Silly Kids!!

Many times when cousins get together...major sillyness comes out. There's really not much to say - I think the photos do the talking :) (yes, there are panties on mercedes & kel's heads)

Girls Camp 2010

This year our stake was able to attend Heber Valley Camp - what a beautiful area & beautiful camp! We had an amazing time & I personally enjoyed my own bed when we got home :) Best part of girls camp...being with my sweet daughter, Aspen. We had so much fun together & loved being able to share a wonderful week together!!

Singing around the lake. This is just another beautiful part of Heber Valley Camp that was amazing. The whole time I just loved this beautiful camp that has been built for the youth. What a more wonderful way to feel the spirit and enjoy this wonderful earth that we have been blessed with! This night each ward picked a hymn & sang it around the lake as the sun was going down...beautiful.

We were able to go canoeing and the girls were able to get all the girls in our ward together to make one ginormous boat. It was fun to see them work together and make sure not one girl was left out.

We hiked around the lake & we saw a mama duck with her baby duckies, moose tracks and a tree a bear had scratched!

Getting ready for the challenge coarse. The girls were divided into teams where they were able to do different challenges where they had to work together as a team. They were also able to climb pole, walk across & go down a zip line - most of the girls tried it...it was harder to get up there & not be scared, but several girls did it & it was fun to cheer them on!!

White Board

Kel got an idea that she needed a white board. She found one at the store and quickly brought it home so she could draw pictures and erase them over and over again. One morning I came into the kitchen to find her white board on the fridge and this is what it read...

We've got one funny kid on our hands - keeps us on our toes - we'll brace for the future :)

Our Teenager

MMMMM Brick Oven! We had the silliest waiter - Patrick - He kept the girls laughing, I guess that's really not hard with a group of giggly teenagers!!
Aspen invited some cute friends, her cousin & silly sister to dinner.

Then off to the mall to shop!!

The girls had a blast trying on a bunch of dresses in one store. I was worried that they would kick us out, but they let the girls try whatever on and they had so much fun.

We got some classic shots of them modeling & it's a good thing they wore t-shirts with most of the dresses...they don't have much to hold them up yet :)

Our sweet daughter Aspen had a fun birthday and we loved the girls that came to celebrate her day with her. We think the world of our oldest kid - she's one amazing gal!
Some of the stuff she likes to do is...reading, reading, reading, drawing & designing new outfits, playing the violin, wathing t.v., making cookies, playing with friends & cousins, shopping & eating out. She's such a sweet kid and we are so thankful to have her in our family! We love her so much and can't believe how quickly she's grown into an amazing young women!

SFHS Dance Comp. 2010

Beautiful dance gals...Syd, Bailey & McKell

Had to include these "SFHS rock" photos. Mainly because this is totally Kel...she's a funny kid and also to show all the SFHS alumni they are still painting that rock in front of your school...the tradition has continued :)

Each time I watch my girls do something - especially dance - I am just amazed they are my kid! :) I just was not a dancer in HS, I loved it and I loved my dance class, but I was just one to have fun and be with my friends. This year Kel danced, Aspen took a break. I really missed watching Aspen dance because I think she's just an amazing little dancer. We got to watch our Kel dance and she's just so cute & loves, loves, loves dancing. She had a lot of fun this year - it was tough at times, but she made it! Each day she showed us a new dance move, or another part of her dance she was working on, or her creepy Michael Jackson moves :) she's just a girl who dances everywhere and we love it! She performed a bunch this year and each time we are so proud of her and love to watch how great of a dancer she has become.

topaz mountain

Melissa & Jessie

Clint was so great to show us what to do & brought
a big bucket of hammers and picks and stuff so we could find the topaz.

Bri & Kel

What posers!!

Another fun day, during spring break, was our trek to Topaz Mountain. Our dear friends & neighbors invited us to go to this place I had heard of, but never had been. So we packed our lunches and drove West. There are some lonely areas in Utah and this was for sure one of them! Once we got there I was surprised there were actually other people there too! Our friends said they were surprised too because last time they went there was nobody. So we shared this little mountain with several other families and began looking for Topaz. I had no idea what we were to do, but we quickly caught on. Basically you wack at the mountain with picks, or hammers or whatever until this rock gives way and then you look at the rock for these little crystals or what they call topaz. They are a little more tricky to find than I realized, but our kids & dads had a lot of fun! We felt like the dwarfs in Snow White :) So we wacked at the mountain, laughed, climbed around and of course ate. It was fun and fun to try something new and see a new little place in Utah we've never been to before. We did find Topaz & we brought our treasures home with us - the girls have loved showing off their tiny treasure.

church museum

Jess & I checking out the Angel Moroni statue.

This is what it would be like to speak at the pulpit in the conference center.

The girls loved the "family" part where they played with these dolls that looks so real! Syd was a proud mom of a sheep :)

Our sweet neighbors & friends & Grandma Anita.

One day of our spring break - I know I am slow at getting this stuff on my blog - we went to the Church History Museum. We were able to meet up with the Jensen family & we just had fun wandering around & looking at stuff. I was shocked we spent over 3 hours there, mostly because we have been there several times before, but it was fun to just wander around & spend time together. Brian was a great sport and hung out with a herd of women ...9 to be exact :) He had fun & loved watching his girls play in the museum. It was a really fun afternoon & a great memory!