More Camping Fun!!

I couldn't get these pics to work for the other post so here is the overflow of pics from the best summer camp!These two thought they were pretty cool to be up on top of the rocks! Great climbing boys!
Fabulous Family Fun!
I Love ya Mom and Dad! Thanks for all the fun!
Cute Kids!

These girls are practicing casting with dad up on the hill across from camp. Pretty cute girls!


This is the fishing crew after the first outing to the lake.

These kiddos were dancing to the Lions Club band coming up the road.
We have to pay tribute to the great bouncing piano lady who passed away and no longer rocks it in the parade. We loved the years of great music. Sad to see the piano empty on the Lions club float.

Do you see those deer, elk, or cows, or bear? Oh yeah people we saw all of the above and more turkeys too.

They love to look in the noculars as they called them.

And the Best Camper award goes to this kiddo who is truly the epitome of camping, Jaxon! This kid is filthy, sunburned, covered in bug bites, and carrying a sticky treat. I love this little buddy. He fell over and over but just kept on going and was not going to be left out of any of the action anywhere.

Miah getting her turn shooting the bb gun with dad helping. She hit the can. Sharp Shooter.

This is miss Miah getting extremely close to Ryder and Lane's string of fish. Brave girl.

Miah was a great fisherman and caught three fish and did a great job reeling them in. We will have to work on our sitting still and watching our pole skills. Mazie was good to give her sis encouragement. Silly girls.

Summer Camping is the Best!

Escalante Trip 2011 was soo much fun!! Everyone say "We Love Camping!"The girls were pretty good travelers and we were so happy to be on the road and heading south for a week full of adventure!Pictures of the scenery on the fly. The ride down is gorgeous!The girls could not wait for the first four-wheeler ride in their new helmets and we of course loaded up the fishing gear and headed to the lake. Cute stinkers!!Miah caught her first fish on her princess pole and it was a beauty! She didn't like the fish flipping everywhere. I couldn't get her to come near it for a great picture. In the background is her nervous sister who after this first fishing experience basically didn't want anything to do with fishing. She just wanted to watch from a distance.You have got to love Poppy with the tiny pink pole in his hand! It's a princess pole!

Proud Fisherwoman!Poppy and the girls. Poppy was great help fishing. By the time we got there Poppy and Ryder had caught their limit.One of the mornings Kayleb stayed at camp with the girls and let me go to lake with my dad and fish my favorite rock and dad and I were busy catching them all morning.There is always a possibility of bears where we camp and fish so this year for safety I carried around a mini air horn that I call my bear horn just in case I got in a tight spot. Everyone laughed at me, but I really think everyone will be carrying one next year:)We also while we were fishing spotted some turkeys across the lake and pulled our poles in and went stalking them. We got pretty close but they are fast. That was pretty fun. I am not the best stalking partner or I guess I'm not that quiet. I stepped on a log that was laying across some other logs and it totally busted and I went down. Ha. I am super stealth.We went to Devil's Rock Garden one afternoon and then went to Calf Creek to cool off in the creek. Mazie was walking around the rocks and said,"It is hot in the desert." Yes it is. The kids had a blast climbing and swimming. We got some great family pics too.Nice farmers tan. I was trying to stay out of the pic. Cute kids though! The water was pretty cold, but so much fun. We walked up and down the creek and spotted fish and cooled off from the desert.Look out that face looks like all business. BB gun shooting with Dad and Poppy. Mazie hit the can too!Parade time and we took our regular spot in the intersection.Grandpa and Grandma Great and Nan and Brittles and Syd camped with us too, but I really didn't get any pics at camp of everyone. The kids had a great time playing with Syd. She was so good to them! Thanks Syd!! Grandma would always let the filthy crew in her trailer to visit and they loved it! We really had a great camp. The weather was perfect and the ages of the kids were so much fun. They are just big enough to really enjoy it. On the way home the girls would cry when we said we were going home. They wanted to go back to camp and sleep in the trailer. Hope we can go again soon! Lots of work, but oh so worth it!

Happy Birthday Girlies!

Happy 3rd Birthday to my most favorite girls!! I am so in love with these two cuties and I can't believe that they are three years old! They are so fun and crazy! They surprise me with what they do, say, and understand. Miah is the Mom of the two and she loves barking orders to anyone and everyone. She gets told a lot that she is not the mom to which she quickly responds with, "Mom, I'm not talking like a mom I am talking like a sister!" Oh help me!! She loves purple and loves to sing in her monotone voice. She is a really good helper and cracks me up with the things she comes up with. The other day we were running errands and she asked where we were going next and I told her then she informed me that she needed to go to the Barbie Place cuz she need to go dere. I didn't even know she really knows what Barbie is. Miah is a little bit of a whiner about everything. She gives the best hugs and is a silly beautiful girl. Mazie is full of life and a sweetie! She loves to dance is a bit of an airhead and just flits around making up random things to say. She loves pink and loves volunteering her sister for whatever I ask someone to do. "Miah do it."she says. She came down the stairs on their birthday and there was balloons and banners and streamers and she asked me if I did the ribbons in the kitchen for her birthday. I told her I did and she said,"It is so gorgeous mom. I love it. It is gorgeous!" She always wakes up with a smile and is generally happy. She is the tattle tale of the two and loves telling on people. Even Mom and Dad. When she gets mad she stomps around making sure everyone knows she is upset. If we ignore her she comes around hemming and haaing to make sure we know she is not happy. I just ignore her so she will do it because it is sooo funny to watch it. I love this sweet gorgeous girlie who gives the best BIG kisses! Now, truly I have to report on them as a whole to because that is what they really are. They are the best friends and the worst enemies. It can change on a moments notice. When they are playing house I will here them calling mom and so I will answer, wrong, they inform me they are talking to their other mom. Oh sorry my bad. They still have some times when they are the only ones that understand each other and they have the most hilarious random conversations and make up silly songs. Both of them have a new love of riding the four-wheeler. They got helmets for their birthday. They watch out for each other most of the time and are so fun. They are so big and clearly not babies anymore...tears. I love them so much and am so grateful for my "precious treasures", because that is what they truly are! Happy Birthday Girlies!! They got to spend the day swimming and playing in the water with most of their cousins that they adore. We had lots of fun with water balloon fights, slip'n slides, and little pools.We had a family party that night were they were spoiled rotten by grandparents and family. Thanks everyone for coming.

Slacker!

Okay, I have been getting a lot of comments in recent family parties that I have been neglecting my blog. Really there hasn't been much to blog about. The girls and I have just been waiting for the weather to make up it's mind. We have been attempting and failing at potty training. Many tears have been shed, lots of puddles were made, and it mainly consisted of me on my knees with the spotbot cleaner fuming and mumbling under my breath when I wasn't yelling at my darling girls. I think I have aged ten years. I have new wrinkles on under my eyes and I found an unsightly gray hair on my head and plucked it immediately. We have attempted potty training again and this time with success. The girls in potty training round 1 were offered a fabulous prize of their very own bike if they would fill their potty chart that I made them with stickers to which the response was, "I can't want a bike Mommy, I just want diapers." Great. No matter how pretty the panties were or how great the prize was or how sweet the treat was I could not persuade my stubborn sweethearts. I don't know what happened, but a few weeks later they just decided and after a week of intense work we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and enjoying it thanks to all the help of Grandma's and Grandpa's and Dad and my sweet sister-in-law who understands my pain and brought me a much needed refreshment on a stressful day. We are doing well and both Miah and Mazie have their bikes now and they were the cutest things going shopping for them. I love them so much and to see how excited they were brings tears of happiness! I am so proud of them and can't believe how fast they are growing up. I loved to see how they supported each other and never failed to tell each other "great job" and say "what a big girl you are." Priceless moments. Pure joy when Miah finally got the chance to get on that super cool bike! Sadness when she figured out she has to make it go on her own power and it is hard to do. Then the whining began again and more training and yelling. I told Kayleb I had done the hard work and this was his department. He only lasted about 5 minutes. We are still working on how to pedal. Does it ever end...Ha Ha! Cute little stinker!Mazie earned her bike a day later than Miah and so the anticipation of getting it put together was so exciting. She was soo cute. Miah was a good helper too.
Mazie was thrilled to get on her very own bike and then just as her sister did, realize to her disappointment that it requires more learning. She is practicing hard to make it work. She is such a cute girl!