We spent the summer playing

With LulaKate! We love her too much!

She loves us too.


It really hasn't been as bad as I thought. Having a puppy that is.
She is so dang cute!

You Know It's Summer When...

Breeley and Andrew are swimming in the pool!
Yea for summer afternoons.
Full of swimming pools and popsicles!
But most importantly...
Great Friends!

Abell bought a GO CART!!!

Abell received some cash for his birthday. Cash ALWAYS burns a hole in Abell's pockets! I mean, if cash caused scars, Abells legs would look aweful! He had been wanting a go cart and with his birthday money, he had the hopes of it becoming a reality.

He found a go cart on ksl.

It was $100.00.

It needed a little work done.

He called and asked how much money the work would cost. An estimate.

Then he called back and asked if they would accept 80.00? Answer... Yes!

Then he called the Clinton Police Dept to see how illegal it was to drive.

Totally illegal.

He's under 16, no blinkers, not registered, you get the drift....

I explained to him that if he bought it, he wouldn't be able to drive it around the neighborhood much. Especially on the street.

He was okay with it.

So he called the sellers one more time and asked if him and his dad could go look at it.

He was home 30 minutes later with a go cart.

He has had so much fun.

It goes really really fast.

It makes him feel good.

It gives him something to tinker with.

A good purchase in my opinion. Sure beats spending his money at Wendy's.

Lava Lava Lava!

Abell
Abell

Adam, Breeley and Addison

Hagen

Hagen

For the 4th of July this year we went to Lava with some friends. For some reason, I didn't take one picture while we were at the Inn. Some of the activities included girls painting their toes with a patriotic theme, swimming at the pool, watching each other jump off the platforms, cooking dutch ovens, playing basketball in the gym, playing minute to win it!!! (The highlight)!

The only downside to the trip was that we stayed at the Lava School House Inn and the lady running it made the trip pretty miserable. She kept checking in on us, posted signs EVERYWHERE about what we could NOT do. She had a list a mile long of everything we could not do or she would cash my $150.00 deposit check. According to her, they are not zoned for everything.She made it pretty stressful for me (the one who wrote the check). It really became a joke for everyone about not being zoned. One kid even asked if we were zoned for eating hot dogs cooked on a fire. It was a joke, but really it was almost that bad!

Lesson learned...

Lava School House Inn... Crappy

Oregon Trail Lodge... AWESOME (Previous experience)

It still was good to spend time with our friends and let the kids get together!

Abell Turned 13! Yikes!!!

Abell is 13! Watch out world!

I really can not believe Abell is thirteen. A real honest to goodness teenager.

13 things I love about Abell!

1. He is strong.

2. He doesn't stick around if people aren't choosing the right.

3. He likes to be home.

4. He holds the priesthood close to his heart!

5. He really is a good big brother.

6. He can really do a good job if he wants to.

7. He has an amazing voice.

8. He has an amazing smile!

9. He loves what he loves, no matter how much crap I give him about it! Ha!

10. He is so good at school work. He is so smart!

11. He gets his head set on something, and doesn't give up until he gets it!

12. He is an amazing artist.

13. He loves me.

And I love him with every ounce of me. I am excited to see what kind of person he is going to become. I am excited to see what kind of missionary he will be. He is going to make some girl very happy when he gets OLDER!

Love ya Abell!

You're my favorite!

Addison Played Baseball!

Addison played baseball this spring/summer! He had a lot of fun! Almost every single one of his friends were on his team. I was planning on getting a picture of them all together, but it never happened. :( And yup! these are the only pics I took of the whole season!

Playing Catch up!

So I am so far behind on blogging that I thought I would do a massive amount of posts. I am going to be posting a new post a day for about the next two weeks to get everything blogged about and caught up!
Aaaahhh... the ambition excites me!
Here goes nothing!