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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Our "Camping" Trip

My sister Keara and her family flew in from Hawaii, and we had planned a little 5 day trip down to Marysvale to surprise my mom and ken, and everyone down there that thought Keara cancelled their trip!

First we went to Grandma and Grandpa Cowleys house for a night to see them, Grandpa made all the kids "treasure boxes" and we decorated them with stickers and paint!

Then we headed to my moms..

We stayed in the cabins which is almost my favorite way of camping.. I love tenting it!!

We had a little family reunion day, and decorated bird houses, and painted hats!

All the kids had a blast, and are still wearing their hats around the house!

We went to the pumpkin patch,

(which i miss so bad being here in Rock Springs $10 for 2 pumpkins is a joke)

The rest of the time we spent in the mountains, and just hanging out with each other!
Its not very often that we are together and noone has to work.. (speaking of.. lane was at work)

Abbey and Ellie were the best friends! I sure wish we could spend more time with them!

Jenna and Lu.. Jenna is becoming such a little woman! She is such a good help with the littler kids, and I forget how much I miss all those Mahoney kiddos:)

Some of the grandkids with Grandma Anderson and Grandma Peanut
My grandma took us to a place where there are crystals all over.. we picked up sacks full of crystals and when we got back, she helped us make necklaces with them!
Abbey wears her every sunday!

This was maybe 5 minutes after getting in the car, she was exhausted:)

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

The Sweats Come to Rock Springs:)

My sister in law Kyndra and her 3 kiddos came up for the weekend!

We were so glad. We had so much fun, and it was so fun to have family up in our neck of the woods:)

This is Kynsie with Lucy, she is the most mature 9 year old i have ever met! She is so sweet, and is always taking care of the "little" kids!

This is Walker with Abbey.. he is one of the cutest boys i know. i am so glad he is my nephew. Abbey and Lucy both love him so much, it took lucy at least 3 days to stop wandering around our house saying "Walker where are you"

The Owens Grandkids:)

Karlee and Abs, they are 6 weeks apart, and I am so glad.. My best friends in the whole world are my cousins, and i am so glad that she has a built in best friend forever:)

Think they look alike much:)

Walker, Kyndra and Lu

I feel like I am so lucky to have such a great friendship with Kyndra.. it keeps getting better:)

I love you, and am so glad you came up!!

The Zoo

Lane had 2 days off in a row, and sometimes when he is really busy, they call him in on his days off, and the girls and I just needed a little Lane time, so we skipped town, and went to the zoo for the day!

I sometimes forget how fun it is to have a husband cause he is gone so much!

Then we spent the night at Grandma Julie & Papa Rons..

Abbey loves going and getting the eggs from the chickens.

It is nice sometimes to just get away from The Home Depot every once in a while:)

Now if i could just figure out a way to accidently forget his phone!

Splash Park

There is a really fun splash park here, we don't go as much as we should, but it is really close to our house, and its fun, especially when there are other kids there to help my kids actually get in the water..

The weird thing about Rock Springs is that it is not very hot, i think the hottest it has gotten this summer is maybe 90, and the water at the splash park isn't heated, so if the wind is blowing (which most of the time it is) It is really cold, so the girls don't get in the water very much.

Wyomings Big Show

The state fair is in Rock Springs, and it was really fun, we only went one night, but there was a ton of fun stuff to do.

They had a petting zoo, with tons of goats, sheep, pigs, and cows. then they had a ton of weird animals big huge cows that had horns as big as me and you could pet them and feed them, and every hour or so they would let kids milk a real cow.. sort of weird i thought..

I didn't realize how much i am allergic to animals and hay.. i think i am still sneezing my brains out!

Abbey wanted so bad to ride this horse, i didn't think she would make it alone, she is a nervous little girl, and there was no way we could do walk by her, but she insisted, and loved it..

I am learning that she is getting bigger whether i like it or not.. she is getting so much more independent, and I have a love hate relationship with this independence thing:)

They had tents full of strange animals, they had a lemur show, which was a huge hit and we stayed there for easily 30 minutes, they had sting rays that you could touch...

When we were leaving, Abbey wasn't ready, and was throwing one of her infamous fits.. she cried the whole way to the car, the whole way home, during a tub, and didn't stop til she fell asleep.

She was sure that the lemurs needed her to help them go to sleep.

Its times like these when we go to this kind of thing that i am reminded we don't live in Utah anymore.. its funny how different people are from place to place.

It is slowly starting to feel like home.

Saturday, August 18, 2012

I am sure it is normal, but lately I have been feeling the reality of growing up!! It's funny how all the sudden you aren't a kid anymore!!

My life sort of revolves around these sweet little women, and making sure they are the best little people they can be, and being there for Laner when he is home! I feel like I was so distracted for a little while, with all of the social media in my life I felt l was loosing sight of what really is so important right now! So in an attempt to refocus my life I deactivated my Facebook account, and while part of me was sad cause my family and lanes family get to see what is going on with us and vice versa, i told myself it was what was best for me to focus on me and my family. And I decided that I will make a better effort to call and talk to our families and make those relationships stronger in real life not just in Facebook land:)

It helped to have my mom come up for a few days!! I love having her come visit, when we lived by each other we spent a lot of time together but it was everyday life stuff, now I get her up here and it is fun and we don't have to worry about work or anything, quality vs quantity!!

We went to the splash park and the local college has a dinosaur museum type thing so we did that, and we made pretzels and had a nice 2 days!!

Lane then had 2 days off in a row so he wanted to take the girls to the zoo and get away from the store so we left and spent the night in wallsburg and then went and hung out with Kyndra for the next afternoon!! I wish we lived closer so we could be around them all more!!