Girls Night Out

Girls nights outs rock. You know? We planned this girls night out sleepover in Salt Lake. Not all could come so if you were one of them who couldn't we missed you. But that didn't stop the party. We went to dinner at Pf Changs and then shopped at Gateway. Never had so much fun shopping in my life. Must have been the company. We stopped at Rocky Mountain chocolate factory where Natalie & I shared the YUMMIEST apple pie caramel apple in the world. Oh my holy yum. Then, we hung at the hotel and just were girls. Not Mommies, just girls. Had so much fun. Please don't surprised by what pictures came out of this trip. I think our waiter spiked our waters.

Natalie trying out the very cool bed. You had to be there i guess

yes, it's a tampon. Once again. I seriously think we were drugged. Maybe the apple?

Aww... sorry Codi, I had to. This was so funny. Once again, you had to be there to appreciate!

Hee hee!

Pedis!

Do you believe me yet?

So, the next morning we get and get dressed and yup! We are all wearing the same jean capris. I guess that's what happens when we all shop together. Wouldn't have it any other way! We rock! So we finished our awesome girls night out by meeting the rest of our girlies in Park City for some school shopping at the outlets! Had so much fun! I love my girlies!

Dear Henlen, rest in peace

Our dear little Henlen died yesterday, or at least we found it dead yesterday. No known cause of death yet. No, the cats didn't get it. I was slammed doing hair when Ashy ran in the house screaming hysterically that her chicken was dead. She's traumatized. I had to call Greg because I literally had hair to do ALL day. So, he came home from work and they buried Henlen in the back yard. Ashy made her a nice sweet headstone. Poor girl. She's devastated. It really was the sweetest chicken I've ever met. I'm serious. She sat with Ashy all the time. We will miss you Henlen!
-Love your family

What do hail, 4 wheeling, smores, fishing, and a blown out tire equal?

A CAMPING TRIP TO THE UINTAS!

Yes yes, another camping trip. This time we packed up the trailer and headed to Wyoming with our amazingly awesome friends the Heaton family and the Butterfield family. That's 6 adults, and 11 1/2 kids (Amber is 7 months pregnant). We had so much fun. Here's some highlights.

Do you think there are enough kids on this wheeler? There just weren't enough 4 wheelers there. If you took 1 for a ride, you had to TRY to take them all.

Here's my Hottie, cookin' breakfast.

Hangin' in the trailer.

We camped right by the river. The kids spent most of the time there swimming and boat racing. They made boats with the bark on the trees then raced them down the "waterfall". They loved it. Here are some pics of them swimming in the creek.

FISHING! Is there such a thing as camping without fishing? I think not! We caught so much fish.

And, gutting the fish. This is my job. I don't know why but I always end up being the fish killer and cooker. I know some of these pictures are gruesome but Greg was getting a kick out of the kids' faces.

Here's Lexi with the one eyed frog. She wanted to keep it but her Mommy said no because she felt sorry for the frog with one eye. Poor mutated frog.

Hanging around the campfire. We spent the first 2 days here because it was really cold. So cold, that the first night it hailed. Yes, hail in August. Yikeys! That's ok it was only for a couple of minutes. The smores made it all better.

Oh yes. The Butterfields blew a tire luckily right by the exit to Evanston. So, we pulled over, and got it fixed and went on. Just kidding, I wish that were the case. We didn't exactly have everything we needed to fix this tire. So, this nice nice nice man brought over his tools and changed the tire while Greg & Kelton helped by holding the flashlight. It was too late to go on, plus we had no more spares, so we camped at the Walmart in Evanston. I've never seen anyone be so excited to sleep in a Walmart parking lot before. The kids were stoked. What an end to an awesome trip!

Good bye coach pitch & Tee ball

Our summer has kind of been consumed with baseball. No longer! The kids played their last games Saturday so we get a break for about 2 weeks. Then, Greg's season starts. Is there no end? Just kiddin' we love livin at the ballpark. Here are some pics of the kids.

Here's the E DOG with his coach, Coach Ray. They are perfecting his swing technique.

This summer was Ethan's first time playing Tee ball. He liked it, but had a hard time focusing on the game. Half the time He sat in the outfield gabbing with his girlfriend Matti, who was also on the team.

This was Ashton's 2nd year playing Coach Pitch softball. Her daddy was the coach. Which she LOVED. And I'm serious, she really is getting to be a great hitter!

Home Run ASH!

Here's the team showing off their medals. This team was full of Ashy's friends, and also 2 cousins. It made the season a lot of fun!

Ashy in the dugout with her cousins Chloe and Jake

Girls Rule! Here's Paityn, Ashy, Bailey, Coby, and Lexi after getting their medals.

A Chicken? What?

This 24th of July was fun fun fun. And, we got a new pet. What? A new pet? Yes, tada! It's a chicken.

Backup. Every year for the 24th we go to Fairview and go to the Derby, the kids rodeo, the parade, go swimming in the creek, go 4 wheeling, etc. This year was no exception except.... at the kids rodeo Ashton caught a chicken. It was bound to happen sometime. So, meet Henlen. She's a very sweet chicken who will never meet a crock pot. Her beak is crooked but Ashton says, "She's beautiful."

This is Ashton with her cousins showing us their new chicken at the farm scramble at the rodeo. Isn't her face awesome?

My nephews also caught animals so we went back to farm with 1 rooster, 1 duck and 1 chicken. Yay!

This creek runs through Greg's parents' property. The kids loved damming up the water to make a swimming hole. Don't Greg's guns look huge in this pic. Yep, that's my muscly man!

We went fishing at Boulder where we caught lots and lots of fish. And, I found out that Ethan LOVES fish. He ate 2 whole fish! Now, if we can just get Daddy to have some, we'd be a fish eatin' family.

Ty's first fish!!!

The boys went to the Derby. Ethan absolutely loved it. Ethan is modeling his new T-shirt they threw into the stands! Yay for Daddy who caught the lovely tshirt.

Ty loves the 4 wheeler. Grandpa Joe took Ty for a long ride & brought him back like this.

We had so much fun in Fairview. Can't wait til next year. Maybe we'll tell Ashy to go after the calf or maybe the lambs next year.