Beautiful Sister!

So LAST MONTH!!!! YES, I am a total looser and took these pictures of her and her little girls last month and I am just getting around to posting some! I am so sorry!
I talked Terri into letting me shoot some pics of her being pregnant before she has her other little girl! She was so kind to oblige me!
One thing I learned in this whole experience is that I SUCK!! Really! I have always had a HUGE passion for photography, I think mostly brought on by my brother-in-law (who is an amazing photographer!). I will keep on practicing and maybe it will sink in! People (myself included) think you have a passion, you have the equipment and you can do it! Oh it is so much more! I have so much respect and awe for all of those great photographers out there! Being able to capture what I want in my mind to print is so difficult for me right now. Besides the fact I am such a perfectionist (which is probably why I am so unhappy with the shots above it has taken me over a month to get them to my sister) I am just not happy with the results. SO SO SO MUCH TO LEARN!!

Memorial Day

Bummed out by our faltering trip to Lake Powell,

we/I decided we needed to do something
or I would have been home ticked off to no end we didn't do something! :)

We haven't been hiking, the boys wanted to go camping,
and I just wanted anything!

So we went to donut falls! How fun!
Simple easy fast hike!
Very family oriented.
Not too hard, or too long!
With a very exciting reward at the end...
or so we thought!

It is the end of May after all.
You would think the heat would have set in.
UM DUH Carrie!
It has been record cold!
I didn't remember but it also had recently snowed!
Now our wedding anniversary is May 22,
I distinctly remember going to Jackson Hole!
I also remember thinking WOW over 5 feet of snow!
But we live in Utah after all.....
Anyway, there was a ton of snow!


The majority of the trail was snow!
So much snow in fact,
we couldn't see the actual falls and get close like you can when the snow isn't there!
Honestly, it didn't damper anyone's spirits!
We had a few slips and slides,
but that just brought more adventure to our outing...
right?

Bummer? Yes!

I was still so proud of my boys!
We had fun none the less. It was a slow hike.
The information I found pegged it as an easy for family hike,
expected to last 1 hour total hiking time!
Well factor in the muddy trail and little 3 year old feet
it was 3 hours round trip!
That is okay!
We had fun!
We were not in any hurry.
We had no where else to go!
A little picnic in the car when we got back,
and everyone was out like a light before we got out of the canyon!

(or was that just me?)
(Dad is always trying to smooth Zeke over in to believing he is HIS little buddy! Little does Dad know.... it will never work! :) Zeke and I are attached at the hip!)

A Little UU humor...
Yes, son I would want to jump off the bridge if I wore that hat too! :)

Sometimes we need a down to earth look at those we put on pedistles! I love this little video what a great look at our Prophet and how such an inspired man is still that, just a man!

ARE YOU SERIOUS!?

So we are seriously bummed! I just love to BBQ in the spring/summer. I hate to cook in the kitchen and make it so hot! The BBQ just has a summer flavor to me!

Well not right now....I am hoping it will resume in a short while.

So seriously my awesome husband grilled me some fabulous fillets on Mother's Day! Then 3 days later we found this in our BBQ......




SERIOUS!

Then a couple weeks later we hear chirping and chirping....I mean LOUD chirping! And we find this! Gregg is surprisingly okay with it and not throwing a fit to have us take it out. He did however make me think when he said.....and we are going to cook on that after they are gone? Good point, however, I believe heat is the best way to sterilize things.

I do also believe we WON'T end up using it again either! I know Gregg too well! We will end up either NOT BBQing or getting a new one! How sad! I just love to BBQ....and I still have a few deliciously looking fillets in the freezer that won't be cooked.....sigh! what to do!?

The boys are just enamored at the thoughts and sounds of the little birds though.

Truth Be Told!!!

Jaxon.
Frustrating, adorable, helpful, smart,
HONEST!

(before school)

MOM: Jaxon please don't forget to turn in the Vocabulary test today that you accidentally brought home before it was graded on Friday....
JAXON: Okay Mom
(this phrase repeated roughly 5 times before dropping him off at school)

(after school)
MOM: Jaxon did you remember to turn in the vocabulary test you brought home on accident?
JAXON: ummmm
MOM: I reminded you like 20 times this morning how did you forget?
JAXON: Because when you talk and talk and talk and tell me things over and over I just don't listen because it is boring........

Mothers Day!!!

What a wonderful Mothers Day weekend! My boys treated me right! I got breakfast in bed and the most beautiful cards, notes and prizes handmade by my little guys! They really did treat me right!

To add to the weekend I got to spend a couple of hours with my friend and her new little one! She is just adorable and my friend is an amazing mom! What a great Mothers Day weekend.

Ma-cheeze-gun!

Sitting and having a snack of cheese and crackers this afternoon with Zeke. Zeke (being the boy he is) chewed his slice of cheese into a shape of a gun! I got up and did something else at the sink. He pointed it at me and said, "you like my ma-cheeze-gun mom?" Well of course I said, "really cool Zeke!"

Then he said, "Put yous hands up owd wady!"



Why do I need to be reminded of how old I am from a 3 year old? But I wouldn't miss it for the world! :)