one year older and wiser too!!

We love birthdays at our house!! Hunter turned 4 last week! He is such a fun little man! He makes us laugh a ton! He loves dump trucks, construction trucks and anything that pulls a trailer! He is laughing in this pic below because Dad gave him a little Bart Simpson figurine to be funny!


I always take them out for lunch for their bday so we went to their favorite place in Tooele Co. Del Taco! They have a way fun play place. The kids love the nachos!!
Hunter couldn't wait until his party that night...all day he just kept asking when his birthday party was going to be and when dad was coming home from work!??!
We had a fun game with pretend "rocks" or "boulders". The kids had to have a relay race and pick up a "rock" and put it back in the bucket. They had fun playing and running around. The "rocks' were wrapped up newspaper in tape!

The kids had a blast playing on the bounce house
I let Hunter pick out some trucks at Cal-Ranch to put on top of his cake! It was fun to make!

Hunter has tons of girl buddies that he hangs out with too!


Hunter even got fireworks for his bday!! We had fun lighting them off with all of the grandmas and grandpas later that night!! He had a fun birthday :) We are grateful for "The BUBS" and his gentle, loving, CRAZY, heart. He has so much energy but is theeee kindest, most gentle giver ever!! He adds so much to our fun family!

Cherry Hill

We took the kids to Kaysville this last saturday. Cherry Hill is a Water park. There are only 3 slides and more just water to play in. THe kids had fun!This was their favorite little mini slide to go down!


They have a fun pirate boat to go on!
Hunter seriously took the wheel and steered this thing forever!! He loved it!
Hogan was tired of being in the sun so I took him and put him to sleep while Bry took the kids on
the lazy river! May had a blast to bobbing along in the water. Hunter was all about sitting on Dad's Lap and resting on the tube!
One of my favorite pics was Bry sitting under this waterfall with Hogi! :)

Tractor Ridin!

There is a cute couple in our ward that has family that own a farm down the street from us!! They used to be Hunter's nursery leaders and Hunter loved them! We called them up and asked if they would take him and may for a tractor Ride. He was in Heaven!!




They got to feed the horses special treats!
We got eggs from the chickens too! They lay green and brown ones!! We learned that chickens will eat the eggs shell yolk (the WHOLE thing) if you drop it on the ground. Like hunter accidentally did. They even eat cherry pits and anything you feed them pretty much. They even have their own cows that they raise and use for beef after a while.
The kids were tired when he got home and Hunter laid on the pillow next to Hogi and drank their milk together :)

Super awesome tractor ride :) They even showed him the hay loader that makes the bails of hay! I didn't get a pic of it though! Duh! Bubs thought that was awesome too!

4th of July Day!

Bubs waiting for the parade people to throw him some candy! He has been sitting like this since he could walk!

Super Happy to be at the parade!!Playing a fun game called KUBB with Grandma and Grandpa during the day!!

The best pic of our fun fireworks we bought with the kids!!
Of course the kids have to be in the middle of the action doing the fireworks!! They have so much fun! :)
All of our fun friends that we sat by with at the parade :)

Jordanelle 4th of July!!

The weekend before 4th of July we were passing through Heber and Midway. We never get to go see Bry's grandparents graves. Grandma Helen and Grandpa Call are buried in Heber.


Grandma and Grandpa Gertsch are buried in Midway. Its seriously SOOO Beautiful up there. I love to visit there! It's wonderful feeling up there.


We met the call family up at Jordanelle Resivore. The Calls got a fun trampoline for the water. The kids had a blast hanging out on it.
Grandpa and Grandma had fun taking the kids for a ride on the wave runner!

We even pulled May and Hunter around in the tube. That was their favorite part!
Catching some air :)

Bry threw himself off of the wave runner. He hit his tailbone on the back of it. He hurt himself really bad. Not fun. He was bruised up and he had to sit on a pillow the next day at church. I went for a ride on the tubes and felt like I tried to be as adventurous as could be. We had fun around the fire and Bry cooked up some salmon. Its seriously fun to be up in the mtns and be in the warm sun!! :)

The day I took the kids on a bike ride: It started off getting down the bike and the trailer by myself in the garage and wacking myself in the head with one or the other. Then I tried to adjust bryans bike seat by myself and couldn't figure it out so I had to walk down the street to ask my neighbor to come help me adjust it. Once he helped me we were ready to go. We started going down 900 west and half way down mayleys bike chain fell off. I couldn't get it back on and by this time I was just frustrated cause she had a flat too. I just prayed that someone would come by and help. Out of the corner of my eye I see our home teacher passing by. He stopped and backed up. He took mayleys bike and put it in the back of his truck! His buddy that was with him fixed it and later on in the day dropped it off ready to go!!

I Now I had to pull all three kids in the bike trailer!
We went and saw our favorite horses (bobby and Hairy) we fed them some lettuce leaves and then we rode our bike down to the elementary school lunch. On the way back there is a pretty tough hill to ride up. I was dying....then I hear in the back of the bike trailer "You can DO IT mommy I know you can!!" Yep thats my little Hunter cheering me on!! Hes the best encourager I know! That made my day right there! :)

First Family Campout!

Friday July 17th We packed up the van and drove up to Davenport Canyon above Grantsville to go on our family camping outing! We were going to campout by the big cowpies but I couldn't keep stomach from getting queesy! it was pretty nasty so we decided to try out another spot. Almost every spot was taken! We found a little cubby just for ourselves! It was perfect!

We went on a mini Hike! The view was incredible and beautiful when we got to a point to see everything out around us. off to the left is the Great Salt Lake.
hanging out around the fire. Bry made us some yummy hamburgers!

Hunter had to bring his toy jeep. He played with it all night. Bry took a pic of it!!

Our little family hike :)

There was also a swing that someone made out of stick on a string! The kids had fun swinging on it too :)