Our "Pioneer Day" Week

Hope you all had a good 24th of July! On Saturday there was a pioneer primary party for the kids so we took them and they did a little mini trek from our Stake center to the school. Then they played some pioneer games and seemed to have a good time. (Just thought I'd share a pic from that) Then we went camping up to Soap Stone (in the Uintahs). We had a really good time. The boys had some great adventures and unfortunately Haleigh was forced to stay in her play pen or being held because she isn't walking quite yet. (Can you imagine how black she would be if she was crawling all over?!) Since the 24th fell on a Tuesday Roger worked Monday and then we took the kids to the Zoo on Tuesday for fun. We haven't been for a couple of years and I was impressed by all of the improvements made. They seemed to have a really good time and we were all exhausted by the end of it. We had a little BBQ in the light rain that evening and all in all I think it was a success. Hope you enjoy all the pics.

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Yo - Ho! (A pirate's life for me!)

Don't you just love kids? They are so creative and have the best imaginations ever. My boys decided our picnic table was their pirate ship and they've had a blast out there every day since we got it. As you can see they go all out with the pirate garb and Tyler has even filled the wagon with water for the use of walking the plank - really just the bench. The other day I caught them playing under the umbrella and went out to ask them not to. Tyler replied matter of factly, "But mom, we need to raise the sails." This year for Ty's birthday Susan and Don's family gave Ty a Pirates of the Carribean card that plays a song from the movie when you open it. I am surprised that it is still working, but they love to open it up and sword fights to the music! Ah kids... They have the good life eh? Or should I say "Arr me mateys!" We love all you scurvy dogs!

Peak aboo, guess who's 1!

Haleigh Ann Deming entered this world one year ago today! I can't believe how the time has flown by. She is getting so big and doing toddler stuff now. She says multiple things that are fairly clear like "uh oh," (my favorite because of the dramatic pause she adds in between them), mama and dada - of course! - she even says "Ty." I can also make out a "thank you" and "hi." I laugh every time the phone rings because she will inevitably utter a mildly distinguishable "heyo"... which is to die for. She has brought so much love and funness into our home this year I am just excited to be her mom. Not to mention the fun girly gifts and Strawberry Shortcake party that we are having for her today! Those of you not with us, (Peggy, John, Cole, Dad, etc.) I will post some pictures just as soon as I can. We love you all!!!! Have a wonderful July 14th. I know Haleigh will be spoiled, so thank you all in advance.

A Day of Swimming

Today the boys and Haleigh and I went over to Uncle John and Cole's house and had a little swimming party. The kids had a blast! The pink elephant pool isn't the only pool they had, but for some reason I only took pictures of them in the baby pool? Haleigh doen't like the water, except when she's bathing, so she just hung out with mommy and got over to the garden to eat some rocks. Amy Jo and Mom showed up with Maddy, since Whitney is still in the hospital recovering from delivering Isaac. Thanks to John and Cole for letting the kids come over, they had a fabulous time!!!

Fun Family Photos!

I am planning to explode this page with photos, so get ready... In the mean time here are a couple photos from Nauvoo and the family after we got home. Enjoy!!!

The Lemonade Stand

Well, it is that time of year again. When children want to do some serious business and they put out the stand. You have all seen it, "$.25 for lemonade." Tyler saw two little girls doing just such business and went to investigate. We ended up buying the worst tasting tang in the world, but two little girls were fifty cents richer. As we were leaving Tyler asked them what they were going to do with "all that money?" One girl replied, (kind of snooty), "Go to the dollar store." Tyler was sold! Two days later we did our own lemonade stand. It was hard to sit in that heat - his little face was bright red within minutes. As a mother my heart ached as car after car passed and nothing. I wanted an aunt Peggy there very badly! I knew she would pay for some decent lemonade. He ended up with a grand total of $.95! He wasn't as disappointed as I was, for which I am grateful. Maybe we will attempt it again some time. But for now, I am glad he has learned that not eveything in life comes easily and that sometimes business is slow, but you can still find joy in the little things. (like the dollar store!) Hope you all stop and buy lemonade the next time you see a stand. I know I will...

Happy 4th Everyone!

Hey Family and friends! I hope your 4th was a great one. We enjoyed ourselves by just taking it easy all day! What do you do on the 4th besides be lazy, BBQ with family and light fireworks at the end of the day? I guess we need to start establishing a family tradition. For now I am content with having my husband home and just spending the day with our family. We went to my parent's to celebrate since we planned to hang out with the Sivill fam and Doug and we figured it would be easier on Whitney to get to the bathroom ( luv ya Whit).It was a pretty nice evening as a family - just really layed back. We over did on the fireworks a little, but the guys sure had fun lighting them and blowing them up, including Spencer's leg - actually it was just a little burn, but he may have learned a lesson about making homemade bombs. The kids enjoyed the pop rocks the best! Probably because they could actually do that themselves. But all in all it was a success. We love you all and hope you all the best of days! Mostly I wanted to share our love and some pictures we took, that is my forte'! ( I am not elequent of speech like some)

This is our first attempt at a blog, so forgive the delay as we get it up and running. I hope to have tons of fun pics for everyone to view soon! We love you all.

Amy Ann