LAGOON!!!!!

My side of the family decided to go to Lagoon together for some end of summer fun. It has been YEARS since I have gone to Lagoon with my siblings. I am glad everyone wanted to go! My boys didn't understand what Lagoon was all about. Truth be told I was more excited then them to go. During the SL County Fair they were really disappointed that I wouldn't buy them ride tickets. They didn't understand that they would be going somewhere that they could ride as many times as they wanted! When we got there their faces lit up and they were so excited! It was so cute.

After dinner we decided to go on Rattle Snake Rapids. The line wasn't that long and we soon descovered why. You get drenched and at 8 o'clock at night it can be a little chilly after! Some how Me, Tonya, and Conner ended up drenched the most. I really hate the feeling of wet levi's.

Left: Ethan riding Puff the little rollercoaster. He wasn't much for the "Scary" rides.

Right: Doesn't Garrison look TERRIFIED to have Cassidy drive!

He really is such the dare devil and was mad he couldn't go on the BIG rides.

The kids loved the bumper cars cause they could crash like Dad but the ride they talk about the most is the helicopters and planes. They loved being able to control going up and down. It helped that their was NO line and they could keep going around and around!

Brady loved taking Josie and the older kids on the big rides. I am sure he acted just as much as a kid as they did. Probably more. When Sharmon, Tonya, and I told the kids that night that Brady and Shane were going with them and that they were in charge as the responsible adults, we quickly took that statement back and put the kids in charge of them! Safer that way I am sure!

Brady and I pulled the trailer up to sleep in and make dinner for everyone! It turned out to be great and I would recommend it to anyone. Not only did we all save money on meals, it was great to come back and relax and gain a second wind. It was also great not to have to drive home after playing so hard all day. We did have a bit of excitement at the trailer while preparing dinner, Tonya and I were cutting up veggies for a salad when she cut her finger with a knife. I quickly got her a bandaid and we went on cutting. Not even 5 min. later, I was trying to get the pit out of the avacodo and stabbed my hand between my thumb and pointer finger. I looked down and could tell it was bad. I ran to the sink, where Sharmon held my hand under the water while I cussed and screamed. (Sorry children for the swear words. I did apologize after every one though) It hurt so bad my hand went a little purple, and my thumb numb; I wanted to go the ER but nobody wanted to take me. I thought it needed stitches but everybody wanted to use up the rest of their all day ride pass it was just getting cool ( To tell the truth so did I). So Shane got his first aid kit from the car, and Sharmon bandaged me up and we finished the night having a BLAST!

Fast forward to Monday (No since in paying a ER copay. It felt fine) I went to the clinic to get a Tetnus shot. She reopened the wound OUCH and said I needed stitches but it was to late. She told me I had cut the nerve and might not ever get feeling back. She also got after me for not having it looked at. (Guess she doesn't know how expensive an all day ride pass is) She closed it back up with Terry Strips gave me my shot and told me to leave it alone if the strips fell off and let the air get to it. Well the strips didn't even make it home before they had fallen off, and by the next morning it was red and throbbing. Sharmon bandaged me again for the next few days and by today it is fine! Still no feeling in my thumb though.

We made great memories for our family and I even have the scare to prove it!

Water Logged? Not US!!!!!

We miss Bear Lake so much. We want to go back. We have even talked about moving there if a job opened for Brady! I just don't know if I could handle the winters. Here are some of the highlights of our fun in the water!!!!



Beach Bums! They only had about 10ft by 40ft of sand to play on really not all that much especially with everyone there.

Garrison LOVES the banana. He thought it was awesome that he was big enough to ride!

We loved playing in the waves. Ethan did a really good job of

swimming in them! I on the other hand got a little sea sick:(

Ethan and Garrison on the boat! They called it a speed boat cause
it went "so fast."

Dad tried to get up on the water ski's for Ethan one day.

He was so tired from playing in the water all day and never really
made it up.

The banana riders!!!! I think that it might of needed more air?

Hold on Brady and don't fall off!

We convinced Ethan to learn to Boogie Board! He was scared to death and it took some bribery to get him to try! I think Dad and Grandpa's arms were tired from pulling him back and forth while he got a feel for the board.

The boys had so much fun with their cousins. They are definitely making memories together.

Grandpa had to show Ethan how water skiing was done and he got up on his first try. Ethan thinks he is awesome and the coolest Grandpa EVER!

Ethan on the Boogie Board!!!! No tears even!!!!!!!

We are sad to see our vacation over for the year and we have started the count down for next year!!!!!! We have more memories to make and fun to have!!!!

More Vacation.....

Brady's family loves to explore on their Four wheelers and Rangers and the mountains around Bear Lake are a great place to do it. We decided to take a ride during the week and explore a trail that they had tried earlier in the year but couldn't finish because of the weather. We headed off all smiles and happy.......

It took 2 rangers, 1 razor, and 2 four wheelers for the entire family to go. We headed up the mountain side and everything was so pretty and green....

Brady thinks this hill side would be so much fun to snowmobile on!

We were enjoying the ride when the hillside became steeper and the trees began to invade the trails. I have to many scratches and bruises from trees and branches hitting me. Garrison decided to ride with Grandpa and the trails proved to much for him. We stopped to close a gate and Garrison jumped off the four wheeler and came to get into the ranger when I noticed that his lips were white and his face really pale. I yelled at him to get off and pulled him around just in time for him to throw up all over the place. I felt so bad. We were about half way through the trail and decided to put him in the ranger that was less bumpy and continue on our way in hopes that the trail would be better. It wasn't, it was even more steep and bumpy but Garrison seemed to be fine in the ranger. We started up a narrow hillside and found that the rangers wouldn't fit through two trees in the middle of the trail. Dallas was ahead of us and went off roading around the trees and as he came back onto the trail hit a log and his tire came off the rim!!! Here we are on top of the mountain, with Garrison threatening to puke, a flat tire off the rim with no cell phone service. I will admit I was beginning to get a little nervous. Luckily they had everything they needed to put the tire back on and we were able to continue down the mountain and finish the ride. By the time we got back down all of us had the best tan ever!!! To bad it washed off in the shower:) We were also a little surprised by the dog. We left with a nice clean white one and came back with a brown one. To much dirt if you ask me!!!

Family Vacation 2009!!!

Our Family Vacation has come and gone and everyone is asking me when I will be posting my pictures. Come on I have only been home 4 days and still trying to adjust to the real world again! So I decided while I wait for the washer to help tackle my 2 TONS of laundry I will start to post about our vacation. We went to Bear Lake for a week and had an absolute BLAST. We did so many things I am not sure if my blog page will hold them all.
We arrived at the lake on Saturday with Wes and Kristen and started setting up our new trailer! (Our old one was totalled by the insurance after we had some wind tear off part of the roof.) This was some what challenging because we had just gotten the trailer the week before and had not had time to try everything out. It took Brady a little while with a lot of head scratching to find where all the switches and buttons were but in the end we had everything, including hot water. (Who new that it had 2 buttons, one outside and one inside) We had a campfire for the kids and let them roast hot dogs for dinner!
On Sunday we headed out to church only to find out we had gone to the wrong town and the wrong time. We drove around the lake to kill time and ended up back in the town we started in just in time for Sacrament Meeting. As we pulled up I said to Brady " I didn't think there were that many people at the lake this weekend. This parking lot is beyond full." We parked down the street and walked in to find not a seat in the house. The chapel was full, the gym was full, the classrooms full, ALL FULL. We look at each other with shock and manage to find 2 seats to sit in and hold the boys on our laps. Let me tell you how organized that ward was. The Sacrament didn't take any longer than usuall. They were AWESOME. The Bishop got up to introduce the speakers and to our surprise they had Brother Cook from the Quorum of the 12 there to speak!!!! That explains why so many people.

On Monday we decided it was time to relax and play with the cousins. Water Fight anyone?

The boys loved sitting on the doc and chatting together.