WA

The other night around a campfire, our good friend Audrey asked: What's everyone's favorite thing you've done this year?
And we answered: Moses Lake!
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Here's why :
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August 3-11, 2011
Day 1: We jumped in the car around 6am with Dallin and Amaree. Drove nine hours and gained one hour. Ten minutes after Dallin and Amaree dropped us off and went on to Seattle, we had swim suits on and jumped in the beautiful lake. It was calling our names! Did lots of swimming and some tubing. Sang "Happy Birthday" to little cousin Bailey(turning 5) and she blew out a big candle in the middle of a powdered sugar donut... Swam alot and ate alot.
Day 2: Silverwood! Got up early, drove three hours. Waited in long lines and rode a bunch of super fun-tastic roller coasters (even Lainee went on the kid sized one)! Then made our way to Boulder Beach, the amusement park's water park. It was a freaking BLAST!!! Drove another three hours home. What a day.
Day 3: Friday, August 5... Lainee turned one! We mostly just did alot more swimming, wake boarding, tubing, boat riding, hot tubbing, and some more eating, swimming and wake boarding. But there was a few minutes during the afternoon that were designated to Lainee for opening presents and eating Jell-o cupcakes. She got lots of neat presents from everyone and our little cousin Payton (3) kept saying "oh that one's from me" (even though most of them weren't). How cute!
Day 4: Slept in. More and more wake boarding, swimming, boating, tubing, eating, eating, eating, laying out in the sun on the dock.........
Day 5: Sunday. A much needed day of rest. Went to church with the family and just enjoyed more food and the awesome view from the back deck, where my family eats most of their meals.
Day 6: Take a WILD guess... More wake boarding, swimming, laying out, eating, etc. (only this day we managed to convince Megan and Parker to start watching LOST with us. They were hooked).
Day 7: Watched some LOST and then........ MORE of the same old stuff PARTAY!!!
Day 8: PARTY more and get more tan and get more A I R.
That afternoon Garen napped and I got to go see Kortni, an awesome friend who owns AIM Gymnastics, and then Garen and Lainee and I went to dinner at INCA (the bomb-est Mexican restaurant ever) with Georgie, Jill, and some other friends. Good times. I love getting to catch up.
Day 9: Woke up and packed up. Dallin and Amaree showed up around 10am and we got to wake board with them for an hour or so and then we got showered and got back on the road. Sad day but GREAT vacation!
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THANKS MOM AND DAD FOR EVERYTHING!!!!
Here are the few pictures we made time to take.
(more to come from the other camera)

Parker driving the boat with his feet.

Garen and Jordan on the tube.

Lexus and Georgie.

Lainee blowing kisses in her little pink pool on the dock.

Thirsty!

My two favorite little girls. Megan and Lainee (and my spastic face).

snoozing.

What a life.

Wake boarding off the dock.

Loving the sun.

haha. Lovely right? Mom and Megs.

Even lovelier eh? Parker and Dad.

Jordan driving the boat.

The back yard as we drive back up to the house, and all our toys and mess on the dock.

Dear Cast,

I'm LOST without you.

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I know, it's about time I blog about what the heck has been going on this summer but... I watched all six seasons of LOST in the last two months or so and now that it's over I might be going to through withdrawals. I love these people!

Walking!

Soo... we've been waiting forever for Lainee to even try walking. She started standing up on her own about three weeks ago but would never even attempt to take any steps. In that three weeks she has taken a grand total of about eight steps. Well... last night I was in the kitchen and she was in the living room. I looked up and she was just walking right across the living room like she had been doing it for ages. Of coarse I'm super excited to I got out the video camera and made her do it a few more times. Here she is with a solid 30 steps!

Bragging

This girl is one of the top 10 girls on So You Think You Can Dance right now and I know her! Caitlyn Lawson is from Moses Lake, WA (my home town) and graduated with my little brother. Awesome!

(Okay, so I don't know her super well but I definitely know her, and yes I'm bragging about it because I think it's cool.)

Just Catchin' Up

Haven't been on here for a while again so here is just a little catch up of what we've been up to.

I had all 3 of my wisdom teeth extracted and the one bottom one was a little bit grusome. After my teeth stopped hurting, I got some kind of HUGE cankers in my throat and my ear starting killing me, so after going to the regular Doctor and getting a sterroid and an antibiotic, I was finally able to eat TWO WEEKS after the extraction... Here is me two days after the surgery (they were all still way in there).

On Memorial Day, it rained of coarse! So we went swimming at Green Canyon with some family and it was a blast.

Look at that nasty yellow bruise from that dang tooth!

One day it was especially nice out (well, for Rexburg) so when Garen got home from work, we all went outside and played in the yard.

Garen had a birthday! He's getting so old. Here he is at our place that evening with some friends and family who came over for cake and ice cream. Fun Fun.

He got some new games! Yay!

Last Saturday Lainee got to go to her very first parade in Rigby. She was SO pumped about the horses. That afternoon, she and I went back to the Blanchard's to help get ready to feed some general authorities who were in town for their stake conference. It was kind of cool to talk with them and one of them has some "ins" in the medical community and is going to write Garen and letter of recommendation for school! Sweet!

Now here we are, living life and loving it. Hope you are too!