As usual, it seems we have had a crazy busy August. We started by celebrating our tenth anniversary! We stayed at a bed and breakfast in Provo and had a nice dinner at the Olive Garden. It was our first night together without kids since right before Paxton was born! We decided we need to do that way more often! It was super nice to have some alone time and not wake up to kids in our bed! The very next weekend on the 6
th of August, we crashed my best friend's family reunion and went boating with her and her family! Thanks to my sister and her husband for providing the boat! Becky and her family came to visit with her family, but I managed to steal her away for a few hours of fun on the lake.
The most fun we had was on a huge tube that held three people. My sister is such a good boat driver and knew just when to turn the boat and whip the tube around over the wake! So much fun we couldn't stop smiling and laughing!
The above picture is me, Becky, her daughter Anna (who loved this even though
Caiden was terrified of it and wouldn't even sit on it!) and her husband Stephan.
After getting back from boating, we worked for two days then packed up the trailer again and headed up to our favorite camping spot just outside Bear Lake. We had a pretty big group with us this time including my parents and our friends and their parents and sister's family. We love to take the four wheelers on all the trails and the kids never seem to get tired of it (even though the two little ones fall asleep while riding.
They think they are big enough to go for a ride! Paxton and Wyatt are only three weeks apart in age. Hopefully they will be good buddies!
Beautiful Bear Lake!
This past weekend, August 19 and 20, we bought a new vehicle, had some visitors from Texas and went on a hike to Bridal Vail Falls in Provo! My new vehicle is a fabulous mini van that I'm sure I will be excited about one day. In preparation for the future, we decided it would be best to sell my Camry and get a Toyota Sienna. It does drive nice, but I despise it! I never wanted to be a minivan mom, but oh well. And for all you wondering minds-no-I am not pregnant.....yet.
Our good friends JR and Jennifer came to visit
their family and we managed to steal them away for an afternoon and evening! Jayson and JR went mountain biking and Jen and I ran a few errands with the boys. Paxton totally loved Jen and for days now if I say her name he will start looking around for her. Hopefully my kids didn't scare her into never wanting to become a mommy! Ha Ha! In their defense, they were actually pretty good that day. We had a bar-b-q that night and then we forced Jennifer to take our family pictures, which I will post once she sends them to me!
Our hike to Bridal Vail falls was really fun. It wasn't much of a hike, more of a little walk, but that's
ok cause it was hot that day and Paxton really hated being in the little back pack thing. We got to the falls and played in the freezing cold water for a while, which both boys really liked a lot!
Yay for summer fun in Utah-you can't beat the recreation here in the summer!!!
Jayson got busy one weekend and decided to take out one of our many trees in the back yard and replace it with a fire pit!
Caiden loves to sit out by it and roast marshmallows. In this picture, Jayson and his parents and grandparents are enjoying some root beer floats!
Little Paxton is starting to be a huge mischeif maker! I remember why I have blocked out the toddler phase from my memory! He is constantly opening drawers or getting into my purse or finding everything he is not supposed to! Good thing toddlers are adorable!
I watched my neighbors kids one day for her and loaded them up with some sugar before I sent them home!! These kids are so cute and all four of them played very well together. We always joke that the little girl Cassidy is Caiden's girlfriend, and he doesn't deny it!
My friend Stefanie came to visit form New York (she's the one with black hair sitting next to me) and insisted that the old high school gang got together while she was here. We arranged it all via facebook and all of us could come on the same night, which is amazing since that hasn't happened for about ten years. The most sad thing about it is that all of us minus Stefanie still live very close to one another. This was such a fun night to see everyone and share stories of different trials and triumphs that we've all had over the past several years-it was so easy to just relax back into each other's company. The woman on my right is now my neighbor and she was our favorite teacher in high school. She taught us so much more than just lessons at school. I am so lucky to have her right down the street!
