Gone are the dog days of summer.....

Wow I have really slacked off on this blogging thing. You know it is bad when Landon is the one telling me it is time to update. Well summer has come and gone but we sure enjoyed it while it lasted. Even the weather was great this summer, it never seemed to get too hot. The kids loved to be able to be outside all summer and I am definitely going to miss that come winter.



Below is a random collection of photos of some of the great times this summer. Nothing amazing- just a bunch of those little moments that you hope you can remember forever...remember how the sun felt, and the funny thing that one of the kids said, or how we all were laughing together.

Playing down by the river


All the girls

Isn't he hot?



We also got to spend lots of time with family and I loved loved loved every minute of it.

Cooper riding Bulls-eye while staying at our house

Annie Pie

Mother and Daughter

Peace in the Streets

Molly Sunshine

Hayden - what a stud!

Payton tried to brave the ride and in this picture he actually looks like he is enjoying it, but after a crying fit they finally stopped the ride and let him get off for the second half of it. Josie loved every second of it.

Haylee enjoying the 4th

Grandma and Grandpa Wiser with Taije

Sweet Maddie

Emma

Sarah and Grandpa sporting their new do's

Taije on the pony

A glimpse of the garden and my amazing Arbor that Landon built me for Mothers Day.

I've always wanted one and I LOVE it!!

Haylee pickin' peas and packin' Baby Larry

Father and Son

Oh Goodness this is really making me miss those summer days....

The whole Fam -Damily at the Park Valley Rodeo in which Landon was a contestant.

Catching Up on Summer and with Friends (Phase II)

“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”

It is fun to get together with old friends. I love seeing how we have all changed and how some things will never change.

Rachel's baby Whitney
Mindy's oldest- Travis

Mindy's baby Tanner

Payton, Josie and Ryder going for a cruise

Payton barebackin' the purple dinosaur

Rachel's oldest -Ryder

Catching Up on Summer (Phase I)

So flashback a few months and bear with me the next few posts as I finally blog our summer. Way back in May/June we went on our annual family bear hunt. It is becoming a great tradition and we have a fun time seeing friends from the year before. We we headed out one late afternoon as we were hoping to make it with plenty of light to spare. Little did we know what was in store for us. One member of our caravan, which included 1 camp trailer and 2 horse trailers, got a flat tire. It ended up being on a horse trailer. It was late Friday night and it ended up that the bearing was shot and we had no where to go. Here is everyone assessing the situation.

Without many options and a trailer full of horses we decided to lighten the load a bit and move some of the horses into the other horse trailer and Spanish Fork canyon highway.
All went well and we continued on our trek, but much later than anticipated with light fading fast. It was very dark we when finally made it to camp.

Anyhow the rest of the trip went relatively well and it only rained once. The kids had a grand ole' time getting dirty and playing hard.

Payton was in heaven because all of the wild flowers were blooming everywhere. He LOVES flowers, more importantly he LOVES to Pick flowers and this way he could pick his little heart out.

Josie was reunited with her friend Livvy and they played together from sun up to sun down. Thank goodness they had each other because they were surrounded by boys.

Haylee posing while on our hike.

Don't you just love it when your kid is being the angry brat and the other one is full of sweetness!

Yep that's right...I even made it on a horse ride with Landon.

Oh and no bear....again, but that's totally OK with me!

Dance-Spring 2009

Josie was not going to miss her dance recital for anything...even the broken arm. She was thrilled to be sporting her purple cast with sparkles. We get a kick out of the dance recitals all the little girls are so cute!!!

OK you might have to blow this picture up...but there is something in it that is cracking me up...yep I'm pretty immature!

Has it seriously been a month?!?!

Josie is becoming quite the artist. She loves to draw and I love that she is able to be entertained. This was her first family portrait and I love it...I love everything about it....from Landon's glasses to the addition of Grandma on the far right!!! Unfortunately she recently broke her arm, her left arm and she is left handed. But it hasn't slowed her much...she now draws with her right hand and is continuing to dance. She is one tough cookie.

Payton is busy being all boy. One day he got stuck out in the middle of the garden lot and there was no way I was going to go get him. He was totally content stuck out in that mud. Landon eventually went to save him, only to have Payton throw mud at him...isn't that nice.

Then Payton proceeded to have a little bird bath.

We also got to enjoy a few tulips this Spring for a few days. That was until Payton picked every last one of them. And no he didn't bring his mother a bouquet of flowers...he fed them to the horses.
Payton is loving riding horses. This is him on Zip. Bulls Eye is getting trained and he can't wait to have his own horse.

Haylee stays busy tootling around all day. She likes to mimic everything that we do...kind of like this picture because I crouched down to get a picture and then she had to crouch down also. She is a funny little girl. She loves to sing at church and she is pretty serious about it...it cracks me up. She is finally getting teeth on the top...no more gumming it. Woohoo a total of four teeth!!!