New Addition

Here is the newest addition to our family. Phoebe got a bunny for her birthday. She named it Coco and all the kids are in love. It is a perfect shade of chocolate brown and so far is very sweet.

Phoebe's 9th Birthday

Phoebe turned 9 today! Only 1 year left of single digits. She has been so excited for her birthday to come this year. Phoebe wanted a sleepover so I decided on just a small group of friends this year so I wouldn't stress about so many kids. Since Phoebe is all about cooking and baking we decided to have a cooking party. It started a few days ago where Aunt Tina took Phoebe down to The Cake Stand and let Phoebe make a cake all on her own with their excellent supplies. Phoebe spent a lot of time sketching and planning exactly what she wanted. She made it come to life and it looked AMAZING! She pretty much did all of this cake by herself. The only part Tina did was to write her name. The rest of the construction was all Phoebe with some coaching from Tina. I am pretty sure my girl has a gift because this cake was perfect (and super cute) even the layers inside were all perfectly straight! Yummy white cake with chocolate butter-cream frosting in-between the layers and vanilla butter-cream for the rest. My only concern is that she is already enjoying 3 layers of cake for a birthday cake, how many layers do you think her wedding cake will need to be?The party started off with the girls decorating aprons and then wearing them while making individual pizzas. They all loved rolling out the dough and spreading on the toppings. It was a really fun time and all the girls were excited to see and taste how their creations came out.

The girls

Decided it was a nice day to take a picture with my girls

Junk Lover

This girl would prefer to eat like this for all meals.

That's green slushie and pizza. Sugar and more sugar please.

Ping Pong in the Kitchen

Silly Kids

4th of July 2010

Here are some pictures of our 4th of JULY. Scott parked in a great spot for firework viewing and then we lit a few off in the back yard. Some of our neighbors didn't like that, but I had never seen them before and can only think they must not be Ame


Hurry! Those fuses are short!
Luke didn't like being very close to the action. Sparks flying wasn't enjoyable for him or Phoebe.
Ethen found a toad outside and for some reason brought it in to show everyone, but we did let him go.

HIgh Adventure 2010

Scott had another amazing High Adventure trip with the scouts in our ward. They did some beginner scuba diving, saw Carlsbad caverns, and hiked a 12,000 ft peak. He was gone a week and was able to get everyone back in one piece and grow closer to the Lord as well. I'm so glad he is able to go on these great trips with the boys. He is a great example to them and our family of what is important.

Our Fast Fish

1st place

Swim season has started again. Phoebe had her 1st swim meet of the season and she did awesome! All 1st place ribbons this time!! She is so fun to watch and I love how much she loves to swim. Her strokes are getting so good and she beat everyone by at least a body length. This year is a good one for Phoebe since she still can compete in the 7-8 age bracket. She is the oldest one in her bracket on our team and probably on most teams, and since she isn't 9 until the end of July she qualifies to swim in that bracket.

Camping & Boating

Pictures from our camping weekend over Memorial Day. We went out to Possum Kingdom Lake and camped in tents for the weekend. It was hot, but the water was still cool and we had a good time. The weekend wasn't without some hiccups but we took it all in stride and came home with some good sunburns.

Paisley smilin'The Kids and phoebe's friend Tierney

Scott surfing

Paisley taking a little snooze on Mama

cliff jumping

Ghost Stories

Happy Birthday Luke

Luke is 5! On his birthday I made waffles for breakfast with a candle on top. We gave him a speed racer bike (sorry I didn't take a picture, I was taking video). Grandma and Granny sent cash and he was ecstatic about it. A few days later we had a party with just a few friends. They painted on mini canvases, played pin the seed on the watermelon, had a watermelon eating contest, and lots of games. Tina made a watermelon cake that really looked like a watermelon cut in half. It started splitting a bit so then we said it looked like a watermelon that had been dropped.

Growing!

Look at how much our pumkin patch has grown in just a week! The flowers have started to bloom and we have learned that not every flower turns into a pumpkin. There are girl and boy flowers on each vine. So far I have only been able to spot one girl flower and I hope it gets a pumpkin, but I am assuming this thing will be growing a lot more and we will have many more girls popping up in the near future. This is so fun :)