Camping!

Last weekend was our annual camping trip with all of our Delta friends!  We figured that this was our 5th year doing it!  Pretty impressive!  The Byrds and the Hills weren't able to make it this year:(  

We went up the Nebo Loop/Payson Canyon this year and it was sooo beautiful!  Thanks Cole and Steph for going up a couple days early to get a great spot!

We got up there Friday night and did the usual while camping....sit around, chat, and eat!  Jenni's parents came up to hang out for a bit to and Jade kept calling Jenni's mom "Nana"  haha who knows why!?

Would you look at these natural smiles coming from these girls?  Hahaha that's what you get when you ask them to smile

The Bunker's joined us later Friday night and all was grand... until unfortunately, the next morning poor Carter stumbled near the fire pit and his hand went in:(  It was so sad!  He burned the inside of two of his fingers pretty bad and they left for the day (hence, I have no pictures of them:( ) to take him to the Hospital.  Poor guy, we all felt so bad!  Thankfully it wasn't to bad, and he just has to bandage it and it's healing great!  It seriously could have been so much worse.

This is how the men prepare to go get more fire wood...

The girls loved the wagon rides from Cole and Tom!  Look at these cute BFF's!

In the afternoon we went up to Payson Lakes.  It was absolutely gorgeous and the weather couldn't have been better!  Nice and cool and overcast!  Now if all summer could be like that for this pregnant gal, that would be great:)

On the dock with some random kid haha

Tom and Cole's canoe selfie

We found the perfect little spot all to ourselves!  And we all took turns in the Fowler's canoe, ate lunch and did some fishing.  Cole was the only one to catch one out on the lake.

Jade was sooo excited for her turn on the "boat".  She loved it:)  I seriously want a canoe now haha

Another highlight for Jade, was when this cute little momma duck and her ducklings came right up to our spot and we feed them crackers

Tom and Brent out sunbathing...and would you look at that beautiful tree backdrop that surrounds the lake!  I loved it up there.

When we got back to camp, Zach and Stacy showed up!  And I also have zero pictures of them!:(  Well here you can see Stacy's knees haha while she is teaching the girls some dance moves!  It was so adorable how they would try to follow her every move:)

Jenni also brought supplies for them to make necklaces and they loved it!

And just like any BFF's, a little drama ensued....  Swayzie was pouting because she said Jade was mad at her and Jade decided to join in her fake sulking and saying "I'm sad too"  hahaha it was so funny!  Then they both decided they were happy again and all was well

Our spot had the perfect play area and they just ran and ran.  Here was my turn being "the scary ghost monster"

The Bunkers returned that night and it was just so great to see all the kids and everyone having a great time together.  

I just love our late night laughs around the campfire while the kids are cozy in their beds:)  Camping is just the best.

We all headed out Sunday

Thanks for the awesome weekend (and bathroom use of your trailers) Jones, Fowlers, Bunkers, and Gouldings!

Ella's blessing and Father's Day weekend

On June 1st, Jon and Kimi blessed their little girl up in Provo and had a nice luncheon afterwards.  It was a great afternoon spent with family!  We are so happy for them!

Here I was last week at 28 weeks!  We're getting there!  This little girl moves A LOT!

I ended up only have hair appointments until 1:00pm on Saturday so we spent the rest of the weekend in Oak City/ Delta for Father's Day!  It worked out perfect and we definitely maximized our time down there with both families.
When we got there Saturday afternoon, we had a BBQ at Kevin's cabin with Darren and Dani too!  It was a lot of fun and Jade was in heaven!

...and yes, she did eventually fall down, soaking all her clothes haha

Eating peas with Grandpa- she couldn't get enough!  Kevin's garden was Tom and Jade's hangout as much as possible

The first place Jade asked to go when we got to grandpa's was his garage to see the "baby chicks!"  It's crazy the things she remembers-  and sure enough, there were new chicks in there, and yes they survived her death grip on them:)

 Feeding the chicken some peas

  The rest of the night we hung out at Kevin's and of course Darren and Tom finished the night off with some NFL Blitz from who knows what year:)

 On Sunday, we went to church with Kevin and even got to enjoy his Sunday School class that he was teaching!  We walked in a few minutes late (whoops), so of course Jade had to draw extra attention to us by yelling, "GRANDPA!! HI GRANDPA!  Grandpa is talking into the microphone!!!"  haha I ended up dropping her off at nursery:)

After church we went to Delta to see my fam!  We ate an amazing dinner and enjoyed the perfectly overcast day!

 Jade LOVES her grandparents sooo much!  Tom and I were talking on the way home how cute her relationships with all her grandparents is!

Talking to Gammy on the phone

Tree hugger:)

 I love these last pics of my parents tickling and loving on Jade!

 It was an awesome weekend to spend Father's Day with both dads!  Words can't express how much they mean to us.  We are so thankful for their examples, love, and support for our little family.  Pretty sure, we have the best there is!
Also Happy Father's Day to Tom!  I seriously don't know what I would do without him!  He is a fantastic Father and Jade just adores him!  I love you babe!
_________________________________________________________________________________
So, here's an update of the funny/cute things Jade has done that makes our day:
- She fell down the other day and Tom and I didn't jump up to help her (because we knew it didn't hurt her at all) we just asked if she was okay...and so she just laid there and said, "my arm hurts...my knee hurts...my eye hurts....my elbow hurts...my toe hurt..."  on and on she just kept naming body parts that "hurt" to try to get us to come help her haha
-She keeps everyone in line while saying a prayer!  At church last week during a prayer, the girl in front of us kept playing during the prayer, so Jade sternly tells her, "we're saying a prayer girulllll!"
and that same day told Tom to, "close your eyes Dad!"
-She'll randomly say, "Guess what Mom (or Dad)?!"  so we'll say, "what?" and the answer is, "you're my best friend!" or "I love you!" ...I know, how precious is that!?
-We had a wasp that was building a nest on our porch, and she just loved that thing!!  Everyday she would ask to go out and see the "bee" or the "bee house" and every time we came home or left she would greet the wasp with "HI bee" or "Bye Bee"      
-She loves pulling weeds haha!  I know, child labor!  She always helps me and loves when I point out more for her!  And she knows that she wants to pull them out by the roots!
-She has been eating SOOOO much better as a whole but I would say her favorite foods right now is homemade popcorn, and "Chicken crackers!" (Chicken in a biscuit crackers) and she still loves her some milk!
-We've been letting her cuddle us in our bed before putting her to bed lately and it's soo fun!  (We are also hoping it helps her want to sleep in a big bed in a few weeks)  Anyways, Tom has an alarm clock that projects the time on the ceiling and so we talk about the numbers.  One night it was 9:15 and we asked what numbers she saw and she said "6, 1, 5" and we corrected her saying, "actually it's 9, 1, 5" and she replied, (while laughing hysterically) "ACTUALLY it's a 6 on it's head!!! haha silly 6!!"  Oh man haha where does she get this stuff?
-On our way home from some long car ride, she randomly says, "Everybody!  Look back here, I'm a monkey!"  And she is pulling a monkey face by pulling on her ears and doing chipmunk cheeks!  We were laughing so hard!
-Everytime she is preparing to jump off something, she says 3 times, "Tett-ten, tett-ten, tett,-ten!"  We don't know what it means or where she got it, but I guess it hypes her up for the big jump haha.  She has done this for about the last year now
-She dramatically says "I can't believe it!"  and "GOSH!" lately at the funniest things! (I can't think of an exact example)
-She sings all the time and I have had nursery leaders tell me that she is the best little singer in there!  Her latest song that Tom taught her is "You are my Sunshine"  and man, it just melts your heart!
-She loves to share in the excitement of a treat, snack, or toy and insists that after you give her one she'll say, "Do you want one too Mom?!" and if I say No Thanks, she sadly says, "Please?"
-She is mildly obsessed with dum dum suckers right now!  Thank goodness a 300 count bag is only a few bucks!  We go through several a day! (don't worry, she doesn't eat most of them) She just likes to play with them and will tell you, "don't eat the sucker!" if she sees you try to eat one!
-And for the grand finale:  (Let me preface this with=She is always complimenting people on what she notices!  "Mom, I love you shoes" or "I love your necklace"...and sometimes not for the best haha, "Mom, I love your mole!" )                     Sooo, the other day she went into our room after Tom took a shower.  He had his shorts on, but no shirt yet.  And Jade (being the complimentary girl that she is) says, "Oh hi DAD!  I love your nipples!"  hahaha it's so funny and so cute because in her mind, she is genuinely just being nice and polite!