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my sister shari is finally home after spending a scary week in the hospital. She lost her baby and had to have a d&c done well it didn't go so well and we almost lost her. She is a very brave woman who has a long road of recovery ahead but I know she will make it! we love you shari!

Things happen

I was told some very sad news last night and it breaks my heart. My sister lost her baby. Know one knows why and she may never know. But I know that there is something bigger and better out there for that baby. I have had friends that have lost their babies and seen all the suffering that they have gone through. It makes you wonder why? why them? why now? I'm glad that I can see the bigger picture and know that things happen for a reason. We may not understand the "why" right now but eventually we will. We love you sis, and are keeping you and your family in our prayers.

birthday fun

so anyone one that knows my family knows that aug is our month for birthdays. not all of aug. just the first week and a half. elle starts us out on the 4th, becca's the 5th, raquels the 10th, polly's the 11th and finally mine on the 12th! this year my parents and 4 younger siblings came down to st. george to celebrate! on monday we hit up the jumping jacks bounce house place. that was really fun, the kids ran to their hearts content. then we did some bowling. tues the birthday girls got pedicures and did some shopping. the guys of course went golfing and poor dan had to work all day. tues night we went to tuachan and saw footloose. it was good but not the best one that i've seen there. on wed we swam all day long, then played phase 10. we had the dan and cale comedy act going on while playing phase 10. I was laughing so hard that i was crying. the fam. left thurs. morning, elle started preschool and the kids had their yearly doctor appointments. now it's friday and trey had his first day of preschool and i'm back to work but all i can say is what a great birthday week it's been. thanks mom and dad for everything!

3 is the magic number

the magic number for today is 3. that's right folks my baby girl is 3 years old today. wow how time flies! elle is so excited for her birthday, that's all she's talked about for weeks. we've been asking her what she wants for her birthday and she told us " 2 fairies(tinkerbell) and $200! i think we can cover the 2 fairies but there is no way i'm giving her $200! she is the funniest kid ever! she keeps us rolling with the things she says and with her sassy attitude. she is also the sweetest little girl you'll ever meet. she always tell me that she wants to hold me. really she wants me to hold her but it's cuter how she says it. she can be a total daddy's girl and then turn into a fighter. it's not a rare thing in our house to have both elle and trey gang up on us. especially when one of them is in trouble. i love the fact that elle is sassy but sad that she is growing up so fast. here's to another year with my baby girl! happy birthday elle belle!!!

weekend fun

this past weekend we went up to midway to spend some time with cale's family. it was so much fun! the kids had a blast playing with all of their cousins. cale had fun golfing and playing ping pong with ty, and i totally loved the weather and company! we took the kids swimming, and to the movies. elle was fearless when it came to the swimming. she would run and jump in and try to dodge cale(he was trying to catch her). We laughed so hard when maxx and ty had their boxing match downstairs. i don't know who won but i'm thinkin' they both had some pretty good shots at the other one. we did a little rock band, some football,and ate great burgers and chicken(cobi it was awesome chicken. i definitely need the recipe.)also we can't forget the beloved mountain dew cake that madi made!:) thanks cobi and burt for letting us crash at your pad!

just when we thought the weekend was over, we had a surprise visit from cale's cousin charmaine and her adorable family. they are up from texas on a little vacation and wanted to see us. cale, the kids, charmaine, chris and their two kids all went swimming and then we had dinner and root beer floats. it was so great to see them and to catch up. what a great weekend it is when you get to spend it with those that you love!

I also have to put this great piece of news in, my sister becca just found an adoption agency that they want to go through and they could have a baby in 3-6 months if everything goes right!!

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July 4th

We had a lot of fun over the 4th of july weekend. we went to price on friday and took the kids to the wave pool! they were fearless and had so much fun. trey couldn't get enough of body surfing with us. elle and codi loved having the waves push them all over. lucky for us we had my brother brandon and sister paula there to keep up with them. That night we had a picnic with my parents at the dinosaur park. trey loves that park. some random guy came up and asked if the kids wanted to go chase some parachutes that he was shooting off in the air. trey ended up with the biggest parachute, he was so proud but he gave it to codi so she would have one too. the next day we headed to lehi. the kids had a blast with zack and codi. they played in the water outside, went to cabelas(sp?), and of course did fireworks. i think we have a couple of pyro's in our future :) i got to go shopping with my mom and sis becca and we had a great bbq at my grandpa's. we finally got to meet our nephew coleman and he's such a cutie pie!! cale and i were the big winners of the pvc pipe game. i have no idea what the game is called but we have a blast playing it when the fam gets together. my dad called it when he said that cale and i lure everyone into thinking that they are going to win and the BAM we win. cale's quite the trash talker and had everyone rolling with laughter.my mom had us giggling when she did the hokey pokey with the kids. we had so much fun and it was great to see my fam, even if we didn't get to see everyone.

the pvc pipe game.

playing with the water squirters





trey and zack jumpin' off grandpa's deck

baby coleman

Baseball

Today is my brother Dan's birthday so we treated him to a roadrunners baseball game tonight! It was so much fun. They asked Dan if he wanted to go down on the field and throw snowballs(it was Canadian night). They clocked how fast he could throw one and he got 46 mph. he won a gift card for some Hawaiian shaved ice. I haven't been to a baseball game in forever. Elle loved the mascot and then didn't want to go near it. Trey had fun for the first few innings and then went and bounced in the big bounce house that they had set up. In the 7th inning it started to rain, it felt soo good, and the roadrunners won. We had a blast and will definitely go again!