its my birthday

and I LOVE today.
More details on the big day later.
Much Love
26th year old Linds

I decided to keep up the camping spirit and head up to payson lakes with the fam and our wonderful neighborhood friends. Lets just say we weren't all smiles the whole time. It just isn't the same camping experience with a 18 month old. He threw up twice, i swear it was a ploy to get us home....
but with much trial, we succeded and even built a sweet fort at our camp site for the kids. It was fun to hang with everyone, while i wasn't toting ornery reg around on my hip. Owen had a blast however and guessed every answer to 20 questions. it was awesome. such a great kid.
In conclusion, i won't be going camping for a LONG time.

Girls camp

So i just returned from disneyland (our theme at girls camp). I am mentally, physically and emotionally exhuasted....in a good way of course!
Here is our group. We had almost 100% attendance. These girls are awesome.
I introduced leg wrestling to the bunch for our olympics day. Here i am schooling Libby! She gave me a good fight.
My beehives, who i adore and LOVE. they are darling and amazing!
Me and Juls. She is my beehive advisor and the most loving person on earth!
We had a billion leaders who went and for some of the time i had to remind myself that this isn't leaders camp. I had a crazy fun time with ALL of them. Especially the day we colored naughty disney pictures and sent them home to our husbands. Good times ladies. I already miss it.

"cycles cycles"

Once there was a boy who LOVED motorcycles. He could hear them coming from miles away and was mezmorized by their sound, their look and their speed!
Pretty sure he dreams about these when he sleeps.
So one day, his awesome ma and pa took him to visit the harley davidson shop and...
his dreams came true.
The end.

Its a good sign if i don't update this things often... it means i am busy chasing around my boys and keeping up with summer. I don't want to miss a thing. I LOVE summer. Nothing too exciting that you have been missing, just the usual summer stuff...sellin popsicles. Sales were pretty slow and our popsicles melted...so we ate them instead.
Owen is now swimming thanks to swim lessons and awesome grub (his teacher)
Climbing trees..and getting stung by bees.

sparklers and "mary popp-its" (as owen calls them). Reg loved them as well

What is a summer without the hogle zoo. Does anyone else think its pretty small and kind of boring? The animals were all snuggled up the shade sleeping when we went. pretty anti-climatic. Next time we will just go to the bean museum for free. :)

Super heros in action

A few weeks ago, we had cousin Xander sleep over at our house (in a tent in the family room of course). Before bed, a little "fightin the bad guys" was in order...
Here is Reggie, AKA- Superman catching some serious air. this kid is crazy on the trampoline
Superheros always wrestle right?
"Shootin Fire Balls!"
Xander and O. Best buddies.
Now these are the guys i would want fightin bad guys for me...Cute right?!

Let freedom ring

Happy 4th. Its my favorite holiday.
And despite having a sick husband and baby, i still was able to enjoy ALL the festivities.
I ran the 10k. 11th woman overall. woohoo.
We battled the crowds at freedom days.
I got up at 4:30am, then 6am to save a spot for the parade and had NO luck.
people are crazy!
But...we somehow got front row at the parade 30 minutes after it started.
A little BBQ and swimming at aunt Denise's is tradition..then another at Mackays!
Then off to the Stadium of Fire.
Jonas Brothers brought out the best of Owens dance skills. It was awesome.
So happy to be an American in Utah!