It's Great to be 8!

Noah turns 8 tomorrow, and I can't believe it. He is my little guy, and I don't want him to ever grow up. He is so sweet and loving, its hard to see him get so big.
He loves everything Starwars and would love to be a jedi. He also wants to be a spy when he grows up, or he wants to be a brake dancer. So in other words he wants to be a break dancing spy. He also loves everything that has to do with sharks and stingrays. He will read every book he can find on them. 2 years ago we went to Sea World and he asked the pore lady at the stingray exhibit, every thing he could think of about stingrays. One of his favorite things he loves to ask people is "Stingrays are slimy, do you know why? Because they have boogers all over there bodies." It is so fun to see him get so exited about learning.
We always do a great big party for our kids 8th birthday, because it is such a special birthday. But since his birthday is on the 24th of July, it makes it hard to have Friend's over, so we had his big party on Sat the 18th. We had such a blast! He invited lots of boys over for a fun swim party at Grandma Louise's house. The theme of the party was sharks and stingrays. (Surprise! Surprise!) It took lots of looking to find shark decorations but it turned out just perfect.
We had a shark pinata


I want to thank all the boys that came and for the wonderful gifts they brought.

Now on to our Noah and his baptism. He is so exited to be baptized next week. I would have to say that I couldn't be more proud of him. He had his Bishop interview a few weeks ago and when he came out of his office he was beaming. He was caring his white outfit and was so exited to try it on when we got home. It was so cute. I asked him if he knew what being baptized meant and he told me that "It is fallowing Jesus and making good choices." He also said that "He would be perfect." I think he thought that was pretty cool. I also asked him what dose being conformed mean. "It means that I will have the holy Ghost. And he is Jesus's helper." I loved his answers they were so simple but sweet. He is such a wonderful son and I love him so much. when I think about him being baptized it makes me cry. I am so proud of him and his choices and can't wait for that day.
Noah, you are so special, and loving. You make me laugh, with your funny story's and interesting ways to look at life. You make our family so much more fun, with your smile and laughter and you are such a great brother and son. I am so proud of you and can't wait for you to be 8! I love you very much.

It's been a long time!

I am sorry but I have not been able to wright on my blog for a few weeks. I have not had the Internet for some time and have been itching to wright my thoughts, but couldn't get logged on. So we had lots of things happening these last few weeks and I am going to just do an update today.

First off I want to talk about my beautiful girl Ryanne. She is getting so big and she just had her 10Th birthday. WOW! I cant believe that I am a mom of a 10 year old. Crazy!Ryanne is such a beautiful person inside and out. She helps me all the time, if I were to ask her to come help with dinner she would say "OK mom!" and stop what she is doing and help. I could not ask for a more perfect daughter. She loves that she is getting taller and her goal is to be taller that her Dadda. (She has called her dad that ever since she could talk. And between you and me, I think she probably will get taller than him. But of course that is not hard when you are only 5 foot 5. Poor Dan!) She loves to paint and draw and loves anything creative. She also is a very good knitter (She did not learn it from me. I could never figure knitting out) She is always finding new ways to get her creativity out. She is very talented. She also a very good sales women, if any of you drive by our house during the summer time you will see Ryanne standing out front of our home trying to sale some sort of thing. She loves money and saving money. She says her goal for when she grows up is to be a millionaire. I believe she really could be. here are a few pics of her growing up. I love you Ryanne!
She had a nice Birthday with the family and I think she really enjoyed the presents. Can you tale she LOVED her birthday outfit. (She is such a modal) All in all I think she likes being 10 and looks forward for the year.

THE 4TH OF JULY
Moving on. Also the past week we went to Washington State to visit my Sisters family. We have visited them the past few years on the 4Th of July because they have the BEST fireworks there. You don't have the limitations that you have in Utah. So not only do we get to see the fireworks but we get to spend time with their family. I love this tradition and this year was so much fun. We had a big Bar-B-Q with the all of the family, and had s'mores after (Its not the 4th with out s'mores)
We all decided to pose for pics and we ended up being goofy. Here some of our silly poses.
Aren't Dan and I so cute? LOL! This is Dan trying to be sexy, and I am trying to get away from him. HELP!
Fireworks in Washington, you are aloud to shoot them up in the air. So last year we thought we would try some of them and found out quickly that it was hard to watch them because of all of the fall out that gets in your eyes. So this year we were prepared. Emily provided safety goggles. Aren't we such a cool bunch?
Thanks Emily and Micah for the great time! We miss you guys already! love ya.