So I am so behind on blogging. We have been doing so many wonderful fun things the last month or so and I haven't had a chance to sit and write about it. Part of the problem is this sloooooow computer. It takes forever to download a picture but I think that I need to start to play caught up anyway.

So we were so sad that Lucia, our spain daughter for 3 weeks had to go home. She was absolutely a joy to have stay with us and hope that we will keep in contact with her and her family forever. I will try to down load some of the pictures of the fun activities that we did while she was here and her sad going away. Lucia if you are reading this we hope you are having a ball on your next vacation and know that we still miss you.

Anyway the Burrows girls headed up to Ed week again this year and had another wonderful year. It is always so fun to go to Ed week. We get so spiritually feed and have such a great time with the Burrows girls. This year we did the traditional toe nail painting and Stacy, Steph, and Kaitlyn did a awesome job. They also made darling braclets and watch bead bands too. They turned out so cute. I really loved the speakers again this year. As I did last year I loved Bro. Baron. What a mind he has. He can remember so many things and it was interesting to learn that a few years ago he also went through a bout of cancer. I always feel a kinda of bond with anyone who has experienced cancer. It is like Jill Grant said. You are all part of a club. A club no one ever wants to be part of but once you are you feel a kindred with those that have experienced some of the same things you have gone through.

We have been busy getting the kids ready to go back to school. (BOO WHO) I hate when my kids go back to school. I always have. I have never been the kind of mom that looks forward to having some time to myself while they are at school. I am always happiest when I have my children home and close to me. Even now that they are married. I do like to have them home. So though I am so thankful that we live in a country that educates our children I still hate it when they have to go back to school.

We had the opportunity to just drop everything on Wednesday and just take a quick trip to Bear Lake. (I must say that Bear Lake even tho it is where years ago I almost died. Seriously. I still love the place.) I love the great big body of water but believe me I also respect it very much. I love the sun there too but have gotten a new thinking on how very hot it can be and how very much I am thankful for Sunscreen. Anyway we went and stayed up at the 3 bears cabin at the Nebekers. Mike talked to them to see if his family could go and no one was using it on Wednesday so we loaded up and went. Paige had to work...sorry Paige we did miss you but Parker and McKenzie went. We had a great time. We meet up with the Petersons (Brinkley and Richy too.) and went and ate pizza. They really showed us up by eating the biggest pizza I have ever seen called the "OLD EPHRIAM" pizza. Way to go Petersons. Then we went to the cabin Kenzie and Park played in the water. Light was running out so no time for swim suits. They just ran in and jumped on the trampoline and played for awhile then a little bad mitton. Wow did I laugh hard at how good we all were at that game. I have such funny children. We then watched a little I love Lucy. Great show.

The next morning we got up and went on a bike ride. Parker and Kenzie rode the first 10 miles while I followed in the car and then I rode for 17. We rode over to pack the bikes up at the KOA where Petersons were staying. We said our good byes and off we went. Less than 24 hours had past and we were on our way home. We packed a lot into that one day but we had a great time and would we do it again????? Yes we would. Matter of fact Kenzie is up there with the young women right now. I bet you are having a blast Kenzie. I am jeolous.

Lucia arrives

So we are so lucky this summer to have Lucia, from Spain come to stay with us for 3 weeks. She arrived late on Thursday night. 07-09-09. We picked her up at the church around 9:30 and the group of them were very tired. Most had not had any sleep for almost 24 hours.

After we came home and exchanged gifts. Which she and her mom picked out and we all loved. We showed her around the house and where her bedroom would be for the time she is with us and then we were all off to bed.


The next morning we took her to the church to get started in her learning about our country and especially Utah. Their first stop was Classic Fun Center where they climbed the rock wall, roller skated and played games. Oh yea and ate pizza. Kenzie went with them and had a great time.










Friday night we headed up to our ward over nighter which was in North Fork Camp ground.
It was fun and Lucia was able to meet a lot of the girls from the neighborhood. The girls even decided to sleep out under the stars.

Parker and Greg loved it too because there were plenty of girls up at the camp out.

So the end of May we went on a little weekend get away with a group of friends. It was so fun. We went with the Smiths, Webbs and the Charlesworths. We had a great time even if it did rain a bit. Smiths have a ton of 4 wheelers and the Webbs brought up two of theirs and we had "Henry". So everyone had a great time 4 wheeling.

We not only 4 wheeled but the boys hiked and also killed 2 rattle snakes. The one did not want to die. Richard finally cut off his head. I mean completely separated it from the body and the snake, I kid you not lived a half hour longer. The head keep trying to bite and the body was like trying to reattach itself to the head. Weirdest thing I have ever seen.

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.