Best time of the year!

This is my favorite time of the year! Last month Blair and I celebrated our wedding Anniversary :)
The next day we left to go camping again.

Mark and Monica have a little baby goat that the kids just love. The goat is so little.

It was perfect in the Uintah. The kids played with their cousins. It was quite and relaxing. It was a great camping trip. Until, we came home and got two flat tires on the trailer.

All the boys went fishing. They caught a lot of little fish. Shawn made Blair keep one. Shawn insisted that he needed to eat fish. If that’s what I can get the boys to eat then Blair might have to go fishing all the time.

On July 3rd we went up to Eaglewood Golf Course in North Salt Lake for firework. We go up there every year. It is so much fun. They do a really good show.

The next morning I took the boys to the Kaysville parade. We love this parade. It is more like a big party.

Not only were they throwing candy, they were throwing freebees, bead necklaces, shirts, little toys, and stuffed animals.

The float with the stuffed animals gave Shawn a little Stitch doll and this huge puppy.

He was so happy.

Later that day we went to Grandpa and Grandma Deis's house for a BBQ.

We had delicious food and lots of fun.

Then it's my birthday. There is always something going on with family, friends, warm weather, food, fireworks, parades, and camping. Now tell me why this is not the best time of the year.

Fun in the sun

Summer is finally here!

The boys have wanted me to fill up their swimming pool for weeks now. So this week we finally got to do it. We had their friends come over and had a water party.

The bigger boys jumped on the tramp with the sprinkler underneath it.

Dylan learned how to do a knee flip and land it. He is so excited. I told him to do one and I would take his picture. Well, he ended up do 5 or 6 I would take the picture to soon or too late. Finally I got a good one.

Carson looks like a bug.

Shawn had to find little ones for him.

On fathers Days we met Blair’s family at a picnic area in Big Cottonwood Canyon. It was really pretty up there. I took advantage of the beautiful surroundings for pictures.

I am so proud of myself for getting this picture of all the kids. They are all look at me.

(With the exception of one crying).

Camp Kiesel!

Dylan went on his first day camp! He went with his scouts group to Camp Kiesel.

I had to get him up and ready at 6 in the morning. That was to early for me.

Then was home at 4.

He wanted to take the camera so we could see it.

His pictures actually turned out really good.

The boys have so much fun there. Blair remembers going up there as a child and how much fun he had. It looks like a neat place.

There were lots of activities for them to do like, canoeing, shooting guns and arrows. Dylan made a leather thing. (i don't know what it's called)

There is a store there to buy stuff. Dylan bought a slingshot and 2 rabbit skins and of course candy.

One special lady!

Lucy is 86 years old and has lost her eyesight; her daughter (Carol) brings her to my salon every Wednesday morning. Lucy has been coming to the salon for over 11 years. They drive all the way from the Rose Park area.

I have been doing her hair for 4 years now. Even thought the boys have never met her. They still call her Grandma Lucy.
Lucy is one of those ladies that everyone loves.

Her and her husband were married June 24th, 1940. He passed away 40 years ago due to cancer. She still lives in her house. Her grandchildren and great grandchildren live there to help take care of her. Even with her eye site gone she still love to crochet dish towels, listen to the jazz and bees on the radio and she love to listen to cooking shows.
Lucy husband (Lou) was an executive vise president an Electric Company. The company would fly all over to do electrical work. There were many times that Lou would call Lucy up from work and tell her to get ready he was coming home to get her. He wouldn’t tell her were they were going to go. Then they would get in the airplane and fly to different place. One time they went to Hawaii just for lunch.

Lucy is always thinking of other people. She is so kind and caring. She loves my family and me like we were part of hers. She is always giving the boys money if they have a something special coming up. She is a very sweet lady.

Memorial Weekend!

For Memorial Day, weekend we decided that it would be fun to go camping in the Uintas. We left Saturday after work and maybe twenty minute in to the drive we got a flat tire on the trailer. Luckily there was a spot off the road where we could pull over and Blair changed the tire. Then we were off again. The Uintas is such a peaceful place to go camping. We love it there and it is only 2 hours away. You can beat that.

Shawn is all about camping this year and was excited to go fishing with his daddy.

He had to make sure we had the worms.

Then it was off to catch the fish. Well there went any fish. They still had fun trying.

While we were there it did rain on us. But really, when doesn’t it rain there.

If the rain got too bad we would go into the trailer and play games or read book. Even with all the rain it was not as cold as I thought it was going to be. The snow had mostly melted which made the river the highest I have ever seen it. I was so nervous to camp by the river but we told the boys to say away from it.

Don't worry Grandma Sandy they didn't go by it.

Dylan likes to find a couple of sticks to bring home. Some of them he will use his pocketknife and carve them. While we were out finding wood, the boys found this hut that someone made. They thought it was really neat to think someone really slept in it.
Shawn of course had to find his rocks. He would also find flowers and give them to me. Then he told me that I was a flower. How sweet was that?

On Monday Grandpa and Grandma Deis came up for the day to visit us. (They are the ones who found the spot we camp at now.) It was really nice to have them come up to say hi. They are really great grandparents.

Then it was time to go home

To all the wonderful mothers........

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!

Birthday Boy Shawn!

I can’t believe it Shawn tuned 3 years old today!

Were did all those years all go. When I am pregnant I crave hot spicy food, even more then I do normally do. So to have Shawn on Cinco de Mayo is really neat.

I thought I would put on some pictures of him thought out his three years. Shawn is such a fun baby........I mean big boy now. He is an all around boy. He like motorcycles (cycles as he would say), airplanes (I wonder were he gets that), and coloring.
He loves to be outside. When he is out there he is usually looking for bugs, airplanes, birds, and rocks. He likes to play in the sand box, jump on the tramp, and play on the swing set.Shawn really likes to be with his brothers. Whatever they do Shawn does.
He has grown up to fast. What happened to my little baby?
Happy Birthady Shawn! Your family loves you so much.