Summer 2013

We have had a crazy busy summer.  In June we went to Utah and saw Todd's Grandma Jenks.  In July we went to Nevada to see my aunt and her family and California to see Todd's dad and in August we went spent time camping and boating.  The kids did swimming lessons and Rylan tried his hand at t-ball.  The summer has flown by and now we are back to school.  Kadee is in 2nd grade and Rylan is in kindergarten and Sawyer is growing like a weed!

 Rylan playing T-ball

 Sawyer meeting great grandma Jenks for the first time.

 Rylan fishing in California  

 Grandpa Rod and Linda with the kids. 

 Mono Lake, CA.

 Fishing

 More fishing.

 Kadee and Val fishing.

 Boating fun!

  We are a family of fish.  We love the water!

This summer we also went to Yosemite.

 Car trips are so much fun!

Wow! I forgot I had a blog. Oops!

Okay so it has been over a year now from my last blog.  So much has happened I don't even remember the half of it.  And when I try and think about it I come up empty and end up thinking that, nope not really much has happened.  Last year in March 2012 we went to Disneyland and that was fun.  Oh yeah, and I had a baby in December 2012! Yea for new babies!!

Sawyer Eldon Jenks was born on December 6, 2012.  He weighed 8 lbs and was 20 inches.  Labor this time around sucked.  My epidural didn't take so for the most part it was not fun.  But in the end he is totally worth all the pain to get him here!  Oh, and in case you were wondering, kidney stones do hurt more then labor.

 My 3 kids!  Ry is a little to happy about having a little brother and is a LOT of help.  Almost to much help!

So now days, almost 3 months old Sawyer is doing great!  He is growing like a weed!  At his 2 month appointment me was 12.9 lbs and 23 inches long!  Okay, I really think the hospital did a crappy job when they measured him cause 3 inches in 2 months?

Sand Everywhere!

As teenagers we use to go to Sandy Downs all the time and always had so much fun! And it was just as fun this time. Its always fun to watch your kids try something new.

I spy my toe.

Missy's kids, mine & Audrey (the cool aunt) just got done rolling down the sand dune. Poor Ry had his eyes open the whole way down the hill.

Kd & Ry getting ready to go summer sledding!

Geocaching

Anyone out there gone geocaching?? Well if you haven't you should! It is fun for the whole family! We went geocahing a couple times this summer in Malad. They three up the canyon behind my parents house. Its like treasurer hunting!!

Kd likes to pose!

Anyone who wants to learn more about geocaching can at www.geocaching.com

Dino Fun! Summer '11

This summer we took the kids to the Ogden dinosaur park. It was a lot of fun and is really great for little kids.

Missy, Dell & their boys came with us.

Summer 2011 Part 1

This summer we took the kids fishing to the kids fishing pond in Shelly. They didn't catch any fish but we still had fun.

Goofy kids!! Kd love to pose!

Virginia City Montana

For our 7 year anniversary Todd and I went to Virginia City Montana. Its a ghost town/tourist trap. We have been through Virginia City a couple times, one being on our honey moon, and I have always wanted to stay in the Fairweather Inn. The Fairweather Inn was built in 1864 when Virginia City boomed as a gold mining town. The Inn has 17 rooms and we were in room 17 right by the balcony. Only 5 of the rooms have bathrooms in them and we were lucky to get one with a bathroom (Okay not really, I called and made reservations). The Fairweather Inn is said to be haunted but we didn't experiences anything paranormal.

This is the back of the Fairweather Inn. The lonely window on the end is the window to room 10, said to be the most haunted room in the Inn. Nothing tragic happened in this room it was just the old owners favorite room and she is said to haunt it.

On Friday night we went on a ghost tour of the town. We learned a lot of cool history of the town. I took picture of most of the haunted building in the town but writing about them all would make for a long post. But I did have to post a picture of room 10. Funny story, earlier before we went on the ghost tour we were out on the balcony and started talking with another guest staying in the Inn. We started talking about the history of the Inn and found out that he was the lucky one staying in room 10. He joined us on the ghost tour. The next morning we asked him how his night was, he said that it took him about 2 hours to unwind but when he finally did he had a uneventful night.

Happy Anniversary Todd!!