Hallie's Birthday!

Hallie is 11! I can't believe it. 

We had a fun night with Oma, and presents, pizza, cake, and ice cream!

I have to do something about these grainy pictures. My camera is all screwed up! Anyway here's Hallie with the present she wanted. An ihome/alarm clock. Now she can keep her ipod charged and wake up on time!

First Day for Nat!

We had a real staggered start this year. Nat finally started a couple weeks after the rest! She is headed to 8th grade! I have more pictures of her. I don't know what happened. I will have to add them later.

"The Canyon" 2011

Here is my beautiful Natalie sitting by the water at Mill Creek Canyon. We used to go up with my family a couple times a summer to barbecue and enjoy the nature. We have all been so busy we didn't even go last year.

That had to be remedied. These two cuties are at an age where an evening in the canyon is an amazing adventure!

Hallie takes credit for the evening. She wanted to go for her birthday. We all agreed it was a good idea!

Here is trouble. See those cute flip flops? They were sacrificed to the creek. At least is was just a flip flop that was lost in the water and not a cute child!

We had a great time waiting for everyone else to come.

Jane, Ann, and Laurie relaxing. Jean was with the kids by the water. We were joined for dinner by Shane, Dana, Russell, Aiden, Eliza, Jack, Reed and Linda. We need to do it more often. I am always ready for a banana boat!

Jace's Goes to Elementary School!

Jace started kindergarten this year. He had to wait a week longer than the girls to start and it almost killed him. He was so excited to get started and to show his teacher that he "already knows everything."

My camera was doing weird things, so sorry for the fuzzy pic. You can still see that he is super handsome!

First Day of School

Hallie is headed to 6th grade! She is so ready to rule the school!

Take note of the matching shirt, bag, and flip-flops! She was so stylin' with all her Aeropostale gear!

Here is my darling Abbie getting ready for second grade. I guess I didn't download her picture holding up her two fingers, but I have it somewhere. . .   She was excited for school too and I think she looks like a doll!

Showing off the new backpacks! I will only get one every other year, so they get pretty excited for something new!

After school they were excited for First Day Doughnuts! 

Yum!

Vegas Getaway!

Shane and I took a trip to Vegas for our Anniversary again this year. This time we stayed at the Paris. We bought the Buffet of Buffets pass so we could go to as many buffets as we wanted in 24 hours. More food than you could ever want, but fun to try everything that looks good!

We walked all over the place looking at things and getting tickets for all the shows we wanted to see. I think we did a couple marathons worth of walking. -At least we could work off the buffets!  Here we are having a break at the Miracle Mile shops in Planet Hollywood. We were starving. This was not a buffet day.

If you only knew how hard it was to get this picture. . . .  It was so funny. We were crying from laughing so hard. Let's just say Shane's eyes didn't cooperate with a self portrait. They were always closed. At least it entertained us while we waited for the Billagio fountains to go off.

On this trip we saw La Reve which was really cool.  Human Nature was great. Those guys were very talented. And we also had to see the last Harry Potter!! We also spent as much time as possible by the pool reading and relaxing. We always have fun hanging out together and getting re-energized to be mom and dad. I am so grateful for 16 years with my best friend!

4th of July with Real Salt Lake!

 For the 4th of July this year we went to the Real Salt Lake game. Before the game started we went to Carnival Real and had a lot of fun. The kids got to bounce, we got some free stuff like hair cuts, Real towels, and I did karaoke to a Journey song for free Journey concert tickets!

 Maria came with us and we had a great time!  We went to this game for a special reason. Hallie's soccer team got to be the "Dream Team" and got to walk out on the field with the Real players! She was so excited. We live next door to Andy Williams #77 on the team. Hallie was really hoping he would start that day and that she would be able to hold his hand to walk out on the field!

She got her wish!! We were so excited that it worked out for her to walk out with him. (it did help that he told her to be last in line under the tunnel because if he started he is always last) We were glad for the inside information.

Shane got some good pictures, even though we were far away.

Here is everyone but Hallie turning to do the National Anthem. We aren't sure why she didn't turn, but she looks cute all the same. After the game there were a few fireworks in the stadium. We got done with the game in time to get to our car and see the Sandy city fireworks. It was a great family day!