at Lake Las Vegas.  Seriously--my kids are SOOOO Cute!!!

School Daze

The School Year has Officially started.  Hunter is in Kindergarten and Haley started 2nd grade.  They were both SOOO excited for the days.  I was to until I dropped them off--I miss them terribly when they're not home and I cried as soon as I got back in the car.  I love watching them learn and grow, I just wish it wasn't happening so fast!  Harm had a hard time letting his 2 Best Buddies go, but he played with his friend Ethan and was okay.  He starts school in 2 weeks so we'll have more pictures to come!

Police Olympics

Michael just played softball in the Police Olympics this weekend.  We made it out to a couple of the games.  I'm not sure how they played in that heat--sitting in it was near excruciating!  Some huge otter pops and playing with the camera helped ease the pain of the 105 degrees!

This is what you get when Hunt has the camera

And this is from Haley's mad photography skills

I did manage to get one shot of Michael actually playing :)

Mesquite

I almost forgot we stopped in Mesquite on the way home from celebrating the 4th in Panguitch.  I was so fun to break up the short trip home with a little swimming and playing in a hotel room!  It's a mini vacation that we will DEFINATELY do again.  Rooms at the Casablanca were only $40.  It's a cheap little getaway and my kids are still begging to go back to their pool!

4th of July 2011

So I'm a month late in posting 4th of July happenings, but in my defence blogger will only let me upload one picture at a time and it takes forever!!  We had a fun 4th in Panguitch--we did a little hiking and playing for a day or two before and after.  On the 4th we got up early for a yummy pancake breakfast at the bank--yes we ate pancakes in the bank parking lot :)  The kids walked in the parade which they were SO excited for!  We decorated their bikes and they scooted on down main street in style.  After we hit the kid races and drove up to Ruby's Inn to look around and play a little.  We ended the night with our second set of fireworks.  The city puts on a really good display and the Lake had a great one the Saturday before.  We of course had a few of our own as well.  It was a fun holiday and we are so thankful to celebrate our countries Independence!  We missed having some family there to celebrate--my brother Mark is deployed with the 222nd, but he is in our prayers and we are so thankful for his service!



Mallory, Konner, Ty, Brit, Hunt, Harm, Haley, and Hayden



Ty carrying Marc's flag in the parade

Harm ready to get scooting but . . .

he found a much cooler ride and much faster!!

Go Hunter!

Haley--ready to ride!

Yes, I got to walk in the parade to.  I carried one of the soldier's from our areas flag and gave Mallory a push when she needed it.  It was fun to see lots of friends along the way!

Fun fireworks--Haley scared to watch and Hunter afraid of the noise.

This is our resident pyro--Dad always has fun setting of the fireworks!