Happy Holidays

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Drive to Bear Lake

 

I love the drive to our last camping trip for the year over conference weekend!!  The leaves are beautiful and it isn't too hot!!  This year we went Logan way and stopped at my favorite pizza joint Fredrico's Pizza!!  We stopped at the Rest Stop at the top of the hill where you can see Bear Lake!!  Of course I can't go without taking some pictures!!  Here is our cute family!!!

Cougar of the Week & Queen of the Day

Brylee's Big day as Queen of the Day in Kindergarten!!

Tanner's Cougar of the Week!!!

It is always a fun thing for the kids to be able to be the spotlight in the class so that the other kids can get to know them.  This year now that Brylee is in school they both ended up on the same week.  Brylee's poster had a lot of her favorite pictures added to a 1/2 sheet poster board with lots & lots of stickers too that she completed. The only thing I did was this sheet for her and she did all the rest of the cutting out and arrangement on the poster board.  Tanner had to just bring some pictures and answer a sheet with his favorites, so I did this picture for him.  I sure love my kiddos and am lucky to have such great kids.  It is fun having them both in school.  Brylee has such enthusiasm and loves when our neighbor Kari picks up from school, I think it makes her feel so big that it isn't me picking up all the time.   Tanner is just a cool 3rd grader now and is such a GREAT big brother picking his sister up from class to walk her out to the car each day.

Class of 2013

 

I can't believe my oldest niece is graduating this year.  I remember clear as day when she was born.  When she was little we would go down to my room and watch Winnie the Pooh or whatever she wanted to watch since she was the first grandchild in the family she was quite spoiled.  We would have sleepovers when I moved out and I remember one time when I lived in Salt Lake I had Josie, Katelyn, and Isabel.  We had pizza at the park, played, then watched movies, they played and would crawl through the little window from the kitchen to the living room and jump into the beanbag.  The next day we walked down to the temple and walked around Temple Square and took pictures.  I remember one of the girls peed her pants, I guess I should of had them go to the bathroom first.  I just took her under wear off and kept going, they broke me in to being a Mom for sure, it was a lot of fun.  Many years later I got to take her pictures again but this was her Senior Pictures!!!  They were in town from Iowa so we got up early and made the rounds for a couple of hours.  I am hoping she will decide to go to college somewhere close so we can see her often, but I am sure she will be too busy with fun college life to come visit us too much anyway!!!  

Love ya tons Josie Ann!!!

I had to go find my pictures of that sleepover with the three girls and scan them in and post some, what fun memories of being single Aunt Betsy.  OK so I couldn't get the scanner to work right, will add the pictures later!!

Who Cares?

Ok, so I am thinking about making my blog private?!?!  Not really for any particular reason really, just thought I am doing this blog for me and a history of me and my family, and no one probably really would miss out much especially since I am only two months behind in updating.  Let me know your thoughts on private or open blogs!!  Plus I guess I am wanting to find out as a test to see if anyone really even cares so if I do decide to go private would you want to be invited to follow this blog? 

Bear Lake & Fat Cats Birthday!!

Angel Food Cake & Strawberries for Breakfast

Happy 7th Dylan!!!

Gotta have Un-Healthy Sometimes right!!

Birthday boy Bowling!

Brylee Cutie!!

Brinley

Chandler the winner!!

Brylee June

Me and the Kiddos

The Scores!!!  YUP Chandler Won Everyone had Bumpers!

The Gang

Mini Golf

Isabel the Pro!

Grandpa joined us for the fun!

Grandpa & Birthday Boy!

Tanner check out the form!

Chillin' on the Beach!

Buds!!

Playin' in the Sand!

Bodie & Brylee Best of Buds!!

Poor Chandler, not feeling well!!

Jenna went out of town with Lyman for a little get away and I took the kids.  They happen to be out of town for Dylan's Birthday so we had to make it special for him.  So the plan started he wanted to go to Fat Cats, so we were going to do that the day of his Birthday, but then Leslie called and of course she can talk me into anything, so she talked me into coming up to Bear Lake with the kids for a few days and promised she would help out since Jason wouldn't be able to go since he had to work.  So yup, we left Wed afternoon, and ventured to Bear Lake, we had a great ride up stopping at Maverick for drinks and Winco for treats.  We played our music game and sung almost the whole way, it was a lot of fun.  We stayed the night and the next morning headed for the beach, I made it easy and did cereal for breakfast and I never do that, since camping food is my favorite.  We headed for the beach and wasn't prepared for what would happen that is for sure.  As we were leaving Chandler said his stomach hurt, he ran to the bathroom, but I didn't think much more of it.  We went to the beach at the north end since not much beach at Rainbow Cove since the water was so high.  Chandler fell asleep for quite a while and then got up and we had lunch and then he went into the water, but not for too long, which is not normal as he is a little fish.  When he came up from the water he had sand all over him, so I told him to go in the water and get it off but he wouldn't he just sat on the sand and got more sand on him.  He sat there for a while then I go up and was going to help him and he said he pooped.  Oh no I said and checked and sure enough he did, so then he really needed to clean up.  I know this is gross, but what do ya do.  I took him out to the water and with Curt's help after we finally got him out there we got him all cleaned up for the most part, we brought him up to the beach and made a cover for him by holding up towels and took his suit off and then I went to rinse it off, I got it all rinsed off and came back and he then started to throw up and then also poop at the same time, thank goodness for the sand we were able to cover it all up and we got buckets of water and just dumped on him to rinse him off.  So what do we do now?!?  Curt went to see if he had a diaper in the car, but he didn't, but he did come up with a diaper we cut up the sheet Leslie had that she was just going to throw away  now since it was all gross with throw up and poop on and Curt got a black garbage bag and cut it up and we used duck tape to tape it together.  What creativity and Leslie said she would help us I don't think they thought they would help in this way.  We were going to go to Bear Lake Pizza, but ended up deciding to go back to camp instead as we didn't know how Chandler would be and didn't want to chance him  not making it to the bathroom again.  When we got back to camp I got him all cleaned up and what happen again?  Yup you got it he threw up again.   At that point Isabel was crying saying lets go home the other kids didn't want to go home, and I just didn't know what to do since the garbage and throw-up bag was right by him and he missed both and got it all over himself and the ground.  I didn't how he would be in the night and didn't want to have to clean up in the trailer or tent.  Isabel called her parents and I then decided lets just go home.  Dad couldn't meet us 1/2 way so some of us could stay and so I just decided lets all go.  The others were not happy, but after throwing and I mean really throwing everything in the trailer, hooking up and praying I hooked it up right covering the front and back seat and areas Chandler would be sitting just in case he had more accidents we headed for home.  We stopped for some dinner and Chandler only got a Coke just in case.  We made it home in one piece with no accidents and since we didn't get to stay another night we still had Dylan's Birthday the next day to make special!!  So since he originally wanted to go to Fat Cats that is where we got to go.  I had gotten Angel Food Cake with Strawberries for camping for his birthday, so we had that for breakfast, nice and healthy right!!!  We headed to Fat Cats and did a round of bowling, mini golf, then had to go watch the sky divers upstairs too.   It ended up being a fun week even thought Chandler did get sick.  I am not sure we will be invited camping again for a while.  J/K  It was an adventure we will all remember for a long time for sure.  I felt so bad for Chandler for being sick and glad he was feeling better and now have a hint of how it is having a handicap child age 13 that is like a 2 or 3 year old.  I knew how it was before, but now I know completely.  I know my sister would have done it for me, so I would do it again if I had to. 

Sammy & Wars

 

Thank goodness for the neighbors dog that way we don't have to get a dog.  Well I would never give in to getting one anyway.  Brylee loves every chance she gets to play with Sammy when she is out!!  Another neighborhood thing the kids love to do is Air-soft Wars, it is lots of fun, minus all the pellets all over afterwards, but at least they had fun!!

West Haven Days Parade

Lots of Candy at the Parade!!!

Waiting for the parade to start!!

Tanner & the Cub Scouts walking in the parade!!!

Brylee Lovin' it!!

In the past we had been out of town or always had something going when they had West Haven Days, so it was fun doing the parade and also going to the park for a little while and then the fireworks that night.  Next year we will do the ATV Rodeo we hear that was a blast, and even some rodeo events we will venture as well.