Sunday, September 18, 2011

June

JUNE

I should be blogging about the first day of school or something a little more recent but I am determined to get our summer activities on here!

Riley had her end of the year recital the first part of June.  We have seen her dance a few times already due to lots of exciting competitions, but everyone came to see them and she was fabulous!
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 She was chosen by one of her dance teachers to get an award for the year.  She was quite excited about it!
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 Of course we made several lake trips but this was one of the first and it was still a little chilly!
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 The kids got blown to the other side of the dock and couldn't get out, so I got a rope, made a chain and drug them back to the boat!
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 They were a little cold after :)
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 Me & Ray
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 Happy little chunk!
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I ran my first ever race in June.
It was the Ragnar Wasatch Back and it was SO much fun!!
I got to know these lovely ladies pretty quickly and we had a blast together!
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Me, after my first leg, up a rather difficult climb!
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Then my cute Hubby & kids met us at the Yacht club and brought us a spaghetti dinner!

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Thought we might get some sleep in the truck, no such luck!

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Then we tried to sleep on a gym floor,
if a half hour counts as sleep then we totally got some!

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All refreshed and ready for our 3rd and final leg!

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This was Cindy's "small" hill she had to run
I think I would have had to crawl up it!

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Luck me, I got to run down the other side!

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What a huge accomplishment! We finished! I loved it! I was tired but I had such a good time.  In fact I put together a team to run one in Vegas in October and then I happened to get on a team to run one in April and the Wasatch Back again in June....so keep on running baby!

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We celebrated our wonderful Father and hubby!

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Had the Fam all over for Father's day dinner!

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More lake trips with a very sleepy baby!

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She wouldn't let go of my phone :)

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So worn OUT!!!

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Except one!

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A good time was had by all!!
More to come for July!!!!


Sunday, August 7, 2011

April & May

Suprise, suprise...I am actually updating my blog!
Thought I would go a few months back....

April
I know my last post was in April but I didn't say what else we had been doing.

Rayden turned 4!
Her birthday was the same day as Easter this year, so we had a party a few days before, we had a girlie girl princess party. I made Tu-tu's thanks to some help from Jenny.
We played games and danced...lots of fun!
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We also celebrated Easter

 Easter morning
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 Pretty Purple people
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We celebrated Mother's day

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 Ryker had his end of year Kindergarten performance, and much to my suprise...
He ROCKED!!!
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We went to Vegas for Lindsey & Jake's wedding

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Lindsey & Jake swimming with the kids

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This is us after the ceremony

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They also had a reception in Utah so we went to that one too
Doesn't she look beautiful???

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Had to have a picture of the matching family

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 After the reception, the kids got to go swimming at Grammy and Grampy's hotel
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Grammy & Grampy

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 Rayden graduated from preschool

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 Her fun teacher

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 We took our "new" boat out to the Lake for the first time over Memorial Day

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We had a sleepover on the boat

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Then got to go to all the graves in Morgan

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Then we ate a yummy lunch at Taggarts...fabulous deserts!

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So that is April and May at a glance, we still have June and July to cover, but for now that is what we did.

Friday, April 15, 2011

The BIG day!

The BIG day finally arrived!
NO MORE CAST!

I have a million things I should blog about, but this one is the most exciting, and so deserving of a post!
Just hours before the dang thing comes off...of course she had to have one last blow out in it, just to help me appreciate it's removal that much more!
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Waiting anxiously....
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 Anytime now....
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Finally it is time!
She couldn't quite figure out what was happening
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It actually took a little while to get the cast off.
She said it was very thick (which explains why it weighed so much)

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 After all the sawing came prying it apart
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 AHHHH...relief
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Not to worry she still has her chunks :)

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I know this is gross, but it will help to show how incredibly hard it was to clean her up after she would poop, mind you some of this is fresh from right before her appointment!
Can you imagine...yuck!

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Finally get to snuggle my chunky monkey!
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Some how this is the only clothed after shot I have taken.
She finally gets to wear clothes

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And the best part of all was the bath!!!!
I could not wait to get her in the tub and do a scrub down

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I just love this little chunk. 
For everything she has been thru, she is such a happy content little thing.
It was a long 3 months but thank heavens this part is over.
Her hips look like they are in the right spot, so for now we have her sleep in a harness for the next 3 months and do some follow up appointments and pray they don't slip out because I DO NOT want to have to do this ever again!