Our summer science fair project!

My niece Marissa brought home a huge bag of tadpoles from a birthday and Brielle just had to have one. I said "ok" just thinking that they would die in a week and we would all be sad and go on. Not knowing anything about tadpoles and what they ate, or where they lived I turned to my old friend, trusty google! We got them all set up and watched them grow. It was an amazing transformation.

The pics are pretty bad, but if you look really closly you can see the tale on this one still it also has back legs and was just about to sprout it's front legs. By the end of watching them change to frog they had us all captivated. Even the adults. We would just sit and stare at them.
We had one frog change before the other one. While we were in the process of waiting for the other one to change we just had netting over the bowl. The one that was a frog would get out almost every night and it was teeny tiny. It almost got stepped on multiple times, and I found it in the sink soaking in a pan of dirty water one morning. It was always the first thing we checked in the morning.
Josh's mom built this awesome aquarium for them when they were both frogs. We loved to sit and watch them eat. It was such a fascinating project. We ended up taking them out to the well behind Josh's moms house and letting them go. Brie was so cute when she took them with Josh. She just kept saying "We are taking them to find a better home, so they will be happy." Then when we got back she said "Mom, there were tons of little tiny baby tadpoles, just little ones. I think they will be very happy, they will have friends."

I am still a little sad we didn't bring them to virginia, but I know that would have been unreasonable and they probably would've died. But the little kid in me can't say "I think they will be very happy."

I am making it INTERNET official!

We found out May 14th that I'm preggo! Number three is on the way! Ahhh, that is scary!

This is yet another reason for the lack of posts. This has been my hardest pregnancy yet. I am almost 18 weeks and just keep praying for it to get better. Many people already know, I know. I just wanted to wait to tell all of blogland, and internet valley! Stay tuned for pics of the already HUGE belly!

Delta with the Fam!

For my Dad 60th birthday my mom wanted us all to go somewhere together as a family. It was decided we would celebrate early since Josh and I would be there in the summer. His birthday is in November. After much talk about where to go we finally turned to the newest in-law:


Alexa's family has a house on a lake in Delta. So the family all packed up and headed to Delta for the weekend. My dad didn't know we were all going to be there and a big family vacay hasn't happened since I was 16. Big thanks to Cody and Alexa (and Alexas family) for making it all happen!
We even had cake. Everybody was so worried that my Dad had figured it out, and my Mother in law even slipped right as they were on their way out of town wishing my dad a happy birthday. My dad just looked at us all and said "why would I think you guys were throwing me a surprise birthday in July?" Good point!

You wouldn't have guessed this old man was 60 out on that wave runner! He loved that thing, and check out that hair!

The kids played in the rocky beach. Hope loved to throw the rocks in the water!

We went on the tube. This was "the slow mild ride" Hope was a little hesitant but than loved it. The same thing with the wave runners. She would just giggle and say "bump, bump, bump." She didn't want to get off the wave runners. Brie on the other hand is still a little traumatized and wouldn't even get on the boat. She said the water wasn't safe.

We ate lots of yummy food including Cake!

The kids loved playing with all their cousins. They were all so cute together too!

We lounged in the hammock. The one my brother Shane didn't break, causing him to fall right on his back!;-)

By the last night we were all so tired the kids all just kind of hung out together.

All of the girls minus Jenn who was at the urgent care. That was the one downfall to the trip. While playing volleyball Scott broke his foot and is still recovering.

We all had a great time, and it was definitely some much needed family time!

The Program that CONSUMED our summer.....

Neal and Josh as lamanites, Davy as Joseph Smith and Micheal as a strippling warrior!

There are 2 main reasons that I haven't blogged in well over a month:
1. We had a really bad wireless connection in Utah, and all my pics were on the laptop. A post just isn't the same without the pics!

2. This program!

Josh's Mom did this program to celebrate the 24th and the pioneers back when I was a kid and his sisters took it over this year. I ended up helping teach some the dances and being in some as well. It was fun, but it was alot of work. It seemed we had practices every night.

I was so happy my sister and her hubby danced in the couple dance with Josh and I. It was fun to have them at all the practices with us!

all the kiddos dressed up as little pioneer children! They all danced as well!

Neal and Josh were great in the fight scene. Their legs stole the show!

The girls were both crickets and i was a seagull. They did a great job both nights. I didn't think Hope was going to do it because she never would at any of the practices, but both nights she went out and did her thing......
They twirled and spun and hopped around and tried to be annoying pesky crickets but they were just to cute to be annoying.
Both nights right after Hope went on she found Josh on one night and my dad on the other and just laid on their shoulder and went to sleep. Being the star of the show is HARD WORK!

Joshs' mom Barbara, Sister Julie, and Sister Jodie!

The brains behind the operation, which I cannot even describe how big of a project it really is. Great job ladies! it came together wonderfully! And I think we are glad that it is over!