End of August ALREADY??????

Thanks to everyone for the fun comments on the new baby that is coming, you all made me smile and helped me feel a little better even!

I can't believe it's the end of August, atleast time seems to be flying by. Things have been CrAzY around here......we had a wonderful time at Lagoon a couple weeks back, I of course didn't ride any rides :) Another fun time was telling the family our exciting news about the baby! We also went on a little vacay up to Island Park with some of our great friends and had a fabulous time fishing, tubing down the river, riding, etc..

This is Blake riding the motorcycle in front of the cabinWe went to visit Mesa Falls and took advantage of a family photo op :)

Parker and Austin riding the 3 wheelerParker on his 1st day of school-2ND Grade believe it or not!! He loves his new school. Yesterday when I was walking my little group into the school a frog went hopping by on the sidewalk.....A FROG!!! Needless to say all the boys in my carpool LOVE the frogs :) I wonder if any find their way into the school...

This picture was taken before the ride started at Lagoon, notice how happy Austin seems, we should've taken a picture of him after the "Dinosaur Drop" ride, he did not like it, too much tummy ticklin!

Blake started football season and has practice EVERY day and games every weekend, he loves it

And on top of everything, I just cannot believe the kids are back in school already. Blake started 5th grade.......FIFTH GRADE!! I am in shock and cannot believe how big my boys are. We are now gearing up for Austin to start preschool here in a week and so begins....no kids at home, for awhile that is :)

Announcement...............

You've all been waiting for it......the time has FINALLY come.....our baby is due March 1st! I have not been feeling well. I am looking forward to being 12 weeks along on monday, the end of the first trimester!! Yeah!!! We are all so very, very excited!! :)

Parker turned 7!!

Happy Birthday buddy!

Parker had a fun and exciting birthday on Saturday!

Besides the whoopie cushion and elastic gun we have enjoyed every other present he got!! :)

I can't believe he is 7---time flies!!

PARADISE!!!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

We had a BLAST at Lake Powell this past week. The water was warm and the Lake was just beautiful! We spent a few days in Arizona and it felt like PARADISE! The kids loved throwing the football at all the lizards on the cliff walls and dubbed it "Lizard ball" . We fished, cliff jumped, wakeboarded, swam, explored the lake, found lizards, etc.... It was so much fun it is so hard to be home.

This week the boys have had swimming lessons, I attached some photos at the end of the slideshow, can't wait until our next trip...we are ENJOYING summer!!

Playing Baseball with the Raptors

Austin is the #2 that is crouched down- he's ready!!

Blake hitting Homerun Parker!

Blake, Paker, and Austin got to go play a baseball game with the Raptors on Wednesday night. It was a lot of fun and afterward we got to watch the "official" Raptors game. The Raptors won 19-2!!

My boys! :)

They loved playing with the "pros". I didn't have a very good angle for these pics, but this is Parker hitting. Go Parker, he such a great player!Austin hitting- he nailed it too! Not bad for a 4 year old :)

And Blake knocked it far out- everyone cheered! Of course I didn't get that one in this picture.

They had tons of fun. It was VERY hot!
We took Austin out for some "birthday" dessert on his birthday.

Here is the trio mini golfing on Austin's Birthday

Hard to keep up!! Boys are BUSY!

My baby is 4 YEARS OLD!!

It's official, I am now an "old" mom....my baby is FOUR!!!

Rewind...........................here he is all cute and cuddly when he turned one :)Yesterday we had a little celebration with the grandparents, sorry all the cousins were all sick :(
I love my Austin! Congrats little man on such a HUGE milestone, wow 4 years can catch up with you quite quickly!!
We have had quite a weekend with the 4th of July, we had a trip planned but had to cancel because Ry got sick, but all were better and able to go to the local parade and the annual fireworks in the culdesac, better than the trip anyway, we'll go later :).
Here are some of the highlights.............Parade--Yeah!

My "BFF" that lived next door to me growing up, love ya Beeker!! HEE HEE :)

The "annual" culdesac BBQ &fireworks-the show gets better and better every year!! This was the grand finale! :) After we finished our fireworks we watched Laytons fireworks and could see some of Kaysville's without leaving the culdesac!! You are all welcome to come any year :)

Austin thinks the fireworks are for him :)

Blake just finished up his 3rd ball camp this summer-now on to swimming lessons.

Parker lost another tooth, I told him at this rate he won't have any teeth left :) Luckily his 1st permanent tooth is almost all the way in.

I love the summer! Fun that all my kids celebrate their birthdays during the summer too! Today Austin got to go swimming and open and play with his presents and go mini golfing, and he still wants to go bowling. Hope you had a fun day buddy! Happy Birthday Austin!

Bear Lake

We went to Bear Lake last week and had a great time- swimming, digging in the sand, eating, zoomin around on the waverunners and more swimming ...above are some pics. We also went and toured Minnetonka Cave. I now know what it is like to be in total darkness, when I waved my hand in front of my face, I couldn't see anything, it was an interesting experience. :) Hope you're all having a great summer!!

Here is the "fam" just outside the cave, the mosquitos were a NIGHTMARE!This was taken inside the cave, it was FREEZING cold! Aren't my kids just the cutest! :)

We stayed at the most amazing place while we were there!! It had 4 bathrooms! It was perfect and VERY nice, We'll be back!!!

Ryan standing on one of the balconies