happy birthday America

What a fun 4th of July we had. The celebration just kept going and going. We began by having a swim party at my Uncle Brad's house and having yummy dutch oven dinner. After, we went up to my dad's house to watch the fireworks from my dad's balcony. What a view! Braden loved the big "BOOM." He kept saying, "firework, boom." Too cute. On the forth we got up and went to the parade with my mom, Megan and Kris. Braden loved it, especially all the candy. Talk about a sugar high and a great time!

Swimming at Uncle Brad's house!

Eating a snow-cone.

Watching the parade with Grammy Bo.

Meeting the grease-monkey. Braden wasn't too thrilled about him.

Fireworks at Papa's house.

Fireworks at Papa'a house.

grammy bo's 50th birthday

For my moms birthday the kids treated her to a night of favorite things. My step-dad was still in Vegas working so we definately needed to do something special. We took my mom out to eat at the Cheesecake Factory, somewhere she had never been. It was so yummy. Especially the cheesecake! After we were going to go to a play, but we're unable to get tickets so we did the next best thing. We went to the park and played games. My mom is a card and board game fanatic. She even won, go birthday girl! Mom, hope you had a great birthday, we all love you!

    

helping dad in the yard

                                   

Braden is the BIGGEST helper! Especially when he can be outside and with dad. He is totally daddy's boy!

lake powell

My dad and Heidi treats the whole family about every 18 months by taking us on a vacation. This year we decided to go to Lake Powell. We had a great time. Our house boat was overly amazing. It had 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 fridges and a hot tub! Wow talk about luxury. We were totally spoiled. We spent a week boating, wake boarding, tubing, swimming, playing Mario Cart on the Wii, crashing a wedding and watching a wake board competition. About 3 days into the trip a girl came to us telling us we had to move our boat because she was getting married right where we had parked. Funny thing was, we were there before they even showed up. The next day we woke to see about 15-20 house boats driving towards us. It looked like an invasion. They were all sponsors and spectators for a wake boarding competition, and they joined our camp too. Coming into our little bay you would have thought it was a marina due to the congestion of house boats. We decided to stay and were glad we did because we were hooked up with Skullcandy headphones and got a really great show! What an amazing trip! Can't wait to do it again next year; hint, hint!

 

Kam loved driving the boat; Braden helped.

 

The kiddies on the tube.

 

Papa and the grand-kiddies.

 

Braden on the wave runner.

 

Kissin' cousins!

 

Kam and Ryan ran the boat out of gas and had to                                                                                 get a tow from a young mens group. 

kissin' cousins

Just a couple of cute little picture of Braden and his cousin Kennedee (my sister, Ashley's little girl) in their Easter attire. Are they just not the cutest things you've ever seen? We are sad that they have to live so far away in California but whenever we get together it's as though time has never past!