An Eagle and a Dog

August has been a busy month at our house.

Taylor has worked hard in scouting and earned his Eagle! His goal was to complete it before he turned 14 and he did it! We are so proud of him. Believe me, I know how much work it took!

For his project, he organized a 5K run. The registration fee was a clothing donation to the Christmas Box House. We had a huge turn out: 76 runners and 20 volunteers!

We ran around the Remuda subdivision.

Harmon's donated oranges and watermelon. Delicious!

The weather was perfect.

Everyone brought a lot of clothing to donate, which was awesome!

He made these Reese's Peanutbutter Cup medals to hand out as they crossed the finish line.

A big thank you and love to all our family and friends who came out to support Taylor in this! He (WE) couldn't have done it without you!

We also were really stupid :) and got a new puppy, Hurley. He is a naughty puppy! He was 12 weeks old when we got him. The couple who owned him bought him to fill their home after their youngest son left on his mission. They realized he needed a family with children (because he is a spaz!). He's really cute, but he still tries to bite all the time and he shreds up papers, plants, and socks! I forgot how much work puppies are. Plus, the whole house training thing is very tiring work!

(Hurley after a swim in our pool)

But of course, the kids love him and he is so cute. Darn it!

and just to get my point across, he lost his eyebrows at the groomer because he, and I quote,

"is very, very difficult to groom. DOG AGGRESIVE. Mean, Mean dog. WILL BITE!"

(that was written on his grooming report. Nice)

(Eyebrowless Hurley, after being naughty at the groomer)

Bear Lake 2010

We went to Bear Lake for the first time ever, this weekend! We left after work on Thursday and stayed through Sunday. We went with our friends, Drew and Cara Cash and family.

We went four-wheeling all day Friday. It was so beautiful!

We stopped for a drink and snack. This was Taylor's way of relaxing!

I went ahead and rolled the razor! It takes a lot of skill to do that with a razor! See my smiling face in the drivers seat? Jason and Drew ran over to help me and I just kept yelling, "Take a picture! Take a picture!" Taylor, Anna and Cayden were on the razor with me. We were all fine, and actually thought it was funny!

But, they still decided to walk down the rest of the rough trail! Wimps!

This is Cara's Dad! He was having a great time. No worries!

The guys worked to get the machines over the roughest parts! I rode the rest of the way just fine on the four-wheeler! I made Jason drive the razor.

We had some delicious raspberry shakes to top off the day!

Yum!

We ran a 5K on Saturday morning!

We swam that afternoon! The pool was packed with kids!

Jason and I decided to just hang out on the chairs and catch some rays!

We went to their craft booth carnival. Jason bought me a cool flower pot!

Hannah enjoying some raspberry lemonade!

We went for a bike ride on Sunday morning. The kids were all on one and the adults and baby Easton were on the other!

We pushed those kids the whole ride to not let us pass them! I'm sure their legs were so tired afterwards!

The whole trip was such a blast! We are definitely going to take many more trips there!

Buckets of Fun!

What we do on Tuesdays: watch my three nieces and find ways to entertain them-because really, who doesn't wish they could be swung around in a bucket?!

In reality, they crack us up! Here is Kamryn giving us a big hello in her english accent.

I turned the camera half way through. Sorry!

5K's and a Half

23 of July.

A Saturday morning.

Up at 5 A.M. to do scout flags, then off to Bountiful for a race.

Can't you just see the excitement in their faces as the sun is beginning to peek over the mountains?

6:20 A.M. We have arrived and are ready to run. Look at Taylor's face... pure competition .

Cayden rocked his 5K with a 23 minute finish.

(Hannah was the finish line photog)

Hannah missed Taylor at the finish, so she caught up with him at the drink station.

This is me jogging in. I walked the whole last 1.5 miles! Can we say, "Out of shape!"

Jason ran his half marathon in 1:46:37. Not bad considering he got stopped for 2 1/2 minutes by a train. Great course planning, huh. Over the railroad tracks- twice!

Here is Bryon, hot on Jason's heels. He got stopped by three trains!

Fun family times running. I have committed myself to practice running more often so I can finish in less than 30 minutes. That's a big goal for me!

Kristin turns 30!

My brother's wife, Kristin, turned 30 last week.

Since I'm still A LOT older than her, I can post her age!

Alan was out of town for work, so me, my Mom, and her girls all decided to give her an impromptu birthday bash! I think we rocked it!

Kamryn was a real diva the whole party!

Madalyn and Lauryn thought the wrapping paper was cooler than anything else going on that night. Maybe it's because we wrapped her gifts with High School Musical gift wrap...

After opening gifts, we went and ate rolls and corn bread at Maddox. We had something else too, but I can't remember!

Kristin is a great sister-in-law and an awesome mom to her cute girlies! We feel really lucky to have her in our family- even if she is an old lady!

Remodeling: The Process

We have been in our house for three years now. Hannah's room was adorable, bright and cheery. As our kids get older, we upgrade them from a twin to a queen size bed. Hannah is almost nine, and has been begging for a bigger bed.Since a queen size bed= new bedding, I decided to paint her room different colors. Ones that will grow with her.
Base colors: brown, pink, an white
then- tape, tape, tape
Hannah and I were doing this project while the boys were at scout camp. This pic was taken around midnight. Things are always much more fun the later it is.
Who decided to put a beam around her walls? Oh, me.

Well, who decided to paint the two walls that had the beam above them? Oh, me.

Well then. Guess I can only blame myself for my kinked neck!

After I painted the white, I removed a piece of tape where the brown paint would be. Then I let it dry for two days. I taped over the white stripe so I could paint the brown.

Again with the dang beams! It got very tricky.

Hannah even pitched in and helped tape. After struggling with one piece for 5 minutes, she decided that taping wasn't fun.

Taylor came in and gave us some comic relief.

I sure missed these boys while they were gone to camp.

I think they missed us, too.

Finally, around 10 P.M., I was ready to paint the brown.

Brown covers really nicely and I decided I was only doing one coat instead of two.

I removed the tape, and tad-a!

Now, I will tea stain the stripes, and we'll be done. Furniture is ready for delivery. I will post the final product when it's done.