weekend fun

After spending a few days sleeping over at Grandma Merries, the girls got home and the yard was flooded! They pretty much came home, stripped there clothes off and played in the mud for the rest of the day!!

Since Kyle was on call and couldnt leave the valley, he took his 4-runner apart, did some work to it, then put it back together! I was really impressed with him, it is really nice to have a mechanic for a husband, when something is broke, he just fixes it!!
Not to mention he looks hot while doing it,
for real it was like 100 + degrees out there!! haha

fishing

Saturday we woke up at 5, yes 5, in the morning to go up to otter creek to fish.

It was still kinda cold so we took awhile to get the girls dressed, but after eating some apples and bananas, we braved the coldness and started fishing!

After sitting there for a couple hours with no bites, we loaded up and went to fish lake!!

Me and the girls slept for the hour drive, but when we got there we went and got the best fish lake treat there is, popcorn!

When we usually go up to fish lake we always catch the little perch, like throw the poles in and reel in a perch! But this time we we only caught one!!

We caught big fish, we think Browns and Splakes! Whatever they were they were really pretty!

The wind was blowing pretty good, but since we were catching fish it was ok!

The twins liked eating the popcorn probably more that catching the fish, but they each reeled in a few!

Grace had alot of fun playing with the worms, they were from the field the night before and they were huge!

After we caught 6 or 7 fish we made our way to Richfield to go to Sandys for a great vanilla Pepsi with good Utah ice and lunch!

We had such a great weekend, and the girls didnt stop talking the whole way home. One of the first things that they said when we got home was, "How many more days till we go back?!"!!

Marysvale

We went to Marysvale for the weekend to get out  of the heat!

The first day we were there we worked on getting trees cleaned up and raking weeds up!

The wind was blowing so we got really dusty too!

After Kyle had worked and got everything looking alittle better, we went on a ride up the mountain!

The girls werent all that thrilled to be going, we mostly go for rides to make them all take a nap!!

But after a little bit of a nap, we got up to the top of the mountain to a little creek!

We Kyle went fishing, we just sat there and watched him try and catch something with the worm that he had found a few minutes before!

He did actually catch one, after the girls all pet him, we threw him back in!

The girls are all such tom boys, catching worms and fish, I hope to make them very low maintenance women just like me.
I feel like girls who dont think that they are princesses and the world revolves around them are so much better off in life and a plus.....
no one wants to punch them in the face and tell them that they arent anything special!!! 
Now I will step off my soap box.....

We went on a few little walks, picked flowers, and had so much fun!

On the way down the mountain we ate all kinds of snacks and the girls made binoculars out of paper to see the deer, elk, and bear!! 

It might not be disneyland, but we sure do have alot of fun on all of the little family trips we take and we couldnt ask for a funner spot to be able to escape to on the weekends!

Summer catch up

It is summer!! 

That means we live in our swimming suits, and dont leave the house cause it is to hot!  

A few things we have done so far.....

I made pickles, they are SO good, next batch i will do a few things different but i have really loved eating all the pickles I have made! 

We have been busy playing with Jakell and the kids, they came down for a few weeks and we visited with them as much as we could!

Grace had a wonderful end of school year! She loved water day and her pizza party! She has enjoyed school this year, but I think we were all excited for summer vacation! 

We made smores awhile ago, the girls dont really like them, they would rather eat a marshmallow, then some chocolate, then a cracker, mixing them they dont like!!

Jakell stayed at my moms, so we went and visited them over there and went swimming! My girls love to swim!!!

Jakell really tried to make it fun for us to be over there so she got some goggles and a few beach balls to play with down in the pool, the goggles were so tight that they hurt all of there eyes and really made me and Jakell laugh!

She got us ice cream Sundays to have, the kids liked putting all the candy on the more then actually eating them!! 

I got to babysit her kids while she and Riley went to graduation, we had fun with them! I was nervous they would just cry and scream the whole time, but between me and kyle there was only a few little melt downs!

Our garden was sad this year, I didnt even get a batch off all the tomatoes we planted, but we did get corn! I frozen a bunch of it, so we can eat corn on the cob for the next few months!

Since it is to hot to play out side in the day, we play when the sun goes down! One of our favorite things to do is catch bullfrogs! We only were catching one when we would go down, but we have a system now and can catch one for all the girls to hold!!

The cutest thing that has happened so far is these 3's hair cuts!! They love the short hair they have now, and they look so cute!! Meagan did such a great job and was really patient with these 3 wiggly girls!!

Memorial Day

We decided to take the trailer up to Marysvale over the 4 day long weekend! We knew it would be a little cooler up there, and it defiantly was!

One of the girls favorite thing to do there is go to the park, it is about the least favorite thing for me and kyle! But we were nice and took them to the park and to the school playground! They had alot of fun!

I tried to teach them how to "pump" there legs while swinging and I got a little car sick! I guess thats when you know  you are getting old!

My favorite thing to do while in Marysvale is to go for rides, We just went for a little ride up the canyon and seen a turkey and a deer!

Grace didnt sleep well, so that means that none of us slept well, so she was taking a little nap on this ride.

We didnt do alot on this trip, we mostly just raked up weeds and moved fire wood, and visited lots of family!

It wasnt summer weather up there yet, but by the time we get up there next i am sure it will be a little warmer! I did our summer calender and we are busy till January, but we like it that way!