Goofy Girls

Day trip at Madera Canyon

This past weekend we headed out to Madera Canyon with our friends, the Quinns. We had a fun picnic and small little hike. It was nice to get outside and super nice weather for it. The kids had fun throwing rocks and sticks into the little creek and Stephen had fun dramatically leaping over the 2 foot wide water. Very serious stuff.

Dallen got baptized!!

My wonderful nephew, Dallen, got baptized!! I am so proud of him and excited for him to officially belong to our wonderful church. We went up to Mesa to celebrate and witness him being baptized. We had tons of fun hanging out with cousins swimming and eating lots of yummy food. Thanks Jana! My awesome sister Jana really helped me feel the spirit when she bore her testimony to Dallen. Jana you're such a cool person and I admire you for being such a FANTASTIC mother. Another great part of that day was when we were singing the closing song, "I am a Child of God," and Maddison sang super loud and super off key but she knew every word. It was a proud mama moment.

Ethan is Eleven!!!

My wonderful step-son, Ethan, turned 11 last week! I'm a crappy step-mom so I'm not blogging about it til now but.....things have been crappy. Anyhoo, Ethan is the coolest kid I know. He is:

1. funny
2. fun to play games with
3. good looking
4. the best big brother my girls could ask for
5. helpful
6. kind
7. caring
8. smart
9. ambitious
10. willing to do the boring stuff
11. counting down the days til he gets the priesthood and can do baptisms!!

I love this kid!!

He'd never been to Wing Stop and he loves chicken wings so that's where we ate for his b-day.

Hungry growing boy
I know, boring cake Becca. I had no time. At least it's a confetti cake!

Girls Night(s)

Lately I've had a few much needed girls nights. The only one I took pics at was this one with my long time great friends, Jeannette, Miranda, Sylvia, Jessica and Ashle. We had yummy costco pizza and played games and laughed lots. I love these girls!!

Then, my girls camp buddies got together for some serious Cheesecake Factory action!!! It was AWESOME!!! I loved seeing my buds, almost all of them, altogether again. We had sooo many laughs and ate some delish cheesecake!! I even got told off by our server, "Don't juuuudge her! You don't knoooow her!" So funny! You had to be there. And thanks to Kathy Johnson I now know some places to avoid and some certain blue drinks to stay away from. :)

Summer Swimming

This summer has been full of swimming. Bailey has learned so many new things: plugging her nose, holding her breath while swimming with her face in the water, doing all sorts of flips into the pool, and she's almost ready to swim without her floaties! Maddison has also learned many things: how to swim with floaties, kick her feet, bravery to jump in the pool or be thrown in from the side, and how to NOT get water in her nose and mouth when her head goes under water. I am so impressed with my girls. It's been sooo nice being able to take them swimming all the time and not have to hold either of them the entire time. We're loving swimming right now since school is back in cause we pretty much have the pools to ourselves!

Pumpin it Up!

The girls and I went with our awesome friends, Julie, Caylee and Cambree to Pump it Up this week. It was so much fun!! Especially since I only had to pay for 1 kid. I'm really bummed I didn't get any pics of all of us together but I only had my phone to take pictures with and there were about 60 kids running around in the way...