Cherry Hill

Even though the weather was a little overcast and stormy the kids and I headed to Cherry Hill again anyway.  

The first little bit was kinda chilly:

But it soon warmed up to be perfect!

I forgot to mention that for my birthday this year I got a new underwater/waterproof camera and I am absolutely loving it!  I have used it so much already and it has been the best gift ever, thanks Mom and Dad!  Today I took in the pool with me to try and catch the kids in action!

The lazy river:

Will LOVES when all the water turns on:

Emmie doesn't mind too much either:

Crazy kid:

I just LOVE my chubby little baby Emmie!!!

And this handsome little guy too!

Pirates Cove

I can just honestly never get enough of Cherry Hill.  It is worth every penny and the kids and I have so much fun together!

Cherry Hill with Gammy Stacy and Whitni

The kids and I were very excited to have company with us this afternoon at Cherry Hill.  Whitni just quit her job and we couldn't wait to celebrate a little with her before she takes off to San Francisco for a week and then Spain with Stacy shortly after.  It was fun having some time with them both and we had such a great day swimming!

Will was boycotting having his picture taken but I promise he was there with us.  

We decided to give Emmie a piece of dried mango and she LOVED it!

Happy Pioneer Day

We had a pretty non eventful 24th of July this year and spent the day just being together as a little family.  Later in the evening we had Mikes family over for a BBQ and some fireworks.  

Will would have been content just playing with the glow sticks :)

Gammy Stacy and Papa Brent

Mike was super excited about our fireworks ;)

Myself, Whitni and Mike put on a sparkler show!

Down the street from us our neighbors went all out on fireworks so we headed down and Will played with his buddy Zack.

Happy Pioneer Day!

Cascade Springs

I have to talk in Sacrament meeting tomorrow so I spent all morning preparing my talk and then we decided to head out for a hike so I could stop stressing out!  We snagged lunch at a Pleasant Grove favorite Taco Amigo and then headed to the American Fork Canyon.  We ended up at a hike called Cascade Springs and it was so perfect for kids.  Will loved seeing all the springs and putting his feet in the water.  

It was super hot and on our way back down Will decided he needed a turn in the backpack!

Hahaha poor Mike!

I LOVE summer and hiking with my kiddos!

Girls Camp 2012 {flaming gorge} Day 4

Today we packed up camp and headed home!  I was so excited to get home and see Will and Emmie and sleep in my nice cozy bed snuggled up to my cute hubby!  Camp was fun but I am so happy to be home.  Now onto preparing my talk for Sacrament meeting Sunday..................

Girls Camp 2012 {flaming gorge} Day 3

Today we were all excited to just spend some time around camp.  The girls headed out on a morning hike lead by our bishopric and the leaders stayed back and set up a spa for when they got back.  They LOVED it!  It was such a great reward since it was super hot on the hike!

Next we split up into groups and the leaders taught workshops based off of our camp theme Believe, Obey and Endure.  Kim and I taught Believing in the Scriptures and our workshop ended up pretty good.  We sent the girls on a scavenger hunt using the scriptures to tell them which way to go.  We blindfolded one girl just to make it interesting and it ended up so challenging.

The pirate treasure!

It was funny because only a few girls ended up close to where the treasure was but luckily we were able to tie it into our lesson.  We finished up with a craft and made really cute bottle cap necklaces with our camp theme on them.

Tish and Sandy tied everything together perfectly with their SOS lesson and we all were dying at the beginning with their awesome dance!

We had some free time so a bunch of us decided to go cliff jumping again!

Sarah, Allyson, & Katelin

We had a lot of fun today just hanging out playing games and being silly.  I learned a whole bunch of camp traditions which was great since I only went twice as a YW.  We ended the evening with Testimony Meeting and it was very eye opening.  A lot of the girls shared very personal stuff that definitely clued me in to what these girls are really struggling with.  It was interesting.

I forgot to mention that we are surrounded by young men camps so of course tonight we had to prank them.  The leaders all joined in to "keep our girls safe" but we all had a blast!  Just as me and Allie were almost up to one of the boys tents they scared us and I ended up taking a dive in the fire pit, OUCH!!!  Thank goodness they hadn't had a fire or I would have had a lot more than just some pretty bad bruises!

We stayed up late around the camp fire listening to the amazingly talented Alapa sisters.  They are amazing and it was the perfect ending to our camp and night.