Patty's wedding day 8-01-08

To our joy and sadness our favorite neighbor and dear friend got married. The girls were clean up helpers and got beautiful shirts and skirts so I had a friend come over and do their hair.














Cori being a goof

Gage's self photography-these next pictures he took with the camera and about 25 more that I am not going to share



Tanners the photographer







Logan's best friends Hunter and Cameron are Patty's twin boys. We love you guys.

They had a beautiful ceremony. I am so grateful for Patty and her friendship. I am grateful to Larry ( Patty's husband) for loving her and taking care of their family. They are a great blessing in our lives. We will miss having them for neighbors, but luckily they aren't too far.

water day

July 27-good thing for me my pictures are dated. I wish I would have blogged about this day right away. Because this post would have been a lot funnier.
This is what Gage did for the majority of our time at the water park. The rest of the kids had fun as you can see.









even after a half an hour he was still crying that he couldn't go on the swings.






this is my favorite of all the pictures-he just looks so serious even though he is standing in a straight up stream of water.

wish I could remember why Logan was so happy



Gage finally ventured out to see the water after a bribe to go on the swings

Kathryn trying really hard to get Gage to feel better

He finally got his way

and Austin too

The boys were in charge of pushing while I headed to the bathroom. they ended up playing this game that made Gage laugh so hard. Tanner would push from the back, and Logan would stand in the front and pretend (sound effects and all) that Gage was hitting him with his feet. So funny.

time to go home

and go to the pool

he's floating on the kick board all by himself


This was a fun day.

July 25th We headed to the movie night in the park. Cori was at Lagoon so she wasn't there, and Syd went to a friends house for a sleepover. Its pretty cool at these movies in the park-they set up a huge inflateable screen and we bring blankets and pillows, chairs and snacks and just hang out and watch the movie. This time I bought glow necklaces and the boys liked that better than the movie.

Can you name this movie?

updates

I realize that I am way behind in the blogging department. Hopefully I can be better. It seems that I go in spurts.
7/24/08
This is Pioneer day. It is a day that we celebrate the people who lived and died making the trek to the west to be able to enjoy religious freedom. In our area they do a big activity where there are different houses set up in a ball field and you walk to different ones to do different things. We made ice cream, got horse shoe rings, had a family picture taken, got to ride on a horseshoe horse, and the kids were bees in a parade.

In this first picture Gage is modeling his new gloves as well as his bee outfit. A friend of ours made gloves for him, so when he goes outside and crawls around, it doesn't hurt his hands so much. We also have another friend who made some knee pads but we haven't got those yet.









Gage thinks this horse was pretty cool

and isn't so happy when his turn is up





don't we make a great cowboy family

MPM August 11th

Happy Monday to you!!

First I want to share with you an awesome recipe. We really enjoyed these 10 Minute Chilaquiles, thanks Kim for making them first and sharing with my sweet husband. Our whole family likes this. that is a miracle.

Also, Tammi asked what we put in our crepes for dinner. To answer that question, it really depends what we feel like. But usually there is ham, cheese, maybe turkey, bbq chicken, steak, all in strips.(not all of these, just whatever we want that night) we use mayo & mustard in the bottom of the crepes and then put the meat in. This time we made this awesome roast and shredded it. What I did was put a roast in the crock pot, sprinkled, no really doused, the roast with this great seasoning that we found called Veggie Grill by Weber. we found ours at Walmart, they also have a good BBQ chicken seasoning and a good burger seasoning. anyway, after I covered the roast with seasoning I added about a cup of water to the bottom of the crockpot. then let it cook for several hours. Jared added more seasoning a couple hours in, then we shredded it, and let it cook for another hour in the juices. It was GREAT. and easy. so that's the dinner part of the crepes. for dessert we have chocolate, vanilla, and butterscotch pudding, whipped topping, cherry pie filling, powdered sugar. sometimes ice cream. Its really good with leftover stuff. MMMMM good!

Now to this weeks Menu. The kids go back to school tomorrow, so hopefully this week will go smooth with dinners. We'll see.

Sunday- Skinny meat, with Yoshidas marinade, baked potatoes, corn on the cob, and Kings Hawaiian rolls. (it was a great birthday dinner, it tastes so much better when someone else is cooking)
Monday- Haystacks
Tuesday- Sausage Pasta new one, not sure what else I will serve with this yet. maybe some fruit and bread
Wednesday- quiche, applesauce
Thursday-Tacos, beans
Friday- leftovers/date night
Saturday- rataouille, bread,
Sunday- Stuffed Shells (finally) salad, bread,

Hope you have a great eating week! Check out Laura's List for lots more ideas Its awesome!

Memories

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.

WE GOT IT!!

We finally got the Amtryke. I am so excited about it. This is a cool bike that uses arm and leg strength to move. It will help Gage, with what is called disassociation-using his legs separately, instead of together. A lot of the time when he crawls he does a hop instead of the reciprocal, or normal crawl) Gage loves it and he loves that Cathy brought it to him. (Cathy is one of our Physical Therapists, we now have two that we see. She was able to use money that was alloted her from the Learning Center to buy the bike.) It is on loan for awhile, until we don't need it anymore or until Gage turns three. He can now move it at least 2 rotations without any help from me. and we have only had it 24 hours. WOOHOO.

Gage riding his new bike!



Austin wanting to be in the picture with Gage, and both of them doing funny faces for me.



I love this picture. It makes me so happy. Last night while we were walking down the road I was almost in tears watching him work so hard, and having so much fun. He loves having his own bike. I love that it works him, but he doesn't know it. Go Gage Go!!

MPM

This week I am going to try a couple new recipes from my wonderful SIL. I will post the recipes when she sends them to me. My husband says they are great and I have to make them. I am happy to try new things, especially things he already likes.

M-Cream Cheese chicken with rice, veggies, rolls
T-Enchilada Casserole
W-chef salad
T-breakfast for dinner
F-Leftover buffet
S-Stuffed Shells
S-Crepes
I am really looking forward to dinner this week. Hope you are too. Need menu ideas? Head over to Laura's