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!

The fountains at Bellagio.

The Buffets were great! We tasted every dessert!

Winning change at the Slots.

Girls Weekend in Vegas!

It's cooooold, I wanted to go somewhere warmer. . . . it's Vegas Baby!
My sis and I had fabulous four days in Sin City. We saw so many Stars! They were just a little waxy though.


Tim Mcgraw was cool to hang with.

Isn't our wedding lovely?

The Venetian was our favorite hotel. We took a Gondola ride, had gourmet chocolate, watch the entertainment, the wax museum, and went to the Blue Man Group. Okay, a little slot machine playing too!

Valentines Day

After a week of doing special things for our "Secret Admires", we guessed who they were around a candle lit dinner. The boys enjoyed this as did Brady and I for we had each other!

So her name will start with a "J"!

We thought we would carry on the tradition of our kids names starting with "J". So our daughter-to-be will have a "J" name. We have a list of names to choose from. After we see her and interact with her, we'll narrow down the list. I wanted a reference to use when we talk about her, so I thought "J" would be a good one.

I am trying hard to keep up both blogs. I want to keep this one as our "family" one. So please check out my other blog waiting for our angel for all adoption news!