August already???

I am so tired. Like deep down in my bones tired. This summer has been amazingly great!! I have enjoyed every sunshine filled day playing with my kids, my family and my friends. But, it has been crazy. Celine gone to EFY, 4 days in lake powell, my sister coming from california, going camping at fairview, going camping at cherry hill, kaleb and tage gone for 6 days, a whole week of fun with my sister, and then, in 3 days time, we are headed to california for some beach campin with my family, and the week after that, a night in park city with my bunko girls, and the week after that, lake powell with the gillmans, and 1 day after that, school starts. Yeah, you can see why I am happily exhausted. I miss having my family home. 14 of 30 days will be spent with my little family not under the same roof. I miss having us all together. I miss having a clean house. I actually miss having TIME to clean my house. :) My goal is that when school starts, I am going through my house top to bottom and putting it in order. We'll see if that really happens. :) Once again, time is just slipping through my fingers, I keep wondering where it is going and why is it going by so fast??? I have enjoyed having my kids around more, but, Aliah has been really hard lately, to the point where I am starting to wonder if I need to change the way I parent her, because it doesn't seem to be working. She has the strongest, most stubborn personality out of all of my kids, I guess that means she is going to be harder to raise. But, I am determined to enjoy the last 22 days of summer. Is it really August???

Me and Aliah enjoying a day at Cherry Hill. We went with my mom and dad, my sister trisha and her 4 kids. we had a great time!!

lauren, aliah and kylie. best cousins.
me and trish enjoying a dark chocolate, dark chocolate hagen-daaz ice cream bar. I have been off sugar for 2 weeks so this was the best treat ever!!!
Girls night out with my two favorite girls. Of course we had a to get a pix with aliah and j.b. while out school shopping. Swoon!! :)
Dinner at zupas, our favorite.
to end the night we went and saw soul surfer, such a great movie!!! my two beautiful girls. I am a lucky mom.
Goal to self: enjoy every moment.

Missin...

I miss him in the morning

I miss him at night

he seems as far away

as a satellite.

I miss him a lot.

I miss him completely.

I miss him from my head

down to my feetly.

I miss him a lot

and its a big fat bore!

But I'll keep missin and missin him

until he comes home.

Lake Powell

Kalebs cousin called us one night and invited us to go to Lake Powell with them, we jumped at the chance! I love lake powell, it is a great place! We didn't have aliah with us, she was camping with my mom and dad, and I did miss her little face. But we had such a great and relaxing time. Kalebs cousin Colby and his wife heather were lots of fun, and they have the cutest little kids. I seriously did some relaxing and nothing. I got a little obsessed with a book and had to finish it so I could concentrate on the rest of the vacation. It was a little piece of heaven for a few days.

building dribble castles.
colby and celine cliff jumping!
me and celine soaking up some sun and having some mother/daughter time.
tage got up on the wakeboard!!!!!
tage and hanks were buddies on this trip.
did some fishin and caught some fish. grose. ;)
so cool. :)

yep, it was a good time.

My family :)

The older I get, the older my kids get, I realize more and more how much I love being with them!

Could this girl be more beautiful??
Tage has been mowing our lawn since spring, he is learning to be a hard worker just like his dad!!
Aliah wanted to be just like her dad, doesn't she just look adorable? :)
My hottie honey, hard at work. Luvhim.
Yep, they sure do make me happy. :)

Laugh Out Loud

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Sometimes a girls just got to cry....right????

Do you ever have those days, for one reason or another, or maybe for no reason at all, you just have the blues? Even though the sun is shining, the kids are happy and life is good, on the inside you just feel wrong? And you wonder around all day, trying to figure out why you feel this way. You go from one thing to the next, seeing if it will be the cure, but nothing helps? But then the big question comes, usually from a spouse or a good friend,"Is something wrong?" and for some reason those words make the flood gates open? And the tears just come, you can't even help it. And you just can't put into words why you are crying, or why this is what you have been needing all day. A combination of all the little things in life that hurt, and today was the day that they needed to be released. Worry, lonliness, feeling lost, feeling unloved, whatever it is, after your cry, you just feel a little bit better. And even though nothing was solved, and your spouse thinks your a little bit crazy, that weight, for a while, is lifted from you heart, and you know that tomorrow things will look brighter. Sometimes a girls just got to cry.

The last few days.....

To say that I am enjoying every day of summer is an understatement. I am enjoying every SECOND! I love waking up every day and knowing its going to be hot and (hopefully) sunny and we have lots of options of what we can do to entertain ourselves. Swimming is a big one that I love, and we have had a few swim days lately.

Celine and her BFF lauren.

I always take the kids to lunch and shopping for their first day of school outfit so here is me and aliah on her day. We went to taco amigo and then to the provo mall where she tried on about 20 outfits before she finally settled on one. She wanted them ALL!
Here we are at PF changs with our BFFs for kalebs bday. These are some of my favorite people to hang out with! Thanks everyone for celebrating kalebs bday with him !
Me and the kids took kaleb to wingers for a birthday lunch. The kids gave kaleb the cool orange jazz hat but sadly didn't have one the fit him so he had to trade it in for a different hat.
Here is some more of our BFFs who came out to sushi with us to celebrate kalebs bday. All you can eat sushi is all kaleb wanted for his bday! thanks everyone!
Celine threw a surprise birthday party for her GOOD friend Jackson. They had a bbq, a pinata, water balloons and a water fight, volleyball, a fire and roasting smores and night games. I think they all had a really good time, and I enjoy getting to know all of her friends.
Celine, Lauren and Jackson.
It was a bittersweet day for me today. I took celine and lauren for their first time at EFY!!! I am so super excited for her to have this experience, but oh it makes my heart hurt a little to see her so grown up and experiencing things I remember experiencing.
They were SOOOOO excited when they saw their dorm rooms where they are staying for a week. They are going to have the greatest week.


That has been us the last few days, life just keeps on passing by and I am trying to enjoy every moment. I love having my kids home for the summer, even when they drive me a little crazy!! I am not really looking forward to school starting and being home alone again, especially with no job to take up some time. But, who knows what life has in store for me in the future. Sometimes it is definitely hard to be me at this phase of my life. I am still trying to figure out who I am now and what I am suppose to be doing. Things keep changing, people keep changing and I am not sure what to make of it most of the time. Good thing for my hubby, for my kids, for the gospel, my anchors that hold me to life.

Wish Kaleb a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

32 years ago on July 1rst, the love of my life was born. I didn't meet him til almost 16 years later, but the next 16 years have been together! Everyone loves Kaleb. I honestly don't know one person who doesn't like him. He is charming and funny, a friend to everyone he comes into contact with. He is super talented and hard working, a fabulous dad, but most especially he is my best friend. I can't imagine one second of my life without this amazing man! So on today, July 1rst, if you are visiting my blog, please leave a comment and wish my honey a Happy Birthday!!! I want Kaleb to know how much he is loved, and not just by me!