Camping Trip

We went camping last weekend on a ward camp out. It was the first time we have gone camping since we got married, (unless you count our first 2 summers when we lived at scout camp but we had a cabin so I don't.) Anyways we had a lot of fun the kids just loved running around. We didn't have a whole lot of luck with the sleeping part as our air mattress didn't hold air for more than a half hour so that was not great but all in all fun. I didn't get any pictures of the actual camping part but we did go fishing in the morning, so these are the pics of Ryan and Olivia's first fishing expedition.

Ryan really is happy he just isn't happy about stalling the fishing to look at the camera!

Daddy teaching Ryan how to hold the pole

Ryan fishing all by himself

Ryan and Olivia watching daddy fish, okay so Olivia is watching the loud guys a little ways down fish.
We didn't catch anything, the fish weren't biting well, but we had fun and Ryan is excited to go again!

FHE

For FHE last night we decided to take a hike up to the Pillars we took the boys and sent them up the long way and then Chris and I drove around with the kids and took the shorter hike. It was a lot of fun and it was so pretty up there.

Chris, Ryan, Olivia, Justin, and Scott at the top

This one is the only one with me in it that I am willing to post but you can see the columns really well they are gorgeous!


Livvy and Daddy on the way up

Scott and Justin they aren't even posing but I thought it was such a cute picture

Ryan and Daddy

We were trying to get a pic of the kids but couldn't get them both looking at the same time, Ryan was actually looking most of the time but the one time Livvy did Ryan looked away, typical!

Ryan and Daddy at the very end!
We had lots of fun and then after made sandwiches and had dinner at the park.

I'm back!

So my computer died a little while back so I have been blogless, but we got our new computer yesterday which is so nice because our old one was really old and really slow and this new one is so much faster and nicer I am loving it although I am not so sure about this Vista thing but we shall see. Anyway just quick updates, Chris got back from DC but has now started clinicals so he is gone from about 6:30am-5:30pm everyday but at least he does come home so that is great actually this week those hours have been an hour earlier no fun for him but I only wake up long enough to say goodbye. We also have Chris's 2 little brothers staying with us for a few weeks while his parents take a much needed vacation to Ireland. SO that is interesting I can just tell you that I am not ready to be the mother to teenagers but they are fun and do a good job of giving me little breaks as they distract my kids. We also got all of our old tenants moved out and in less than 2 days after Kyler was done being moved out our 2 new tenants moved in. That is really helpful since our mortgage is a bit much to cover with out tenants so that is a real blessing and they seem like very nice guys, did I mention it was 2 guys and their 3 snakes, luckily I am not too afraid of snakes hopefully they don't get out anywhere and end up in my bed though cause I think that would be the end of the snakes. Anyways I think that is about all we have been up to just having fun trying to find summer since it has rained pretty much everyday for the past 2 weeks and has been freezing, literally. Oh I did get a bunch of posts asking how Olivia did being changed to her big girl bed. She actually did great she does typically get out right after we put her in but we put a knob protector on her door so she can't get out and she and Ryan play for about a half an hour and then they both get back in their own beds and fall asleep. Since she was crawling out of her playpen already this is a much better solution since she can crawl back into her bed. And did I mention she loves it she will crawl in in the middle of the day and just pull the blanket over her just cause she can. Anyways that is all for now sorry about the novel and no pictures I don't have any of my pics on this new computer so I will have to get that figured out too!