Hot Air Balloon Ride

The girls were invited to go with their uncle Ryan and their cousins on a Hot Air Balloon ride in Heber. We took them up to their cousins house the night before for a sleep over. Danny and I went and stayed at the Hotel Park City in one of the cottages. Thanks to Ryan & Megan for hooking us up. We love this place. It was nice to get away and have a night to ourselves. The rooms have their own private hot tubs on the balcony's so we love to get in it and relax. In the morning we went and met them so we could watch them take off.

Swimming at the Hotel Park City

After the balloon ride Danny and I went with the girls and their aunt Megan to go swimming at the hotel and have lunch. The girls love to get together with their aunt Megan and their cousins because we don't get to see them much. Taylor loves it when Megan has her niece Brinlee with her. They are the same age and have known eachother since they were 1 years old from a Lake Powell trip and they have been close ever since. Taylor was glad when Brinlee moved back to Utah from Arizona

Day's of 47 Parade Floats

Me and the girls went with my sister and her family to the South Towne Expo Center to see all of the floats. I was amazed to see how much time and money these floats take to make. I am glad we have people that are so talented. The kids favorite thing was the clown and getting their faces painted.

Summer Fun With Our Cousins

We were grateful to have my two sisters come to Utah for a visit this summer. It was nice to have all of my siblings together. I have 4 sisters who are married with kids so between us their our 18 grandkids. You can certainly say that it gets pretty crazy. We spent most of our time at my parents house in Draper since that is where everyone was staying. My parents have a pool so during the days that is where you would find us all. Me and the girls would drive down to my parents house every day, or sometimes we would just stay for a couple of days then go back to our house and bring some of their cousins with us for a sleepover. I have a sister who lives in Highland and one who lives in Lehi so it was nice to have everyone together and let the cousins play with eachother. My cute little bother even took a couple of weeks off so that he could hang out with us. All of the kids love their uncle David, they all think he is just an oversized kid.

A Preview Of Some Of The Things We Did.

We had a special family night where we had a special guest come. We set up tents in my sister's backyard and King Benjamin came and spoke to us. The kids loved it.

Ice Cream At Thanksgiving Point

After family night we went and got 25 cent ice cream cones at Thanksgiving Point. The kids loved playing on these bars.

The Gardens

Family Picnic At Draper Park

The original plan was to go up American Fork canyon to have a campfire, but everything was taking so long to pack and by the time the guys got off work it was getting to late so we decided to go to the fire pits at Draper Park. The kids still had fun roasting their hot dogs and their marshmellows, it didn't matter to them where we were.

Kick Ball

Sleep Over
Taylor and Jaiden had a few of their cousins come to our house to stay the night. They got to decide what we were all going to do. This is what they came up with.

*Swimming

*Picnic at the Castle Park

*Kaysville Theater

*Ice Cream Cones at Artic Circle

*Lagoon

*A Stop at the Red Box

Cherry Hill

I was really bummed when I got home and went to download my pictures and only was able to import 3 of the 100+ pictures I took. Somehow the rest of them got deleted. I was really sad because the whole time I went around taking pictures and capturing some really cute moments of every one. So here are some pictures from my sisters camera.

Barnes Park
Danny had a softball tournament so me and the girls came to watch him play. We were walking to the field and I noticed that they looked cute and that Taylor and Jaiden were matching so luckily I had my camera and I was able to take these pictures of them with their cousin Madison.

Braxton's Race

Braxton really wanted to have all of his cousins come and watch his race. It was ten dollars a person even for kids so some of the family didn't know if they wanted to spend that much so their kids could go and watch. But Braxton was so cute and told everyone that he would use his own money to buy the tickets. But then his dad said that it was on him so thanks Jason for a fun night. It ended up being really fun and Braxton did really well in his 3 races. He was so excited to have his cousins their to support him.

Here are just some other pictures of my cute girls and their cousins.

A Girl's Idea of Fun In Downtown Salt Lake

We had tickets for the Pioneer Day Commemoration Concert with the Osmonds at the conference center, so we got dressed up and headed downtown. Danny wasn't to excited to go but I thought it would be nice to see the Osmonds, especially since it would be the last time they all performed together. We planned on stopping at the Gateway first to eat and do some shopping before going to the concert, but on the way down we found out that we had to be in our seats an hour early and stand in a long line out in the heat. Let's just say we didn't think that sounded like much fun and besides it wouldn't give us anytime at the Gateway. So we all decided that we would go and eat at Thaifoon and let the girls go to Limited Too and Build A Bear since we promised them and then head to the concert and hope we find seats together, but of course we spent to much time at the stores because when we finally got to the conference center we had lost our tickets since we weren't there on time. I have to admit that I was a little glad especially when I found out they were broadcasting it on T.V. anyways, and I know Danny and the girls were glad not to have to sit and listen for two hours. So we headed back to the Gateway to do some more shopping and grab some ice cream. Thanks Danny for being such a good sport.


Me and the girls at Thaifoon




You can see who the spoiled ones were that night

Taylor turns 11 (July 15)

On Taylors birthday we left to go on a family vacation to Red Fish Lake in Idaho. Some family members went up the day before and had our cabin all decorated for when we arrived. She was totally surprised. They did a great job decorating.





After Taylor opened her presents we had lunch and then went down to the lake. For dinner Taylor wanted to have pizza so we all drove into Stanley and ate at this place called Sawtoothe Luce's.






I made Taylor a birthday shirt that she had to where that day. I thought it turned out pretty good. I was quite impressed with myself.


That night we came back to the cabin and had cake and sang Happy Birthday to Taylor. Afterwards we went down to the lodge and played on the grass and of course we ended the night with the favorite birthday tradition (The Spanking Train). Taylor all I can say is that you had a great birthday thanks to everyone.

The best part was the next morning the first thing out of Jaidens mouth was that it isn't Taylor's birthday anymore. You could say that she didn't like her sister getting all of the attention.