Warning: Tons of pictures ahead

We just got back from Utah last night and as always, we had a lot of fun. We went for Kyle's sister's wedding and then Kyle took a much needed break from life, going with the boys to Lake Powell for four days of fun.






The kids at the playground in Spring Glen.

After all of the fishing and Lake Powell fun you could handle, everyone got in the hot tub.

Grandpa with the grandkids.
All of the family with the Manti Temple in the background... almost 7 years ago to the date, we were getting married here - now look at how we've changed.

Yes, I posted this one twice, sorry

Katie the bride getting ready to throw the bouquet.

Spencer getting ready for a four-wheeling trip with Dad, Grandpa, and Carly. Of course he loved it.

Carly fell asleep on the ride, don't ask me how. Her poor head couldn't hold up the helmet...she kept hitting dad with her head.

Aren't they spoiled? A hot tub at both grandparents houses... they LOVE it!
Father and son

The whole family at the temple. It was a great day and everyone looked great!

Grandpa fixing Spencer's tie

At the temple. Pretty good-looking kid huh!

And here's another good-looking kid. She was so much fun. It's so fun to have out-going kids. Everyone loved that they weren't afraid to talk to them, sit on their laps, etc.

7 years and still going strong...

On the drive up to Utah, we had lots of fun things to play with.

We think these pictures are so funny.

And yes, the wedding day was also my big 3-0 birthday. The family had a surprise party for me the night before. It was so fun!
Me holding the yummy cake.

One last picture of the happy newlyweds.


And when we get the pictures of Kyle's Lake Powell trip, we'll post some then. Bye

Happy Birthday Kyle!

Well, Kyle is the big 29 today... he was kind enough to point out that we will be the same age for a few days. Of course he had to wake up early and be at work, so Kyle and I opened up most of his presents without the kids. He wanted luggage, so that was the bulk of his presents. Then he headed to work.

His surgery day is pretty weird today, so he got to come home for lunch, so we celebrated with the kids then and had his ice cream cake. They kept singing happy birthday to you.... except for Carly who sings "Happy to you" as loud as she can. Then it was off to work again, we don't know if we'll see him tonight... hopefully! (Thanks Spencer for being the photographer)

The candy poster that we made for his birthday.

Celebrating. We are sure blessed to have such an awesome dad and husband! We love you Kyle!

This Friday we had a big end-of-season soccer BBQ with the other players and their families. All of the kids got trophies. It was so fun- the coach would say something about each player as they were up on top of the slide and then they would slide down to get their trophy as everyone clapped. The coach said that Spencer was the most versatile player (he kicks with both feet, unlike the other kids) and the most sociable (this is a nice way to say that he likes to interupt the coaching to tell stories). We are sure proud of him.

Spencer took this picture of his trophy. He was sure excited to get it. He kept saying, "This is my first trophy ever!"

And a week ago I was able to attend a Time Out for Women conference and go with some good friends. It was so much fun and it was definitely a needed "Time Out" for me. THis picture is with Kenneth Cope who sang a bunch of songs there.

Me and my pregnant self with my good friends. It was nice to go and be uplifted! Thanks to Kyle for watching the kids Friday and Saturday so that I could go!

The latest happenings

It seems like we've been more busy the last week or two, but it's probably just the usual spring time stuff. We have had fun doing things that keep us busy though...

Yesterday I took the kids to the Isotopes Baseball game (without Kyle). It happens that since the game was at noon on a weekday, that there wasn't a lot of people that could attend the game, so Kyle was able to get me some tickets without a problem from work. Of course, me, being one not to make easy things stay that way, asked Kyle if he could possibly get me more tickets so that we could take the kids in Spencer's preschool group (joy school) and their moms. And of course Kyle being the wonderful husband that he is, worked it out... of course it took a little more finangling (is that a word?) and a little more stress, but it all worked out... much to our surprise.






I made the kids stay after the game and take some pictures, but Carly wasn't very cooperative. She was too interested in other things, but here she gave me a nice "Cheese" for the camera.

Spencer eating a hotdog during the game.

A quick snapshot of the preschool kids. I think they had fun ?

After the game attempt at a picture.

We've also been getting ready for our trip to Utah. Kyle's sis is getting married and then he's going on a big ol' fishing trip to Lake Powell. Here are the kids trying out the sleeping bag that Kyle is taking.

And Spencer had his last soccer game of the season. Here is Carly at the game.

All of us waiting for the game to start.

And here is one picture of him during the game. He's finally starting to focus on the ball a little more and not the butterflies or blades of grass... And he says he wants to play again next season, so we'll be signing him up on Saturday.

And I think with all of the fun we've been having :) the kids are pretty worn out because they are both taking a nap right now... Gasp! They both need it! Maybe I need one too...

The ZOO

My mom and sister, Katie, came down last week. It was a lot of fun. We went to the childrens museum, to the zoo, celebrated my mom's birthday and hung out.




The kids at the zoo
Again at the zoo, with the sun in their eyes.

This is what happens when you still my camera and take pictures of yourself... you get it blogged. That'll teach ya! :) HA HA

Playing around with my camera again.

Carly watering our lawn and having a little too much fun.

Happy Birthday Carly!

So Carly is numero dos today! Happy Birthday Carly! We had to wake her up early because we had our ultrasound today. Poor girl, there's nothiing like being woken up on your birthday. We had the house decorated and her presents on the table ready to be opened. She wasn't that excited about it (actually quite ornery), until she saw her new bike. All of a sudden she lit up and was happy. Yay!


Such a funny picture I had to post it... she had just woken up (post seeing the bike).

Opening some presents

Spencer, of course was a great help!

The cake I made for her. (She loves sunglasses, so I thought this was an appropriate cake for this year.)

After dinner, we had hamburgers (her favorite), we had the cake and some icecream. This is Carly wearing her sunglasses with her sunglasses cake. So cute!

Carly wasn't that excited about the candles on her cake. This is after she blew one of them out and smelled the smoke...

We are so glad that Carly is in our family! She is so much fun and we just love her to pieces!

And in other news: Yes we had the ultrasound today. The whole family came and got to see their new...

Brother! (Check out the arrow for the proof)

He kept putting his hand in front of his face, so we didn't get a ton of great pictures. But here's one that was snapped just as he moved it.

And this is one of the 4-d pictures. The lady only put this picture on our CD, but we got copies of a few other ones... oh well. You get the jist of how he looks.

So we are totally excited about having another boy. Kyle was really surprised because he thought it would be another girl. Now we just need to come up with a boy name - they're so much harder than girls! We're taking suggestions. :)