My parents are the Best!!!

My parents are so great, this last weekend they took all five kids for 4 days. They took Kaylei , Lexi, and Paige fishing, my Dad said the girls were so excited except when it came to touching the fish or the worms, although Kaylei did pick up the worms to put on her hook. They also went swimming and went to a parade on Saturday. They always have such a great time when they are with their grandparents. Christian and I also had a great time, we went out every night, Thursday we saw "The Dark Knight" which I thought was awesome. Friday we ate at the Cheesecake Factory which we have not been to since we left California and Saturday we ate at the Japanese restaurant in American Fork across the street from Home Depot, same side as Costco (which we had not been to before.) If any of you have any favorite restaurants that you like to eat at please let me know. We are constantly debating on where to eat when we go out. Back to how awesome my parents are I have several friends who constantly give me grief because of how often my parent take our kids (all five), I do think my parents have to be a little crazy to take all of them, but ignorance is bliss and I'm not about to question it. I have had several of my friends approach me and ask if they can adopt my parents. My parents truly are the best, as I talk to others I realize how blessed I am for all that they do to help us out and make our lives easier. I hope I am like that when my children are grown. As for now I'm very grateful for my parents. Thanks Mom and Dad for all you do!!!

First Blog

OK, so Kaylei, Lexi and Paige already have a blog, so I am feeling pretty lame that my kids have a blog and I do not. But for the record I did start my blog over a month ago, but I was waiting for something really cool to blog about, but realized that I'm missing the most important things that happen daily with my kids. So after having my user name, new Gmail account and password emailed to me because I have already forgotten them I think I am officially ready to blog. Although when I hear the word blog I always think of "The Office" episode when Ryan sets up a fake blog for Creed. Speaking of "The Office" both Christian and I love "The Office" and want to host a party for the new season, mark it on your calenders all you "Office" fans!!!

I'm just going to give a short recap of whats been happening this summer. . .

We went to Thanksgiving Point Farm when my brother Shawn and his family came to visit. The kids loved the pony ride, they also got to milk a cow and feed a calf.

Every Monday night Thanksgiving Point gardens have a family night activity, Last week they had a jello-fight, my kids loved it until the grass kept sticking to them (break down equation of jello; sugar + water + grass = complaining kids)

We did have a fun 4th of July. We decided to get up early 6:00am and catch the hot air balloon release in Provo. I must admit I was actually excited, we missed it last year because we slept in, but this year I was determined to make it. We loaded up all the kids and got there just in time to see them take off. I had envisioned hundreds of hot air balloons taking off at the same time. So you can imagine the reality check when we got there and there were about 10 balloons taking off. If you do the math the effect is not quite the same, but the kids thought it was really cool and had a good time. That night Traverse Mountain hosted a barbecue and movie "Horton Hears a Who" at our neighborhood park.