Torn Between being a girly girl or a tomboy.

I just had to share this picture. It is way to dang cute. I about died laughing when I saw that she was wearing the little pearl necklace and carrying a gun. She is too much fun!

Simple, Yet So TrueTo My Feelings

A Tree House, A Free House
A Secret You and Me house
A high up in the leafy branches
Cozy as can be house.

A Street house, A neat house
Be sure to wipe your feet house.
Is not my kindof house at all.
Lets go live in a tree house

-Shel Silverstein

Worst Camping Trip EVER!

I wasn't even going to blog about this camp trip, that is how bad it was. It rained the whole time, and when the sun did come out, we would hurry and get the kids shoes on them and as soon as they stepped foot out of our little prison (the car or the tent) it would start raining and or HAILING! All I can say is I seriously would have rather stayed home and worked! Here are some pictures.

Stuck in the tent...

Samuel said a little prayer before bed that night, asking that there be sunshine so we could go out and play....it was answered..


Betty checking the nutritional facts of a granola bar

Samuel found this spatula down by the water

"It must be Spongebobs!"

yes we brought it home and he still plays with it

Some nature pictures

Stuck in the durango...

Is It True.... Is It Really Here!? SUMMMER

Saturday we went to the UVSC car show at thanksgiving point. Aidan and Paul had a blast. Here are some pictures...

Betty propped her bottle up. hehe shes so cute

Now on to the good stuff!

Yesterday it was hot enough that I got the kids pool out and filled it up for them. This is Betty's first time ever swimming.

This is as close as she would get to getting in

There is nothing cuter than a chubby baby in a swimsuit!




This is Samuel "Swimming underwater"

Relaxing in the shade

as you can see, shes had enough already

My Little Man

Samuel got the "Caught being reverent" Award at church today. He was so proud of himself as am I. I just wanted to share this with you all.

Howdy Ya'll

I've been trying to think of something interesting and totally awesome to write. But I can't, but I have to blog, its like the chicken pox itch, or when you get bit by a mosiquto. You know you shouldn't itch it, but YA GOTTA! lol I don't think that analogy is a good one, but oh well. (ps. its 2:19am and I am at work.) So anywho, we went to the zoo again on friday. I think it was a lot funner this time. Hotter, but Funner. There wasn't a whole lot of People, and so we were able to take our time and actually watch for the animals to do something besides lay around. (Are you happy no cathi? I said that all the animals do is lay around!).





We actually lucked out at the elephant exhibt. They just built a new pond for the elephants that is actually deep enough for them to swim in, however the elephants have never been in deep water, so they are scared of it. The zoo keepers are trying to get them use to it, so they take apples and coax the elephants to the deeper end of the pond. I actually got some really cute shots of them doing this. And apparently the elephants at the zoo KNOW HOW TO DO TRICKS! I did not know this.

We missed the bird show however.. aww dang... not... Don't get me wrong, I like birds, I think that most of them are really pretty, and they can even be a little cute. But I can watch a bird fly around at home, and I almost daily catch a hawk swooping down from the lunch in the field by our house. I think I will survive.

The bears were of course hiding in there little dens so we kindof skipped over them (most of us anyways) But Aidan had to see the Zebras so the baby whisperer aka Paul took him over to see them, while we went and saw the Penguins. But of course Aidan had to show mommy the zebras. so I ended up walking over to them anyways.

LUCKY ME! The little bear guy decided to come out.

Look Brea.. He's imitating Koda!

You'd think after all that excitement we would be exhausted and head home right? No. We headed to the Giraffes.

And I finally got a shot of the Baby Giraffe!




This guy was just too cute to leave out.

Aidan, Brooklyn, Bailey and Samuel waiting for the train...

I got this really cool picture of a bat..

Here are some pictures of the kids playing at the park.

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So that was the extent of our zoo trip... now on to an update......

Our little Betty Jeanne is no longer on the bottle! She is a pure sippy cup baby! It was not as hard as I thought it was going to be. I have been giving her juice in a sippy, and then i have slowly been putting milk in the sippy and not giving her a bottle for one or two of her feedings. AND TONIGHT SHE WENT TO SLEEP WITH A SIPPY INSTEAD OF A BOTTLE! *Proud Of Self*

Some cute things she does:

• She grabs her leg and pulls it so her foot is up by her face, its the cutest thing, i will try to get a picture of this.
• She scrunches her face up and blinks her eyes when she is "flirting"
• She will pick up random things and bring them to you, until you have a pile of stuff sitting on your lap.
• She has just started to point to things. I LOVE IT! there is nothing cuter than a little tiny finger pointing.
• If you say "awwww" she will give you a hug.
• She knows what a firetruck is, and will go "Wee Woo Wee Woo" when she sees one.
• When ever she sees her daddy, she will open and close her hand in his direction.

If I Were A Flower Growing Wild And Free..

All I would want is for you to be my sweet honey bee..
Some lyrics from Betty's new favorite song. She is so much fun! I mean don't get me wrong, my boys were fun when they were baby and they are a lot of fun now. But my little Betty I tell you what. She is my best friend. I sometimes want to wake her up if she sleeps for too long. Last night she kept pulling clothes out of the laundry and brining them to Paul. So he started to put them on her.






We decided not to just sit home (and clean like we should have) so we loaded the kids up in durango and we drove to this little park, where there is a trail that goes along the jordan river. It was really nice.
What a great way to end the day....