Parker turns 16 Yikes

Parker is so excited the big day finally got here. He told his dad that he had to have the day off because of course it was his birthday. So he slept in until about 10:45 when I finally was able to get him to get up and just in time. At 11:00 his friend Quinsie surprised him with a knock on the door. (She had told him that she was out of town but she really wasn't) Anyway she brought over a darling present. Sheet music, candy and a gift certificate to Chille's. It was way cute.

Then he headed up to get the long awaited for DRIVERS LICENSE! Then he went to see some of his friends and then he meet the whole family (except Cody, he had to work and McKenzie was at girls camp... darn) at the front runner and we rode it down to SLC, got on Traxs and rode to Sandy and ate a super meal at "Mama's Spagatti It was great. Then back home for some cake and ice cream. Yum!!

Addi had a great time riding on the big train. We were also excited that Dixie and Art barely got back from St. George and were able to make the train and come with us.

Look out everyone here comes Parker.

Hurray for Graduations

She did it. Paige has graduated from Fremont. We are so proud of you Paige and we are so excited for you to embark on your new adventure at Utah State. But yes I am worried and will miss you horribly.








Parker is also so excited to be done with school. He had a great time being an officer this year and is looking forward to it again next year. He didnt even mind being the only boy with all five girls.









McKenzie also had a great time at officer and she received so many awards this year. She was on all four sports teams as a 7 th grader we are really proud of her for that but she also got so many academic awards. She really worked hard all year and had a great year.

Memorial day fun

What a great day we had on memorial day. We got up early and went to McKenzies soccer game in Kaysville. If her team won then we had another on that afternoon but if they didn't we were headed to waterfall canyon for a hike. So when her team lost by one point in a really good game we were a little bit happy that we were going to go.

Off we went under the direction of Brinkley because she "knew where we were suppose to go". Well after getting a little confused on which trail the sign was telling us to use we could see where we wanted to go so we started to make our "own" trail following our "trail master" Richy. (Richard and Parker went ahead to see if they could figure out the trail system.) We ended up meeting up again. They walked further but we get the prize for getting more scratches, more little wormy bugs on us but we had the most fun I am sure. But after a long hike we made it to the top. It was awesome and we were so glad that we did it. We ate our picnic lunch at the base of the waterfall and it tasted yummy.

We headed back home to pick up my mom, Helen and meet up with Cody, Robyn and Addi to go to the cemetery and deliver flowers.

Then off to A & W Root beer for some wonderful floats and home to bed to crash. It was a wonderful day.

Fun in the sun and the sand

Ok confession. I have been really lucky because Robyn and Brinkley have been doing my blog page for me until I could figure it out. Well I am trying to figure it out and I haven't got the picture thing down yet or the cute clip art. But hopefully with time I will get this figured all out. Wish me luck and know that these pages will never be as cute as they have been when the girls did them.

Addi loves to play in the sand. So today we took off our shoes and buried our toes. It was a gorgeous day. The sun was shinning and the temperature was just right for playing in the yard. It was so fun. Are these such cute feet or what?

Addi loves to ride on "Henry" our four wheeler too. So about everyday that she comes to our house we jump on and ride to "Farmer Phil's" farm to see the baby cows. We ride down the ditch trail and see all the neighbors horses, brown and white cows, birds, dogs, cats, and goats. I love to live close to the farm, smell and all.


Kenzie and I were getting the horse shoeing stuff out of the horse trailer the other day and we opened the door and guess what we found? Five baby racoons and their mom. It scared me to death. Kenzie handled it much better than I did. We are not sure what we should do about them. We hear that they are not to good on peoples gardens. I will try to get a picture to put on here but being on dail up it takes for ever to get a picture down loaded so I think one is enough for today.

So addi went with her thats is why there is a few of her.

So Paige had her senior pictures done they all haven't come back but a doctor at Brinkley's work took them and showed her a preview of them. So here they come I think they are beautiful!