Happy Fourth of July!!!

I bet you thought I would never post again. It has been a few weeks. We have been busy playing with friends and enjoying summer.

This weeked was the 4th of July. My 2nd favorite holiday!! I love all the BBQ, fireworks and family fun. Our fun started on Thursday with the Riverton City Carnival. Jacob and Joshua rode the scrambler over and over. The kids had fun.





On Friday, it was the parade. We sat with some friends, the Allgaiers, and Hendricksons. We had fun. I love to sit and watch parades.



Saturday we stayed around the house and John got some odd jobs done. Then we set up the waterslide and it was soooo hot outside that John and I even joined in the fun. We had quite a few neighbors over as well.




After the waterslide we went to the Riverton Fireworks. We love their fireworks. They do a good job. This year, John got us an AWESOME!!! seat. We were right in front of where they shoot the fireworks off. In the video you can even see the caution tape. You could feel the vibration of the firworks blasts on your back as you laid on the ground. It was so awesome.




Today we woke up and we rode our bikes inthe neighborhood parade. My kids love this parade.

Then we went up to Timpanogos and hiked upto the caves and through the caves. It was fun. Wyatt did such a good job of walking. He made it almost to the top until we were almost there and then their came a huge rock slide and that scared him to death. There were like three rockslides right after each other. It was kind of scary. The caves were cool. We had a good time.





We then went to the Old Spaghetti Factory for dinner. They gave Gluten Free dishes and we had free kids meal coupons. It was fun.

We have had a great fourth of July.

Randomness

The month of January has been a very slow, but crazy month. We haven't done anything interesting in paticular, but here are a few videos (thanks to my husband for the video camera for Christmas) and pictures.

Here is Abigail and Wyatt. Just being cute.


Abigail lost her first tooth! She was so excited. She has been waiting for this moment for about a year now. Everyday she would wiggle her tooth and ask is it ready? It finally happened.




Here is the family singing songs with the Karoke Machine

Abigail's singing performance - SANTA

Last night was Abigail's friends and family performance for her singing group. She has enjoyed singing this year and has done a great job. I took some video, but Wyatt kept bumping me so sorry it is bumpy. Then on the second video I had in the small stick and ran out of memory so you only got part of the song.







Then this morning was our ward Christmas breakfast. The primary did the nativity. Then Santa came and each of the kids got to sit on this lap. Wyatt has been so excited all month because he wants a train. So he went right up and sat on his lap and promptly asked for a train. Abigail wore a dress because she wanted to impress Santa (but she doesn't know what she wants). So Santa told her he would bring her a suprise.






Oh, we are soooo excited for Christmas!!!!

Piano Recital

This week my kids had their piano recital. It was fun. I started recording Abigail and the batteries ran out and then she decided she couldn't play unless I was seated next to her. Pretty funny what our nerves can do to us.

Abigail playing Frosty the Snowman
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Jacob playing Up on the Housetop


Joshua Playing Deck the Halls

What a Busy Week

Well this past week was a very busy week!

We wend to This is the Place Heritage Park on Wed. and it was a lot of fun. The kids got to try on fun hats and we rode ponies, and made candles, and rode the train and petted the animals. It was a lot of fun.





That night was also back to school night so the kids all met their teachers. It was fun. Then we had pack meeting and Jacob recieved his Bear award. Now he will be in Webelos scouts. Crazy! He is growing up.

The next morning was the first day of school and Jacob's birthday. Jacob had a good day. Grandma and Grandpa Atkinson came for dinner and Grandma took a bike ride with us because Jacob got a new bike for his birthday. Jacob also wanted a Harry Potter Birthday cake.





Here are pics from the first day of school. Everyone seemed to have a great time.

The Worse Moment of My Life . . . and a Great Weekend

This weekend we had the worse moment of our life and then a really great weekend.

To start off with we went to Kamas on Friday. We went to the parade and the kids caught a ton of candy. It was pretty good. Then we hung out at Grandma and Grandpa's house and launched water balloons with our cousins.

We went to BullWars with Grandma and Grandpa. It was fun for the kids to get to go to a rodeo. It was pretty good. Here is a picture of the kids with Grandma and Grandpa.

Then we came back to Grandma's house and built a fire and had smore's. Then Jacob, Joshua, John and Grandma decided to sleep out under the stars. Abigial and Wyatt, Grandpa and I slept in the house. About 3:00 a.m. John comes in the house and wakes me up and tells me to come and see something. I walk out into the kitchen and Jacob is sitting there and his legs are all bloody. I ask "what happened?" I guess Jacob took off sleep walking and nobody woke up. He climbed over a barbed-wire fence and walked through the field with stickers and everything with no shoes on. He then climbed a chain link fence and by that point he had woke up and started crying. The lady in the house heard him and she called to him and asked if he needed help. He then told her he needed to find his Grandma's house. So she found out who his Grandma was and walked him back to the house. She rang the doorbell and no one heard it. So Jacob told her his Dad was in back of the house so they walked back there and she woke John up. He was pretty scared. Waking up in the middle of a field and not knowing where he was. His legs are all scratched from the barbed wire and he has huge blood blisters on his feet. He can hardly walk on them. He went into shock and threw-up and so it took a few minutes for him to warm up and calm down. I am so very glad that lady brought him back home. So many things could have happened. I will be forever grateful for her for being awake at that time of night and finding him and bringing him home safe. Here are some pics of John washing out the rocks from all of his scratches. It made him go into shock again. We had to lay him back down and now he is doing fin.



On Saturday we went to the Atkinson family reunion. It was really fun for Abigail because they all of Celiacs, so there was a lot of desserts she could eat. It was nice to talk with all the cousins again.

Piano Recital

Tonight was our piano recital. It was a very good one. It was kind of emotional for me. This was the last recital for five of my students that I have been teaching now for years. They are moving on to college and other things. It was kind of neat though that I had these kids come to me not knowing anything and now here they are playing the piano. It is really cool. My three oldest children also played really well. Here are the video's of them playing.

Abigail, playing "Ode to Joy"


Joshua, playing "The Purple Cow"


Jacob, playing "Ballade"

Jacob's Science Fair

This past weekend Jacob took 2nd place in the School Science Fair and got to go to the District Science Fair. He didn't place at District, but had a lot of fun. We are proud of him for taking 2nd place at the school and getting to move on.

He did his science fair project on which batteries last longer: Name brand or generic. His results were they were both very close. So for the money it saves you, buy generic.

Random Things

We have been off-track this week, and so we have just been hanging out and having fun. Here is a picture of Wyatt all dressed up and ready to go ...


Jacob made us peanut butter chocolate chip cookies today pretty much all by himself. He is becoming quite the chef.

Piano Recital

This Saturday was our piano recital. It went well. Here is some video of the boys. Here is Jacob playing.
Here is Joshua

Make a Smilebox greeting

Santa Clause is Coming to Town . . .

Today was our ward's annual Christmas Breakfast and Santa always comes. This year Wyatt could say Santa and new who he was, but when we took him up to Santa he just started to scream. Abigail also was afraid. So Jacob and Joshua were the only ones to sit on his lap.

Halloween!!!

Yah! Halloween came and it went. Everyone is tucked safely in bed so ready to sleep. We started the day at the library where Witch Matilda came and told stories. Then watched movies and then it was finally time to trick or treat. I think this year, I was more excited than the kids. Abigial was a witch, Wyatt was a cow, Joshua was Yoda, and Jacob was Harry Potter. We had fun trick or treating.