Moving On...

After a lot of thought, and throwing our house on KSL "just to see..." we are moving. We are not going far, just wanted a house with a better layout. This is a bitter sweet step for us, we are excited to move on but hate to leave our first home with all of our happy memories. We brought our new born baby home to this house, have great neighbors, have had three different pets,cars and jobs, completed A LOT of renovation work, gone through the ups and downs of our first six years of marriage, and have made it OUR very happy comfy first home. We will truly miss this house, it really is bitter sweet. We have to be out on September 30th, and can't get into our new home until October 5th, so we will be living in the travel trailer for about five days, sweet...not! Hey, no "van down by the river" jokes! Tonight our neighborhood had a "farewell" party for us, I really hope we get great neighbors again, and keep in touch with the great ones we have had.

Lyman Lake 2009

One of our favorite trips of the year! Every August we head up to Lyman Lake with all of Ryan's family for a whole week. We always have a blast 4-wheeling, cooking, lounging, kayaking, fishing etc. Shaylee and I even caught our first fish this year! Sorry about the picture overload, this is actually a very small sample considering I took over 100!

Lyman Lake

Our cute little family














All the smaller grand kids, Shaylee is one lucky girl to have so many friends :)

Shaylee trying to catch her very first fish with Dad

Isn't she a cute little bug!Our whole world right there!

Shaylee and Max - Best of Friends. Max still has his very bad hair cut, poor guy can't score any lady dogs with a do like that!

Shaylee and mom, she is saying, "Don't TICKle meeee!" one of her very favorite sayings right now.

Ryan and Corey

Movie Night

Emery and Lacy

Val, Lily, Mason and Suz

Bubble Gum Blowing Contest - Lacy won a super cool alligator hat

(Almost) the whole family

Summer 2009

Does anyone really have time to blog in the summer? We have been so BUSY trying to hang on to whats left of summer, with no time left to archive them...boo. Here is a brief rundown of our 2009 summer highlights. I still need to blog about our annual Lyman Lake trip, but thought the post was already long enough! I hope everyone has had a happy, safe summer, here's to holding on to it for a least one more month!

=Yuba camping trip: This is the first year we have done this trip, but this group goes every year, hopefully we can be part of the tradition. We had a blast, especially on the girls tube ride, I think we had seven girls on two tubes, jumping back and forth.

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=Lava Hot Springs: We went with some of our best friends - Steve, Samara, and Brooklyn. We camped out at a cool RV park, rafted down the river on tubes, learned how to dutch-oven, went to the big pool, and had a relaxing fun time. Samara and I tried to make Max look "cool" with a mo-halk, poor poor Max just looked scalped. Poor boy.

Shaylee is really into how she dresses lately, below is her outfit she HAD to go to the pool in... geez. This girl never leaves the house without some sort of funky shoes and/or hat... oh and her purse of course! I think I'm in trouble. (You can also see Max's embarrassing haircut in that picture.)

=Indigo Girls Concert:

=Lagoon: Shaylee LOVED Lagoon! She could ride nearly every ride in kiddy land and had a HUGE smile the whole time. This was Grandma Judy's idea, and it was very much appreciated by her little bug. :)

=Fun in the Sun - - Lots of boating trips: Our favorite thing to do! I wish July happened three times a year, it is the best boating month of the year. Shaylee is now a professional tuber and has been tubing with me, her dad, and Uncle Jason. Ryan even went on his annual "boys boating trip" they had a great time!

=Kenny Chesney and Suite Night: I had a lot of Hilton points from traveling for work, so I cashed them in for a sweet suite at the downtown Hilton for our 6th anniversary. This is the only pic we got at the concert, I wish I would have taken some of the suite, it was like a big, fancy condo! One could definitely get used to that! We had a great anniversary.

=Our Hill Billy Pool: We got a cheap over-sized inflatable pool, and LOVED it. Ryan even chlorinated it.. HA! We lounged in it every spare second we had this summer, loving it just as much as if it were a real one!

=July Fireworks: It is probably safe to say that Chloe and Maddy (our next door neighbors) are Shaylees very favorite people in the world, we got to share in their fireworks this year.

Happy 6th Anniversary!

I love that I married my best friend. Thanks for everything Ryan, you make me a better person and I love you. Happy 6th Anniversary!

The Parade with a Little Bug and Paddy Cakes

We went to the W.B Parade with our best buddies Steve, Samara, and Paddy (Brooklyn). We had a great time and feel lucky to have them as friends. We can't wait until Paddy is big enough to run around with Shaylee!

Fireworks Party

Steve and Samara had a great fireworks party, they can get a crowd together! I wish I would have taken more photos! Shaylee loved the fireworks and would say, "BOOM! Yayyyyy!" so cute. I wish that July came around three times a year, I love this month. Thanks Steve and Samara for the fun time!

Shaylee and her peeps! :)