Flaming Gorge Favorites

4th of July weekend is our annual family trip to Flaming Gorge and the past few years we've been lucky enough to drive up then be able to go home at the end of the day, wash off the campfire smell, and sleep in our own bed. Not this year we were roughin it with Grandpa Davis in his trailer which suprisingly has a bed that is more comfortable than ours. The weekend was great and we've narrowed it down to our favorite things.

1. Chris-watching Crazy old men make stoves out of stumps and cooking things on them.
2. Jess-fishing Hacking Lake (my favorite place in the whole wide world!!!)
3. Huntley-the Outhouse. Disgusting yes but true. She loved going in there, looking down the hole, and declaring "Poop" in the loudest voice she could muster.

PG+June=

Strawberry Days!!!

Unfortunately my excitement of getting to enjoy my hometown celebration is not felt by all.

Month of May

I've defintiley struggled with keeping this thing up to date lately. Maybe it's because we are finally starting to get warmer weather and I'd rather be outside. Or maybe it's because Huntley broke our space bar and to actually type is quite the challenge. When it probably comes down to it though I'd have to say the real reason I haven't posted is every time I've sat down to blog I can't decide what to write about. Now I'm finally forcing myself to do a catch up post so that I can start posting about our fun summer adventures.

One of the best things that happened to us was we got to finally say hello to Scott. He's only been in this world for a few short days but already he's taken a big part of my heart and is the cutest nephew anyone could ask for. We also said goodbye to my grandma this month. She was an amazing lady and a great example to me in my life. My favorite thing about my grandma was how she could always make me laugh, who else feeds the missionaries KFC for Sunday dinner or tries to board an airplane with her Blockbuster card for identification.

I miss her lots everyday but luckily I have these two little cuties to keep me happy.

Chris spent some time in Montana trying to get a job or so he says. I kind of wonder if he really just wanted to spend some time in the Big Sky country looking for animals and sheds.

Unfortunately he wasn't lucky enough to become a Montana fireman. Fortunately for Huntley that gives her more time to spend being goofy with her two best buddies.

I'm also glad we get to stay so we get to spend time with Camo when he comes to visit. Throughout all of this we even found time to do a little fishin. Well Chris did, Huntley and I spent a couple hours throwing rocks in the lake. She's not much of a fisherman but at least we can now take her without having to worry about her crying the whole time.

Graduation Vacation

The last 16 weeks Chris has been working really hard with these guys, In order to make it to this day,
And because of his hard work these guys,

took our family for some much needed R&R here,

where it was freezing cold but we still got to do lots of fun things like,

learn to drive,

or make plans to join all of these crazies,

looking for something that these things lost,
but ended up coming down with the stomach flu in the middle of the night so we had to turn to our backup plan of hanging out in the room, which was still really fun.

Last but not lease we left Chris here to hopefully come home with a job,

Good Luck on your test Chris!

Family Day at RCA

Huntley and I got to visit Chris at school today and witness firsthand what he's been up to lately. Why putting out fires of course, and saving one rusty old building at a time. Although he is not one of the above firefighters. Look below that firefighter laying out a red tarp would be my hardworking hubby. He had the important job of rescuing and saving any injured firefighters. Unfortunately for him, no firefighters were injured for this blog post and he had to stand around looking kind of bored.

It was still fun to go watch him in action and I'm so proud of how hard he's worked these past few months.

Adventures in Babysitting

I guess technically it's not babysitting when it is your own kid but Auntie Merra was babysitting Russell and we thought we would tag along with them to the park. What an adventure it was!

Huntley got over a lot of fears and actually played on the toys. She was so proud of herself she would stop and clap every few minutes.
Russell he has no fear. Not only does he dare go down the slide by himself, he even goes up it too.

Huntley still needs help going down slides but when you have Auntie Merra to hold you they aren't so scary.
Since Russell is so brave he thought it would also be a good idea to build some muscle.

A poor kitty decided to come play with us as well. It didn't last through very much of Huntley and Russell's love. Luckily it could also run faster than they could.

After all that fun it was time to walk home.

It was a fun day at the park!

Easter x's 4

We celebrated Easter on four separate occasions at our house this year. To start off the festivities we went to the Nelson's for their neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt. Huntley was in to those eggs. She took off like a champ and picked up 5 eggs, double from the 2 I put in her basket last year which she promptly removed. Russell on the other hand, he wasn't really into the whole egg finding thing.

He decided he'd much rather play on a Squirrell then pick up pieces of plastic.

Huntley followed him over to the toys but spent the whole time staring at everything. Yep she takes after her momma and is a wimpy girl but there is nothing wrong with being cautious.

Chris on the other hand jumped right on the toys and could have stayed at the park all night.

Afterwards we went back to Russell's house and discovered that there is stuff inside the eggs and we better hurry up and eat it all as quick as we can. Kristi made us a wonderful dinner that was interrupted by the down side of a sugar rush and if we would have taken a picture it would have been similar to Russell looking for eggs. Overall it was a blast and we are glad they invited us!

Friday the Easter Bunny sent us a package all the way from California. It was full of all sorts of goodies and things to love.

Saturday we woke up and the Easter Bunny had came again. He hid eggs all over our house that Huntley never bothered to find, maybe they weren't hidden hard enough? She was distracted by the legos and firetruck in her basket.

That afternoon we went to Grandma and Grandpa's for another egg hunt and to roast hot dogs. The below picture is pretty crappy of the fam but I love Joshy's face and Huntley's little bum in the background.

Huntley again found 5 eggs and then quit so she could play in the dirt.

Last but not least was the actual Easter day. We spent the day relaxing and listening to Conference and of course eating our favorite dinner of the year. Conference is my favorite Sunday, yes I love the spiritual uplift, but also because it's the only Sunday my dad doesn't have meetings and spends the day cooking. Conference dinner is bigger and better than Thanksgiving at our house and this year it definitley didn't disappoint, thanks Dad!