Camping

Love Summer Food and Fun...

I just love Summer! I love the food that comes from the garden during these summer months. I love garden fresh tomatoes and zucchini and I can not get enough of them. The other night we had chicken and zucchini and corn on the cob for dinner and man I could eat that ever night!

Here are some fun pictures through out the summer. I know it is not over yet but with all the neighborhood kids and cousins getting ready to go back to school it reminds me that yes summer is coming to a close. Man do I love it though.

Come on Everybody it's Family Night who wants to sit by me....

Monday night I decided we better make sure we do an official Family Home Evening. The summer months have been filled with a little of this and that and tons of fun. I think we have done a few FHE but thought it was time to do a real one.

So we painted and decorated some "Prayer Rocks" we than had a short and I mean short little lesson on how and why we should pray.

We than walked to the park to play for awhile while the rocks dried. We came home and had our FHE treat which was some chocolate chip cookies and milk.

Cole has not been a fan of saying his prayers. (missing the days when we first taught him to pray and he did like it) So now he was excited to put his prayer rock on his pillow and than he went through the whole little act of hitting his head on his rock and it reminding him that he needs to say his prayer!

He loved it and was eager to pray! Hey who cares if it wears off right we always have the choice of say your prayer and get stories and songs or don't say your prayer and no stories and songs!

Bear Lakin 2010

We took a shorter trip up to Bear Lake this year than last year but we sure packed it full of fun!

We left Thursday and drove to Logan where we went and saw Despicable Me and stayed in the hotel that night. The next day we shopped at Sam's Club and picked up the wave runner's we rented and headed to Ideal Beach!

We checked into our unit and played around that first day and the next day we spent the entire day down at the lake with the wave runners. Man was it packed on the 24th.

Since it was the 24th they had some sign up sheets for competitions going on.

We signed up for the Sandcastle, side walk chalk, and volleyball competitions.

We noticed when we signed up that another family was doing all these same competitions so we started trash talking them without them even knowing! We would say things like "The Jeppson's are going down".

Yes, That's right. We were going to beat them for sure. They had no idea we were doing this but man it was funny.

We hit the traditional La Beau's a few times over the weekend we were there. They always call out your name when your order is ready. Well we sometimes like to tell them different names to call out just to be funny. When all of the sudden they call out "Jeppson" we almost screamed we were going to see the family we have been trash talkin. Ha. Ha. Actually it was Lizzy and Andy who had them call it out. So Dang Funny. We laughed so hard. We never met the Jeppson's but man did we have a good time. We filled the time with waver runner, ice cream, tennis, swimming, BBQ, croquet, and nertz.

Thanks for another fun time at BL!

Coleman loved the wave runner's. He kept yelling faster faster!


Our Sandcastle won best Pioneer spirit which we felt it should have won the overall prize. Come on look at that temple isn't it awesome! We also had the tabernacle and handcarts pulling into the valley with mountains and everything.

My Baby Girl's 1st Birthday...

My little Day Day turned ONE yesterday. It is so funny how emotional I get when they turn one. I did the same thing when Cole turned one. I look through the photos of the past year of their life and think Man where did the time go, and so maybe I shed a few tears as well.

Well we had a fun day celebrating. My Mom (aka. the incredible cake decorator) came over early to decorate and design the big cupcakes that were made out of cake. She does such a great job. They looked perfect. Than we went to see the floats at the expo center. We than celebrated with cake and ice cream and presents. We had a little cupcake cake for her to attack but she was not going to do it. Maybe we will have to try another time!

Dailey is such a sweet girl and I just love her smile. she has her top two teeth in and one on the bottom left side. I love that she just scoots around everywhere and seems to be content with it. She absolutely loves her big brother and can't wait to see him in the morning.

We sure love you Dailey. Thanks for being in our family!

Kids...

Cole yells from the other room. "Mom what's a postcard? I go in and he is under his bed with a container full of cookies and I say: It's like a letter. Cole: Oh now I gottcha!"

That kid cracks me up. Not sure where the post card question came from but he is always throwing random at me! Than I tell him to go get the cookies from under his bed. He says: How did yooou seeee that?

Ha. ha.

Cole says: Mom are you thinking what I'm thinking? Me: What are you thinking? Cole: umh a bird. Me: Nope not thinking the same thing.

Yesterday we filled up the little pool and got in it and played. Well later Cole went back outside for a minute and I went out to check on him. Well He had the itouch outside and it was wet. I said Cole did you put the itouch in the pool? Cole: Mom are you mad? Me: Cole tell me what you did. I just dipped my hands in and touched it to clean it. Andy cleaned his iphone.

Mom I just needed to clean it. Well Thanks Andy. Ha ha. Just Kidding. We may now try the rice trick someone told us about!!!

The Zoo Zoo Zoo, how about you you you..

We went to the Hogle Zoo on Saturday. We went with the Austin's and Grandpa and Grandma. We had a great time. It was a hot day. We packed in a lunch and ate inside. Cole loved running around with Brock and Alli and chasing each other and being silly.

Dailey did well too. She likes to people watch and liked to look at a few animals too. Cole kept talking about how the animals smelled. Guess he's a bit of a city kid. huh. We had a great time. Thanks Susan for getting us together!

It was crazy how long the giraffe's tongue was. He kept licking the pole that had a basket with his food on it.

It's not the zoo without a picture in front of the famous lion drinking fountain. They now have a couple of these fountains. It is a hot spot for photos.

My Mom always sang this song that went like this: We are going to the Zoo Zoo zoo how about You you You? You can come too TOO Too. So of course we sang it all day long!

This photo is not from the zoo but was at little Abby's 1st Birthday! She is such a happy little girl. Look how cute these three little ones are!!