Happy Birthday Mike!

He's off for a man weekend with his Dad, 

buddies, and buddies' Dads.  

Happy birthday babe!  Enjoy your trip!! 

He's the big 30 this year...

30 Things I Love About My Honey...

How much he loves his garden.

Giggles with Josh.

Helping Katelyn ride her bike.

Date nights.

Steam-rolling the wife.

How dedicated he is to the Lord.

How we both are headed to the same place.

Our work-out evenings.

Watching shows.

Sunday evenings with the fam.

Game nights.

BBQ.

Camping trips.

How he can fix just about anything.

That he wakes up every morning at 5:15 to work hard for the family.

Doing projects with him.

When he reads stories to Katelyn.

How he changes all the nasty diapers when he's home.

That he cleans the toilets for me.

He takes the garbage out to the curb every Wednesday.

He's so tech-savvy.

Grocery shopping together.

When we day-dream of the future.

His perfectionist-ism.

Back-rubs.

Text messages in the middle of the day.

How he gets so excited about new electronics.

Planning all the things we will build into our dream home.

How he's always the one to turn the light out at night.

When he's dressed up in his Sunday best.

Friday's off spent working, or playing.

It's Birthday Week!!

It's birthday week at our house--Aunts, Uncles, Great-Aunts, Grandpas, and, of course, Katelyn and Mike all contribute to the fun! Today makes Katelyn officially 3 (should I be embarrassed that I don't remember the exact minute?  Makes me a bad Mom, eh?).

  She's darling, cute, and thankfully, delightfully happy and obedient this week so I can remember that she's darling and cute! Today we celebrated by taking Katelyn to the Splash Pad in Ogden.  She actually had fun!

We celebrated Mike's and Katelyn's birthday with my family on Sunday.  Yummy ribs on the BBQ and Barbie cake...awesome!

The Cake...

The presents...and check out my face...Who's birthday is this anyway?  Perhaps I should add Barbies to MY birthday list next year! :)

The "franchise!"  A princess bike from Mom and Dad!

We didn't forget Mike...he had a camping/dutch oven birthday theme!

More partying tomorrow, and then again on Sunday.  Mike heads out on his backpacking trip with his best buddies for the weekend, and we'll just keep partying away!

Bear Lake Fun

For our July adventure with Steph and Deanna, we went to Bear Lake.  Windy, but SO. MUCH. FUN!  We played in the water, played in the sand, and enjoyed the most delicious raspberry shakes and fries (just regular fries, not raspberry ones!)  This was a trip we certainly have to do again!

Michael and Katelyn--these two are BFF's!

Dee and Ryan--I caught her with her mouth full, but I love that you can see her popped belly button!

Josh ate sand....lots and lots of sand.  I eventually just gave in and embraced the fact that we are gonna have nasty, sandy diapers for days...oh well!

And, I learned an important Mom lesson...sunscreen works.  

This is most apparent when you miss spots!  Sorry kids!

Happy new phone

So mike is so amazing that he got me this fancy new ph phone tonight. it is a mytouch. I am making this post from the phone.

Aunt's are handy...

We had Aunt Linda and Aunt Emily come to stay with us again this summer.  We had fun!  Here are a few highlights--I'm sad (and shocked!!) to say that I didn't take as many pictures as I should have.

We started with Aunt Linda...we had fun baking things and visiting the zoo.  We hit up the snow shack just about daily, and enjoyed movie night.  You've already seen the table she made, and Katelyn liked having a younger buddy to play with.  Thanks for coming Aunt Linda!!

Half-way through the 2 weeks we switched.  We had Emily here to help prep for carpet (pictures to come this weekend) and we hit up mini-golfing on Monday night.  Visits to the snow-shack were also included, and Katelyn has been asking for her for days.  Thanks for coming!  (Wait for a future Katelyn's birthday post to see the fun project that Aunt Emily made.)

Thanks for coming!!  See you next week for the Baby Blessing and Birthday Bash!

The Cleanest Our Floor Has EVER Been!!!

We're getting new carpet tomorrow...this is the cleanest our floor has ever been!!
I am BEYOND excited!

A Project for Aunt Linda

We needed a project this week with Aunt Linda here (more pictures, stories and info to follow)...SO CUTE!! 

 Thanks Aunt Linda!

Before:

After:

Happy New Trick!

Miss You, Love You, Come Again Soon!

One of my favorite people came to visit--it wasn't nearly long enough, and somehow made me miss her all the more, but ...

THANKS FOR COMING!  

Camping Cousins--

We went camping last week with Davis and Holly, Mike's cousin.  It was AWESOME!  We hit up Northfork and got a great site, full of shade and tables and loveliness.  Yeah for having Friday's off so we could head up early.  The kids did great, we had a fabulous time, and enjoyed all the great things about camping!  Thanks for the fun trip---who wants to do it again?

Look what I did!

The company I buy my vinyl from started selling Chalkboard Vinyl.  It's awesome!

I can tell we're going to have hours of fun around here!

Happy 4th of July!

Fourth of July is great--we spent the weekend (thus far) with Becky and Chris checking out the new baby, and then with my fam eating food and watching parades and fireworks.  We've had fun so far--and are especially grateful that we get a long 4 day weekend with this particular holiday this year..still have a whole 'nother day of fun ahead of us tomorrow!

Mom and Josh

My man and me

Katelyn didn't like the noise--she spent a lot of the day like this! :)

At the Clearfield Fireworks show--it was great!

Sisters, sisters...can you say Sisters?

Love the kids' faces--pure joy!

Grandma and Joshy,

Chels, Kasey and Auklin



Dad and Katelyn, getting ready for the fireworks to start...

Watching the show...she loved it!


Happy Independence Day!

Welcome to the World Carter William!

For your viewing pleasure (especially for Aunt Meg :) --introducing my newest Nephew...

Carter William Wood. 
9 lbs, 10 ounce butter ball of cuteness!

  Congrats Becky and Chris (and Aly and Kayla!!)