Welcome Braxton!

In early August my youngest sister, Kimber had her first baby!!! Welcome Braxton Matthews! He is the cutest little thing, and it will be fun to have another boy so they can be buddies!!! Congrats to Kimber and Dylon!

THANKS

Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa, Aunt Marge, and Pete for making a stay so fun! We even went to a rodeo!!

We had lots of fun at the rodeo....but I think by the time our visit ended we had wore them out!!

Where boys become men?

Grandpa put my boys to work out in the fields. I walked out there one day to see what they were doing and Daniel was driving a tractor! I was a little nervous at first but he did a great job. Now I understand why kids who grew up on farms learned how to drive at such young ages!!

Cade rode with grandpa in the big tractor, but no, he didn't drive that one thank goodness!

Next.....Emmett and "the farm"

This place was made for kids! They love it every year we are able to get up that way! They will have many great memories from visiting!

Thanks to all the family members that let us crash at their houses during this trip. I know we come and go like a whirl wind when we visit! We had a great time at Anthony and Heather's house where unfortunately I didn't get any pictures there. At Jeff and Rachel's house we had great fun with their wii and the kids had fun playing dress up.

My birthday was during the trip and my wonderful sister in law Heather came up with the idea to have a fun girl's day out. So me,Heather, my mom, my sister Teri, and sister in law Rachelle and my neice Mckayla went to a store called Color me Mine, which is a place where you go and paint your own pottery. I did a vase and have it sitting on my kitchen table with floweres from Dennis in it as we speak! I told him that was his designated vase to keep full for me! We'll see how that goes. After that we went out to eat at Macaroni Grill. Dennis and the kids also surprised me with a great little camera, one that I can fit in my purse and have with me all the time! Thank you everyone for a great birthday!!

In late July my family was having a little reunion up in Santaquin Canyon. I wasn't sure if I was feeling up to going but decided to go ahead and do the trip. I'm so glad I did, we had a fun time and it was so nice to see everyone and see my kids get to play with their cousins that they don't get to see very often!

Allison obviously was having a good time, look at how dirty she is!







Here is Ethan, Mckayla, Collin, and Braden
Ethan with Collin and Logan
Some of us stopped at this view point on the way to Payson lake. Our family, my brother Jeff and his family, and my oldest brother Larry in the back. It was soo pretty up there, and I lamented living in the desert!
Here's Allison in the lake. It took her awhile to warm up to it, but as you can see she ended up having a great time!!!

Thanks to my dad who planned and organized this whole get together, we all had a great time!

Back tracking

I have a lot of updating to do........ Back in May we went on a family hike at Thunderbird park. It was nice to get out and do something active. Behind us is the Arrowhead area and Arrowhead lakes, it was a beautiful day!