Leavenworth for Labor Day

This is our view from the Condo. It was a cloudy weekend, but still beautiful!
Me, after my hole in one!

Brady putting in the last hole.

Walking down the main streets and looking through

the shops.

Rain or shine, we still went for Ice Cream!

First Day of School

Josh sporting his favorite shirt, LEGO Star Wars! He is starting 5th Grade.

Activites include: Scouts, Piano, Violin, and Golf.
Jace Striking a pose. He is excited about 2nd grade.
Activities include: Scouts, Piano, and Golf

Jairden looking Cool! Jairden attends preschool at the University.

Activities include: Swimming, Soccer, going to the Library and the Science Center.

A Special Week

For Jaces birthday, both my parents, Shannon, and Brady's parents came. He wanted a Baseball theme, so us women put our heads and frosting licking fingers together to pull off a baseball in a mitt cake! Quite ingenious, and delicious!
Baptized on the 4th of July

Since the 4th was on a Saturday, it was the chosen day for Jace's Baptism. Grandma's and Grandpa's helped out with the program, and all of our friends and neighbors came. It was a nice Baptism and he will never forget what day he was Baptized on!

After the Baptism, we hosted a BBQ in our backyard. After stuffing ourselves we played a few games. At dusk we let the Pyros (Brady), shoot off our Indian Reservation bought fireworks! The City Display almost paled in comparison.

Our Trip to California

McCall for Memorial Day

Finally, a Memorial Weekend that Brady wasn't traveling! I've spent the last 2 Memorial Day's doing laundry and cleaning with Brady traveling for work. Since Brady has been gone a lot this year, we decided to get away to one of the condos in our timeshare to McCall, ID. We pass through McCall everytime we go to Utah. So we are familiar with this beautiful town with a mountain lake. Here we are relaxing at the condo. We BBQ-ed on the little deck, watched my favorite summer movie, "Summer Magic", and swam in the pool and hot tub.
This is outside the condo.

Here we are at Ponderosa State Park. It is a penisula that comes out onto Payette Lake. We followed the trail up to the cliff lookout.

Other trails we followed, led us to a marsh. The ranger told us we might see beavers, a bear, or a fox. But, all we saw were bees and misquitos! I took pictures of the beautiful pink, yellow, white and purple wild flowers that adorned the path.

Walking along the shores of Payette Lake.

Back to Blogging

Oh man, how time flies! This blog has been nagging at me to get caught up and I confess, I haven't wanted too! Brady has been gone traveling 1 1/2 to 2 weeks out of every month this Spring! Not to mention his Ward duties and activities he needs to do when he gets home. So any spare moment I have, I use to relax with a book. I guess I need to escape! Not really though. The kids have been great! The real reason is that I am probably the last one on the planet that hasn't read Harry Potter. I'm a little embarassed to confess this, but the series has reeled me in! I wanted to finish the sixth book before the movie comes out. I just finished it last night and cried at Dumbledoor's funeral! (okay, so I am a little lonely this week with Brady in New Jersey!)
Here is a short list of the other happenings:
1. I hired a Stylist to work in my home salon on booth rent.
2. Jace and Jairden played soccer.
3. The IWCC (community choir I'm in) had our Spring concerts.
4. Josh had his Orchestra concert and Piano Recital.
5. Brady basically has been gone!

Blarmey!

Oh boy, time has flown! These pictures are a little late, but I am finally posting again! St. Patricks Day Eve, we constructed our Leprechan trap! We put a $1 coin (acquired from the Vegas trip) inside the trap. It was attached to a string, when pulled, the green netting comes down and covers the opening. Brady the scientist figured out the mechanics of the trap, and Shari (the wanna be designer), disguised a tampon box with lovely green paper!

On the morning of the 17th, the kids woke up to find that we didn't trick the leprechan! But, he did leave them some green treats, along with some tricks. The barstools were backwards, the toilet water was green, and the bathroom mirror had a message written on it in green. Maybe we'll catch him next year!

After being tricked by that silly leprechan, we all put on our green attire and sat down to Green eggs and ham! We even had a green smoothie! Shhhh, don't tell them they drank spinich!

All in all, we had a Lucky Day!