Fun in the Sun

We are definitely having a busy and fun summer. We have not spent a single day at home....and each day involves getting soaked at some point.
Here we are at Huntington Lake where the kids took a dip and then spent the rest of the afternoon catching crawdads.

Swimming out to the docks

Tyce....my little daredevil
My sweet little man Jess and Jamie
Kade thought that catching crawdads was great. We were catching like 4 at a time and Kade loved grabbing them and sticking them in the bucket.

Tyce loved helping get them out of the water with the net....he took his job serious.

After catching an entire bucket full, the kids dumped them all on the docks and watched them fall off into the water.

We have also been on some fun fishing trips. Kade is really a good fisherman and he actually puts his own worm on the hook.

Tyce just likes having fun while fishing. He likes to get wet, throw rocks, and run around like a crazy person....he cracks me up!

We took a little 4-wheeler ride up Ferron Mtn the other day and there were so many pretty wildflowers. I tried really hard to get a good picture of my cute boys by sitting in the flowers....and this is the best I could get.

Little Jess eating some jerky on our ride. He is such a trooper.

I swear I have the cutest little boys in the whole world. The have some much fun with each other and are always pretty easy going. I love hanging out with these cuties.

4th of July = Primary Childrens

Well our 4th of July weekend didn't really turn out the way I had planned, but that's life isn't it?

Jess has been struggling to breath for a really long time.......long before our first stay at the hospital in May----so I decided to take him BACK to the pediatrician to try again. Well once again he sent us to the hospital to get a chest X-ray (literally our 10th x-ray in 2 months) and like all the x-rays is showed a small collapse in the upper lob of his lung. Dr. Madsen then decided that it was time to get things figured out and sent us immediately to Primary Children's hospital. When we got their they admitted us and started monitoring his oxygen level. The first night that we were there he was on 3 liters of oxygen....which is quite a bit. After 5 days of being at the hospital and being treated for asthma, his oxygen started doing a lot better. They sent us home and in a few weeks we have to go back and get a scope done of his lung to see what is going on. I hope that in a few weeks we can finally nip this little problem in the butt!!

Even though he was struggling to breath he was the happiest and cutest little baby ever!!

While Jess and I camped out at the hospital, Kyle took my boys camping with my family. He said that they had a blast and stayed extra busy. On Monday, the 4th, I was able to come home for a day and take Kade and Tyce to the parade. We had fun gathering all of the candy, but Tyce was an emotional wreck the entire day. He was having a really hard time with me being gone. I felt so bad having to leave him again when the parade was over.

Here the boys are waiting for the parade to start

They had some fun things to do at the park after the parade like riding this really awesome train

And probably the best part of the day was when Tyce got to buy this way cool superman toy. He loves superman....he actually dresses in his superman costume on EVERYDAY (he actually has it on right now).

Because Jess and I missed the fireworks on the 4th, Kyle had us a little firework show at the house. The kids had a blast with the sparklers and afterwords we cooked s'mores over the stove (my first time cooking s'mores not on a fire).

Tyce isn't a huge fan on fireworks so he climbed up on the camper shell in the garage and zonked out.

Today since everything has settled down a bit, we rode to Mill Meadows to go fishing. Jasa, Jared, their kids, and my mom all came. We had a really good time and the kids actually caught a few nice fish.

After Mill Meadows we drove over to this little lake to try our luck. We didn't catch any fish here but it sure was pretty.

silly boys!

Even though things didn't go as planned, everything still worked out! I just love my little family.
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4 years ago today my dad passed away. I miss him everyday and wish so much that my kids knew him. He was so much fun to be around and never missed a thing that I did. He worked hard and he taught us so much. I miss riding my horse with him and I miss his gigantic smile. What a special person he was what a lucky girl to have had such an amazing dad...I just wish that it would have lasted more than 25 years. I love you dad!

Weekend Getaway

This past weekend we took a trip down to St. George for a fun little weekend getaway. The first stop on our trip was to the Tuachann to see "The Little Mermaid". The play was okay but nothing compared to Tarzan last year. By the time it was over all three of my boys were sound asleep.

The next morning we woke up, ate breakfast, and then took a little dip in the hotel pool. Next we went to the Fiesta fun center and we rode bumper boats, go carts, and we played in the arcade. Kade and I had a blast squirting Kyle and Tyce.

Jess is just cute huh!

After the Fiesta Fun center we went to "Cars 2" at the 3D theater. My boys have been waiting so long to see it and Kade loved every minute of it. After the movie we decided to head down to Mesquite to stay another night. When we got their the boys just had to go bowling.

And it was so hot so we took another dip in the hotel pool

It was so nice to getaway for a little while. We have been really busy with farming and cows and since we got them on the mtn a little getaway was just what we needed. Here we are a few days earlier up on East Mountain fixin fence before the cows went up.

After fixing fence we headed down to the arena for the annual Castle Dale Days kids rodeo. This year Kade decided to do a little Muttin Bustin. I was so proud of my little cowboy for being so tough. Here he is getting ready.

This is just a silly picture of Kade. He went upstairs, spiked his hair up, put on some shades, and then walked around the house like this:

What We Have Been Up Too.....

I know that summer just started, but man we have been busy!
While Jess and I were in the hospital Kyle branded calves. He had so many people come and help him.....and he got the job done. No one took any pictures so I was glad that we had this little straggler so that I could help brand at least one calf.
We started our little 4-H club last week and for our first activity we rode our bikes to the swimming pool, had a picnic, and then went swimming. Here are all of the kids ready to head out!

Cooling off in the pool

We went on a little camping trip up Huntington Canyon and it was nice to get out and enjoy the mountains.

The kids had a ball playing in their "club"

For the past two weeks Kade and Tyce have been in swimming lessons. Kade has done so well and could swim across the entire length of the pool after just a few days of lessons. Tyce loved it at first and we super fearless until a lengthy swim scared him pretty bad. After that it was kind of hard to get him to swim for every long....but he did really well when he would actually get in a try.

Kade swimming with his teacher cheering him on

Tyce jumping off the diving board....he loved that!

Kade in flight

Finally we attended 4-H camp and once again I wasn't impressed.....but Kade loved it and was front and center for every presentation. Here they are listening about different types of bugs.

Tyce liked looking at the bugs too. He's funny!

The coolest part about camp was the little bug catchers that they made.....you would put your tube near a bug and suck it up throw the straw. Kade caught a few aunts and was thrilled.

So our summer has started out with a bang. He can't wait for more fun activities!