Gracie Girl turns 8!!!

Our niece Gracie turned 8 on June 29th. Her and her friends are all into the "Hippie Peace-sign" so that's the kind of cake she asked for. I got to make 2 of them for her this year, one for her friend party and one for the family party.

Then on July 4th she was baptised!!
The kiddo's! Jantsen, Payton, Porter, Nick, Brooks, Gracie & Ryann

The whole family!!!!

Happy Birthday Gracie Girl! We love you so much and we are so proud of you!

Family Reunion!!!

Every year my dad's extended family gets together up the canyon for a BBQ. There's lots of yummy food, games for the kids, fishing & water fights!!!For some reason the water fight starts off with a few little kids with squirt guns and turns into a major fight between the adults! Mom and Dad usually are right in the middle of it.

Riley, Dad & Mom! I luckily stayed dry for the most part....until the end dad got me, but not as bad as these 3 were!!!!I spent some time on the swings watching the kids chase candy that was being shot out of a little cannon!!!!Josh was the only one interested in fishing.....look at the monster he caught!

It was a fun afternoon.

Father's Day!!!

Like I always say....Better late than never when it comes to blogging right!!!! We had a really good Fathers day!!! It started off a little late because Mom and I were on the road home from Cedar City. When we got home we headed down to my parents to hang out for awhile.Joslyn and Grandpa! I love you daddy!!! Thank you for all you do for me, for all you've done for me throughout my life! You have always been there for me and it means so much! I love you "___________________THIS________________" much and then some!!!!
Mom & Dad!
Me & Grandma Evey!

Joslyn and her Daddy! 4-wheeling in the golf cart! Happy father's day Big Bro... I love you lots!My hottie!!! Riley, I know your not a father yet, but when that day comes that we get our precious little one, you are going to be the most amazing daddy! Thank you for all you do for me I love you lots!
Papa Rich, Jeff & Greg (Riley's oldest 2 brothers...not pictured Kelly)

Happy Fathers day guys! We love you lots, thank you for all you do for us!
Baby Avery & Chris. This cute little girl is Riley's cousin's baby! She is such a happy little thing! She is adopted! Luckily Trevor & Lynsie had better luck with their adoption then we have! Things went really well for them, and they were so blessed to get this adorable little girl! We are so excited to have our own story and cute/fun little baby to love and adore.

After dinner we all headed out to the fire pit at Jeff & Jane's to roast marshmallows!!!
Happy Father's Day to all of you amazing men!!!

Utah Summer Games!!!!

A couple weeks ago Mom and I headed to Cedar City to play Volleyball in the Utah Summer Games! This is our first time ever going and we had a lot of fun. We have never played with the team we went down there with but we didn't do so bad! All and All it was a fun mother-daughter getaway! Thanks mom, love ya lots!

Scofield Annual Fishing Derby & dinner

Every year we go to our cabin in Scofield for the Annual Fishing Derby! 2 years ago my Mom won the Women's, last year I won, this year Mom won again!!!!













For any of you that know Riley know that since he joined our family he hasn't been that lucky when it comes to fishing! Well I think his luck has changed. He caught the first fish that weekend, and the most!






After the fishing is over the community gets together for a potluck dinner and a bake sale. This year we were big suckers for the bake sale. Mom and I both bought the cute snack jars full of Carmel popcorn, dad bought the cookies and strawberries and Riley bought the German Chocolate cake! Needless to say we were all feeling fat after the weekend was over!

We had a really good time at the cabin though. We played cards, watched movies and just enjoyed each others company! Oh yeah and Mom and I kicked the boys butts at hand & foot (card game)

More Cakes!

A couple weeks ago I got to make some cakes for some friends! The first one is a Snow White Cake for my Friend Jen's little girls 4th Birthday!

The 2nd one being a Golf Cake for my friend Aimee's father! Both of these cakes were so fun to make. Specially the Golf cake because Mom and I have never done one like this and when we first got started we didn't think it was going to turn out so great, but neither one of us dared say anything to the other. We are very happy and proud with the way it turned out!

I am looking forward to getting to make more this summer!

Happy Birthday Jane!

May 30th was our sis-in-law Jane's Birthday! We went to their house for Cake & Ice Cream! So I got to make another cake! I was going to make one like my mom's but Riley insisted I made the following Minnie Mouse cake because Jane LOVES Disneyland! Melanie, Kelly, Jane & LauraThe Kiddos....Porter, Nick, Ryann, Gracie & Brooks!Our handsome nephew Payton!Jeff, Greg, Payton, & Jantsen!The little boys sang Happy Birthday to Jane by themselves, it was really cute!

Porter, Nick & BrooksRiley! Say Cheese!The Minnie Mouse cake!I've been into Polka-Dots lately...can ya tell!

Happy Birthday Janie, we Love you!

Happy Birthday Mom!!!

May 28th was my Mom's birthday! We went down to their house for a BBQ that night!Grandpa, Brent (a friend) and Mom!Dad, Brooke (a friend), Grandma & Grandpa!Paige, Caroline & Brittany (Brent & Brooke's Girls) & Joslyn

I got to make my mom's birthday cake! It was fun to decorate it & make it my own!Side view!
Putting the candles on the cake!

Grandma, Brook, Me, Mom, Paige

Make a wish!!!!Mom asked for a new Glider Swing for the kids playground for her birthday! She truly did not believe she was getting it! We had it all put together and an empty box so we put Joslyn in the box and gave that to mom! We let her open her other presents, then brought the swing out! She was so excited! Now she doesn't have to push the kids on the swings all the time, they can do it by themselves!

Happy Birthday Mom! We love you tons!!!!

Memorial Weekend!!!!

Over the Memorial weekend we got to go on our first real camping trip of the year! Our dear friends Dylan & Carly and their kids Ally, Brennan & Grady went with us! We headed up Thursday night and didn't come home until Monday afternoon! It was a really fun, well needed relaxing weekend. Even though we did get dumped on by rain we still had a fun time! We went 4-wheeling, read books, watched movies (when it was raining), played cards, roasted marshmellows and starburst... etc! I know this is a picture load, keep in mind this is only like 1/2 the pictures I took!

Dylan brought his trailer up Friday morning! This is right after the guys just got done catching a mouse and throwing it across the creek! That's right ladies....a mouse! As you can tell I quickly got up on the trailer.....I hate those little rodents! We actually had a little family of them right by camp so we saw them often, & I did not like it at all!!!!

Dylan, Riley & Grady

Ally had a blast with Gus! She even got to where she could take him for walks by herself!

Riley, Grady, Gus & Ally

A view of our camp from the road! Dylan's brother Ryan and a couple of his friends came and stayed one night!

Riley cooking our Yummy Dutch Oven potatoes......
& Pork Chops!Dylan bought this little 4-wheeler for his kids! The guys spent a lot of time working on it and trying to get it to run! They finally did on Sunday! Brennan & Ally were great on it. Grady on the other hand got away from us at one point and almost rolled, it was really scary. Dylan caught him right as he was going up a hillside and about to tip over. Luckily no one was hurt!
Riley & Gus hanging out around the camp fire!Brennan, Dylan, Grady, Carly, Me & Gus! We all had our books out reading this night around the campfire except for Riley....he's not much of a reader!Brennan, Riley, Gus, Ally & Grady!Riley & Dylan went on a long Motorcycle ride one day! When they got back the boys begged for a ride so they quickly rode down the road.
Riley & Brennan....Carly & AllyDylan & GradyMe & My Honey!!!The crew on one of our rides! (Carly's parents came up and went for a short ride with us one day!)Kodak Moment!!! (don't mind the wind blown hair!)Riley trying out his dad's new 4-wheeler! We had strict instructions when we borrowed this that I was the only one to ride it.....Sorry Papa Rich, I won't let him do it again!
Dylan & Riley building us a bridge to cross the creek!It worked PERFECT!!!!A view of the beautiful creek that ran right by our camp! We listened to the sound of this the whole weekend, it was so nice! We had a lot of fun and can't wait to go again!