Bear Lake Adventures

We spent the last weekend with Jason's family up at the family cabin, and over boating at Bear Lake. And I finally found our camera cord, and got all of my pics uploaded! *Disclaimer* Loads and loads of pictures coming up. You have been warned.

We start off with Makayla trying to get the hang of her new big girl bike...

Makayla took a picture of me studying while waiting for everyone to get here!

Playing at the park...

After Jason's dad arrived, they got straight to work building Jason's workbench in the garage...Kayla was once again the photographer.

Me taking her picture for once!

almost done! (I still have to go take a pic of the finished product. )
On the way up to the cabin the next day, I discovered something was not quite right with my eye...It felt bruised...how does one bruise an eyeball? Seriously. It was dumb. And got much redder than this. That is my sad/what is wrong with me face...haha.
Roasting some mallows.


Playing Skittles at the cabin. Great entertainment.
Goofball!

I love this pic.

Time to go boating!!
Wade and Debbie rented a boat for a few hours, and we made the most of it!!
Tubing, woohoo!!
Makayla being brave, deciding to give the tube a go!
laughing with Daddy, another one of my favorite pics!
Look at me go! haha...
Yes, we are nerds...
Look at him...dang!
Wade got up on the wakeboard!
Boat Master Jay
My most favorite pic of all...Good work Jackie for capturing this fine moment!

Buddies!
Like a pro!
Out for another round with aunt Ashley!
And we ended our Bear Lake trip with a few hours on the beach. We were all pretty worn out and didn't last too long though. Then we headed back to the cabin for one more night, played a round of Settlers, Austin is the King...for now.
Then we headed home the next morning.
Such a fun time. We love it when Jason's fam visits, because we only get to see them a few times a year. And we had our first house guests at our new house! That was pretty sweet! Next time hopefully the won't be on an air mattress, and will have a real bed. :)
Till next time!

Arizonnnnna part II

Here are some more fun times we had!

A lovely pic of Bryce Natl. Park. (just pretend you don't see the reflection of a large drink cup...)
I made Jason turn around after we passed this sign, just cause I thought it was cool. It's in Orderville, UT...just in case you were wondering.
And this is my cute brother....hehe!
Uncle Dwight and Jason...I was laughing so hard when I took this, cause Dwight made me take like 5 pics before he was finally OK with this one. He was trying to "suck it in so I look like Jason." haha. He cracks me up!!
Game night with Grandma and Grandpa. Good times!!

The end. There are lots more pics, but I'm kind of too lazy to wait for our slow internet to load them all.

Arizonnnnna

This last week we took a road trip down to sunny Arizona. We got to spend almost a whole week down there, which was awesome. Besides it being 110 degrees all week...that part was not so awesome. We got to visit Austin and Jackie and see their new place and hang out with them a couple times. We stayed at my Grandparents place in Mesa. We've never been able to stay much longer than 2 or 3 days with them, so it was so nice to have them all to ourselves for a week!

Here's Jason starting us out on our trip! He's so cute when he drives...

Here's how Makayla entertained herself almost the entire time. Watching movies on the i-pod. Mostly Lady and the Tramp. Or "Doggy Movie" if you prefer...
Makayla playing with my little cousins in Great Grandma's toy cabinet. You can fit a lot of kids in that thing!! They were playing peek-a-boo and thought it was hilarious.
Makayla admiring the "giant huge fishies" at the Arizona Mills mall. Pretty cool place.
Playing with Austin and Jackie and dad at the pool at their place.
More to come soon!

Jackson Hole

My cutie pie :)



So a few weekends ago, we were bored and decided to take a little day trip up to Jackson Hole. Test out the new car on a trip that's a bit longer than just Salt Lake and back. It was SO much fun. The girls did awesome, the car was great, and the scenery was gorgeous!! Aside from Jason getting pulled over for going 17 over the speed limit, it was perfect. (Thank you Mr. Police man-in the middle of nowhere-for giving a warning!!) But really, 55 miles per hour on a flat open road surrounded by fields? Do you blame him for pushing the pedal a little bit!? ;)

So anyway, we went to the Farmer's market at the town square, had a picnic consisting of Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches, ice waters, and grapes, right in the square.
We walked around all of the cute little touristy shops that we've been to many many times before, but still fun to look around in. Plus, now we have kids to spoil..only a little bit though...so that was fun to let Makayla pick out her own little souvenir.
Then we took a drive up past Jackson a little ways to a lookout with the Tetons in the background, where we have a picture of me and Jason from our pre-children days. So we went there to take a family picture. Unfortunately right when we got there, all the people that were there left, so we had no one to take our picture for us. So we each got one with both the kids, but none of us together. :( I was bummed. We couldn't get the self timer on the camera to work either. But it was still fun. Then we made a couple traditional stops on the way back home. Stopped along the Snake at Lunch Counter and Big Kahuna to watch all the people on rafts fall into the raging water! My little brother was up there for youth conference, and he told us what time he went down, and we missed him by only 15 minutes!! That would have been cool to see him go down the river and get a picture. Then stopped at the gas station in Alpine where the road forks, and came this close...to getting some pretty awesome, (utah-illegal) fireworks. Too bad we didn't feel like blowing 75 bucks on ONE firework. But it did look pretty sweet. We regretted not getting it all the way home.

But, we did get us a moose!!


Wait for it...


wait for it...





There's that sexy beast! Isn't he cute!? I think we should name him. Doesn't Morris sound good? Morris the moose? I'm open to any suggestions. But he's on there for good. Family vacations, and what not. So he needs a name!!


I thought this mountain pass was pretty sweet.

Our camera did this coloring all by itself. I think we messed something up trying to get the self timer working...woops. But it does look kinda cool!


Gotta get the Antler Arch pics!

I love the look of this old theater! We didn't see anything this year, but we did see Harry Potter last year when we were up for our Anniversary, without the kids!

Cool old ticket office, with Jason's reflection. A happy accident!