Baby Kenli Arrives

BABY KENLI

8 lb. 6 oz.

21.5 inches

Born at 2:00 pm

7/27/10

Congrats to Wendy and Cody for the arrival of their perfect little baby girl, Kenli. She is absolutely beautiful! Perfect in every way. And you should see all of the dark hair that she has.

I am so excited that we have another girl in our family! Blakley needs someone to play girlie things with in the future. Now if only we could get Shane and Em to have another baby....who knows maybe we could have 3 girls in the family:)

Love you Kenli!

Idaho

Over the past weekend, we made a long road trip to Idaho to visit some of Clint's family. It has been too long since we have been there. We got to see Grandma Neoma, Aunt Linda, Cousins Anna and Paul and Anna's little boy, Brenen. It was so fun to hang out with them.

While we were there, we found this awesome park. It had huge playgrounds, rock climbing walls, swings, splash pads, and a pond. It even had a little hot dog and snow cone stand. The kids loved it.

Cute Brenen with Carter and Troy

Tanner, Troy, Carter and Clint

Carter and Troy

Blakley discovered the Water Splash Park! She was in Heaven:)

Carter loved the rock climbing walls. When we first got there, he climbed to the top and jumped right off. Leave it to Carter! My little Dare Devil:)

Troy loved them too!

Great-Grandma Neoma and Grandma Terra

The kids loved swimming every chance they got in the hotel pool. It was open 24 hours. How fun is that?

(taken with my phone~not the best picture quality)

I am so glad that we made the trip to see Clint's grandma. We all just love her! She was so excited to see her great grandkids. I think we made her day(s)!

Who's Birthday!

Even though Tanner, Troy and Carter's birthdays were in March and April we never got around to having a friend birthday party for them. We had it scheduled twice but things came up both times. Any who, we finally decided to throw them a birthday party this past weekend. Since it was about a thousand degrees, we decided to have a water themed party.

We had water sponge relay races!

We played water kickball!

We soaked in our sweet huge pool! lol

The kids turned their water balloon fight into "let's get Clint wet."

Oh and Shari, too!

Cute Maddie made it her priority to take care of Blakley. She is going to make a great mom one day:)

Everyone got to take a chance at whacking 'Ol Sponge Bob!

Carson

Coren

Troy

Brooks

Tanner

Carter

Christina

Owen

Caden

Preston

Bryton

Maddie

Carson

Nice teeth boys!

Remind me to make a dentist appointment for you two.

Then while we had donuts and popsicles, the boys got to open all of their presents. They were spoiled rotten!

I am so glad that we decided to go through with their party. They had a blast with all of their friends. Maybe the next party will actually be closer to their birthdays and not months later:)

GIRLS TRIP!!!!

My three nieces, my Mother-in-Law and I planned a girls trip to St. George to celebrate Lela's 20th Birthday!!! My mom couldn't make it this time, but next time for sure. RIGHT MOM???

On Friday night, we went to Tuacahn and saw Tarzan.

One Word: AMAZING!

I had never been to Tuacahn before and I can't wait to go again.

We took pictures with Jane, Tarzan and Little Tarzan.

Jessica is in love with Tarzan! She was so excited to be standing next to him in this picture.

SILLY GIRLS:)

The girls woke up early on Saturday morning and went and did Baptisms for the dead in the St. George Temple. What a gorgeous temple. It is so white and so beautiful!

We went back later that night after a yummy dinner and walked the temple grounds and took more pictures.

On our last night, we hung out in the condo and played games and watched movies. I don't think I have laughed that hard in a really long time.

Highlights from our trip:

Shopping, Shopping and more Shopping

Tarzan in a loin cloth

the "WORM"

Water bending in the pool

Movie theater accident

Singing our hearts out in the car

Talking to my man and kids on the phone

Thanks Girls for the really fun trip! You all hold such a special place in my heart! I really hope that we turn this into a yearly thing:)

Today is my sweet Lela's birthday!!!

She is the big 20!

Dear Lela~

Today should have been a very exciting day for you. So long to your teen years! And yet I know that it was a hard day and that you missed your mom terribly. She always made each and every one of your birthdays special and I am so sorry that your day just wasn't the same without her. I know that she is probably watching over you now and wishing that she could spend today with you. If only we were granted day passes to Heaven......now that would be a great birthday present.

I want you to know that we love you so very much! And wish the very best for you. You are such an amazing girl. I admire you for the way you have stepped right into your mom's footsteps and have been there for your siblings. You are so strong! I love watching you interact with them.You are so caring and so loving with them. They look up to you in so many ways. And you can tell that they idolize you. You are a perfect role model for them. What would our family do without you? You are defiantly something else:)

I hope that this year brings nothing but happiness to you! You deserve it:)

I love you!

Shari