Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Pictures....

Phoebe loves splashing... and I mean LOVES!
This is the funnest picture of Luke, there is drool hanging out of his mouth...click on it to see the whole thing... for some reason it is being weird.
Mad baby!
Cute baby!

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Thankful Sunday...

I have lots of thoughts and Zero Time...I can't even touch it...
So instead I will share just pictures... Just know that I am thankful... More on that later when I have time... which sometimes feels like never...
Me and Allie before taking off for Adams work party....Below the babe, she is adorable 110%
PS did I tell you she moves now?

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Meeting Meme & Papa and Ben& Jerry...

Today Phoebe met her great grandparents, She is named after Meme, (Joyce Amelia, who was actually named after Her great grandmother!)

Phoebe was soooo Hungry today! she at 2 bowls of Slop, a half a jar of banana's and a jar of squash! Yummy...
We went to Ben and Jerry's factory, it was pretty fun to see the icecream and the free samples were Awesome!
Being my kids they ran around in the crowd and of course Allie danced!

What poster kids!

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Pictures Pictures Pictures

water show
paris
our crew...
chubby love
Chillin' with Jessie and McQuade at the pool...
Loved this broad in Vegas, Loved her Tips box...
How we rolled in Vegas... what a crew!
The pool at the Golden Nugget
The Cutest babe there!
The Belagio cares about you, and you baby... too bad by the time people read this they are already wasted!
At the Water show...
Above is Phoebe's new trick... Below is FUNNY well Adam didn't want to do it but I MADE him!
Enjoying the ride...
...My cute kids enjoying Vermont...
Phoebe hanging out with her Nona

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Southern Utah, Vegas, Colorado, Missouri, Home... Now Vermont...
We spent about a week with our friends in southern UT, we went boating on Adam's birthday, he went knee boarding and was pretty awesome, since the strap wouldn't do up. Then we drove all around St. George checking things out, went to Down East Basics and got myself a new pair of shades for 5 bucks which are awesome. Then we headed down to Vegas, we stayed at the Golden Nugget, they had a cool pool with a shark tank in the middle and a slide that went to the middle of it. We hung out on Fremont St that evening and enjoyed the lights show. The kids thought that was pretty amazing Allie was dancing and loving it...Lucas actually sat in the stroller and let us push him everywhere....And Phoebe was the biggest attraction in Vegas... Everyone thought she was so cute all these people would be smiling at me and I would smile back wondering why they were all so smiley... then would remember the cutie on my chest in the baby bjorn...We spent then next day swimming, we went to the Strip in the evening to see the water show... It was cute Allie kept calling it the Golden Chickie Nugget.... Well you know it is a great place for kids to remember. Then we went back up slept packed up for the millionth time and headed out for home...
One quick stop at Grandma Bessie's house for lunch and off to Colorado. Which was very sad because we missed most of it in the dark! There was tons of snow up there though and the tunnels were very cool! That night we made it to Limon Co. Where we stayed a the Sleep Gold Inn... or something like that, It had gold in the name but it was NO Golden Nugget... No lights in the bathroom, TV didn't work, Shady red spots on the carpet....(it was NICE) Actually it was scary. The next day we drove through Kansas and pretty much the whole way I was thinking about how I could NEVER live there becasue I would be constantly terrified of tornados...It was all I could think about till Ohio. That night we slept in the worlds most expensive Motel 6, but it was Very Clean, and so nice not to be worried about anything from the bed eating me for dinner. The last day the big Push for home. The kids were so excited they stayed up the whole time. We got home at 1:30am... they were so thrilled to be home! So were we, but Alas it wasn't to last, we unpacked half our stuff, did laundry, repacked, cleaned out the van, and reloaded it... jumped in and headed out for Vermont... We got here to VT at about midnight and we were all so wired we were up till 2:30. Today we washed our van, cleaned off 2300 miles worth of bugs, and dust, it looks much nicer now! The kids and Adam had a water fight. It was very cute I have fun pictures I will upload tomorrow.
Other random things that have happend in the last few weeks....
* Phoebe no longer swings
*P. no longer needs to be swaddled to sleep
*Luke no longer needs to sleep in a crib, he learned to stay put on a bed
*Luke is starting to potty train. (self induced, so we will see how that goes)
*Allie is getting too smart for her own good...
*Allie should win an award for the best traveled Non-celeb child. She has been all over the place
*P. gained 3lbs....
*Chantel lost 5lbs!
Well that is all I can think of.
I am tired so I am going to bed... pictures to come.

Saturday, June 6, 2009

LIttle Sahara

We just spent 2 days in Little Sahara near Delta, UT...We got dirty, we got sandblasted, we got worn out, we ate some awesome Dutch Oven potatoes, we played with cousins, and friends, we are tired... we had fun!
We drove to the top and took some cool pictures...
Below...see that peak in the middle? that is where we went up to...

Dr. Shep, enjoying his dunes...


It is so steep you really can't tell from the pictures...
Adam was the taxi service... every time he pulled up to camp one or more the the kids were standing there yelling ME NEXT!!!!!


Luke was thrilled to "drive" the buggy, amazingly he knew he had to push those pedals and flip the switches... Kinda scary, watch out for this boy.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

SLC with the Pecks/Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house

We met up with our friends Adam and Maria Peck at the Garden restaurant at the top of the Joseph Smith building. They had the roof open it was pretty cool, I haven't ever been up there before. Then we walked around temple square and the kids played in the reflecting pool and I mean In...

around and around...
Adam and Adam....

Phoebe's first time at the temple!
Lucas, Hayden and Allie checking out the view...

aren't the clouds so pretty!
We also went to the Oquirrh temple open house earlier in the day...
once again the kids ran around and around....


It was beautiful and it was so cool to see the Salt Lake Valley from the other direction, Allie loved it to go in the temple she kept telling me how no one had gotten married there yet, and then at the SLC temple she told me Lots of people got married there. It was pretty cute... Luke was his usual reverent self, kicking screaming, bumming tic tacs off the temple ushers...Crazy kid couldn't wait to get outside, and then to his delight they gave out cookies and kiddie sized water bottles. Oh joy!
In all of living have much of fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured. President Gordon B. Hinckley