Adalyn is 3 months!

Adalyn is 3 months old now!! Time is really flying with this little munchkin. She smiles all of the time (especially at mom). She is starting to coo and talk back to us when she gets really excited. Her hands are constantly at her mouth held together. It is sooo cute. She loves to play with our light up toy and sit in her swing. I am really having fun with these 3 kiddos together!

Starvation

It has been almost a week since we went to Starvation, but I thought that I should still post the great pics that we got. To start telling this story, I have to tell you that a normal driving time to Starvation resivior for us SHOULD be 5 hours max. So you think that we took 5 hours to get there NO It took 8 hours for us to get there. You are probably thinking that our kids were horrible NO, we went the WRONG WAY 2 TIMES! We have driven through that area MANY times, so I think that we were just not paying enough attention. We first ended up on the east side of flaming gorge instead of the west. Which costs us at least an hour. Then, we turned about 30 miles early to head tward duschene and ended up in the indian reservation. That cost us at least 1.5 hours. Good thing we left Pinedale at1 p.m. because we did not get there until 9 p.m. It was a great laugh, but we still had fun as you can see from the pics. We went out first thing in the morning while the water was still glassy and each got a turn out on the water before the WIND started to blow and blow and blow. Needless to say, this is the last time we got on the boat for the trip. We spent the rest of the day building sand casstles and visitng with each other. When we left at 4 we headed back to Roosevelt to Ryan's new place for Pizza and a to watch elf. It was a really fun weekend with the fam!

Ethan thinking that he can drink cashews from the can..you can imagine the outcome.
Andy on the wakeboard
Grandma Leigh and Ady by the fire.
Tawnie on the wakeboard
Ethan chilling on the boat
Hailey and Karlee on the boat
Dan and I (Hailey took this picture I thought that she did pretty good)
Me on the kneeboard
Ethan attempting to kneeboard with Dan in the water with him.
Tawn and Karlee on the boat
Ethan admiring Dan on the slolam. He thought Dan was SOOOO Goood.
Dan getting ready in the water

Hailey wearing her new helmet (Thanks grandma and grandpa!)
Grandpa holding Brooklyn
Andy and Ryan opening their b-day gifts
Jason showing his guns

Lake Powell

During our extended stay in Moab, we took a day trip to Lake Powell for some fun in the sun. We left early Wednesday morning for the 2 hour drive down. Once we got there, we wasted no time getting in a playing. The kids were a tad hesitant at first, but soon got aquainted with the water. Hailey and I decided on the way down that she would try and kneeboard by herself. WE took some time when we first got there trying to teach her how to get up on the board. She was scared to death of sitting up on her knees on the board because it kept tipping over. So, she ended up just lying on the board getting pulled behind the boat. I was shocked to see her do that because she did not like to be in the water by herself. She did great though and loved it. Ethan talked about doing until it was his turn and he chickened out. We sepnt most of the time swimming, jumping off of the boat and tubing. Hailey and Ethan LOVED tubing!! Josh, Jason and Travis spent a part of the day wrestling over the knee board... I am not sure who won but they were entertaining to watch. Ethan also learned that he could pee of the back of the boat if he stood on the platform. Watch out if you are in the water! Josh had my camara for a while and we ended up with a million picture which is great becuase we have so many that we love! Ady wasn't so fond of the heat, so I stuck her little feeties in the water off of the back of the boat. I think I about gave Leigh (my mother in law) a hear attack by doing it, but it cooled little Ady off and made the rest of her day much better. We loaded up the boat right at dark and headed back. The next morning Hailey woke up and asked "Can we go to Lake Powell again today?" I think that she and Ethan both had a great time! Thanks for the great trip!

Visiting Great Grandparents

Hailey and Dan together at the airport right before he lifet for Alaska.






We went to Utah last week to drop Dan off at the airport for his wonderful trip to Alaska. The kids and I spent a couple of days in Salt Lake and while we were there we went and saw Dan's Grandma and Grandpa Racine. They had not seen Adalyn yet so I though that it would be fun to hit their house Sunday afternoon. I think that it is so much for our kids to form relationships with our grandparents. Hailey is always excited to see Grandma Janet because she always spends special time with her. This time she read books, went out in the garden to pick flowers, painted finger nails and let Hailey play with all of her necklaces. What a great day!! Hailey LOVED every minute of her special time with Grandma Janet. Lucky for her, Ethan was napping a large part of the time that we were there. Grandpa Don enjoyed most of the afternoon holding Adalyn and talking to her. He loved to make her smile and coo. It was really cute to see them. He also pulled out his bag of mini candy bars to share with the kids. Them and Grandma Janet munched down on them all day and grandpa filled some bags for them to take on the road.