I don't know when and I don't know how but I know there's something starting right nnnoooowwww.....

     

     I've been debating for months whether or not I should continue blogging or rather start blogging again. It has been over a year since my last post and the overwhelmingness (that's a word, right?) of starting it again has stopped me over and over again. I just don't journal anymore like I used to and I really feel like this could be a good place to journal the goings on of my family.
       Recently, I have been reading the history of my Great Grandpa Byrant Manning Jolley. In the first page, he talks about how for 60 years he wished he would have kept a journal. 60 years? It was totally a sign for me that I need to keep something going.
      We use our phones more frequently for pictures, so part of the overwhelmingness is downloading all of those and organizing. A lot can happen in a year and a half. Like a baby.....sorry Caroline:(
      So even though no one is probably reading this I am determined to start again and have something for my great granddaughter to read someday.

More Heritage Park with Chloe

I love this place! We have a good time here all summer. The little train and Brigham's Donut's are two of our favorite spots!

Silly Pics from My Phone

This is what happens when your mom sneaks in your room at night and takes a picture.

Sweetness overload!!!

This is what happens when you go to the Splash Pad park and end up going to the splash pad in your clothes instead!

Soaked!!

And this is what happens when you have crazy girls and a bright flash on the camera!

Bahahaha!

And finally, this is what happens when your mom goes through the drive through too often. You know without looking that there should be food coming your way so you lift your hand up, make some grunts, and open and close your hand really fast.

Chalk Art Craziness

Just biding our time before the school year starts and the summer ends. Man! This heat is killing me! But then that means the cold is coming and I can't decide which I hate worse!

Lana's bum was dirty in 0.5 seconds of getting the chalks out!

Our 5th Anniversary/Ward Campout

Yes. Yes. You did read that right. Our 5th Anniversary happened to fall on the same night as the ward campout this year. Coincidence? No. I would call it serious forgetfulness. You see, my dear husband was in charge this year and decided August 2nd looked like a great day for a campout. Weird. I always thought it was a good day to get married and maybe have an anniversary. Hmmm....different pages I guess.

So of course, we packed up the car/kids and headed out for the most romantic anniversary yet!!! We camped at a spot up East Canyon. This would be our first time camping with Lana and second with Kels. Yeah. We are definitely not big campers with the kiddos.

It was scorching hot while the sun was out but cooled down in the evening. In fact, at 2 in the am it cooled down enough that Lana felt like she couldn't sleep anymore. We took her into our sleeping bags which ended up being quite the fiasco. Lots of up and down and turning around. Needless to say, we didn't get much sleep. Except for Kelsie. She ended up sleeping the whole night. I did give her 1/2 miligram of melatonin which might have helped:)

Let's just chalk this one up to most adventurous Anniversary! I did have some neighbors offer to take my kids for the night to their tent and my sister send us a poster to put on our tent....something about 'if the tents a rockin'......I don't know! Can you imagine? Haha. Oh the stories to be had.

Dwight Yoakam Here We Come!!!

To be completely honest, I'm not really a big Dwight Yoakam fan. I know only a few of his songs. Jami called me one night and asked me if I was spontaneous. I said not really. She wanted to go up to Red Butte to see Dwight perform. Alrighty then.

Jami is a huge fan and we talked about how our Dad would have come with us too! I guess when Jami came back from college in the summers she would listen to Dwight on the way up to my Dad's work in Layton. He started to like it too and took some of her cd's before she went back to college. Ah makes me miss him.

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming.....

Kelsie started her first year of swim lessons. We started out at the South Davis Rec Center for two weeks. For the last 3 weeks, we have been doing lessons twice a week with one of the dad's in the neighborhood. She's really improved and has become more brave.

This summer she has started to pick up on a lot of things. We got a scooter out for her at the beginning of the summer and now she is zooming around like crazy. She also started riding a Strider bike and has been doing awesome on that as well. I love seeing her understanding how to do things and overcoming her fears. She's a pretty brave girl!