Joey is Seven!

Happy Birthday Joey! Joey sported his seventh birthday with a mouthful of missing teeth. He recently lost his two front teeth giving him a great vampire look for the upcoming Halloween. Joey's party was a small get together at home. We invited many but few came. It was fun though. Joey had fun with Madison, Brenden, Davin, Stryder, and Angel. The kids especially loved the mini recorders from the pinata, (the parents, not so much).

This year Joey has been a busy boy. He participated in Summer Stars a great reading program. He had previously graduated from first grade where he had an amazing teacher Miss Cochrane! Now he is loving second grade with Miss. Layne.

Joey played soccer and basketball last year and hopes to participate in Basketball this year. He loves the Utah Jazz and can't wait until the games start. Joey's favorite snack right now is Zebra Cakes, which he brought to class on his birthday (thanks Gramma).

Family Pics by Clint

Clint's family vacation kicked off with family pics in the canyon. I decided to take advantage and dress up in a black shirt and blue jeans like the kids. Clint agreed to take our pictures in his backyard and here they are...

Thanksgiving Point Fun

We had some fun times with the Rhoton family at Thanksgiving Point last week! I had a little fun playing with the pictures. Don't the kids look menacing here? This is in the bear cave in the Children's Discovery Gardens.


Cute picture of the baby Peej, looking like she might need to make a pit stop.










Then there's Blayne who is scaling rocks. Blayne is an adventurous young man. Poor Lindsay, Oh the worries she'll worry :-).








Next, we headed into the main gardens which wouldn't be complete without our beloved water fights in the Secret Garden. Joey loves spraying other people.







Kristyn is so good to my little Angel! My babies spend a lot of time with the Rhoton family while I work and go to college. I am so thankful that they care so much for Joey and Angel. They are an amazing family!

4th of July

This year we skipped the parade and the traffic. I felt a little guilty in the morning for skipping the parade but no one wanted to wake up. Patrick and I have been looking at houses recently and found two that we just loved. As we were driving around today though, we decided and put in an offer on a dream home, and it was accepted Yay! We came home and played outside at the park and then in the backyard in the kiddie pool. It ended up being a very nice, exciting but relaxing day. That evening we went outside and lit our own fireworks (and again skipped the festivities). I have to say though, I really enjoyed doing our own fireworks. The kids got so excited, they smiled and clapped way more then they did last year at Thanksgiving Point. Our cute neighbors came out and we lit a few more fireworks and sparklers. It was good times. We may have started a new tradition.

Boston

We arrived in Boston last night and spent the evening downtown. It all started with public transportation.... We went to buy our ticket for the week before heading downtown and this guys who had followed us in the building started asking for money. We all said no. One of our group members was given a ticket that worked for a few days and gave this to him, thinking it would rid us of him. Our group continued getting passes for the week and he hung around. When we got on the train, he did to (Did I mention he was wearing sunglasses the whole time, at night?). He seemed to stalk one girl in our group, asking questions and making comments. Then he followed us to where we got off. We also noticed him signaling another passenger, who looked shady. This was our first experience... it made us a little nervous to walk alone in the park that we have to go through to get to our hotel, but it's been all good since.