Piper and Brady

This is Brady!  We've been watching him for one of my friends, just a few days a week, for the past few months.  He's a sweetie and my kids love him.  Piper thinks he's an oversized baby doll.  I don't know that Brady loves it very much but Piper certainly does!

Silly Selfies with Auntie

Owyn and I are pretty awesome!  I love her!

Piper and Addison

Love these silly girls!

Golden Cheatah's

 I tried, I tried to pick only a few of these pictures to share.  But I couldn't narrow it down.  This is going to be a fun year of soccer!  We knew all of the girls who were playing and it was so fun to have so many friends together on the field.

 Piper and Miss Jordyn!

 I love this one!  All by herself out there kicking a ball.

 Oh wait, she's going for the goal and Ava caught it!

 Let's head back down again for another try!

 Here we go!!!

 And she scores!  I love this picture!  So, so cute!

 She was so proud of herself.

 This picture was so sweet!  They were congratulating her on her goal.

 I love, this picture too.  Lydia and Piper are good friends.  It was fun to see them battling it out on the field.

JD's first court of Honor

 so extremely proud of that kid!  He got 2 advancements and 6 merit badges! Scouts is a lot of work! I had no idea how much work it was going to be.  February was an intense month for him as he did 2 pow wows and hunters safety all in 3 weeks time.

 I hate how he gets this look, whenever he is being praised in front of people.  He does not like people recognizing his accomplishments.  He feels like he's showing off.

So proud of my scout!

Soccer

It's to bad, that he doesn't love soccer.

He's pretty dang good at it, as he makes the 1st goal of the season!

It's just what he does to bide his time till football or Rugby rolls around.

Look at the disappointment on that face!

Man we live in a beautiful place.  It makes for nice pictures!

And I guarantee, I would not want the boy running at me.  He's a tank!

Kanab and Nie Nie

 I spent the weekend living it up in Kanab, Utah with these lovely girls!  Wow!  I thought growing up in Marysvale was bad, but Kanab might be worse.  We had as much fun as possible.  Hilights from the night include a giant shopping cart, playing spoons, visiting a scary museum, and wandering the streets going from store to store.  We bought matching peace sign bracelets and had a horrible dinner at Borasco's.  I don't know how long it will be before I will be able to eat a chimichanga again.

These ladies are beautiful and I am so glad to call them sister.  And daughter in one case!  I'm truly blessed with wonderful women in my life!

The whole reason we went to Kanab was to meet Stephanie Nelson or Nie Nie as she is called in the blogging world.  I have wanted to meet her for the past 7 years and just give her a hug.  I was able to do that today.  She is such an inspiring woman and such a beautiful person.  I have followed her blog for about 8 years and I just love her.  I teared up listening to her speak.  In fact, when Christina (Mr. Nielson) introduced her, I started to cry. He gave the sweetest tribute to his mother and talked about how we as mothers, should never underestimate our place in life.  It was just such a great morning!  I loved being able to hear them speak and also to be able to meet them and spend a few minutes chatting with them.  I'm having a hard time even putting in to words how awesome this was!

Nerf Gun WArs

Hiking in Snow Canyon

 Took these cute kids to Johnsons Arch in Snow Canyon and spent the morning hiking.

 Kassie and Piper were super cute.  I'm glad that if Kassie won't like me, that she atleast loves Piper!

 Tyson catching frogs!

 Goodness gracious, look at that handsome boy!

 It was such a beautiful hike.

 All the cousins you will find, a sitting in a row!

 Piper being crazy like always!

 Me and my mini me.  Although he is much cuter than me!

 These are the days I want to remember forever.  Me and my cute kids, having a blast and making memories. It was such a good day.  Even though we were fighting about the time this picture was taken, but by then, we had been out playing in the red rocks for about 5 hours. They were tired and cranky, but I never want to forget this moment.

 I talked with my kids about how Heavenly Father created the earth and I have a hard time believing that people can look at this and think there is no God.  This world is to beautiful and I am certain His hand was holding the paintbrush the day this part of the earth was created.

I love, love, love this girl!

Gubler Park

There's a new park in town!  Just up the street and it is so much fun!  We had a blast hanging out there t his afternoon.  I was even able to get a few pictures of JD. How cool is that?  I love the pictures of Josh and Tyson and then Tyson on the ground.  This is what happens when you let dad spin you on the spinney toy.  You fall over, dizzy as heck! I do love these peaceful afternoons with these sweet kids and that awesome husband of mine!

Fishing at Quail

Spent the day fishing at Quail.  Josh's famous saying is, "A bad day of fishing beats a good day of sitting at home."  And that was all to true today.  We didn't catch a single thing.  Not even a bite!  The people to the left and right of us were catching fish like crazy.  Not us!  We left Quail and stopped by the ponds on the parkway and the boys were catching cat fish like crazy!  And I have no pictures of JD.  He hates having his picture taken and will sabotage me whenever possible Boo on him!  But he was there and had a good time.