Happy Birthday Jacob!!!

Jacob turned "2" today!!! We can't believe he is two already! He is growing up so fast! This morning he was so excited to open his presents and the favorite one was the chainsaw! He pretends every toy he has is a chainsaw so when he actually got one it never left his hand for a few hours. He loves tools - any tool, but this one was all-boy like him! Practicing on poor Spongebob...

Jake also got a Diego Trike! Big Diego fan this kid...so if the warm weather would hurry up we could actually take it outside and learn to ride it!

It was pretty cute when he blew out his candles; he knew exactly what to do!

This is the only time I can smile about them making such a huge mess...on their birthday it's more fun right? But he was a pretty chocolatey boy in the end, not that he needed anymore sweetness. He had a pretty great day and we love our little guy so much!

A Wedding in March

Congratulations Haley and Dan!

My little and only sister is married!!! They got married in the Mt. Timpanogas Temple on March 14th and it was such a beautiful day! Everything turned out wonderful and they are so happy! We are also so happy for them!


Haley and I, with Jake who was not every interested in what was going on.

Cody and Anna hanging out at the open house later that afternoon...smiling and looking cuter than ever!

Thanks to Wayne and Helen for watching our two rascals while we were at the temple that morning!

Family Hike

Cody loves to research hikes and fun things to go see in Utah and he found one for us to do with the kids. We drove down to central Utah to the San Rafael Swell area and found some really cool things.
We hiked to some petroglyphs on this huge wall; some of the drawings are really amazing.

Jake climbed on every rock he could run too faster than me.

We found these round rocks called "concretions" and they were everywhere. Some were on the mountain and some were just on the ground; circular rocks...I'd never seen that before. Here is Cody and Jake standing on one.

Anna standing on one...

Petroglyphs again...

Here are some more concretions on the mountain side; if you look close enough you can see the layer of them across the mountain.

Catching Jake...again.

More petroglyphs on a rock in a very weird spot.

Okay, is he not a boy or what? He tried picking up even bigger rocks than this! For being as little as he is, he's pretty tough!

It was so much fun and we loved exploring to find new things in literally the middle on nowhere!

Scout Campout

This last weekend Cody and leaders took the scouts to their annual Crystal Hot Springs trip up in Honeyville. This is a trip that so many scouts and their dads go to every year. They camp in the snow and then swim the next day in the natural hot springs that they have turned into somewhat of a water slide. It got pretty cold during the night...10 degrees. Just looking at the pictures makes me cold. They had fun and got home safe. Here are some pictures of my handsome hubby having fun with the boys...

7th Anniversary

This is a little late, but on Sunday Feb. 8th Cody and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary. I can't believe it's been 7 years! It's gone by so fast and now 2 kids later, we love our little family. We are so blessed and can't wait to see what the next seven years will bring.