FAMILY AND FIREWORKS

On Saturday we were able to spend the whole day with family! I love days like this. To start off we went to a family reunion for my mom's side of the family, we ate and played games and they also had a guy there to do balloons for the kids! It was a lot of fun to catch up with my family. Then that night we went up to Weber High for Pleasant View's fireworks. We do this every year with Penni and J.R. and there little family. What a blast, we had a great day.

Penni and J.R. and their family

Just the four of us! My sweet baby boy, he was so cute he loved the fireworks.

This is Riley at the family reunion.

This is the balloon she had made. It is Cinderella if you can't tell. The balloon guy was excellent he could make almost anything they wanted. She treats this balloon like a doll, I am not looking forward to the time it pops!

Oh What Do You Do In The Summertime?

When the pools pump is broken....

you jump on the tramp with the sprinklers on!

The other day we went up to the pool and it was closed due to the pump being broken, we were all dressed and ready to go to the pool so we decided we would go back to my mom's and have a little party of our own. The kids loved it and we had so much fun.  It was good to do something a little different.  The pool is back up and running yeah for us!

HAPPY DADDY DAY

For Father's Day I thought I would be a really nice wife and get Jason something that he really really wanted! So here it is...

Nope, not the truck! He wishes

The grill. Jason LOVES to grill we call him the grillmaster in our family. Ours was no longer big enough so we went and got him a new one. And no, we still haven't gotten our railing up. We have about a zillion projects that need to be done and that is the first to come! Happy Father's Day Jas. You are a great father and husband we couldn't ask for more. We love you. Thanks for all you do for us. I also wanted to tell my daddy that I love him and thank him for everything as well as Jason's dad. Happy Father's Day to all of you!

SWIMMING

I have been talking about the "pool" for at least three months now. We have only been able to go twice so far this summer thanks to the rain. Today I decided to take some pics to show our little peace of heaven. It isn't much, but the kids love it and I am actually able to do something that I enjoy as well. I LOVE going to the pool and I have gone to this pool since I was a baby. When I was a kid we went every day Mon-Fri after our chores were done. I spent every summer here and when I got a full time job it was the hardest thing to not be able to go. I am so excited for my kids to have the memory of this pool as well. We love you Rolling Hills!!!

My mom, Kenzie and Brynn

Penni and Brynn. Brynn learned how to swim without her life jacket today! Ashley, just chillin' Titan and Bridger hanging out in the shade. Kim and Preston Me, Boston, Riley and Kenzie swimming in the baby pool Boston absolutely loves to just hang out in his tube! Riley is such a good swimmer as well, she is doing really well in the baby pool, soon we will have to move on to the big pool.

YOU MIGHT BE OLD WHEN....

The little girl you started babysitting when she was four gets married :( My sweet little Jo got married yesterday! Congrats Amber and Dewy. It is amazing to see the woman that you have become Jo. I am so proud of you.

50 Things About Me

Carly dared me to do this, and I have nothing to do right now amazingly enough so here it goes... 1. I love hanging out with my family. All of them extended and immediate. 2. I love my own little family. It is an amazing experience to be a wife and a mother. 3. I play the piano. Not too many people know this about me and it was once a well kept secret until some one in my ward found out!! But I do LOVE to play. 4. I eat salsa plain. 5. I am obsessed about Riley's hair. I can't stand for it to be in her face. 6. The nickname my family has for me is Roonie. Don't know why, it just is. 7. My favorite season is Summer. I love to swim, boat, camp and you name it I love summer. 8. I stay up really late at night. Usually at least until midnight. 9. Thanks to Carly I now vacuum every day! Sucker. 10. I am the Primary President in my ward, which I love. The kids are awesome. 11. I hate fish except for Tuna. 12. I have a Chocolate Lab named Faith, who was my baby until my real babies came. But I love her. 13. I worked at America First Credit Union for eight years. It was the best job, other than being a mommy. 14. I was married in the Bountiful Temple almost seven years ago, to my eternal sweetheart. 15. I love to just go for a drive. Jason and I do this quite often, it is good to put kids to sleep! 16. I am a procrastinator, this is no joke, I am awful at this. 17. I am an organizational freak, (weird since I procrastinate) but I have to have everything in it's place. 18. I am really demanding, it's my way or the highway. This is something I am working on. 19. I own every season of Newlyweds with Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson. Too bad they didn't work out. 20. I struggle being a good friend, but I love all my friends. I am not good at keeping in touch. 21. I enjoy jumping on the trampoline. I am like a little kid when it comes to that. 22. I wish I was in shape enough to go for a good hike. I like to hike. 23. I hate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. 24. I will eat a peanut butter sandwich though. 25. I love Lagoon and rides in general. 26. I especially like to go on road trips. We used to go to Nebraska when I was little with all my cousins and stuff and they were some of the best times ever. 27. I am allergic to Penicillin. 28. I do really stupid things, a lot! 29. I like to play games. 30. I have stomach ulcers that act up every once and a while. I have had them since I was in Jr. High. 31. I sleep on my stomach. 32. I have really funny looking feet. Jason makes fun of them. 33. I am a tosser. I throw things out all the time. If something is missing Jason always asks me if I threw it away. I have been known to throw out things I shouldn't have. Oops. 34. I am suppose to take care of our garden. Right now it is looking a lot like a weed garden. 35. I love to read. 36. When it is basketball season I only like the playoff games. It is much more exciting when there is something at stake. 37. I open my eyes under water, with my contacts in. I always hope I don't get a disease or something. 38. I chew the inside of my lips when I am nervous. 39. I love speaking in public, most of the time. 40. I rearrange my furniture at least every three months. I get bored with it fast. 41. I want to go to Hawaii some day. Maybe for our ten year anniversary. 42. My favorite chips are salt and vinegar. 43. I get nervous when Jason drives and try to tell him what to do. He doesn't like this at all. 44. I am a fight picker (with my hubby that is) I will egg it on for quite sometime before I will give it up. 45. I wouldn't mind living on a beach someday. I love the ocean. 46. I also like the mountains though...hard decision. 47. I am a rule follower. I don't even speed usually. 48. I can't sing. 49. I don't like to harbor bad feelings, I usually just let things go. (except for with Jason I don't know why!) 50. I LOVE MY LIFE! There now you are 50 things smarter about me. This really was a lot harder than I thought it would be! Thanks Car for getting me to do it.

Fingernail Painting Frenzie

Riley absolutely LOVES to have her nails painted. As a matter of fact we probably paint them at least once a week if not more! She has gotten really good at sitting there while I paint them but she asks me like thirty times "are they dry yet mom?" It drives me crazy, but yet I never turn her down. It has turned out to be a really good bonding experience for us! There is never a dull moment with this sweet little girl and I love it. These are just some pictures of us after we painted our nails tonight. I let her pick her color and she usually picks pink but tonight she went with orange for a change! I will usually paint mine the same color as hers, but the orange is a little bold for my fingernails. I'd go orange on my toes, but not my fingers!

DISNEYLAND!!!

Here are some pictures of our trip. We had a blast. Thanks so much Mom and Dad. We love you!!

Jason and J.R. though Jasmine was HOT!! They both got their picture taken with her. I think in this one Jas doesn't know how to act. He looks scared or something.

This is in California Adventure, unfortunately not all of us where there, my dad and J.R. had gone to pick up the rentals for the next day and Penni is taking the picture.

The two sweet baby boys. They were such troopers. Boston was excellent and the same for Titan. We couldn't have asked for better babies. We got to do the Princess Luncheon at Ariel's Grotto. Riley decided she wanted to dress like Snow White for the lunch. This was so neat, each princess came around and talked to each table. Riley stared in amazement at all of them. She loved it. The food was delicious as well. The girls also got to do a dance with the princesses.

The four princesses in front of the Disneyland Castle. They were so excited!

At first Riley was a little scared of the characters but Jason got her to go up finally and by the end of the trip she loved them all.

This is me and my boyfriend Goofy. We had a real connection! Too bad Jason wasn't even paying attention. (Goofy kissed me, Jasmine did not kiss Jason!)

What a sight to see. Instead of renting cars for the whole time we walked everywhere. We got some pretty strange looks from people considering we had six kids under the age of six with us! I would not have had it any other way though. The weather was perfect for walking. Lucky for us we each had double strollers, best investment ever.

The last day we went to the beach and drove around Cali a little bit. It was such a memorable trip and I will always remember it! These are only a few of the things we did. Riley was tall enough to go on most of the rides, she went on Splash Mountain, Space Mountain, she did the swings and her favorite was the Mickey Mouse ferris wheel that had swinging carts! It scared the crap out of me but she loved it. We were able to take Bossy on all of the rides except for the fast ones. I love Disneyland!!

A LITTLE BIT BUSY

May was a pretty busy month for us! I am finally getting to posting. Sorry for the overload.

First of all, we finally got our garden planted. Riley was so excited to plant her little watermelon that she grew in a cup!

She had to use the little shovel because she said it was "just her size!" She is so fun.

Then there was Mother's Day. For some reason I don't have a picture of Jason's mom with the kids? I need to get one of those. But we had Jason's family and mine out to our house for a BBQ. It was so much fun. Happy Mother's Day Mom and Robyn we love you. We had several birthdays, I must not have been with it this month because I only took one picture? It was, Penni's, TJ's, Taylor, Grandma Hicken, MiKayla and my dad's birthdays in May! Happy Birthday to all of you we love you!

This is just a picture of my big boy at Texas Roadhouse. We went there for dinner for TJ's birthday. He is getting so big.