Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Ethan's first day at Kindergarten!


My cute little E started Kindergarten this year. He is so big. He is loving it so far!



E and all his friends on the first day of school!


Ethan and Mason sitting at the table! What big boys!

Random pictures!


Standing in our states and missing each other! Kali refused to stand on NC!


Grandma and Mylie!



Ethan got to go on a primary activity at the Church History Museum this year! At the activity he got to make a clay bust of himself. Here is his artwork!


Later, he made one of me!


Ninja fighting!

Lake Powell 2009


Kayak rides!


Ethan and Kali the Kayak buddies. Ethan even learned to paddle and steer his own kayak this year! He could leave the houseboat, paddle around for a bit, then come back and park the kayak on the back of the houseboat!


Sand buddies!

This was one of the several hikes during the trip. Me and Mylie hung out in the boat and took this picture. If you blow it up you can see Jason way up high! Way to go hikers!

Nice hair boys!


Jeff and Mylie looking at the fish. Mylie loved anything gross this year! Jeff caught several fish in a bucket and Mylie would put both of her arms it and love touching all the fish! She also held them and threw them back in the lake! YUCK!


Our neighbors were nice enough to let us use their tramp. Everybody had lots of fun!


Mimmy was nice enough to paddle Mylie around on this tube for hours and hours! Thanks Mim!


Ethan posing on the slide!


Building forts!


Silly faces in the fort!


Jeff and Ethan went on a hike together every day. This was Ethan's favorite thing to do for special time with his Dad!


Mylie showing off her Little Mermaid swimsuit!


Returning the fish to the lake! We camped in a place with a lot of biting fish this year! YUCK! Jeff tried to reassure all of us scared swimmers that if he returned the fish far away from the boat they would leave us alone. Yeah right!


Weston was nice enough to teach everybody yoga on the top of the houseboat!



More yoga pics!



Cute kids!



Silly faces!



More tube rides!


Ethan even got Grandma to go on a hike with him! Thanks Grandma!



Some of the gang!


Weston pretending he is cool! Just kidding Wes. This was his lip sinc part in Jason's music video!


Mylie loving the sand!


Ethan loving to hike everywhere dangerous!


Mylie surfing!


My uncle Tim found a great hike for us all to go on! We had a great time and got to see tons of frogs!


Mylie liked the frogs the best! I think that we had atleast 5 fatalaties or "sleeping frogs" along the way. Mylie could catch them herself and would try to hold as many as she could at the same time! So cute!


Grandpa teaching Ethan about the tadpoles!


Part of the hike!


My cute little kiddos!



We try to take a family picture every year at Lake Powell. Here is Lake Powell 2009!


The end of the hike!


All of the hikers!




Taking a rest!


All of us


Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Kangaroo Zoo!


Some of the gang! Tay didn't want to be in this picture. We tried!


The mom's that had it rough just hanging out :)


Mylie and Jada!

Bear Lake with Friends!


Again, many thanks to my Mom and Dad for letting us take yet another group to Bear Lake and stay in their cabin! This time we got to go with a group of mine and Jeff's High School friends and their wives. At the peak of the weekend we had 9 adults and 13 kids. We missed you Dan! Thanks for working hard and making money so that Tiff could vacation with us! We spent all of Friday and Saturday at the beach. The kids couldn't get enough of the sand and water and it was way less stressful then trying to control 13 kids at the cabin!


Ethan loved this shark and spent the majority of his time on it! Thanks Justin and Cindy for providing all the blow-ups!


Cute little Jake and Mylie! One of Mylie's buddies during the trip!


Just some of the kids I could gather for a picture!


So cute!



All of the kids! Mylie insisted on sitting there!


Cute Mylie and Rayden! Mylie's other favorite buddy of the trip!


Dad moment :)