Bear Lake

So much fun...so many pictures...not enough time...so this is what you get. :)

Beautiful View from our place. Love Bear Lake.

We went on lots of bike rides.

The kids love our bike trailer.

Wii Bowling Tournament Trophies

(made by Aunt Tonya)

Wii Bowling Tournament winners:

Travis: 2nd Place

Bailey: 1st Place (KING PIN)

Gabby: 3rd Place

Handsome boys getting ready to go golfing.

Relaxing on the beach.

Playing in the Sand

Playing in the water

Eating the sand

Loving the water (even though it was cold)

Loving the sand (even after getting mouths full)

Having too much fun

The tabernacle at Paris, ID

Playing around

Fun, Fun, and more Fun

Wearing the bike helmet backwards

Playing in the rain

Singing by the fire

Golfing again

A beautiful day and a beautiful course, so fun!

LOTS and LOTS and LOTS of swimming.

SO MUCH FUN!!!

Packing

Cannon is growing so quickly and I just love this stage in his life. He is learning so fast and his personality is really starting to come out. He makes me laugh and I am so glad he's mine!I haven't been feeling well at all. In addition to all the regular "recovery" problems, my kidneys are giving me one heck of a fight and I am getting SO sick of being sick or always hurting.
:(


Luckily there are still reasons to smile and fight the fight and regardless of what I've been through I know that I am still so blessed. We are getting ready to head up to Bear Lake with my family for a week and I am excited for my kids to have a beach to play on, a pool to swim in, and most importantly Aunts and Uncles and Cousins and Grandparents to spoil them and give them the attention they deserve. My kids have been so understanding and helpful, but it still makes me feel bad for them that they have such a lame mom right now. They find ways to entertain and take care of themselves.


For example, I was trying to pack stuff for Bear Lake and came in to see that Cannon wanted to be sure I packed him some toys, and most importantly that I didn't forget HIM.

Here he is sitting in the suitcase and reading some books (which is his favorite thing right now). It made me laugh and smile and just happy to be who am I. It was just what I needed to get me through the day.
Then Kylee got in on the act and I realized that no matter what life hands me, I am one lucky girl!

A Happy Mother's Day

I am SO thankful to be a mom. I will admit right now I don't feel like a very good one at all and I get very sad when I just have to take the time to lay down and tell my kids to watch TV or go play by themselves. :( I am trying really hard to feel well again and I just wish my body would catch up.

Despite the sickness, we had a VERY nice Mother's Day. It started out with a wonderful sacrament meeting followed by a nice nap and then a trip to Grandma's for dinner. I love my children so much and am so thankful for my mom, husband, sister, and other family members who make up for all that I am lacking right now. I am so glad my kids have such great people in their lives.

I sure do love my Cannon man.

My Grandma. Isn't she the cutest thing!
I love her SO much!
If I'm even half as good as a mom as she is, I'll be proud.


I love this little girl.
She had so much fun playing with cousins and random things she could find at Grandma's.

And I love this little boy.

Isn't his shirt cute?

More cute kids having a great time.

The whole family got in on a game of volleyball.

It was a beautiful day.

What can be better then great food, fun, and family?

Something out of Nothing

3 Things I am really sick of...

1. Health Problems
2. Health Insurance (or lack there of in my case, how stupid the whole system is...I could rant on and on about this)
3. Medical bills

Sometimes I just want to run away, but then I realize I have no money and feel like crap...so I probably wouldn't get very far. ;-) So on a Friday night when you have no cash and just want to get out of the house, what are you going to do? We have visited all the nearby parks many a times lately and were running out of FREE ideas.



Finally we decided we would just drive up the canyon. I packed a little dinner (just sandwich's and chips and such) but honestly was not that excited. It's not like it's Fall and it would be really beautiful, and there really isn't much to do if you aren't camping or swimming or boating or something. But at least it would get us out of the house and somewhere we hadn't been in awhile. It ended up being a lot of fun.

We found a park up by Pineview that kick all the parks we've been to lately in the bum. It was so fun for the kids. They had the best toys. It was just a little too cold and I didn't pack jackets (what was I thinking...we were going up the canyon for heaven's sake). The kids still had a great time though.

Kylee's new favorite things are bars. Monkey bars, hanging bars, climbing bars.

She loves them all.

She loves to just hang there and swing back and forth.

Getting ready to go down a slide together.

So sweet.

Cannon loved the wood chips. I would find them in his mouth all the time.

I guess they are a good source of fiber, right? Stinker.

Kylee loves getting pushed in the swing. Especially by Daddy.

Having a great time.

Cannon just relaxing.

I got in on the action too.

We ate our dinner and then headed back home to get the kids in bed.

Even the drive home brought many beautiful things to see.

The beautiful waterfall up the canyon...

Skydivers parachuting out of a plane...

And lots of beautiful wild flowers covering the side of the road.

We also got stuck in traffic because there was an accident, which I just took the time to take a ton of pictures of random things and to just play with my camera. I love this pic I took of my reflection in the car mirror.

I learned that the old saying "life is what you make of it" is very true. Lately I've just been sitting around feeling sorry for myself...and then wonder why nothing fun ever happens to me or why it seems like everyone else is so happy when I'm so miserable. I think I finally realized it's not up to anyone else to make me happy. I've got to do it myself. And I may not have money, or my health, but I sure have wonderful family. It's really not that hard to make something out of nothing. The trick is...just getting off your butt and doing it. :)