At the Cabin!

We got to go up to Pine Valley quite a bit this summer. I love it up there. I could just spend all summer up there. It is so nice and cool. It is amazing you can drive 20 minutes and have it be so much cooler and your right in the mountains.

We had a yummy dutch oven dinner for Alex's birthday.




Eating everyone's favorite kind of cake, Texas Sheetcake!

All the grandkids love to help decorate the cake with sprinkles and of course the candles!

This is one of the favorite things to do up at the cabin is swing in the hammock. I love listening to the quaky trees when it has a little bit of a breeze.

Corben is doing his chore up there. We are suppose to water when we stay there, and Corben was right on top of it. He is such a good helper.

Fishing in Pine Valley!

We took the kids up to Pine Valley and went fishing at that resevoir before our little family party. We didn't fish very long, but it was fun just to watch the kids fish.

Corben playing on the rocks. I love just being up in the mountains, with the fresh air, and the beautiful views all around.

Hanging out with the family!

Fun at the City Pool!

We went to the St. George City Pool for my nephew Bridger's birthday party. They reserved it so we had it all to ourselves. My kids just kept going down the hydrotube about a million times. They thought it was the coolest slide ever.

Swimming with Grandpa!

Brielle had fun. I was suprised how much she liked going down the big slide.

Makayla loves to swim!

Kesley swimming with her cousin Allie!

Fourth of July

For the Fourth of July we started off having a BBQ at Steve's house. It was fun to all get together.

I had made these Brownie Pops for the Fourth for a fun little treat!

Also I had made a An American Flag Rice Krispie treat. I saw it on a website and thought that was the cutest idea and it wasn't very hard at all. The kids all loved it!!

Then that night, We did the usual. We went to Grandma and Grandpa Allred's and watched the big firework show from the sunbowl. Their house is in a perfect spot just a couple blocks down from their. She always has yummy treats and drinks for everyone!

Doing some fireworks with the kids!

Me and Brielle with her American Flags. She had so much fun waving those all around!

The kids are all lined up watching the fireworks and eating cracker jacks!

Brielle loved the sparklers. She just kept doing them over and over again!

Our Trip to Vegas!

We went to Vegas right after school got out. So it wasn't so HOT yet down there. It was actually perfect down there. We went with my parents, Steve and his kids, and Marsha and Russ and their kids. We got two timeshares that had 2 bedrooms in each of them so each family had their own room. They both had kitchens in them so we just bought food and cooked the meals there. It was perfect!!

Here is the cousins watching a movie!!



So much fun to be able to sleep with your cousins and have a big sleepover with them.

Eating dinner in our room.

They all loved the pool cause it had 2 waterfalls, one on each side of the pool. So it was fun to go under them! The pool was so nice and the water was just the right temperature!

We had a BBQ while we were swimming. It was so nice to have everything right there. Especially when you have been swimming all day and the kids were starving!

Brett cooking in the kitchen!!

All the cute kids enjoying some YUMMY food!

Makayla's Dance

This year in dance Makayla was with the 7-9 year old girls. At first I was kind of nervous that she would have a hard time with the older girls. But she did awesome, and loved it just as much!! I was so glad and am so proud of what a great job she did!


This has been my favorite dance. She did 2 dances. One was to the princess and the frog, and the other one was to Snow White.

It was perfect we were right in front of Makayla for her dance. So we could actually see her dance and her expressions. It was so cute!

Makayla looks so little compared to all the older girls. It is so fun to see her progress each year
in her dance, and she can do something that she absolutely LOVES!

Her dance group performed at the Cotton Days. They were so good to wait for their turn to dance. It was so Hot! She loves having every chance she can to perform and do her dance.

Getting ready for her dance!

You can tell they are so HOT! But they just keep on dancing!

End of the Year Programs

At the kids school they had an assembly at the end of the year for the awards for the year and also for the older grades, for their end of level testing scores. Corben and Kesley got an award for not missing any days for the whole year.

Kelsey got an award for their math program "First in Math". She was the fourth highest in her school.

Kesley also got an award for her CRT testing score. She got 100% on her English and Math scores, and she scored 90% or higher on her Science. We were all so proud of Kes, that is very hard to do. Good Job Kes!!

Kesley had her fourth grade program. They studied Utah History this year, so they had a program about Utah, and sang songs about Utah. It was cute!

Can't believe my oldest is done with Fourth Grade and is going into Fifth Grade, CRAZY!

I remember fifth grade like it was yesterday!!

This is Makayla's kindergarten teacher Mrs. Key. She was a great teacher, and Makayla had so much fun in her class, and learned alot. She is all done with kindergarten, 1st Grade here Makayla comes!!

Makayla getting her Kindergarten Diploma!

She also got an award her teacher gave her for being such a great student all year long!

Makayla and all her cute little friends in her Kindergarten class. She had such a fun class, and absolutely LOVED Kindergarten!

They sang some cute songs at their Kindergarten Graduation! Makayla loves to sing, and is always singing around the house.