Okay, I've been thinking about updating this for awhile now, but it's been SO long I didn't know where to start.....SO I'll just start with what's been going on recently. The 4th of July, my favorite holiday!! We started the day off with a yummy pancake breakfast over at Apex until the parade started. I forgot to bring my camera to the parade =( so no pictures. The kids loved the parade. Chloe and her friends practically stood in the road trying to get candy, the biker cops kept driving by telling them to scoot back, and as soon as he'd ride away they were right back where they were. Chloe got a load of candy that she left somewhere and couldnt' find it, so sad there was a free frosty in there. =( (and NO I did not take it or hide it.)

(taken after the Parade in front of our neighbors flag)

After the Parade, we headed down to my parents house for some yummy food and fun! They set out the bouncy house/slide and the pools they kids were having fun in those and playing some golf. Then we played a fun game of yard golf, I've never heard of the game but we had alot of fun!

(Brayden in the little pool)

(Chloe and her Cousin Emmett or Kolten {twins} playing golf)

(Chloe playing yard golf)

After some yummy food and fun, we drove to my Grandma's house and walked down to the river for some fireworks. We showed up at about 8pm which for my kids, was way to early, or maybe I should have brought more than 1 package of plain M&M's so they wouldn't have to share, Brayden had a death grip on the bag, and Chloe wasn't to happy that he'd only give her one at a time and not let her hold that bag. Then, the dreaded day of Dylan's move....yes, Chloe's little boyfriend (the one that has his mind set on marrying Chloe) moved. Chloe was so sad, she kept asking me why people can't just stay in the houses they buy, and the next day she said, "mom, when is Dylan coming back?" how sad that I had to tell her he wasn't coming back, then she asked if we could invite him over haha I wish it would be that easy. They were such good friends and we will miss them all!!!

(the fight over the M&M's, notice Brayden's grip)

(Chloe pouting)

(Brayden planted in front of the chips, he was not gonna let those get taken away)

(Last day with Dylan...I noticed they were holding hands after I printed the picture out for the kids. )

what we've been up to

Wow! It's been so long since my last post I've been thinking alot lately about posting but don't even know where to start! I just finished moving all my pictures from my camera onto my computer so I'll just post some pics so you can see what we've been up to.

Having picnics outside with friends(on the warm days)

Swimming...again on the warm days (where did they go?)
Isn't this baby pool so cute? I got it for like 10 buck at Walmart! and I love the shade that it makes for Brayden!! he loved it he sat in there for quite a while!

Riding horses at Grandpa's And at the Circus

The circus was really actually pretty cool for a circus in Rexburg Idaho :) it was better than I expected. They had tigers and lions jumping through fire rings, bears and of course elephants! They also had the cool stunt people...this guy in the video was pretty cool,(it was the best video I had out of all of them) I was getting dizzy watching him. Also they had these 2 guys doing acrobatics on these silk ropes and one guys rope ripped while he was on the top!! I barely missed it I just saw him laying down, the light go off and everybody running over there and then the paramedics came and he left in the ambulance. They also had 3 guys on motor bikes in a circular cage going around in circles and overtop eachother it was really cool.

We also took a trip to Shoshone Falls. has anybody even heard of these?(they are towards Boise) They are really cool waterfalls, we were told that alot of the water is used for irrigating so the waterfalls weren't even at their best! I guess all the rocks are usually covered with water. There were also some Indian Ice Caves that we wante to go see, but we didn't bring jackets for that, so we'll have to do another trip up there sometime.

Chloe got a butterfly tree house for her birthday. You send in a coupon and you get 5 baby caterpillars in the mail (but only 4 made it) we watched them spin their cocoons and then one morning we woke up and they were flying around, she loved it, we kept them inside for a couple days and then released them.

This picture I took on our way home from the falls, Chloe fell asleep and leaned over on Brayden and when he woke up he kept laughing at her and poking her in the face, it was really funny, and she didnt even wake up through it. :)

our super fun adventure...part 1

Last Saturday we decided to take Chloe to Mesa Falls, she loves waterfalls or fountains and thought she would love to see the giant waterfalls,and have some fun with us focusing more on her than Brayden... she had a blast we went to the lower falls first we had never seen that one before, it was pretty far away and Chloe was more interested in the grasshopper she found on the path. so we went to the upper falls where she had alot more fun being closer to the falls and climbing up all the stairs.





the upper falls

















Chloe, Brayden and Daddy










Chloe Brayden and Mommy













the upper falls