Blog slacker...

So lately I have been a huge blog slacker!

But I do have some good excuses like...

MOVING

House hunting

Unpacking

Starting a new job

and just being a mom!

I've decided that I am going to delegate some time

every Sunday to do some blog posting.

But to start catching up I will start with us moving...

So we found a rental in Saratoga Spings, and in order to get it on a

month to month lease I agreed to take the place as is and do the cleaning.

Thanks to some angels ie Suzie for helping me clean for like 10 hours and

to Jenna for watching my kids all day.

Suzie and I cleaned that 3 bedroom apartment for like 10 hours and let me just tell you it was DISGUSTING! There were boogies EVERYWHERE... on the walls, ceilings, inside on the closets, doorways, light switches, doors and just EVERYWHERE!

It was so gross! Jenna had lent me her steamer and I literally

melted the head off of her steamer!

The next day was actual moving day and my 2 awesome 16 year old nephews

came and helped us moved! It ended up that it was just Trent, Me, Suzie, Kyler and

Trenton that moved our whole house. Somehow we didn't get the

word out to our ward that we were moving that day.

Thankfully around 6pm we needed an extra man to help us move our

piano and our fabulous neighbor Brad came and helped us move our piano.

I took one last look at my empty house as we pulled away and I got super emotional.

I was leaving our first home we bought as a married couple, the house we brought

both our babies home from the hospital to and all the happy memories we have there.

I am excited for our new house but it was hard to say goodbye.

Camping

Camping.... Not my favorite thing!

However I do love hanging out with family, four wheeling,
eating and watching my kids have tons of fun!

This was Livvy and Owen's first time
camping and they both had a blast!
We met up with Trents family at a spot by fish lake
which is like a 3 and a half hour drive from Lehi.

My little family and Jenna caravaned down together and
we stopped in Salina to have lunch.
The kids had fun eating and running around after the seagulls :)


Trent's family likes to camp where no one else is
which means no toilet or running water.
This kind of camping is new to me and I like that we are by no one
but I don't like the no toilet or water thing.
The spot they chose was really pretty and was right next to a stream.
Before I knew it Owen was "Bathing" in the stream.
He was having so much fun along with all his cousins!






Then after all the fun in the water
the kids decided to dig in the dirt!
It was so cute watching all the kids play and seeing
my kids get FILTHY!

(I know this is shocking to hear from me
the neat freak, but I truly did enjoy watching my kids just dig in the dirt)


And here are the results!

The we ate dinner which I didn't get picture of :(
We ate BBQ chicken with potatoes and bacon!
It was YUMMY!

Then we just sat around and visited



Then Ashley and Owen found the four wheeler and pretended to drive.
They are so cute together!

After all that camp started settling down for the night.
Trent and I were in a tent and the night was HORRIBLE!
I don't think I will camp again with a baby or near cows!
Between Owen waking up every couple hours because he didn't know where he was
and Livvy waking up multiple times because she was cold and the
STUPID cows mooing all night, I think I may have slept
for like a total of an hour or two.

I don't have any picture of the next day because
I was too tired to care. But we did have fun, we went on a couple
four wheeling rides, ate breakfast, and played with family.

Then we left before lunch because I was
so tired and done being dirty.

We did have fun though!
Thanks for the fun Smith Family!
You are all awesome to put up with me the non camper!

4th of July fun!

Our 4th was pretty low key...

That morning we went and had breakfast with
my side of the family at my Mom's house.
We had so much fun eating, talking and holding the new baby.


That evening Jenna and her family came over for
Pizza, rootbeer floats and some street fireworks!









Owen was TERRIFIED of the fireworks.
After about 10 minutes of Owen screaming, crying and closing his eyes while saying
"I'm tired, put me to bed! I'm scared of the fireworks! Please take me inside!"
We took him inside where he calmed down and had some ice cream at the table.
Rachel didn't care for the sound of the fireworks,
but she braved them and just covered her ears :0)



Hopefully he will like the fireworks next year, but I'm not holding my breath.

Thanks to all the family that hung out and ate with us!
We are very blessed!

Slip and slide

So a couple weeks ago
I watched Marci's kid for an hour so she
could go to the doctor kid free :0)

Jenna and I decided it
would be fun for all the kids to get
out the slip in slide and the kiddie pool for the babies.

All the kids except Lacey had a blast!
Although Lacey liked the cupcakes and hanging out outside
she just didn't want to be in the baby pool. :)

Baby pool!
Starring Jonah, Livvy and Lacey

Slip 'n Slide fun!
Anson, Lucas, Rachel
Adam, Ashley and Owen!

Eating Cupcakes! YUMMY!

The Splash pad

A few weeks ago the Me and the Kiddos decided
to head over to the splash pad in Highland to cool off!
We met up with Jenna and her kids
and also Grandma Dawn!
A little while later Tausha,
Suzie and her littles joined us too!

This was Livvys first time to actually play in the water
and she loved it!

Happy Summer Everyone!

My new niece Juliet!

My kiddos LOVE Juliet!
My brother and his wife had their cute
baby girl back in June.
Here are a couple
pictures showing off how cute she is and how much
my kids love her!




Livvy would talk to her and
Owen wanted to hold her and would
tell Juliet how cute she is
and how much he loved her :)

Gotta love Juliet's eyes in this picture!

Juliet and Big Sister Scarlet!

This is one VERY loved baby!

Welcome to the world Juliet!
And Congrats to my brother
David and his awesome wife Heidi!

Weekend with Daddy

Bless my Husband for letting me
have a girls weekend!

While I was away playing at a cabin
with the women in my family, Trent watched the kids :)

He took them to the hardware store,
Lunch with Grammy and the Zoo!







He even made sure Livvy had a bow in her hair! :0)


I have the best husband ever!

Thanks Trent for the much needed weekend away!