Boytrapped - The Story of the Statens

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Flour!!

I forget sometimes that Nick is so mobile! Oh well it makes for cute pictures!!

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

We had a great ward camp out this year! Jamie was in charge so of course it was a success! We were up at camp Atoka and it was gorgeous! The river was fun too! The boys all loved it of course but I was shocked that the baby loved it too! In fact he screamed when we took him out of the water! Then he had a blast crawling all over and eating rocks. People kept saying "Oh! He's eating a rock!" and I'd say "is it a big one or a little one? Because if it's big then we're ok the dirt washes off!" I think that people think I'm a terrible mother, but he was happy and "God made dirt so dirt don'thurt" right? Man you can tell he's my 5th and not my first!

Because of the Farmers Market we didn't sleepover, but that was alright by me!

Swimming Lessons!!

It's that time again! This year I have kids in levels 1, 2, 3, 4!! And the fun part is that they are all with a friend or cousin (or both!) . They've all done a great job this year! (We just missed the Malan's)

Cousin Adventure WEEK!

Well we were lucky this last week. We got to spend most of the week with our cousins! Mary had surgery on Monday the 13th so I had the kids that day and then they stayed with us Wednesday-Friday! It was so much fun. BUSY but fun. They were all so good! They really didn't fight at all! They camped out in the tent in the backyard, and we had swimming lessons (and thanks to Michelle Voigt we were able to actually get there!), and a pizza movie night. It was SO much fun!

Monday, July 20, 2009

The Staten, Malan, Neff, Camp Out!

We had so much fun on our "Second Annual Staten Malan Neff Camp out!" We decided to go to Logan this year. It has been years since we have camped up there and I LOVED IT! It was beautiful! All of the rain this year has really kept things green up there!

We started out by tie dying T-Shirts for everyone on Thursday. That was of course a fun mess. Then the plan was for us to head up with the Malan's around noon to find a spot and then the Neff's would meet us once Dave got home. The "plan" didn't quite work. We were a little late getting everything packed, but it was only 1:00 by the time we started out. Well, I had been telling Mike for a while that the brakes were BAD and since he was now driving he realized just how BAD they were! So instead of leaving Mike and Travis changed the brakes! Start to finish, with a trip to the store, it only took them an hour! They rock! We finally got on the road! I had no idea that it would be so hard to find a camping spot. Everything was full, and I was strting to really stress about finding the Neff's since we didn't have cell service! So Kami and Travis kept looking and Mike and I went to first dam to try and call Jamie and Dave! We finally got ahold of the Neff's as they were just about to give up on finding us ang go home (thankgoodness!) and Kami and Travis found a BEAUTIFUL spot, and all was well!

It was so nice to just sit and relax! I was almost jittery. Just sitting there didn't feel natural! But it was wonderful! Saturday afternoon we went down and played at first dam. The Malan's have a fun little raft, and the kids had fun being rowed accross the lake and jumping in off of the rocks. Then we grabbed a yummy dinner and Aggie Ice cream and headed home!