I feel so lucky to have been married to Jeffy for the last 7 years. He is my best friend. He makes me feel so special every single day. He helps me with everything and then turns around and asks me if there is anything else he can do for me. I just hope I’m as good to him as he is to me. Thank you for giving me the best 7 years of my life! I look forward to the many adventures that lay ahead.

I LOVE YOU JEFFY!

The RS in my ward planned some very fun ‘field trips’ this summer to help us have things for our kids to do and an excuse to get out of the house and mingle with other mommies. I really, really enjoyed the ones I went to. The last one for this summer was yesterday and we went up to Bridal Veil Falls in Provo Canyon, played in the water and had a picnic lunch. Someone had told us that there was a grassy field right at the bottom of the falls so we walked/hiked up the trail only to discover that there isn’t any grass, just the trail and a bridge. So, we just dropped our stuff down and let the kids play in the water. And play they did! Some kids didn’t mind the FREEZING water and went to town while others weren’t so sure about how cold the water was. Each of my kids fit into one of these categories. Can you guess who was which one?

Lindsay was no dummy and knew how cold the water was, but still wanted to play and climb around, she’s adventurous like that. Logan really wanted to follow Lindsay around wherever she went, but really didn’t like it when his shorts got wet. He soon got over that though and ended up having a really fun time, especially when he saw his friend Jeffrey.
Lindsay climbing up near the base of the falls. We were trying to get a picture of all of the kids that were there together, but I don’t think it ever quite worked.


Logan’s asking Jeffrey if he wants to go in the cold, cold water with him.


The kids had fun goofing around, making poses, throwing rocks in the water, and using their shoes as boats to send down the little stream for me to catch. We only had one close call where I almost didn’t catch Lindsay’s shoe, but I really did have the situation under control.




Cute kids!



Lindsay ended up falling in at one point and was soaking wet. But don’t worry, she later put that to good use sliding down a dirt hill on her tushie creating quite the muddy mess. I was a proud mama. Nothing says having fun like a muddy mess.


Lindsay and her friend, Josh, who she wants to marry.


It was a beautiful day!

We got to watch Hannah and Lia the other day for a few hours and while they were here the kids were painting some pictures. I was always close by because little Lia was trying to paint everything around her (so cute by the way) but I wasn’t really paying any attention to what any of them were painting, except I did notice Lindsay and Hannah painting each others arms. Here were their finished products. Beautiful, right?

Anyway, after a few minutes Logan yells out, “I painted my name!” When I looked over at his paper, I expected to see some squiggly lines and circles because that’s what he’s done in the past and I didn’t think it would be any different that day, but when I looked at his paper, this is what I saw:

Those are 5 letters, however backwards they may be, they are still 5 recognizable letters all in the right order. I’m so proud of him!! Logan is definitely my silent learner. I knew he could draw an L and an O, but I didn’t know he could do the rest, and he’s so good at surprising me. Lindsay later told me she helped him finish his G, but the rest he did on his own. I’m so so so so so proud of him! Way to go, Logan!

We are so blessed that Jeffy works for such a wonderful company that loves us and treats us so well. The company has grown so much over the last couple of years and it’s getting harder to remember who everyone is, let alone KNOW who everyone is. To help us get to know each other better, we have been having a lot of fun activities where we can get together and mingle. The last one was on Saturday and it was a Water Picnic Splash Party. It was at Hatfieldadelphia in Lindon and they had all sorts of things for us to do. There was a water fountain the kids could swim in, a dunk tank, a blow up slide with water at the bottom, a blow up slip ‘n slide, a playground, trampoline, basketball court, volleyball court, balloon artist, and a face painter. Oh yeah, and there was food. Good food! Anyway, we all had a blast with everything there and had a really nice time talking with his co-workers and boss. Out of all of the activities Lindsay loved the face painting the most. She was one of the first ones in line and then stood in the line again at least 2 more times, getting her face and both arms painted. She loved it so much that she woke up the next morning and informed me that she was going to be a face painter when she grew up and had to start practicing right then. So she got her water color paints and proceeded to practice…on her arms. It was all very cute! I love how determined she gets when she sets her mind to something.

Here we all are with our faces painted.

Lindsay got a princess crown and a rainbow on each arm, Logan has an octopus, I have a sunset and Jeffy’s a puppy.

Most mornings these days, the kids get up, and without waking us up, go out to the living room and turn on the TV. Some days they come in and wake me up and ask for breakfast, other days they just wait so patiently for me to get up to get them breakfast. It’s quite lovely actually. One morning a couple weeks ago, I got up after Laura had left for work, around 8:15ish, and when I went out to the living room the kids had some candy in their hand. Where did that come from? I asked them and they were very excited to show me this:

We got Heart Attacked by the Primary Presidency!

It was so sweet of the Presidency to think of my children and to let them know how much they love having them in Primary. I know it showed Lindsay that even though she may be feeling a little out of her comfort zone, there are people here that love seeing her every Sunday. Thank you so much!

The two most important boys in my life fell asleep on the couch the other day and I just had to get a picture of it.

I still think Logan looks mostly like me, but every once in awhile I see a lot of Jeffy in Logan and this picture is one of those times. I think they have the same head shape, same hair line, and the same nose. In other words, totally adorable.

Our little Logan is the master at introducing us to things we’ve never heard of before, or had to deal with before. Examples? Being tongue tied, teeth issues, broken arm, allergic to mold are the ones that come to mind.

Well, he succeeded again the other day. The last couple of weeks, Logan has had these spots under his right arm and down his side. They didn’t seem to bother him or anything. Most of the time they looked like zits, but not just little tiny ones, big monster zits that 3 year old boys should NOT be dealing with. Just like any other parent, we held off as long as we possibly could, but then just had to pop one of those little buggars to try and see what they were. It caused him mucho pain so we didn’t do that again. We finally took him to the doctor because they just weren’t going away.

Let me first say that the day we took him to the doctor they had gone to a summer camp at their gymnastics and it was a Harry Potter theme. When I picked them up, they both had lightning bolts painted on their foreheads. Super cute. So, he still had that on when we went to the doctor. Dr. Cornish came in, and one look at the spots, he said it was something called Molluscum contagiosum, a lot like warts. Doesn’t that just sound like a spell Harry Potter would use??? MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM!! So, guess what he used to treat them? Beetlejuice, literally! That’s totally something Harry Potter would need to use in Prof. Snape’s class. Totally, totally crazy day. The beetlejuice made the spots blister and now they are starting to scab over and eventually they’ll just fall off. He may need another treatment to totally get rid of them, but hopefully just one will do the trick.

I meant to get a picture of his spots, but I forgot and now they are getting smaller and going away so what’s the point. I googled for a picture, but that was a really bad idea, so you’re just gonna have to use your imagination.

That’s what Lindsay said to us during her soccer game when we told her not to be scared to kick the ball away from the other team’s players. She’s so stinkin’ sweet!

She had her first soccer game on Saturday, and as with most things involving 4-5 year olds, there was plenty of good entertainment. Like I said before she was a little nervous about kicking the ball away from the other kids, but once we explained to her that it’s okay and part of the game, she was better at getting in the big mob of kids surrounding the ball and going for it. It sure was easy to spot Lindsay in that big mob because she was at least a head taller than everyone else, minus one kid, on her team. There had to be some kids on her team that are just barely 4, and she’s almost 6, so that explains some of it. Tall genes explain the rest.

They don’t keep score in this league, but her team totally won 3-1. She didn’t make any of those goals, but she did help get the ball down to their goal each time and then someone else would kick it in. Good teamwork! After each goal she would do a cute little victory dance and have a huge smile on her face. Her coach is awesome and is really good and giving them positive feedback, unlike the other team’s coaches, who would be very obviously upset if their kids kicked it the wrong way or missed a goal. There were two of them and one of them had a whistle around his neck. Dude, they’re 4 and 5, you’re taking it TOO seriously. Anway, here’s some pictures.

A cheesy before game smile. OMG little people shinguard’s are so cute!

Warming up.

The OTHER team and their too much seriousness.

This is what Logan thinks about soccer, especially when mommy forgets to bring any trucks for him to play with. He took this himself. Love those big eyes!


She played goalie for the first 10 minutes and did a good job stopping two goal attempts, even though she’s not paying attention in this picture. The jersey she was wearing was awesome!


Taking a timeout to wiggle her barely-loose tooth. She really wants that baby to fall out, like yesterday.

She looks like she’s checking her heartbeat in this one. She never seemed to be in danger…


Victory dance!