Do you think I should let her play with these?

While at the 4th of July parade, my mom got each of the kids a toy at one of the vendors in the park. Hannah picked out these generic barbies that she wanted. We laughed histarically when we got home and read the box! They didn't even spell China right! I'm sure these are filled with LEAD! Pretty funny....

Hannah in 4th of July Parade

Unfortunately I didn't get any cute close ups of Hannah, but she was a cute flower girl. If you look closely, you can see her in the front of float in a pink dress. They were on a float representing Jimmy's Flower shop. (I was also in the parad holding a sign, but opted NOT to post any of those!)

My sister-in-law has started a new photography business. She has so many talents, and among them is photography. Since I am not very computer saavy, I haven't figured out yet how to put a link on my sidebar to advertise for her. The new pics of the kids that I have added are ones that Melinda recently took. We went to Antelope Island to take them, which was pretty interesting. There was a beautiful sunset, but it was stinky, a huge hike to get out to where the water was, and there were TONS of bugs and flies, etc...everywhere. It was kind of gross, but the pics still turned out great! If you click on the pics of the kids, it should take you to Melinda's website. Thanks again, Melinda!

Friends Reunion

Dana, Alexa, Me, Kaylynn, and Keri

This past weekend, my best friends from High School and I all got together. We couldn't remember how long it had been since our last reunion, but it has been a few years! (Way too long!) Most of us live in Utah, but we are all scattered along the Wasatch Front, and one of us lives in Hawaii! It was so great to see everyone and all of the kids. Between the 5 of us, we have 17 kids. I have 2, Keri has 4, Kaylynn has 4, and Dana and Alexa each have 3. Crazy, and I'm sure there are more to come!

I had so much fun, and it was great to see you guys! Maybe next time we meet, we'll have to eat at Arby's for old times sake! Love you guys! (How come I'm the only one who looks like I eat at Arby's every day??) You all look great!

It has started already!

Hannah likes to wear these tennis shoes she has, but her feet often stink when she wears them becasue she doesn't wear socks. We thought that if we got her some new socks, she would want to wear them with her shoes, so we went sock shopping at Ross. We gave her several options to choose from, and she was being very picky. She finally decided on some that were cute, but not as frilly as some of the others.

When we got out to the car, I said to Hannah "I hope you like these socks because you were being pretty picky about them."

Then she answered, "Well, I like these ones a lot because they are 'Sketchers', and they go with my shoes." Tom and I were both shocked after that comment, we both looked at her and said, "What? How do you know anything about Sketchers?" She replied that she had seen them on T.V. (she is right, the socks match her shoes because they are Sketchers too, but we had never mentioned it to her.) Man, I knew brand names might be important, but I never expected it at 4 yrs old!!! (maybe by 14 years old, she won't care!) Silly Hannah!

Hill Air Force Week!

It was Air Force this week in Utah, and we are lucky enough to live close to Hill Air Force Base. (not so lucky when the F16's fly over the house and scare everyone to death!!)

We went up there today and saw a bunch of cool fighter planes, helicopters, and jets. The weather was cold and stormy, otherwise, we would have stayed longer. We got to see a lot of the Thunderbirds performance, which was way cool too! It's amazing what they can do in the air! (There was a downpour about 15 min into the show!)

Some more Random pics of my cuties!!

Here are Hannah and Ian dressed for Church a couple of weeks ago. This is one of Hannah's Easter dresses. She got one from us, and one from Grandma. Hannah is such a little Girly Girl. She likes dresses more than toys!


We went to Vegas a few weeks ago to see Aunt Tara and Uncle Cody and thier family. It would have been a fun time if I hadn't of gotten sick while I was there! Boo!



I managed to get out a couple of days while we were in Vegas. We always love visiting Billagio gardens!


In the gardens at the Billagio Hotel.

This was such a cute picture of Ian. He was so tired the other day that he fell asleep on the counter watching TV.