Moab

We finally took our kids camping. Jon has always been afraid to take them fearing that they wouldn't sleep. Which after listening to the babies crying in the tents around us I can now admit he might have been right. But our girls did great and loved it.

Dead Horse Point at Sunrise

Newspaper Rock

My darlings

Hiking

Aspen hiking (well sort of)

Taking the Junior Ranger oath

Aspen leading the way on the hike. She felt so cool finding the piles of rocks that showed the way on this hike.

Aspen being tough

Climbing at delicate arch

My love

Baptisms, Birthdays, Teeth and Hair

I know it is a random title but this will be a radom post. We have been having a busy couple of weeks and I am now in catch up mode.





On July 25th Tressa was baptized and became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It was beautiful. Everyone who she asked to participate really went above and beyond to make it a wonderful day for her. Uncle Daryl gave a wonderful talk on the 4th article of faith and her cousin Breanna bore her testimony on baptism before she was baptized. After Uncle Dan sang the most beautiful version of I Am A Child Of God that I have ever heard to her, literally. He made her come sit up front with him while he sang to her while her cheeks went adorable red. Then our dear friend Jonas gave a talk on the Holy Ghost. Every thing was done in a way that she could understand and I know she felt very loved. She even got a cute white bear from the Primary to help her remember to bare testimony of Jesus. I think it couldn't have gone better.

Aspen turned 4 on the 4th of August, her much looked forward to Golden Birthday. She is the funnest person to give stuff to because she is always so excited and shows it.
Aspen decorating her own cake. She loves to write her name.

Tressa in hair disaster #2. As you can see she rolled her long hair up in a small rollbrush and got it stuck. In the end I had to cute the little prongs off the brush and work her hair off the end. I was so scared that I was going to have to cute her hair off.

And lastly Jocelyn has lost 2 teeth this week after months of not wiggling them. I finally got her to be brave enough to push her tooth back farther and it popped out. She was so excited to have gotten it out herself.
The next tooth was even looser and she wouldn't touch it. So during Aspen's party Grandpa Bob tied string to her tooth and knocked it out. And just like that we have a little girl who is very likely to get her 2 front teeth for Christmas.

Uncle Dan's Beautiful Song

Dance, Dance, Dance

Our Little Lady's dance recital was at the begining of June. And what else can I say then that they did a wonderful job had a great time and looked adorible.

I have been trying to upload the videos for a couple days now and can't get it. So I will post them later! Sorry Susan.

My little tree!

First off I am way behind on this blog and will hopefuly be getting it up to date soon. But for right now I just wanted to post up the pictures I took last month of our little Tree.

This is last September

And below are the ones taken in the beginning of June!

Disney Train Tour

This week we went to see the Disney Train Tour that they are hosting around the country as a promo for The Christmas Carol movie they are making. It was free so of course we had to go. And just to make it extra fun we rode the FrontRunner (our local commuter train) up to Ogden for the event, and I have to say I loved riding on the train with my kids. We talked and looked around and I even got to read. What a better use of my hour then just pushing the gas pedal down.

The line was ridiculasly long but we ran into some friends and were able to take turns in line so it wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been. Once we were finaly inside the train I found out that it was far more interesting to me then the kids. However they did like making themselves into caracters from the movie but I think they would have liked it more if they could have been a girl.

Renaissance Festival

On May 16th I took advantage of Jon being gone for the weekend and took my girls to the Renaissance and Fantasy Festival for some good old fashioned 16th century fun.

The main attraction was the full contact jousting by the Knights of Mayhem. Full contact jousting with a dramatized set up for fun. We where assigned to be from Scotland and were routing for Sir Killem (note how well the name makes for chanting while he chargers toward the other night in an attempt to knock him to the ground KILL-EM KILL-EM!) It was more fun then I thought it would be. But my favorite was a loud mouth audience member who kept spouting off in a Scottish accent taunting the Irish. She was not part of the show but really should have been. The only let down was the tournament ending in a draw, but I guess if you want to watch someone really joust that has to include the possibility of no one winning.

The girls dancing with some local gypsies!

The fairies who kept sneaking up on us.Old fashioned puppet show

Magicians

And what could be more 16th century then a styrofoam sword battle?This is a local group that gets together to battle for fun, and believe it or not it actually did look fun. Not the Princesses leg in the air-that is because it was cut off already. Jocelyn's favorite part was watching the archers shoot the others with arrows (again styrofoam).

It was a great day and I am so glad that Jon saw the signs for it and called to tell me I should go. It was the perfect girls activity. And I even got to dress up for the day. They even gave me a good excuse to be such a geek. 50% off!!