Fashion Show

Taylee is in 4H with her Aunt, Robyn as her teacher. It is a sewing 4-H and they had a fashion show at Robyn's mom's house to practice for the Fair.
It was really fun to have all the dresses and outfits from differnt eras of time.

This is Robyn and Kit.

Brinley got to model too. She was scared to come out by herself, so another girl brought her out. She looked so cute in the little dress from the 70's.

I love this picture!!!!

Taylee loved modeling!! She was eating it up!! She was modeling the skirt from the 80's.

This is a group shot of some of the girls modeling their dresses. Very fun!!

Island Park

This year, we got invited to go to Island park with some friends. We had a blast riding the river in tubes and just relaxing and enjoying some time off.
The first day we got there, that night the girls, drove up to West Yellowstone and went to a Play. It was Beauty and the Beast. It was so fun and cute to watch.

The next day we had activities and floating on the little buffalo river. We did not bring our camera, cause i was afraid it would of got wet. I wish I took it though.
This is the girls... Hollie, Taylee, Calie & Brinley


Here is Austin after he made a "fire" out of Candy

We took our dog, Oreo. He was such a good dog. He just relaxed and never barked. I was worried about that. Well ok he did bark at a few squirrels, but I think they were taunting him!

We all decided to go cliff jumping. This is Taylee jumping off.

This Tiny picture is Tiny Brinley jumping off by herself!!!! I could not believe she did it!

Then they all talked me into jumping off with my 2 friends, Crista & Kristy! Don't we look crazy!

There was a big Volleyball pit in our campground and the kids loved to play in it. Well, Brinley was in heaven with all the sand and dirt. This is a pic of her and how dirty she got!!

We played games around the campfire and enjoyed talking

Here is a picture of us at our campsite.

We loved going there. We have to go there more often.

24th of July

The annual 24th of July in Bear River city, started out with the parade and my mini colorguard being involved in it. So much fun.

The 24th has many highlights...

Brin marching down the parade

Playing with cousins

hanging out with family....

and more family....

and running the races, eating pie and watching the baby show.

This year we went to a Salt Lake Real Soccer game in Sandy. We all had never been to the new stadium and this was something different to do.

We had good seats, 5 rows up and right behind a goal. This is everyone eating cotton candy. It was soooooo hot, we spent $20.00 for each of us to have ONE bottle of water. But it was worth it!~

The game ended up being tied 1-1

Here is the girls posing and the boys very into the game.

When the game was over, they let us go down to the field and sit and watch the fireworks. It was a lot of fun to do that.

After the fireworks, we got a hotel in Sandy and spent the night there. It was a late game and we thought that would top off our fun weekend, and it did.

Chris's Birthday

When you get older, birthdays just are normal days.....that sucks!! Chris and I both had to work on his birthday, but at 7 pm, we got in the car and at least went to dinner. Texas Roadhouse seems to be our favorite lately. When we got home, we blew out the candles. We gave him a Germany soccer jersey and tickets to a Real game on July 24th.

4th of July

Well this year, we decided to go to Willard Park and enjoy the races and the airplane candy drop.

I think the kids enjoyed this part the best. Candy falling from the sky! Who would NOT like this!!

Brinley ran her race and won 2nd place!!!

Taylee ran her race and won 3rd place!!

Austin ran his race and won 1st place.

After the races, we went an met my mom and sister in Ogden at the mall and went and saw a movie. A little bit different of a 4th of July, but we saw fireworks the night before in Logan and played with our owm fireworks in my parents driveway the next night.

Austin goes to Scout Camp

Austin left to go to scout camp for a whole week. This is a first for him and me! This picture is of him the night before he left. He is using the same backpack that his dad used when he went to scout camp. He had a blast and loved camping and earning merit badges.

Taylee's Birthday - Camping @ Cherry Hill

Taylee turned 9 this year. She wanted to go camping and swimming at Cherry Hill this year. We have never been there before, so it was all new to us.

Here is my birthday girl and me. When we got there, we set up camp and then went swimming. This is us having a lunch break.

Brinley and Chris eating lunch.

The kids liked the pirate ship. They wanted a picture by the "TREASURE"

Brin and Tay on the pirate ship.

This is Taylee and Austin after they just went on the double dragon water slide. They had a lot of fun!

Austin and Taylee going down the rapid water slide. They kept getting stuck.

And Taylee fell off a few times

Brinley just liked to swim in the regular pool. She loved the lazy river until the squirters and buckets started dumping water on her, then her new favorite was this pool.

This is us in front of the pirtate ship before we left for dinner.

We ate dinner at our camp site. Hamburgers and hotdogs were on the menu anlong with fruit, chips and capi suns. that is the menu Taylee picked out.

Brinley enjoyed playing in the ball pit

So did Taylee....

Austin wanted to climb the rock wall.....

So Taylee thought she would try it too.

This was her first time, and she did great!

Then we went mini golfing. It was a really fun course.

Here is Chris showing us his mad putting skills!

After golfing, we went and got treats and came back and had cupcakes for her birthday. We all had a good night's sleep in the tent and packed up and came home the next morning.

Later that night, We had her real cake.

I love you sweetie! You are a great sister and daughter. I am very proud of you and loved the idea of camping for your birthday!