Bear Lake!

Oh Bear Lake was so much fun! Seriously I've only been there a few time but never to the north shore. There is just a sandbar for about 250 ft of water only up to your knees and the water was warm! We went swimming at 5:30 in the evening and both my boys were running( in ez's case crawling) for a few hours without getting cold. The picture above is so cool thanks to my awesome sister in law kamilla she also too also the other pictures because of course I forgot my camera what else is new?

Brighton loved playing in the sand and a bunch of kids before had built all these little sand castles. Brighton of course got sand all over.

Grandma beth with ez. A bunch of people forgot swimming suits-including matte- but no worries everyone was still able to wade in the water.
Ez loved the sand a little too much. After he got one taste of it I had to take him out of the water because he just kept wanting more. Thanks to the bells for an awesome weekend!

Is it that bad...yes it is. I am obssessed.

Seriously I knew I shouldnt read this book because I do tend to get a little obssessive when I do. But I was pushed over the edge when my best friend said I just had to read them. Oh yes and I read them. I read all three books in 5 days. Count that just 5. My husband was just about to kill me from ignoring him--sorry about the honey--Honestly its a little bit embarrassing to admit it but I cannot wait for the last one to come out. I was at costco today and they the third book on sale and there was a special excerpt in there for the breaking dawn and I almost considered buying for just a second. Well just one little tiny second and yea I know the whole book comes out tonight but I want read it right then. Too bad I had my kids with me or else I probably would have. Yup just read this post and it is confirmed I truly am a dork!

So Cal!!!!

Cali was so much fun! I love my fam and it was so good that we could all get together and finally have an awesome vaca it gets so crazy now that most of us are married with kids. Anyways the pic above is of Balboa Park its cool its not actually a park but a bunch of different muesems, we only went to the train one because of brighton and his cute cousin zach. But its all these old buildings with way cool architecture--definetely recommend to anyone.

Found this way cool mexican restaurant and it was so yummy. Thanks again Dad. Oh above that is my little bro jesse and my sis des with her husband scott. My sister is so cute she is 7 months pregnant and they are having a boy yay!

We went to the beach so much. I was worried because most of you who know brighton know that he is crazy and has now fear when it comes to water. Well this was no different but he did not like the salt water on his face so we were lucky on that one.

Falling asleep in church

Okay I just wish I would have had at least my phone -so I could take a picture- with me today at church. Normally sacrament meeting which is last is a total struggle to keep my kids quiet. Well I came in after I got ezra asleep and Brighton was just playing under the bench with his cars, something he always does, but usually he moves onto trying to escape from us underneath the benches. Well this week matt turns to me and says bri is totally asleep. Oh yea that kid can sleep through anything and he did. He was on his stomach totally asleep. Now here is the greatest thing we picked him up put him in the car, drove home, and put him on the couch and he still slept for another hour. All while I made dinner. I guess all we need to do from now on to keep our kids from being noisy in church is run them ragged all weekend long. Who would have thought?

New Haircut!

From this to that..

Oh yea, this little boy defintely needed a haircut and he got it! Luckily he sat still for me which is usually not the case. But I just stuck on his fav movie--toy story 2 for right now--- and he was in the zone.
I know I missed a spot right there on the side, if you can see that little curl. In fact I am going to go fix that right now.

Sometimes its just sad to read the news

I need to change the homepage for my internet. Every single time I open it a headline catches my eye and I have a hard time not reading some things, but honestly some articles I wish I never would have seen. I am not going to say what the one today was about but it broke my heart and as I see that there is so much bad in the world I am hopeful and look towards the good. I think its good to know that this is reality and that bad things happen but I need to look forward with hope and resolve that we are going to do better and we will make this world a better place! Sorry guys kind of a depressing post, I am going to go clean and hopefully I will have time to post later today of something fun.

Brighton keeps me on my toes!

Before & After

Do ya ever have those days where it seems no matter what you do your kids are one step ahead of you? This happened in a matter of minutes with brighton after I had sprayed of our back porch area. Rather than be mad(which I wanted too) I had to laugh and take some pics.

He literally was covered in mud. I don't always find all the crazy things he does so funny though, with the pics above he ripped all the petals off my vlowers. Really where does he get these crazy ideas?