Happy 4th of July / Happy Pioneer Day!!

We had so much fun on the 4th of July!!  My parents came to our house and spent the night with our kids so that Shane and I could go to Delta and play in an all-night 4-on-4 outdoor volleyball tournament with Coby and Jessica.  We had SO MUCH FUN, we made it all the way to the championship game, but then LOST :( !!The next morning we took the kids to the parade and all the park craziness, and they had so much fun!! (Is is bad that i dread the whole park thing every year??)

On the 24th of July, we had Shane's whole family over for a BBQ........

and then hit the Demolition Derby in Fairview that evening.  It's very interesting the crowd that  a Derby bring out....people watching is more then half the fun!!

Summer Fun!

I take all these cute pictures of my kids on my phone, and I need to make myself be better at putting them on HERE!!

Here is a little of our summer......

Yard 2012

I love having a big yard, and I love yard work..... Is that weird???

This is the first year we've done a garden and I'm a little obsessed with it! I think I go out and check the progress of my veggies a couple times a day. We planted corn, carrots, peas, tomatoes, 6 different peppers, squash, onions, zucchini, pumpkins, and potatoes.
I'm not sure what we're going to do with all this food since we are not big veggie eaters in this house, but it has been fun to watch them grow!!

Our yard is looking pretty good, it is still a work in progress, but our grass looks good this year and our trees and plants are starting to get big, and the weeds are under control and that makes me really happy, Preen is my best friend!

Softball Champs!!!!

Kennedi has had an amazing season of softball!  Shane was her coach again and they went undefeated this year (well they lost one game, but half of their team wasn't there, so of course I don't count that!!).

I can't believe how good she is at this sport!  She is fast, aggressive, and in it to WIN it at all times!

Here are the pics of the championship game at the Lions Tournament in Ephraim.  The babies weren't with us because my awesome friend from AZ was in town and stayed home with them so they could nap....Thanks Marci!

Our favorite visitors!!

We get so excited every year around the 4th of July, because we get the best visitors!!!  The Coombs family go completely  out of their way on their trip from Chandler to Cedar City  to stop at our house and we absolutely LOVE it !!

Kennedi has a blast with her little buddies, Grant and Carsen, and wishes she has a little sister just like London!!

This year we got a bonus when our other friends from AZ, Matt and Lindsey, were in town on the same night!  We had so much fun catching up with each other.....wish we all lived closer!!

Lagoon!!

We went to Lagoon and had SO MUCH FUN!!

We dropped all the boys off at Shane's mom's house in Bountiful and went with Coby and Jess and Kennedi and her friend.

It was the PERFECT day to go.....NO LINES & and temps were in the 80s!!

These little girls were FEARLESS!!  They went on everything and weren't scared of anything!!  they made the day lots of fun!

After getting SOAKED on the log ride.

Coby, Jess, me, and Shane

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful dads in my life!

My dad is amazing! He is Mr. Can Do Anything, and I take advantage of that all the time and he never seems to mind. My love and respect has grown so much for him over the past year as I've watched him take care of my mom going through breast cancer. He has been so wonderful!! He is an awesome Grandpa and my kids love him to pieces!!

I'm so grateful for Shane and the amazing dad he is to our kids. Our house is a little chaotic with all these little boys (kennedi is pretty easy), but he is so good with them and so patient and loving (most of the time, lol). This year he really had to step up his "Daddy" game with having twins, and he DID!!! Before the babies slept through the night, he woke up and always took care of one of them with me. He has really been a super dad this year!!

Here are cute little gifts I made for them.......

Happy 1st birthday!!!!

Happy birthday to my little Bronse and Brody!!! They are so amazing! They have been the best little guys and have made having twins so much fun!!!

The Very Hungry Caterpillar 1st Birthday Bash

I can't believe my baby boys are turning 1!! wow what a year it has been. They are so so fun. We absolutely love them to pieces!!! I saw some cute ideas on pinterest for The Very Hungry Caterpillar birthday theme and decided to do it......

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the invitations that I made on photoshop

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I did the little fruit pizza's that went perfect with the theme

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the cupcakes were AMAZING, I found the recipe HERE

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I made a each baby a picture caterpillar, and we played a game where you had to name what month the picture was taken in, It was pretty hard!

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it took them a minute to dig into the the cake, but they loved it and were stained RED!!

DIY large family photo

I saw this idea on Pinterest HERE.  Start out by taking a photo to Staples and have them print it out on engeneer paper for $4.99.  Then I created the shape that I wanted for the wood (underlayment board, $15.00) on photoshop and used out projecter to get it on the wood........

cut it out with a jig saw.....

Sand the edges......

Prime it......

Paint it.....I then put a brown glaze on it.....

I got a spray adhesive and sprayed the board and laid the photo down on it and smoothed it out.....

Made Shane hold it in a few different places.....

and finally hung it here.....