4th of July weekend

Anthon's making it a tradition to take a week off work between our birthdays. This was his second or third year, I can't remember. Anyway, Anthon's birthday was on the 29th of June and mine was on the 5th of July. I forgot to take pictures but we had a joint birthday party with some friends on the 27th. We went and watched Transformers 2 and then got together and played games and had cake. It was very fun! Thanks Danielle and Nathan for letting us use your house! (Ours is too small to have that many people over :o( )
Anyway, So Anthon had the 27th through the 6th off of work (today is his first day back). It was so nice.We went to Culver's on Anthon's birthday with some friends for FHE. I LOVE that place! It was fun and I bumped into my cousin, Cynthia, there. Tuesday, we went to the Summer Movie Fun. Wednesday we pretty much did nothing and just relaxed. Thursday we packed for our camping trip and Friday....well, that's when the fun began!
We left our house at 8:00 am to head up to Show Low to go camping at Fool's Hollow. We got there at around 10:15 (thanks to McKay who had to stop 3 times to go pee pee) and Fool's Hollow was full. I won't go into the whole story but we ended up going to EVERY camp site in Show Low, Blue Ridge, Pinetop/Lakeside and we even went up to Big Lake (up by Sunrise) and they were ALL full. We didn't know what else to do so Amy suggested we go to Vernon. Vernon is about 15-20 minutes outside of Show Low. Once we got there, we had to wait for 2 HOURS for the rest of the family to come up because we didn't know how to get to the camp site Amy was talking about. They finally got there and we made our way up to a camp site that I guess is used for the scouts or something. It was another 10 minutes on a very bumpy dirt road before we got to our camp site. And guess what time it was when we finally got there....6:30 PM!! We were in the car for more than 10 hours! looking for a place to camp! The kids did pretty good though. Mason didn't make a peep almost the entire time!!! He only started crying the last 10 minutes in the car and that was because he was hungry. He was so stinkin' good!!
Anyway, we were all pretty frustrated once we got there but after everything was set up and dinner was made, we relaxed and had an enjoyable evening.
We woke up pretty darn early on Saturday morning and spent almost the entire day playing around. We found a rope swing hanging from one of the trees and it kept the kids entertained for a while.

McKay kept saying (in a deep and goofy voice) "This. is. SOOO fun!" He loved the swing.

Makenna really enjoyed it too. She kept wanting to go back.

Anthon brought horse shoes, my dad brought cribbage and I brought a book so everyone was all set. It was very relaxing.
We had dinner at about 4:30 and then got ready to go into Show Low for the Fireworks at the High School. Of course, we HAD to take pictures of all the kids before we left!

Left to Right
Austin(sarah's), Brooklee(emily's), Hailey(sarah's), McKay, Makenna, Mason & Aubrey(sarah's)
All of my parents grandkids. Well, with one on the way.

I made matching bows for all the girls

We got to the high school a couple hours before the fireworks started so we walked around and looked at the booths they had set up and we had the kids play around on the bouncy castle thingys.
This was Mason's first fireworks show! He watched them for a little while and then went to sleep.

Waiting for the fireworks to start. We all look SO tired!
Playing with the light up toys my parents bought for them.

Watching the fireworks. SO cute!

I didn't take any pictures on Sunday :o(. It was a good day. We hung out and played games and ate. I ended up going in to Show Low to visit my BF from high school, Jennifer. She actually lives in Lindon which is about 10-15 minutes out of Show Low in the opposite direction. She gave me a haircut for my birthday. Thank you Jennifer!!!
Monday morning we packed up and left. It was a very fun weekend. I felt like we were roughing it but Anthon laughed at that. I am used to staying at Fool's Hollow where it is all paved and has toilets and showers and stuff so...I WAS roughing it. Even though we stayed in this...

My parents bought a new RV last week. It was SO nice!! It has a queen bed on one end and two sets of bunk beds on the other end. The table turns into a bed and the couch has a queen size hideabed. It holds 400lbs of water so we were still able to use the toilet and wash our hands and stuff. Anthon emailed his dad and said he was embarrassed of me because I asked them to turn on the generator so I could plug in my straight iron to straighten my hair.
OK, so maybe we weren't TOTALLY roughing it, but compared to Fool's Hollow......I personally think we were :o).

WAAAAY late!!

I never thought I would ever get so behind on my blogging but I was wrong!! Well, part of it wasn't my fault. Our computer crashed and we almost lost all of our pictures and then it took us a while to find them and put them back on the computer once it was fixed. Anyway, so I am finally doing my Father's Day post!!


Anthon is an amazing daddy to our children! He is always playing with them and reading books to them. He reads scriptures with our children every night before bed. He is always so willing to let me have a break from the kids on really stressful days. I have never had to worry about leaving the kids with him, even my new borns. He always takes at least one of the kids with him when he goes places even when I tell him he doesn't need to. He is VERY good about changing diapers and waking up at night with kids. I can't thank him enough for all his help. We love you!


I think I used this picture of my dad for the last Father's Day post. I really need a new picture! My dad is the greatest dad EVER! He is always joking around and having fun. He is the hardest working man I have ever met. Seriously! Some times I worry that he will work himself to death. Thank you for being such a great dad and grandpa!! The kids LOVE their grandpa! Love you!!And to my Father-in-law. I really couldn't have asked for a better FIL. He is kind and always willing to help! I don't know that I have ever seen him in a bad mood! Thank you for being such a great Papa to our children!! Love you!!