Happy 6th Birthday J.D.

Hard to believe that my baby is 6 years old!! Seems like just yesterday that I brought him home. He was such a cute baby. He's been such a joy. He's a good boy. He is my special helper and friend. I love him soooo much!!!

Ride em' Cowboy

Not a very flattering picture of Mama!! EEK! Oh well, gotta have a picture every and then. I am looking a little rough, I had just gotten home from girls camp a few hours before.



J.D. wanted to go to Texas Roadhouse for his birthday. We met up with Grandma & Grandpa Doty and Aunt Heather and had some steak, which is J.D.'s favorite food. J.D. wanted to go there because he got to sit on a saddle and they gave him a great big Yeah Haw!!! Super fun. He got new boots and a new hat for his birthday. He will have his friend party next Wensday and then we will head off to Marysvale so that we can go spend the 24th at home and go to Brannigans birthday party.

A fun little tip

This nifty little tip came from my friend, Lindsay. We had a barbeque for the 4th of July and I had hot dog buns coming out of my ears. I was lamenting what to do with them when she said, "Haven't you ever made breadsticks out of them?'. What an idea. We made them up with the hot dog buns and my kids loved them. I made them up with leftover hamburger buns last night and the kids loved them even more.

I just put a little bit of garlic butter on. Sprinkle on some seasoning. I use Pizza n' More Italian Seasoning from Alison's Pantry. Sprinkle a little mozzarella cheese on top and pop it into the oven under the broilder until the cheese is melted. So much easier than making breadsticks, which we love to do, but it is so messy!! I am all about convenience.

Well everyone have a great week! I am off to girls camp and if I survive, I'll tell you a tale or two when I return!!

Young Women's

For those of you who don't know, I am the beehive advisor in the Young Women's program. I love my calling, but it also one of the hardest and time consuming callings I have ever had.

Here we are doing a camp fundraiser car wash and bake sale.

Cute Meagan and Brianna are two of my beehives. Here we were playing wheelbarrow baseball with our dads. Lots of fun!!!!

There is so many places available online that have awesome ideas and handouts. I use Sugardoodle , Mormon Share and The Idea Door a lot.

Every now and agian I stumble across website that are amazing!!! Somehow last night in my (mommy therapy time) blog hopping I found these blogs who belong to super, crafty women. I am crafty in my own right, but nothing like these ladies. They have amazing ideas and some of them I have seen on Sugardoodle, but not all of them. These need to be looked at.

A Bushel and a Peck This will take you right to her y.w. archives.

The Time of our Lives Her y.w. stuff is mixed into her blog, so you'll have to browse it a little bit.

Go Ask Laurel Super cute sight that the y.w. can use to see answers to other questions that young women ask.

And as a side note and totally unrelated to young women's. Check out this blog. She is doing Christmas in July. There will be 30 days worth of fun crafts and idea's to do. I love crafty women!!!

A Rodeo and Swimming

Thursday night we went to the Gunlock Rodeo with Kris's family. We had a lot of fun. The kids got to chase chickens and watch about 500 people rope. Okay, maybe not 500 but enough. I think roping should be saved until the very last thing in every rodeo. IT TAKES SO LONG!!!! J.D. is all about Rodeo!! He dresses the part and looks pretty cute, I might add. His wranglers wouldn't fit so he wanted me to take off the tag and sew it onto his pants. He's such a little stud!

Here are my boys in their goggles. The boys are both getting really good at putting their heads under the water. It helps that we have been going swimming a lot!!

This little punk is so photogenic.

That and I love his red hair :)

Tyson, Corbin, & Aidan
J.D. & Piper

For the 4th of July we spent the evening with the Carters. We had a barbecue and then went swimming. It was a lot of fun, as usual. After swimming we ran into St. George to watch the fireworks with Josh's family. There were people everywhere. It was craziness. As soon as the last firework was over we ran for the car trying to hurry and leave before the other thousands of people tried to leave also. We went to Trina and Ammon's house after that and set off the few fireworks we had bought. It was a lot of fun.

God Bless America

While many in our nation no longer believe in God, I do. I thank him daily for my blessings for being able to live in this great and beautiful land. I am so grateful for the freedoms that I enjoy and the life that my family is able to have here. I pray for our nation. I pray for peace, I pray that this country will bring God back into her foundation. I am grateful for the founding fathers and the faith that they had in God. I am grateful that they payed tribute to him in the birth of our nation. I ask God to bless America, though many do not.

I am grateful for those who fight for our rights when we cannot or choose not to. Bless them and bless their families. Remember all those who have sacrificed in your behalf. Thank them and honor them.

Happy 4th of July. Be safe and make lots of happy memories with those you love.

Monkey or Baby??????

First of all. She's stinkin' cute! I love her so much! This morning while I was trying out a new recipe for Blender Wheat Pancakes, which by the way were super yummy. J.D. didn't like it, but Tyson and Piper ate the whole thing. Anyway, back to the story.

The kids were being very quite. I looked in on the kids in the living room and Piper wasn't there. J.D. and Tyson were absorbed in cartoons. So I first went to check the bathroom, but the door was shut. So I stuck my head in the boys room and guess where Miss Piper was? Sitting on top of J.D.'s bed. She climbed up the ladder. I almost had a heart attack and then I decided she was pretty cute because she was being so happy and cute so I had J.D. come sit with her so I could run get the camera.

I had caught her before on the ladder, but only up to like the second rung. Holy crow, only 13 months old and already a dare devil. Heaven help me!!

I thought I gave birth to a little girl.

Not a Monkey!!
It's a good things she is cute.

More Pictures from our week

Just a few more random pictures from our week. We had an unusually busy week, but it was all fun stuff. I love my kids. Aren't they gorgeous??

J.D.

Josh & Tyson going down

the slide at Sandhollow.

Melts my heart !!

J.D. & Tyson

Hanging Out

Today was a great day!!! I mean that. It was just one of those days where everyone has fun and gets along. We spent 10 hours today with our Carter family. We ate a big lunch together and then went to the splash pad with the kids and followed it up by going to Kym's parents home for a barbeque and swimming. I took about 75 pictures all from today. The kids are just so stinkin' cute, I can't help myself. I picked out a few of my favorites to share with you.

Life is always fun and adventureous when we are all together. There is never any planning, we all just kind of fly by the seat of our pants. It makes life fun. We have such a great history with our Carter bunch. We love you guys!!

The brothers & kiddo's having a water fight.

Is't he the cutest baby ever??

I want to gobble him right up.

This is cute little Quinton, Lindsay & Adam's littel guy.

I just love this picture. She's cute

even when she's screaming!

It's her fake cry.

Ammon, Josh and poor Aaron!!

Boys are funny because I don't think girls

would ever do this.

That's a whole pool full of people I love!!

I got tagged by Angela. I'm sorry it's taken so long for me to do this, but there were forts to be built, cookies to be baked,kids to bathe, bums to be changed. You get the picture, but here you go.

Husband Tag

1- What is your husband's name? Joshua

2- Who said I love you first? I did.
3- Who is taller? Undoubtedly Josh
4- Who is smarter? Josh, I have the common sense of a jellyfish
5- Who is more sensitive? I cry, so maybe me
6- Who does the laundry? I wash, Josh folds, and then it takes me days to put them away
7- Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? ME
8- Who pays the bills? ME
9- Who cooks more? ME
10- What meals do you cook together? Steaks, anything on the grill ~ I've been banned from cooking on the grill. Long story,but let's just say it involved a fire and a lot of hamburger.
11- Who is more stubborn? Josh will tell you it's me
12-Who is the first to admit they are wrong? Undecided on that one
13- Who is more clean?Josh
14- Who has more siblings? It's a tie
15- Who wears the pants in the relationship? Ummmmm
16- What do you like to do together? When we had time we liked to camp and fish, now it's just hanging out on the couch watching movies.
17- Who eats more sweets? ME, sad but true
18- Guilty Pleasures? For Josh is would be guns and paintball supplies
19- How did you meet?Through our sweet friends Kym & Aaron
20- Who asked who out first? We went rabbitt hunting, but I don't think it was inteded to be a date. But we ended up holding hands the whole time.
21- Who kissed who first? Josh made the move first, after our unofficial first date (I know, first date but we had been hanging out for 2 years prior to that)
22- Who proposed? Josh, he took me completely by suprise.
23- Best features? Every stinkin one of them!! But I love his butterscotch eyes. He's my Edward!

24- What is his best quality? He is an AWSOME daddy. He is also one of the most unselfish people I know. He's always off helping somebody with something. He's also the my best-friend, but for so many reasons.
Love you babe. 5 lbs and more!!!
I Tag YOU!! You know who you are, don't pretend that you don't. Leave me a comment to let me know that you did this fun little tag and I will come and check it out. Love ya all!

Blanket Fort

This is how the Doty's spent their morning. We made a huge blanket fort in the living room and layed under it while we watched old-time Mickey Mouse cartoons. It was a lot of fun.

Fort Doty

Piper kept walking through the blankets and her head

would skim the top of the blankets. She laughed and

laughed, she thought it was so funny.

Here was Pipers face after she came out of the

blanket fort. Isn't she cute??

J.D. has a dazed look. What's going on behind

that cute face?

Bubble Wrap

You have got to follow this link and try this.

Bubble Wrap

He He He, I think it's funny!

Random Pictures

Pictures from our crazy morning. Life is fun and exciting, as always. I love the morning. We have a lot of fun.

It's Garden Time

Okay, so I know I am a little late. What's a girl to do? I've been sort of busy. But I felt bad because Aaron built me these awesome little garden boxes, because I wanted them and then I let them sit for like a month.

So Aaron comes home and asks me how my garden is doing. I laugh and say what garden? I promise I am not lazy, I just have a billion things going on. So he goes and gets me all these plants that are already started. So last night I planted them. The kids were suppossed to be helping, but it was all me. J.D. is not looking forward to weeds, but I hated them as a kid to.

I am so excited to see how this goes. Hopefully I don't kill it all. I am not known for my green thumb. I can't wait for the tomatoes. Oh, my mouth is watering just thinking about them.

Pictures from our Week

My Grumpy Honey

Wrestling with Grandpa Scott

They were suppossed to be doing the

wheelbarrow, but Tyson just kept flipping over.

J.D. was getting so mad, because Tyson does

it every week in gymnastics.

Sweet Piper!!

This picture melts my heart!!

Corbin & Tyson

Best friends!!!

It was a good week. We did a lot of stuff, but it was mostly for young womens. We had a knife safety class at the park, we played wheelbarrow baseball at the park, we had a playdate at Jayma's while we made recipie boxes for young womens. Crazy Week!!

We also went to BayLee's birthday party and had a picninc with our Carter cousins. It was such a beautiful day on Saturday. Just a few pictures from our week!!

I need this today!

Frustration with Blogger!!

Okay, I am having major problems with blogger. I can never get my pictures to post. It is so frustrating. I think it has to do with my internet speed. I am cheap, but up until now I have had no real frustrations. I promis I will post soon. I seem to have better luck by posting early in the morning.

Anyone else have problems??

Blog Finds

I love to blog hop. I have said it before and I will say it agian, it's my type of therapy. I love to sit down at the computer and blog hop. It's the way I relax after a long day of being mommy. Just wanted to post a couple of new finds that I have loved. Some of these I have run across before, but it's been a long time since I looked at them. So if you have a moment, take a look, there are some great ideas to be found!!

http://www.howaboutorange.blogspot.com

http://www.pinklemonadeoflife.blogspot.com

http://www.notmartha.org

Check out our sidebar to see some of my favorites. I think I will be adding these 3 sometimes soon, when I have a few moments. My life seems to be full of somedays, these days. Life is busy and crazy, but I don't know if I would have it any other way!!

Another Day At The Park

Another fun day at the park in Hidden Valley. Today we went with the Carters and the Smiths. It was a beautiful day.

Piper, Casen & Caleb had so much fun sitting on these spinning toys. So did their moms, but Trina has those pictures and those are ones I don't think I will share.

After the park we went to feed the ducks. Tyson didn't have on any pants but he refused to stay in the car to feed them. So here he is in all his glory hanging out with the ducks.