Birthday Kit...

My Mom has always made our Birthday's Special! She would do little things that to this day I remember and have decided to make it a tradition with my little family.

My Mom always made birthday signs which she would hang on almost every door in the house! We also would get to pick the dinner that she would make that night (when we got older we went out). Than she had a "birthday bear" that would sit on or by your plate.

Man alive did we feel special and very much loved!

So I decided I better make a Birthday Kit so I could have some things on hand for the birthday's in my family.

In my kit I included:

Birthday Bear

Birthday Banner (My Mom and I made together)

Balloons

Crate Paper

Markers

Candles

Small Plates and Napkins

I did this all before Dailey's Birthday and it was so nice to have it all in one place so I just had to grab the container and we were all set!

Most of the stuff I got at the dollar store too so it was super cheap.

Camping...

This past weekend we went up American Fork Canyon and stayed at the Granite Flats campground. Site 34 was our little home away from home for just a couple of days. It is so fun to watch how much kids enjoy camping. They love the simple things and so do I. We were able to just hang out and have some fun. That canyon is so pretty. I love the lakes and the beautiful trees that dot the mountainside.

We hung out and later some of my family came up too. What a great time we had. Man did Cole love hanging out in the tent trailer. Thanks grandma and grandpa and we definitely had fun on the four wheelers. Thanks B and R!

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!