Pioneer Day

Here's rundown of our Pioneer Day Activities:

We began the day with the Ivins parade.  The boys and I rode on the primary float.

 After the parade, we attended the booths and activities at the park.  The big boys had a blas in the water bubbles while Terek rode on the boat.

After the Ivins activities, we had plans to go to Pine Valley and have a BBQ.  Well, when we got there we realized that we couldn't have a fire or briqueets because of the fire hazards.  So, we debated on what to do and ended up heading back down to Veyo.

The Veyo pool and crawdad canyon is awesome!  There are fun bridges to cross and a rope swing that swings into the river.  There is also a deep swimming hole in the river.  And you can catch crawdads... with bacon apparently:)

We thought it would be fun to swim in the clean pool as well as the dirty river, so we took the kid to the actual pool to swim.

Then we headed back home to Grandma Rose's and Grandpa Tom's house to do fireworks (since Ivins won't let you do fireworks).  The kids had a blast setting off their own... despite the fact that Lin's raised their prices on their fireworks the day before so I couldn't afford the pack that I had been wanting to buy:(

4th of July

Since we've moved back to Southern Utah, we've kind of started the tradition of going to Kanarraville for the 4th of July.  Last year we had the kids decorate their bikes for the parade.  This year, my cousin Summer and I decided to go all out and make a float.  

Our theme was "Our founding fathers are the real super heroes" and we had the kids dress up like superheroes.  (Details of the float can be found on my craft blog)

We like to say we won!  They gave the top 5 prizes in no particular order (I say we won:)

After the parade, we went to the program.  We ate lunch at the cobble crest.  Then we ran to Cedar to get a few things for Granny's house.

The kids had fun doing the races... no one won, but at least they all ran.

They had a dunking booth and the big boys really enjoyed that.

After the activities at the park, we went to Cash's house for a family BBQ.  The kids had fun playing with their cousins.  I had fun with my cousins too:)

We headed home to watch the St. George fireworks with the Hammons. 

Good times with good friends.  The St. George fireworks were pretty cool!

Big Rock Candy Mountain

 A few weeks ago we had our Scholes family reunion to Big Rock Candy Mountain:)  It's one of our favorite places to go!

The kids had a lot of fun playing with cousins... Terek loves his cousin Max and Max is so good to play with him.

 The favorite pass-time is floating down the river in tubes.

 Shane bought these cool squirt guns and the kids had a blast with them.

 I painted a giant twister game on the grass.  It provided a lot of tangled up fun.

 We played a game where we had to toss cheetos on our shaving cream covered head.  It was a blast!

 This is Joren's attitude about the talent show.

I thought it would be fun to do another photo booth like I had last year.  Some people had a better attitude about it than others!

It's great to be 8!

Yesterday was Brenner's big day!  He was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!  I am so proud of him for making this decision and for being such and amazing young man.  He is always so willing to help me and has such a sweet spirit.

His dad performed the baptism.

 We had a lot of family and friends who were able to make it to Brenner's special day.  We want to thank all of them for coming!

 Just thought I'd put another cute picture that I took of him in his suit!

 I love you Brenner!

Family Camping Trip

We used to go on a family camping trip every summer... until Mom got cancer.  Well, she's doing pretty good right now, so Lucas planned another trip for us (and Dad bought a travel trailer for mom to sleep in).

Of course we had to go to the best fishing spot... Lower Bowns.  I confess that we have never really wanted our kids to catch fish.  We don't like them, so we never eat them.  So we have always bought them cheap character fishing poles.  Well, Brenner really likes to fish and he will actually eat it, so maybe it's time to buy him a real pole.  His pole wouldn't go out very far so he only caught one fish.  Legacy was really the fishergirl... she caught way more fish than anyone!

There was a fun red rock hill close by so we went on a little hike.  It was fun and a way to do something a little different.  Joren spent all of his time with Legacy and was on the 4-wheeler with her and grandpa or his dad most of the time.  Terek also loved to ride the 4-wheeler with his dad (not sure why I didn't take any pics).

We had a few tough setbacks the first day (flat tire on the trailer, long wait in Loa to get the trailer fixed, really windy, cold and our pump wouldn't work for our air mattress).  But it ended up turning out to be nice weather and a lot of fun!  (ummm, next time I should take a few more pix.... what has gotten in to me?)

My little grads

We had a couple of fun graduations this past week.  Terek graduated from his first year of preschool.

 They sang a bunch of songs for us and did a program.  I love this song that he sings with the bean bag.

 Terek has loved his teacher, Miss Robyn (Petersen)

 Today Joren graduated from Kindergarten.  Next year he gets to go to school all day!!!  That's going to be a little bit crazy.

 Joren has really loved his teacher, Mrs. Moore!

Thanks to all of the teachers that teach and love my kiddos!

Our Trip to Moab

A couple of weekends ago, we took the kids out of school for a Friday and headed to Moab!!!  Our main purpose was to visit Lucas and Shellie, but it's super awesome that they live in a fun place.

 Their town home complex has a pool, so we got to go swimming a couple of times.  The boys always love swimming.

 Just being outside and enjoying nature is always good.  They have a really awesome playground by a river.

 By the rec center in Moab is a skate park.  The kids loved playing at the skate park.  It wasn't super busy like the one we have in St. George (plus, ours is kind of scary).

 We went to Hold in the Rock.  We didn't go through the house, but the kids picked the petting zoo instead.

 We went on a hike to Bowtie Arch and Corona arch.  It was a great, quick hike.

 Some crazy people were "swinging off of the arch."  Good entertainment.

Hopefully Lucas and Shellie like visitors because we have the perfect place to getaway to.  (Feeling a little guilty about not visiting them in Rock Springs enough).

Oh, and I love my Iphone.  I love the camera on it!  And I love my fun apps... Camera+, Photo Frame and Labelbox!

Eight is Great!!!

I am mailing out official invites, but thought I'd throw this up on the blog so people can plan ahead.

When did....

....this little boy....

....grow up?

Actually, it seems like he's been a big kid forever!  But 8 is such a BIG deal!  No more booster seat....Scouts... and a Baptism!  I am so excited for my big boy to be baptized.

Brenner is such a joy to our family.  He loves to read.  He loves Legos.  And He loves to play with gadgets (ipod, ipad, computer, DS, etc.)  He's super smart and loves school.  I'm starting to get a little idea of what it's going to be like to have 3 teenage boys in the house... cuz this kid can eat!!!

Happy 8th Birthday Brenner!!!

April just flew by...

Blogging is a little underrated... 

Brenner participated in the Evening of the Arts at his school.  The theme was diversity is... so he submitted his Perler Bead art.  "Perler beads are all different and unique, but if they all work together, they can create a beautiful work of art."  He won 2nd place!

The boys participated in about 4 easter egg hunts.    Unfortunately, I only took pictures of 1.

Joren and his teeth.... he had some new permanent teeth starting to come in.  He was way too scared to have me or Ryan pull them out.  For awhile, he had two rows of teeth like a shark.  Eventually he wiggled one enough to pull it out himself.  It just so happened that he had a dentist appt to get some cavities filled.  Since he has to be sedated for dental work, I had the dentist pull out the 2nd one while he was doing the dental work.

Terek had Pet Day at preschool so he got to take Mia to preschool to show his friends.

We love the Kayenta Chalk art Festival.  This year we have been spending a lot of our weekends trying to fix up Granny's house in Kanarraville.  So, we missed the festival.  We headed over Sunday after church to see all of the finished products:)  These are the kids favorites...

Terek learned how to ride his bike without training wheels!!!  We knew he could because of how awesome he is on his scooter!!!  Now he needs to work on starting and stopping better on his own.

Spring has sprung and our garden is starting to produce.  We have lettuce, radishes and our favorite... PEAS!  My boys love them and will often be found over at the garden munching on peas!

We can hope for better blogging in May, but I doubt it!  For more up to date info and pics, follow me on Facebook or Instagram.

Here is our list of things to look for in May... Moab, Brenner's b-day, father's and sons, working on Granny's house, end of school, family camping trip... busy busy days... bring it on!