Oh, Lake Powell

This has got to be my most favorite place to be; Lake Powell. Where else can you play all day and night in the water and sand, forget all your worries, and see the neatest sights? There are probably many places but this is the only one I've been to.

This was Kade's first trip with McKylee. We took him last year and he was great! He loved to play with McKylee in the sand and on the Oasis(a floating play area).

This is a picture of our camp area and my brother and his friend's boats.

Sleepy

Can't...keep...my...eyes...open....
Clint was playing in the jumper while I showered. I laughed the whole time because he tried so hard to keep his eyes open but finally gave in to the hypnotizing sound of the water.

Honk, Honk

"HONK, HONK!," says Kade.

Kade and Clint spent hours in this car this summer. After pushing them all over the driveway and up and down the street I was ready to install a motor. There were many times the neighbor girls would come over and push them. We've got a few girls about 10 years old that love to play with the little kids on the street.

Big #1

Clint turned 1. I can't believe how fast his first year went by. He's been such a good baby. He didn't know what to think about the fire on his cake.

He loved to eat the cake though!

We say it every Birthday and Christmas we have with our kids, "We should have just given him a box."

Kade was so excited to sing Happy Birthday to Clint and definitely to eat CAKE!!!

Reading

Here are my two readers. Kade is enjoying "Fred and Ted go Camping" and "Sick Bear", while Dad reads a good novel. Kade is loving books right now. He'll set for about and hour and just 'read' his books. I hope he always enjoys looking at them and reading them.

Wooden Train

Some times I wonder what I was doing. The 4th of July is one of our favorite holidays to celebrate and I after it is over I have 1 picture?!. Grrrrrrrrrrr. I'm glad it is this one though. Riding the tractor train at the Aurora park has been a 4th of July tradition since I was a kid. I'm so excited for Kade to love it too.

Brothers

My cuties. I can't believe Clint will be 1 this month. It feels like I have to admit he's not a newborn if he's 1. I'm not ready to have 2 toddlers. Kade has been so great with Clint up until just recently. Now that Clint can move around and wreck Kade's towers, or take what he's playing with Kade doesn't think Clint is quite as cool as he use too.

Grateful

Every time I see a wreck on the news, on the road, or in the paper I am overwhelmed with the feeling of how grateful I am to still have Darryl with me. He was traveling to Redmond to the mine to do a dynamite shoot with some brokers for the company. In his truck he was carrying lots of ammo, and guns. He was also going to trim some trees on his way home so he had his chain saw and a few cans full of gasoline. He was on the highway, just outside of Axtell, going 65+ mph when he and an oncoming car were about to cross paths. Instead the oncoming car came straight into his lane. With no time to think, only time to react Darryl swerved to avoid hitting the man head on. The man hit the passenger side taking out the rear axle and sent Darryl air born. The truck went up, front facing the ground, and flipped and landed on the driver side. An old army ammo can filled with ammo, weighing at least 15 lbs., was laying near Darryl's head. It had been flying around in the cab and luckily did hit Darryl. With adrenaline pumping Darryl climbed out of the passenger door and ran over to help the other driver. When he called me I was so nervous that he had internal injuries and because he was flying around on adrenaline they would think he was fine and not check him out. It wasn't until a few days later after being with him that I was reassured he would be okay. I know I have a lot to be grateful for because he walked away without a bruise or scratch.
We miss our truck. It was our first truck and we were so attached to it. We got it on a great deal and it was exactly what we were looking for. Every time we see a truck like it we still gawk at it mournfully and say, "Oh, there's our truck." We couldn't find a good deal on another truck like it so Darryl got a 2006 Chevy Silverado. He wanted a Duramax but we found this one at such an awesome deal we couldn't pass it up.

Gotta' Love it

Being on the water just makes me happy! These are some pictures of us on trip at Deer Creek Reserviour. Darryl and I did some wakeboarding, and Darryl flew on the Sky Ski. Here is a picture of him attempting a flip. He landed a couple this year!

It's Cracking!

This picture has two stories. The first is Darryl had taken off his tie from church and Kade wanted to be like Dad. It's a little big, but cute. The second is what Kade is touching. Darryl's mom gave Kade a 'dinasour egg' that hatches in water. It takes about a week to completely hatch but everyday it cracks, peeks out more, or just gets bigger. Kade was so excited about his egg. Every time he woke up whether it was in the morning or just from a nap he would say, "Lets look at my egg Mom!"