9 years and still going!!

Yesterday we celebrated our ninth anniversary! Hard to believe that much time has gone by! We had such a fun day celebrating too! We went boating at Willard Bay with my sister and her husband. Jayson and I had never tried water skiing until yesterday-let's just say that Jayson mastered it faster than I did. He was able to get up and go on his first try! I tried three times with no luck then three times more, but only getting up for maybe five seconds each time. My sister was great at it and made it look really easy, but she's been doing it for years. My brother-in-law was so good at it that he had to show off and hold on with one hand while drinking a can of coke with the other! I'm not even making that up! We have video footage of it!
We also did back flips off the back of the boat, which again Jayson and I had both never done. I have to say I mastered that better than Jayson. But I look worse than he does now because my first two times I hit my legs on the water instead of my feet and now I am bruised on both lower legs-I bruise really easily. Just to brag about myself one more time, I also dive better than Jayson, who had never tried that until yesterday! You guessed it-he belly flopped!

Caiden was really scared to get in the water at first, but he was begging us to let him stay in by the end of the day! He loved riding in the boat and swimming with Jayson and I. Once he knew that the life jacket would really not let him drown he was good!

This is Caiden driving the boat with my brother-in-law Jacob and my sister Cailin! He thought he was so so cool!

We ended the night with dinner at Red Robyn and a movie at home after putting the boys to bed. It was a great way to celebrate if you ask me!

Lovin the splash pad!!

So I did a post earlier about the splash pad, but this time we went with different people so I had to post these pictures too! We love the splash pad so much so this time we invited Aunt Kimmie and Grandma ViAnn to come with us! We ate a picnic lunch and splashed in the water with cousins-what a great summer day!! Have I ever mentioned that I have the best baby in the world! He is always so happy and smiling, which is good cause we just pack him around everywhere we go! He is learning the army crawl pretty good now and he has discovered he can make loud noises so he has started to squeel really loud sometimes now. We love this cute little chunky boy!

Caiden and cousin Josh,

Caiden and cousin Alana.

Utah holiday!!

In Utah we celebrate pioneer day on July 24. It fell on a Saturday, but I had the night off so we went to dinner with some of Jayson's friends and their kids! We ate at Texas Roadhouse and then came to our house to do fireworks!! We had a great time and the kids got along great! Paxton went to bed early so we really got to enjoy the evening!
This is a picture of the cute kids. Kenzie age 7, Caiden age 4, and Tanner age 6. I can't believe how tall my son is-maybe these kids are just short, but either way it is pretty funny.

I love this picture of them in the smoke bomb! They liked to run through the smoke-really good for their lungs I'm sure.

Everyone loves sparklers!

Camping, four wheeling, and beaching!

Caiden love to go to the beach- or as he likes to call it "beaching". We went camping with Jayson's parents a few weeks ago to a nice quiet place up near Bear Lake. We enjoyed three days of four wheeling, camping and beaching. We also took my niece Brooke-she is great at keeping Caiden entertained so we don't have to be constantly finding something to keep him busy. Can't wait to go again next week!

fourth of July fun!

For the fourth of July we celebrated with both sets of parents and watched fireworks here in West Point after having a wonderful free sloppy joe dinner! We have done this for the past three years and we enjoy it pretty well! There is lots of fun things to do like bounce houses and rock climbing walls for the kids and it is all free! Good job West Point city!

What a good lookin family!