This is what happens when......

You let the 3 year old have a dry erase board and marker in the car!

Jena's new hair do!

We went to get Joe a hair cut yesterday, and while walking in I asked Jena if she wanted hers cut, and she did!

Here are a before and after of her hair!

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This was just a few minutes before we left the house. (Joe had been making balloon animals, this is her trying to blow up the balloon!)

We had about 8 inches cut off. Doesn't she look adorable?!

Zoo Day

Had to post the Lion he was posing for the camera!

We took the kids to the zoo yesterday because it was free. Had to post some pictures because Jena was brave enough to feed the goats and even go inside the pen and pet them, shocking I know!

Jena's Birthday Cake

I forgot to post a picture of Jena's cake. She LOVES the movie Tangled, so guess what we put on her cake?!

I was pretty proud of my cake decorating skills, even if nobody else was!

I don't know what the deal was with her face, she wouldn't just smile for the camera!

I love this one of her and Daddy, she hasn't had a lot of Daddy time lately. He has been traveling for work quite a bit and when he isn't traveling he is working. She loves her daddy!

First Day of School YAY!!!

Not so excited to be starting 8th grade!


excited to be going to the middle school and 7th grade, but also a little nervous!

She has been super excited to start 2nd grade, until today when it was time to walk out the door. I'm sure she had a great day once she got there!

Special Day

Today was a special day for our son Josh. He turned 12 last Sunday, so today he was set a part as a Deacon in our church. Congrats Josh! We are so proud of you and the choices that you have made!

Thanks to all of our family who came to share in this special day with us!

Three Years ago today,

I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Happy Birthday Jena. We love you and are so glad that you are a part of our family!







We also want to wish a Happy Birthday to Grandma Cragun, We love you!

12 years ago today

I gave birth to my second son.

Where has the time gone? It's been an exciting 12 years.

Happy Birthday Joshua.

We Love You!

New Calling

I received a new calling at church yesterday, I will be teaching the CTR 4 class. This is going to be a new adventure. I haven't been in primary for at least 12 years. Wish me luck I am going to need it!

Camping at Teton Canyon

Joe had Thursday and Friday off from work so we decide to take advantage of the days off and headed off to Teton Canyon for a camp out. Jena wanted to go on a nature walk, so we walked around the campground and looked at the wild flowers and then Joe and the kids went down to see the creek. Jena was mad when we sent Jake and Josh off to look at it again without her! Joe and I and the girls saw a Moose behind our tent while the boys were out exploring, I felt bad that they missed it! If our dumb dog wouldn't have barked at it we would have gotten a picture.

We had a really good time other than Josh had his first experience with a migraine headache and threw up outside of his and Jake's tent just when we were all getting ready to go to bed. Jacey then threw up because Josh was. FUN TIMES!

It was short but a lot of fun. I'm really glad that we got to spend this time together as a family before the kids head back to school!

Here are some pictures of our adventure!

The Tetons

The Moon!

The Creek

Proof that we were in bear country, and that you need to be bear aware!

Another one of the creek!

Our cute kids!

Some of the pretty wild flowers we saw around the campground.

Sunburned

My sister Rachel and her kids came up to visit this week, we all had a really good time and hope to see all of them again really soon! We decided to go to Rigby Lake on Tuesday and both Rachel and I got sunburned really bad, the sad thing is we were both wearing SPF 50 Sunscreen.
Thanks for coming to visit us Rachel!

Fun 4th of July Weekend

We had a really fun 4th of July weekend. Joe's parent's and most of his siblings came to our home on Sunday for a family dinner and some fun, some of them had to head home Sunday evening, but two of his sisters and two of his brother's and their families stayed here for the 4th.

We spent most of Monday at Rigby lake playing in the water and the sand, we then came back to our house for a BBQ and then headed down to Freeman Park for some fun and fireworks.

It was a great weekend and we were so glad that everyone could come to visit, we hope they all had as much fun as we did and that they will come back and visit soon!

Summer has finally come to Idaho Yay!

We have finally had some warm weather here, this is what the kids have been doing!

This pool has been worth the money we spent to buy it a couple of years ago!

Happy Father's Day

Just wanted to tell the Father's in my life Happy Father's Day!

To my Dad, I love you and I think you are the best! Thanks for putting up with me, and for raising me to become that person that I am today! (I would post a picture but I don't think he would be happy with my choice!)

To my Father in Law, thank you for raising such a wonderful Son, and for welcoming into your family!

To Joe I love you! Thank you for being such a wonderful Husband and Father, We are so blessed to have you in our lives!

Fun with Friends

My friend Mandy's In Laws have a pond on their property, and we were able to spend some time out there on Wednesday. Thanks Mandy for letting us come out and play! We had a blast!

I have some other pictures, but I am respecting my friends privacy and wont publish them here, you will have to come look at our scrapbook if you want to see the other pictures!