I heart Scott!!

My little brother has taken up photography. And he is amazing!!! With just messing around and taking advice from his friend, Scott has come up with the most beautiful, jaw droping pictures!!! Here is just some of his work of my family!!! ( I can't wait for him to do some of Makaylas baptism pictures!!)

A Good Place to Start!!!

I have soooo much to blog and have been putting it off!!! (if you couldn't tell) So the time has come, here is the first of many!!!
We started our summer off with a huge family vacation. We drove to San Diego, Sea World. This was our first trip as just our family. We did the drive in 2 days stopping both ways in Las Vegas. In Vegas we took the kids to the M & M factory. They had a blast!! Then on to Sea World!!! Surprising to me, the kids did wonderfully in the car!!! While in San Diego we did Sea World and the zoo. We did Sea world 2 days cause the kids has so much fun the first day that we all wanted to go back for another!!! For our first family trip ever, I think things went rather well!!!!

A busy weekend!!

This is what I did this weekend!! I have become a blog stalker and found some really cute things to make!!! These 2 outfits are 2 patterns I put together! I still have to make one for Lakota, but she seems to want to be involved more with the fabric picking process, so I have to take her next time!! I also made a top like Addi's for my niece who we babysat this weekend, one of these days I'll get a picture of her and Addi together!!

Sleeping Beauty

This year for the 3rd grade play they did sleeping beauty. Lakota was chosen to be a fairy and a mother. 2 roles, she was excited! She learned all her lines in one night! My mom made her pink fairy dress while I made her mother peasant dress. She did fabulous!!! She had a total of 4 performances! She excelled at all of them. Mark and I are so proud of her and her accomplishments!!

Basketball for Makayla

This year Makayla decided that she wanted to do basketball. So we enrolled her at the rec center. 5 weeks for early morning basketball. She loved it. She needed some alone time from the rest of her siblings and this turned out to be perfect for her, next up swimming lessons!!!

Riding!

Mark use to work for a guy who has a ranch, so one BRIGHT Saturday afternoon we go to take advantage! The girls had so much fun, they even got to ride all by themselves!! ( with on one leading them!!!) I was a bit freak out because when I was younger I had a bad experience! But I braved it and watched them learn how to control and turn the horses. I was so proud of how quick and in control they stayed! We had such a fun day!

Another Birthday!!!

Payton turned 5!! I know he's getting so big! He really wanted a Star Wars cake, so I ordered one. This year he got to pick out what he wanted for a present, and the result was Ben 10! He is all BOY!! I can't believe that after the summer he gets to go to kindergarten! Payton is such a jokester and we love how he brings a smile to every ones face! We love him sooo much!!