24th of July Weekend!

For the weekend, we decided to go camping with some friends and boating with Jeff's parents. It was a lot of fun! This was the first time the kids had really been camping! They absolutely loved it! I think they loved it mostly because they were allowed to get dirty and not get in trouble for it! They also thought it was so cool that we all slept in a tent - which we borrowed from Jeff's parents - we have no camping equipment! Anyway this was the only picture of camping that I got. We just spaced it! Our friends had a four wheeler so the kids got to ride on it. We all had a great time! Then we met Jeff's parents at Deer Creek for boating. The 3 older kids had been on the boat before, but this time they didn't cry because they were nervous - they loved this as well! Even the baby was SOOOO good the whole time! She is such a good and happy baby!
Here is Kate just having a good time! She just goes with the flow! I am SOOO lucky to have such a good baby - especially with having 3 other kids!

Is this not the cutest picture fo Kate and Jace? I can't stand it! They are such cute little buddies!

Kamree and Jace are cute little buddies too! I love that their life vests are the same! Whenever the boat got going fast, they would grab hands and laugh their heads off! They take such good care of eachother!

I was so impressed that the 3 older kids all took a ride in the tube! Kaylee even went by herself one of the times. Kamree and Jace didn't last too long, but they atleast tried it! The tube went pretty slow when they were in it and they did awesome!

Jeff got in the tube with Kaylee, and she let Jeff's dad go a little bit faster. As they were going the tube hit a couple big waves and the tube tipped. Luckily Jeff saw it coming and got Kaylee up above water right away. I thought she'd be upset and screaming, but by the time she got back in the tube, she was laughing her head off. And she went again!

Poor Kate! She HATED the infant life jacket that she had to wear - you could just tell by the look on her face! It was pretty funny!

Jace riding on the boat by Jeff. He was scared that if he touched the water, the fish would bite his toes!

Our little model, Kaylee. I can't believe how big she is getting!

Kamree is soooooo cute! She has the cutest smile! She did ride in the tube with Jeff and I, but decided she was done as soon as a bunch of water splashed up in her face! She was screaming at the top of her lungs when that happened! We all had such a great weekend! Wish it could've lasted a little bit longer!

Random Stuff!

We were all able to go to the Oquirrh Temple open house about 2 weeks ago. It was soooo beautiful and the kids just loved it! They were all so good the whole time - even "the twins" who sometime have a hard time being quiet! :) It was nice to be all together in the temple and realize how blessed we are and that we can all be together forever!

Here is Kaylee with 2 teeth missing! She has been beside herself, because "everyone in her kindergarten class had already lost teeth - except for her!!!!!!!!" So to say that she was excited when she lost 2 teeth in July is an understatement! So cute! I love how little kids look when they lose teeth!

Sorry Jace for the underwear picture, but this was so dang cute! Kate was playing on the rug and was crawling around and finally layed down and fell right to sleep. Jace eventually ran in and layed right up next to her and fell to sleep as well. Kate is half naked because she had spit up on her shirt right before her nap and I just hadn't put a new shirt on yet. Jace is just about naked because I am still trying to get him 100% potty trained and it helps not to dress him so he remembers he is wearing underwear - it works sometimes!

I thought this was a cute bath picture! I love it when their little enough to bathe in the kitchen sink. So cute! I always used to do this with Kaylee and Kamree as well!

I could not stop laughing when Jace came in drinking the syrup! The thing that is the funniest about this, is that I think my sister and I did this when we were little - so it must be something that was passed down! GROSS!

And here is the last freaky picture! About 2 weeks ago, Jace came running into the living room where I was just SCREAMING! Then he was so upset that he held his breath and was turning purple and looked like he was going to pass out! He always does this when he gets really upset. Jeff used to do that when he was a little - so that must be passed down too! Anyway I grabbed him trying to figure out was going on. I then looked down and blood was pouring out of the bottom of him foot. I cupped my hand by his foot to hold the blood - my hand was full within about 15 seconds. I yelled for the girls to bring me a towell - Kamree brought me a roll of toilet paper. Too funny! Then they finally brought me wipes, so I used those and I think I used half of them! This picture was what bled on the floor in addition to what I was holding in my hand. I thought for sure when I finally got his foot to stop bleeding, I would see a huge cut, but it was a puncture wound that wasn't even that big - it was just deep. Anyway, I bandaged it up and told him to show me what in the world he stepped on. He had climbed in the play pen that was set up against the wall in my bedroom and when he was climbing out he came down on the heater vent that was out and turned upside down. We had taken the vent out to try to get more cool air in the house and didn't worry about anyone getting hurt on it because it was out of the way. Anyway, it scared me pretty good!

Shower Project!

So Jeff and I have been wanting to tile our shower for the longest time now! But there seems to never be any time to do it! We have had the tile sitting in a closet for about a year and a half now just waiting to be used. It was tile that Jeff got for free from a job that he had worked on and there was a ton of extra tile that the contractor was just going to get rid of - so Jeff took it off their hands which I was so happy about because that saved us a bunch of money right there! We were going to have someone come and do the job for us, but then we decided we shouldn't spend the $ on it at this point and Jeff ended up having a couple days off so we planned to just do it and get it down ASAP! Jeff and I tore all the original plastic out of the shower and off the tub - are you all impressed? Here are 3 pictures after the demo work .

Here are some pictures of the results............... I love it! It turned out very nice! It took about a week and a half. The last few days of the project was just letting the grout and grout sealer dry.

I love the design of the floor! I'm such a dork - Jeff's brother came to help one night, and when I came home from work, he told me that he spent hours piecing together the design around the drain. I believed him at first and then realized it was one big piece that Jeff had bought. They both of course laughed at me!

So nice to have a project checked off the never ending list!!! :)

Kaylee's 6th Birthday

Well...........I cannot believe we have a 6 year old! Time goes by way too fast - even though it doesn't seem like it does some days - like today! :) Kaylee's birthday was actually May 18th so I obviously am posting these a bit late! Anyway, she is the cutest 6 year old who will be starting the 1st grade this week! She is SOOOO excited - mostly because she gets to be a "lunch kid" now, which means she gets to eat lunch at school - VERY EXCITING!
Here is a picture of Kamree, Kaylee, and their cousin Eri. For Kaylee's birthday We invited 4 of her little friends over. We had pizza and of course cake and ice cream! My sister, Krishelle, came over to help me with the party (thank you Krishelle!!!) We gave the girls manicures and pedicures - they loved it!!! Then the girls slept over, but they didn't really sleep much!

Kaylee - 6 years old!!! For her birthday she got: Stickers, pencils, cute paper, beads to make jewlrey, a polly pocket doll with clothes and a car, a fuzzy pillow and a Hannah Montana tracer, and from Jeff and I, she got a doll that crawls and talks that she picked out. Her grandma also took her shopping when they went to St. George and she got a bunch of cute clothes.

A Break in Seattle With My Hubby!!!

So once again, Jeff is in Seattle on a LOOOONNNNGGGG out of town trip! So to help break it up a little, and to give me a break at home, we used one of the free flights Jeff has earned and flew me to Seattle to spend time together - on a little trip!

This was the first time I had been to Seattle. These first two pictures were on the ferry to go into downtown Seattle. It was a little cold that day, but beautiful! It was pretty cool!

We walked around town and found a store that sold kilts. WOW! The guy in the store was way too excited about it all! Jeff begged and begged if he could get one, I almost gave in, but the price was over $200.00. I told him that if he works hard and saves up, then maybe one day he could own one! Ha ha ha! Really, I think the guy in the store was probably mad because we were making fun of them!
We also did an underground tour in Seattle which was really cool. It tells and shows so much about the history of the town. We're so good.......we like to get our education in!

We walked through Pikes Place and it was a MESS, but really cool and I liked it! The picture above is so disgusting! We brought it home and hope to invite a lot of people over for dinner to share it with! J/K But pretty interesting what's swimmin' in the water..........

Here is an octopus. It was laying in a mound, and then when they realized I was looking at it weird, they came out and held it up for me. Once again........pretty interesting what's down swimmin' under the water!

I caught a picture of us here while Jeff was on a work phone call........it never ends! :) It's alright, it was just a short one! SMILE!!!!! :)

The flowers that were for sale there were gorgeous!!!! Jeff wanted to buy some for me........cause I couldn't get over how pretty they were! I couldn't decide which ones to get, so Jeff bought all of these for me........ha ha ha! Actually, I decided not to get any, cause I was worried about getting them home on the plane! Oh well!

More flowers! The colors were AMAZING! They were all so perfect! I would do anything to have these kind of flowers in my yard!

Oh yeah, can I just say that Seattle has a lot of CRAZY interesting moody people?!?!?!?! They were everywhere! Jeff and I have a theory.........people are so moody because of the gloomy weather that is there most of the time! I'm sure that's not a breakthrough.........that has probably already been studied and proven for Seattle! :) Some of those people need to lighten up! :)

And here is My Husband! Don't worry, the face is specifically for the picture! We went to a place called The Crab Pot, and they put bibs on people.........so of cours I whipped out the camera for the occasion! He is sooooo special!!! :) Ha ha ha!

This is Jeff's favorite thing about Seattle...........the crab legs! He loves them to death! I tried some, and I have to admit that they were pretty good - and I typically don't like this kind of stuff - I got the chicken strips.........he he he! But I did eat from Jeff's plate as well..........oink oink!

We went for a drive to the Olympic mountains - to see a rainforest and the beach. It was a 3 hour drive and we came across this beautiful property! We are thinking about moving here...........the riverfront is actually a little stream...............not the ocean or anything like that! Jeff and I though it was pretty funny!

Good luck with the sell!!!!!! It's in the middle of nowhere, it is probably most deffinately haunted, and there is so much JUNK everywhere (it is like a cousin to Slab City for those of you who are familiar with that), and all the neighbore (which are miles away) have property that looks worse or the same as this! I was having so much anxiety seeing all of the junk people had by their houses - run down rusty cars, piles of metal, garbage, anything you can think of! Jeff was laughing at me, I finally just stopped looking so I wouldn't pass out! No offense to the people who live there, but WOW!

Here is a lookout point from a little hike Jeff and I did! It was so beautiful looking out to the sea.

SO SO SO BEAUTIFUL! It makes you remember that there are so many wonderful things we have in this world! We are so lucky to have gorgeous places like this to visit and forget about things for a while!

On our hike, we met a guy from Denmark - and he took this picture for us! Nice guy! When strangers take a picture for you, isn't it a relief when they just take the picture and give the camera right back? I am waiting for the day when a stranger takes a picture for us, and then runs of with the camera! I'm sure it's happened many times! Jeff would say that this is being paranoid............... :/.

This was still looking out into the sea.................and I'm pretty sure that this is the Lockness Monster! Jeff didn't believe me - I told him to keep watching the news and he would see!

So pretty! I could just look out on this for hours and hours and hours. Well, or until it got dark and I got scared!

This is a tree in the rainforest we drove through! The trunk of this tree is HUGE! I think it said that the base of it is 12 1/2 feet in diameter and is over 270 feet high and is between 500 and 550 years old! AMAZING!

Jeff and I climbed the tree, but we only made it to about 200 feet. That last 70 feet was a little too much......for Jeff! He he he!

After the rainforest, we we drove down to the beach. Not your typical tropical looking beach........but so pretty! Not a very good picture, but I promise, it was pretty!

Oh, here's that tree again! You know, the big one - that we climbed. Not that I could get the full heighth in, but it went forever!

Here is us just walking up and down the beach! See what I am talking about with the gloominess? All the same, it is still pretty!

My cute husband on the beach! We had such a great time together! As much as we LOVE our kids, it is also nice to be alone and re-group!

Here was a cluster of oysters attched to a rock! Pretty cool! So cool, that Jeff took one in as a "pet!" His name is Tony. I'm afraid he was only with us for a few days. Jeff threw it out on the road after awhile! I think he was frustrated with the lack of communication from Tony.

Here we are before we left the beach! We had an awesome time together. We always laugh and enjoy being with each other sooo much! I guess that one thing that makes it harder when Jeff is out of town! But once again, we are grateful for a job and that he does have the option to work out of town! Being a part soooo much will not last forever! We will get through it and everything will be JUST fine! I'm so glad I was able to go spend time with Jeff! We will have good memories from this liitle trip!:)

Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point

This past week, my mom was nice enough to "entertain" me for the day and get me out of the house with the kids. We went to Thanksgiving Point with Kam, Jace, and Kate. Kaylee was at school and doesn't know we went - she would KILL me if she knew we went without her! She does not like to miss a party! She is soooo funny! Anyway, the flowers were beautiful and I was able to get some cute pictures of "the twins!"

This picture is sooo cute......except for the woman's head in between them ??????? Nice! I'll have to work on that and see if I can get rid of her! The kids were so good - I think it was because they finally were able to be outside in nice weather!

And here is Kate, who was the PERFECT baby as always! She is the biggest sweetheart! We have lucked out majorly with all of our babies being really good, but considering the chaos that Kate has to deal with, she is the most mellow! We just LOVE her! She is always so happy!

Ha ha ha! Do you like how we went to the "tulip festival" and I didn't really take any pictures of the flowers???? The flowers were pretty, but my kids are gorgeous! (I can say that cause I'm the mother!) ha ha ha

Easter!

We had a great Easter! The kids were all excited as always - even Jace, who I don't think knew quite was going on! They had an Easter egg hunt at my parents house on Thursday, and then had another one Sunday at Jeff's parent's house. They got a TON of candy! From the Easter Bunny, Kaylee got a Hannah Montana puzzle and some nail stickers and of course CANDY, Kamree got sidewalk chalk and finger paints (which I'll regret later, I'm sure!) and of course CANDY, Jace got a cute magnetic tractor book and a bubble set and of course CANDY, and Kate got some binkis and some bows and of course NO CANDY!

Here are some pictures of the kids at Easter dinner and their egg hunt at Grandma and Grandpa Bell's house on Sunday. I had to work, but they had a blast!
~~~~~Cousins~~~~~

~~~~~Kaylee and Kate~~~~~ ~~~~~Eri and Dehlila~~~~~

Kamree, Ben, Gage, Ari, Jace, Kate, Kaylee, Eri, and Dehlila

~~~~~Kaylee and Kate~~~~~

~~~~~COUSINS~~~~~

~~~~~ Oldest and Youngest~~~~~

Easter is always fun ~ except for the gallons of candy that is just laying around the house ~ that is very tempting! I am always glad when the last piece of candy is gone!!! Jeff is gone out of town again for a while, but we were glad he didn't have to leave until after Easter!