River Trip and a Pageant

I've been slacking on my blog lately. We have had a lot of stuff going on and I really need to get caught up.

We've been working really hard on our yard and it's coming along really well. We had to move a lot of dirt and do a lot of leveling, we got our sprinklers in, got curbing, planted trees and planted all our flower beds, and put our tramp in the ground and put up the kids play set. It's been exhausting and by the end of my days I'm really dirty and really sore (but I'm super dark, LOL). We'll hopefully do hydro seed this week so we can get some grass coming up.

A few weeks ago, we had youth conference in Moab on the Colorado River for 3 days. Even though I grew up in Moab, I've never done a river trip.

I must say we had a blast! All the kids, leaders, and guides were so much fun.

In the pics below, Shane and I are on the back. We are about to hit a rapid and you can see as we get closer to it I start to grab a hold of Shane's life jacket. When we hit it, 3 in the front got thrown off and the rest of us got thrown into the middle on top of each other. It was really scary at the time...but now I just laugh at the pics.
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A few days later, Kennedi was in the Little Miss Gunnison Pageant. She did such a great job!

For her Talent, she wanted to dance by herself for some of it and then do ballroom with Payton Dyreng for the rest. So me and Nona came up with a little dance for them.

She did so good. They really didn't crown a "queen", but she won Outstanding Onstage Presence which was kinda the overall winner award.

I can never get a good pic of her and Dax together, he is just too busy to hold still that long.

This is the best one I could get of him....

Thanks to Payton for being such a good partner! They are so cute dancing together.

4th of July Parade.....

Swinging from Chandeliers!

I don't think people think we are serious when we talk about Dax, and how he is into EVERYTHING, CLIMBS on EVERYTHING, and DESTROYS EVERYTHING in his path.

Well here's a little proof. We caught him literally swinging from the chandelier this morning......funniest thing I've ever seen!

Softball Season

Softball season is here! Kennedi is playing in a coach pitch league that travels to Manti, Ephraim, Moroni, and Fountain Green.

It's been a lot of fun to watch her play.....she is really athletic, and does a great job for being one of the youngest on the team.

Look at that LEFTY!

More Wedding Pictures

I stole these cute pictures from their wedding photographer's blog. She does such an amazing job. Click here to check out more.
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Matthew & Heather's Wedding

Matthew and Heather got married on Saturday in St. George. Everything turned out so pretty...especially Heather, she looked amazing!




Dax wouldn't walk down the aisle without me, and then was pretty naughty the rest of the night....little stinker. Good thing he is so cute!




The Fam....

The girls, minus Kenzee who became a 2A Softball State Champ that day and had to miss.

Cutting of the cake....

First Dance....

I thought this pic was so cute of Kennedi, she was just sitting there watching Matthew and Heather dance all by herself.

Handsome little Dax...

Time to buggy.......I'm pretty sure Kennedi shook it to every song.

Everything turned out great!! It was so fun to have all of our family there together.

Have fun Greece Matthew and Heather!!

9 Years

Today, Shane and I have been married for 9 years! WOW! I can't believe it. Time flies by so fast.

Shane is an amazing husband and dad. I'm so thankful to be married to him.

Happy Anniversary Shane, I love you!

A day at the field

On Thursday, we had a day filled with lots of baseball and softball. It was the 2-A state tournament in Spanish Fork and Orem. Shane is an assistant coach for the Gunnison Bulldogs, so we watched them play a game, then headed over to watch my niece Mikenzee play softball for the Grand Red Devils, and the back over to watch more baseball. Gunnison ended up loosing a nail biter to Parowan in what seemed to be the longest game in history. Probably because it was FREEZING, and my little man refuses to sit still. Most of my day was actually spent chasing him....

Ok, there is one thing he will stop for....FOOD!!

Here is Kennedi with Kenzee and Nikita after a game......

The Red Devils ended up taking STATE!!!!!!! Good job girls!! I got this picture for the Salt Lake Trib.

Miss Gunnison Valley 2010

This week has been so busy! I was a host mom for the t Miss Gunnison Pageant. It was so much fun. We had rehearsals all week. My girl's name was Liberty, and she did so good, I was so proud of her.

It was an 80s themed pageant, her are some of the girls getting ready for the production number....

Me and Liberty.....

Oh course Kenna was in on all the action. This was her 80s outfit....

Kennedi and Miss Gunnison 2009 and Miss Sanpete 2009, Hannah Christensen....

Kennedi and Miss Gunnison 2010, Kayla Bartholomew (also one of Kenna's dance teachers)