Family Reunion

We had great time at our family reunion in Cascade, ID a couple of weeks ago. There was lots of swimming, water-fights, movies, softball and everything else you could imagine. We had so much fun and loved being with all of the family. Here are a few pictures of our trip.
Chas and I in front of the Hells Canyon lookout.

Brooklyn, Riley and Avery, the poor girls are so outnumbered its not even funny!

This would have been such a cute picture, but this face tells you exactly how Emree is!
WE went for a hike to a lake. There was quite a bit of snow up there still, and it was quite the hike!
Like Father, like Son!

thanks for the comments

ok so Chas read my last post and said it was a bit.... not so nice so I decided to delete it instead of letting everyone read my ranting on really "not that big of a deal" subject. So thanks to those of you who did comment and now I know that its not only me. Pictures still to come!

Happy CANADA DAY!!!!

To all of my Canadian family and friends, hope you have a great Canada day!

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Well things have been going good here. I am glad school is out and I have nowhere I have to be at 8 in the morning. I still get up to go work out at 5, but it is so so nice not to have to wake the kids up and I can let them sleep in while I get some things done! Imagine how nice life would be if there were no set times we had to be anywhere!! Today we got so much accomplished because I could actually stay home. We rode our bikes, (which we do a lot lately!!) to Chas' work and gave him lunch. It's so nice that his office is so close. The kids love going there because everytime they go they get a starburst (or starver as Brady calls them) from him, but only if they come inside to his office. So they love to go in, its nice that Chas likes them to come in too. It is raining here again today, we have had a fire in our house at night for a couple nights last week, cause it has been so cold! cRazy it is JUNE! We had a fun quick trip up the to Tri- cities on Sat. did some shopping at went to the cannery. Thanks to the government for their stimulus check we are now pretty close at getting our year food supply. Thought it was nice of them!! Anyway I haven't posted much about myself and saw this fun tag so I thought I would do it. and by the way the numbers are messed up, oh well

1. Do you like blue cheese? No
2. Have you ever smoked heroin? no
3. Do you own a gun?no
4. What flavor do you add to your drink at sonic? k, my fave drink at sonic is strawberry limeade
5. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments? Yes, always!
6. What do you think of hot dogs? roasted over the campfire!!
7. Favorite Christmas movie? I really like PRANCER
8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? milk or OJ
9. Can you do push ups? probably a couple
.11. What's your favorite piece of jewelry? favorite and pretty much the only one!Wedding ring
12. Favorite hobby? riding horses, but right now it's gardening since I don't have a horse
4. Do you have A.D.D.? Probably sometimes
15. What's one trait you hate about yourself? thunder thighs!!
16. Middle name? Mae
17. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment... I wish it would stop raining, I hope that's not Emree waking up, I should be doing something else while she is sleeping
18. Name 3 things you bought yesterday. Nothing
19. Name 3 drinks you regularly drink? Water, milk
20. Current worry? will my garden grow without the sun?
21. Current hate right now? not being able to see family often
22. Favorite place to be? Home
e23. How did you bring in the New Year? Playing games and eating good food with friends.
24. Where would you like to go? back to Hawaii
25. Name three people who will complete this? ?????
26. Do you own slippers? Yes, brooklyn got some for me for mothers day
27. What shirt are you wearing? khaki shorts, crocs, blue nike shirt
28. Do you like sleeping on satin sheets? Never have, but they sound nice!
29. Can you whistle? with my fingers yes, normally no
30. Favorite color? purple
31. Would you be a pirate? nope
32. What songs do you sing in the shower? whatever kids tune they were singing last.
33. Favorite girl's name? lately I like the name Laynie
34. Favorite boy's name? I LOVE the name BECKETT, but I can't get Chas to go for it! Still nobody better steal it!
35. What's in your pocket right now? kleenex
36. Last thing that made you laugh? brady saying "Bad pitch mom, but its ok you'll get the next one!
37. Best bed sheets as a child? who knows, nothing exciting obviously
38. Worst injury you've ever had? broke both my arms a couple weeks apart
39. Do you love where you live? YES love it!
40. How many TVs do you have in your house? 2
41. Who is your loudest friend? hmmmm.....
42. How many dogs do you have? zippo!!
43. Does someone have a crush on you? Hopefully Chas.
45. What is your favorite book? loved the twilight series, also love the hearts of the children series
!)46. What is your favorite candy?so many to choose from!..... these will be canadian treats ladies! pirate cookies, wunderbars!
47. Favorite Sports Team? Well I only really ever liked to watch BYU.
48. What song do you want played at your funeral? one of my favorite songs is Dvorak 5th symphony and someone has put the words "Going Home" to it, it is beautiful! (not like I have really thought about it, but someone told me that was the song they wanted and I thought it sounded like a good idea!)
49. What were you doing 12 AM last night? thankfully sleeping!
50. What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up? Do I really want to work out this morning?

Now I tag whomever feels the urge to let us in on some of their inner workings!

MEMORIAL DAY CAMPOUT!

Brooklyn lost her tooth while we were on a hike, she was just walking along and it fell out. Kind of weird! YUCK! Teeth falling out are gross to me, maybe its the blood.

The camp Cooks!

Brady wanted cheesecake for his birthday, so I got a no bake easy kind and thats what he had for his cake, with candles and all while we were camping. It was fun!

Brady's new baseball glove!

Brooklyn shooting the BB gun with Brent. She thought it was so cool!



After the wedding my other brother (I know it gets so confusing when there are so many of us!) Anyway he came and stayed a few days. They have never been here either and so it was fun to have them here. We got a good Canadian history lesson from him as he is a social studies there, now that Chas knows a little more about the gov etc. (and me too) he's thinking its not such a bad place to live! We had a good time with them.

Wedding Day and Multnomah Falls

So on our way back from the wedding we stopped at Multnomah Falls, outside of Portland, they were so pretty and we all got pretty wet from standing on the bridge. The kids enjoyed the time out of the car and its just a short little hike, they were so beautiful!!
Me and my MAN!!!! I love him!

Brady and his cuz Beynon

two of my 3 sisters, Janae, me, Brooklyn and Kayla

Thought I better stick one of the bride on here! Isn't she beautiful!

3 little girls Emree, Addisyn,Brynlee


"You better run or I Will hit you with this!!!" Emree was soo grouchy for pictures!

ME and all my brothers and sisters. Me, Kayla, Janae, Tyanna, Aaron, Ezra and Amron
us with mom and Dad

too far behind!

Ok so I am way behind on blogging so here is a start. My brother (from Utah) came up the week before the wedding and stayed a couple of days. I got to watch their boys for a day or so and then they stayed for a couple more days before heading to Portland for the wedding. It was so fun to have them here, and their boys are adorable!! And the pictures are all going to be out of order, but oh well, takes to much time to fix them all! Plus I don't know how to switch them when I already have them on here!


I love this picture of Brady and I, he really does like me sometimes! Here is Emree at the wedding, just posing, (sigh) she is sooo much like Brooklyn.
Here is my Dad, Grandpa, with all of the grand-daughters. Good thing there are 3 Emree's age, Brooklyn was the only girl! Can I say spoiled!

Happy Birthday Brady!

Sorry there are so so many pictures, but I think he is just so cute! These are some of my favorite!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRADY!!!

Well we thought he would never get here with 3 hours of pushing and all that fun stuff! But he did and luckily he was alright. He looked pretty scary the first couple of minutes. Chas thought he had some serious brain damage, so he didn't let me see him until they put a hat on him. Chas erased all of the really bad pictures which is good, he really did look quite terrible with a very deformed head. But now he is such a handsome little guy. We love him so much and wouldn't know what to do without him... messes and all! Hope you have a good one, tomorrow!

Brooklyns First loose tooth!

well this is going to be real short, but I thought I should post something. It's late and I really just want to go and lay by the fire and curl up and go to sleep! We spent ALL day outside fixing up the yard, putting a border between the grass and flowerbed and other various projects, so we are all exhausted! Anyway it's great to finally have a sunny day! especially two in a row! Brooklyn lost her first tooth a couple of weeks ago, so here are some pictures! Chas actually pulled it out with his pliars because her other tooth was already growing in. So her ultimatum was let Dad do it or go to the dentist! She wisely chose Dad, anyway she looks cute.