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Monday, July 11, 2011

One last one for June

Wow, i've blogged a lot today! I am determined to get caught up!
so before we move on into the current month, i have one last post for June. The last week of June we were watching my brother's girls, Jocelyn and Joelle, while their mommy was at Girls Camp. One day we took a little adventure down to Moab.
The reason was because my mom had an appointment, so the older 3 girls and I killed time in the baking heat. I wanted to take them swimming but i was not going to take that many kids to a pool by myself. so instead we sat outside of it in some of the only shade we could find.

On the way back we stopped at Arches Nat. park to show the girls "Rock shaped like Rainbows." I think they may have been disappointed due to my description, but they liked the Arches anyway.... even if they weren't colored like rainbows.

We made a short attempt at going to Sand Arch but sand, plus wind, plus 3 little kids = not gonna happen!

Oh well, we were all too tired to care. so we basically drove through the park, stopped for a potty break, one rock climb, and headed home. But not before stopping at Ray's in Greenriver for some din-din.

So this picture really has nothing to do with the post... it's from a day where we had a picnic at the Helper Parkway. I just think Adelia looked really cute... but hey, i'm biased!

Fishing with daddy!

We've been able to go out fishing a few times this summer. The night before Father's Day we took the girls out to Gigliotti's pond. We caught a few fish, nothing too impressive... But, we had a good ol' time anyway!

for some reason the fish was freaking Adelia out... by the second picture she realized fishing is really exciting!

Our next trip was at the reunion when we drove over to Potter's Pond. It was a complete skunk out....

But on our next outing we scored big!

I wish I had brought the camera... there were so many picture worthy moments! On July 1st, Luke had the day off for the holiday so we went up to Scofield a day early. We took the boat out on the reservoir and I'm not kidding, we caught 17 (small) fish! I must brag just a LITTLE bit... I caught about 6 before Luke even caught one! Then i had a total of 10 and he had a total of 7... he usually catches WAY more than me so i had to rub it in.

A lot : )

Thanksgiving Point Museum

In mid-June Tianna had a follow-up for her joint injections at Primary Childrens. We just happened to have my sister's kids for a few days as well. We decided to make a fun outing of our little trip up north. First stop-- buy me some good running shoes. Wow, i'll tell ya, running will never be the same! I can run twice and long and get no blisters and my feet feel amazing afterwards. But... that's besides the point.

Tianna had her check up and she's doing quite well.. she still requires the medication and unfortunately it's not taking care of it 100% but for now, we're saying it's good enough. The next medication would involve weekly injections that i give at home.. um. i've tried just taking slivers out of her feet or hands before... I DO NOT want to give her shots.! wow. I pray it won't come to that.

Then we got to have some REAL FUN. We went down to Thanksgiving Point and went to the Museum of Natural history. It was so awesome!

A definite favorite was the "Supersaurus" which, holy cow, look out HUGE it was! no wonder Tianna is still talking about it

The kids got to play in a fun sand place....

A very pretty shell thingy

Why hello Mr. Turtle.. please don't eat me!

This dude makes JAWS look like bait!

Another highlight was the cave-like room that was pitch black dark. You could see all these stars and it really did feel like you were walking in outer space somewhere.

On our way home we stopped off in Spanish Fork and ate dinner with Luke and our friends, Blake and Chantel (who he's been staying with sometimes so he doesn't have to drive back and forth every single day)

Thanks Mama Wombat for a great day at the Museum!

Camping at the Lakes...Oh, i mean WITH the Lakes

As usual, fun times were had with the Lakes. We camped at Indian Creek Campground. There was plenty of dirt to play in, cousins to love, food to eat, sun/shade to relax in, fish to catch (or try to anyway) and trails to run on (Mary ran 6 miles.. and about died. hahaha)

It was a great time. Luke couldn't join us until after work on Friday, but after he came we had even more fun!

Grandma Lake with Tianna, Adelia, and Aden and one of the dogs.. there were too many to keep track of :)

Raleigh was less enthusiastic for the hug than she was.

Amaya and Adelia became quick friends! They even shared a "Lady and the Tramp eating spaghetti" like moment with a gummy worm. Mmmmmmmmmmm

Tianna was so excited when her giraffe could wear her "crown." She is ALWAYS a DIVA huh!

Yay together again!

Fishing with these fine folks........ only could have been better if we had actually caught something.

Late Saturday night we stopped off at Luke's other grandma's house for a shower. The girls made themselves right at home with their cousins Taren and Tennyson and their hide-a-bed.

Thanks everyone for another great camp out!

Annual Lake Reunion

This year, to commemorate Luke's grandparents, Keith and Geneiveve's, 50th wedding anniversary this fall, we had an extra special Lake Reunion. The theme was the 48 Great Lakes and Puddles Reunion. Seeings as how i'm not exactly a Lake by blood, nor am I a descendant, i've decided to call myself a Reservior... but that's just a side note :)

Sadly, Luke has not accrued enough time off at his new job yet, so I represented us at Thursday's activities.

It was a very special experience being in the Manti temple with my Mother-in-law, her siblings and her parents. I was overcome by gratitude that I have been accepted in by such an amazing family. I just wished Luke and more of his immediate family could have been with us. We missed them!

Me and My Girls at the temple! Tianna LOVED being where Mommy and Daddy got married. She's a hopeless romantic!

While we were in the Temple session, some of Luke's cousins took care of all the kiddos at the park.

Sharing "humble cake" which apparently is a Lake family tradition (for wedding cake)

AWWWWWWWWWW!

Luke's uncle hypnotized Adelia into falling asleep... either that, or bored her to sleep :)

Waiting for the MORMON MIRACLE PAGEANT!

Luke was able to join us that night before the pageant started.

I loved this entire day. Even though it was scorching hot, my kids were WILD AND CRAZY the whole day long!!! and I wanted Luke there so badly, it was an amazing day. We really enjoyed the pageant... after Adelia conked out. She was so tired and so ornery and the first 5 minutes of the pageant she was throwing a total tantrum on the ground. Finally, she flicked off her grouchy switch, stood up, handed me the blanket, and said, "Snuggle me, Mom?" and then said sorry about 10 times. She snuggled up in my arms and slept like a log for the entire show and then slept all the way back to the campsite that night.

Stay tuned for the camping portion of the Great Lake Reunion

Birthday Party for 4

Party time round 3!
For some reason my family always has so many birthdays right on top of each other's. For June we had Taylor (11 on the 11th), Adelia (2 on the 13th), My Dad (66 on the 14th) and Pyper (2 on the 15th).
We gathered for a yummy dinner, cake and ice cream, and presents. and FYI that cake was SO GOOD!!

She's a little stinker-- but a cute one!

Patiently waiting for her wish-making, candle-blowing, cake-eating good time!

She thought she needed to help Pyper blow her's out too.

Daddy had to work late, but made it home just in time for her to run to him covered in cake and ice cream.

The lil b-day girls!

The big b-day girl

Some of the cute party-goers: Camryn, Harley, and Jocelyn

Whew! An entire month later i finally got it all posted. gotta love birthdays... and WE DEFINITELY LOVE OUR LITTLE ANGEL!!!! she's such a spunky and fun loving girl. We are so grateful to call her ours.

June 13th

yeah.. started this one weeks ago.. Oops!

Adelia's actual birthday was pretty low-key. That night we went over to my sisters house where we roasted one of her FAVORITE foods: MARSHMALLOWS!

Wombat and Payton

Jana and Nat-Nat