It's about time!

While most people are posting their first day of school, I am just getting around to the 4th of July! Maybe by Halloween I will post the first day of school. We had a blast (as usual) with ALL of Erics family in Heber for the 4th. This year his cousins that live in Heber took on the HUGE job of getting shirts made for all of us. It was so much fun to have matching shirts and be recognized as part of the family. These are pictures of us waiting for the parade, the sun was soooo bright until after the parade, then the clouds moved in and the temp. dropped to the mid 60's! What a great day! Thank to the Baums, and Halls for putting up with us!

The sun was killing this poor girls eyes, the things she does to make mom happy! Lately Cambree looks so grown up, it's killn' me!

SUPER STAR!!!!

So lately Alyssa feels the need to pose for every picture, usually this is her choice....don't know why. I'm just glad it's her index finger that is alway sticking up!

Braden is like his mama....this is how he looks if he has to wake up before 9 a.m.!

Love this baby boy....he is always happy!

I'm Frikn' Freezn'......

Every 4th of July we go to Heber, AZ with all of Eric's family, we love spending the 4th in the cool country! This year it was literally cool every afternoon. Eric's Uncle Ed got this cool water slide for all of the cousins to play on, when I took this picture it was 62 degrees outside, in July, in Arizona!!! Amazing!!!! Poor Hailey was purple for the rest of the day but the kids had a blast with all of their cousins on the slide!

The Big One Got Away!

As usual I am running behind on the posts! The last weekend in June Eric went deep sea fishing in Mexico with his brother Jason and his friend Brian. Obviously he was a little successful! This is a 70 pound Grouper that he caught and let me tell you.... it is delicious!

Mid-Life Crisis?

So, I think this is part of my mid life crisis. It made me feel pretty good that being 30 and haveing birthed 5 kids I could still do a back flip on the trampoline! I know this will not last much longer so I had Eric capture a kodak moment so I can look back and say, "see what I used to be able to do?" However, after looking back at the pics, I realized it's not really a back flip but a back hand spring with no hands! Oh well, it still makes me feel like a kid!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE

June 6th was Eric's birthday, he got to spend that day with his scouts at scout camp. They went golfing in Snowflake so it's not like he was roughing it too much on his big day. He returned home the next day and needless to say we were very happy to see him! The kids had all made him cards and his awesome wife found camouflage wrapping paper for his gifts. Another day older and wiser too, love ya babe!

Brotherly Love

Braden loves to hold Grady, usually Grady is good to go along with whatever the other kids do. He usually will let the kids pack him around, and he even won't cry when Braden wrestles him! However, sometimes enough is enough. We just love these little boys!

More bragging on my girls

So one night Eric was out of town and I was extremely busy holding down the fort by myself. I was making dinner and Hailey said she wanted cornbread with the chili I was making. I told her I did not have enough time to make it, she and Cambree said they would do it. I gave them the cookbook, they followed the recipe, and made cornbread from scratch all by themselves! My goal is life is this: I have 3 daughters, hopefully one will love cooking, one will love sewing, and one will love cleaning so that one day I will not have to do any of it! :)