Recent Summer obsession!

I started this spring reading "The Work and the Glory" series by Gerald N. Lund!  There are 9 books total, and I just started # 7!  For those of you who have never read them, DO, they are fantastic!  It follows a fictional family by the name of Steed's that is set back in the 1830's.  It follows them all the way through the books and tells their story of joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  There is a lot of historical truth in the books about the restoration of the gospel, and other character's in the books!  I have totally been wrapped up in them, and I'm always comparing my life as of late, to what the Pioneer's would to and how different the times are!  Its definitely made me so appreciative of the modern convinces that we have, but at the same time I think how nice it would be to have a much simpler life.  I just finished book 6 which ended with the Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, and hearing it take place in a story was so sad and hard to read!  But overall its made me soooo grateful for the early saints for their overwhelming faith, courage and conviction!

Spending the 4th in Minnesota!

We went to Minnesota for the 4th of July this year to camp with Ross's family and had a blast!

Hanging on the fun island before going to watch the fireworks!

Braeden's new favorite things are fishing and tubing!  He had so much fun!

Watching the boat parade

Nikki and I

Owen hanging with Grandpa Steve

This firework show was amazing!!

Reece and Auntie Beth

Silly family photo ops!

Love me some Beth! :)

watching the fireworks

Memorial Weekend!

 Over Memorial weekend, our former Bishop let us use their pool while they were out of town, which was soooo nice, and waaaay better than swimming at a public pool with 10,000 people! lol  It just made us realize how much we reeeaaalllyyy want our own pool (someday)!

 Braeden and Reece had a blast, it took Owen some getting used to the not heated pool, but he floated around for about an hour in this, then was done!

 I found this on Owens little floaty after he had been in the water for at least an hour!  I thought it was one of those fake rubber ones at first!  How on earth it ended up there....who knows!?  So funny!

We were invited to a friend's house in our ward for a campfire, cook hot dogs, and smores!  They live  on 5 acres and have a mini farm...the kids had so much fun!  They have a chicken coup that has lots of chickens, and lots of bunnies too!  2 pigs, like 4 dogs, goats and sheep!  Here they are running around chasing the goats and sheep!  So fun!  I told Ross I want a few acres with some animals, he just looked at me like I was nuts! lol  It really was fun!

Reece's Dance Recital 2011 and Pre- School program!

Here is Reece with her preschool class at the mothers day out program she was in this year!



Reece and her best bud Peyton!

I tried so many times to upload her dance video on here and It kept giving me an error message, so maybe some of you out there could tell me what I'm doing wrong?  Anyway here she is after her dance recital, they all did such a great job!  It was so fun to watch her this year, its just so stinking cute!

All Ready for her Dance pictures

Reecie with Mommy

Reece and Grandma Su

Weekend Trip to Kansas City

We met Ross's parents and his sister and her husband in Kansas City last weekend for a visit.  We just mostly hung out at the hotel, swam, and Saturday night went to a KC Royal vs Twins game.  We had a great visit, Thanks Steve, and Su! :)

Winter storm in OKC!

A few months ago we had 7 total snow days from 2 separate snow storms here in Oklahoma!  It really was 

nuts!  Oklahoma just isn't equipped for that kind of weather!  We were stuck in the house for days!  Well hopefully that's the last of the yuck weather, but I'm sure were not that lucky!  I forgot to publish this post, its only been 2 months ago! lol

When it wasn't 20 below blowing 50 mph the kids got some snow play in!