Happy 24th of July

Grandpa and the Spinetti's came over for a fantastic firework show.

We had a hard time keeping the sparklers lit!! What is with the sparklers these days? Whatever happended to the big huge fat sparklers that lasted long enough to write your name, your best friends name, and the boy you loved that day!! The kids just enjoyed being with their cousins that they don't get to see that often, so we had to have the classic on the front porch pictures for the year!! It was so good to see Brian, Angie, Riley and Nick. We love them so much and so sad to see them going home. It means summer is coming to a close and the kids will be back in school soon. I miss my family so much......... Time for my mom to come home!! Love you!




Playing around




A little smokey


Famous Front Porch Pic!

Just Clowning Around

Lost a Tooth

Lauren lost her first Tooth. And she really did loose it! She dosen't know where it went so we had to write a letter to the tooth fairy to tell her she lost it and to please still leave some money. That night she said her prayers and she said "let the Tooth Fairy know that if I find my tooth I promise to give it to her, but please have her leave me some money" So cute.

Downtown/Gateway

While Angie was here we rode trax downtown to temple square to see the Temple, pretty flowers and eat some yummy food at the Lion House. Oh how I love those homemade rolls. Oh so good. The kids thought it was great to ride Trax and although the scenery on the way is not that great the kids thought it was fun to try and stand up every time the train started again and try not to fall down. And note to self do not bend over and tie your shoes on the stairs on the train those doors shut soooo fast your liable to lose something!!


The Pretty flowers with some darling children

Beautiful view of the Temple

Oh hurry!! The fountain is finally up!

Some Eating at The Lion House





Gabe Building his Turtle at Build a Bear

Cooling off at the Gateway, or should we say getting SOAKED!

Thanks for such a fun planned day Angie!

Lake Powell

Well I braved the 103 degree weather non stop for 5 days straight in Lake Powell. It was so much fun to relax and enjoy friends. We laughed A LOT, water skied, wakeboarded, kneeboarded, floated on rafts, pushed rocks off cliffs and cliff jumped. Can't think of a better way to relax. I was so happy to have my 3 good friends with me Loni, Amanda and Surgey to just be able to sit and laugh and laugh and laugh at everything. They are like my sisters now since mine are so far away from me.

Surgey, Me, Loni and Amanda

Amanda and I cliff Jumping

Just Floating around

Awards

Emma and her best friend London received an award this year at school for the most improved students of the year. Emma was so surprised to be called and what was even better for her was her best friend also got the same award. Those two were so happy to walk up with each other you couldn't wipe the smiles off their faces. I am so proud of Emma for getting this since she has worked so hard this year in her school work. It doesn't come easy for her, so I was so happy for her to see her results. Way to go Emma!