**Camping over the 24th of July weekend**

We had such a wonderful time camping on the 24th of July weekend. We went with some of our awesome friends, Jeff and Kris Haley and their 3 kids. For those of you that don't know Jeff and Kris well, they do everything big and awesome. They found the best spot above strawberry reservoir. It was almost to the top of the mountain. On the way up we were thinking Jeff was crazy because it was so far up. The road was pretty crazy and our trailer dragged a little but once we got there we realized why he picked it. There was no one else around and it had a breath taking view. He had the camp so set up. He dug a hole and bought sand to make a sand pit for the kids. He had a outdoors kitchen with all the works. They had bikes, a canope, horse shoes, and a fire pit about 5 times the sizes of a normal one. Anything you can think of they had. It was such an awesome trip. I wish we could have stayed longer.

This is our family over looking the awesome view

The Haley family (Jeff, Kris, Jordan, Bracken, and Cienna)

Sorry Kris, I know I spelled some of the names wrong

This is us eating the Cajun boil. Jeff is the master cook. He cooks shrimp, crab legs, corn, potatoes, chicken, sausage, hot dogs and who knows what else all together with Cajun sauce. Then they cover a table with paper and they dump it out. That is our Q to pig out. It is the best food ever. Traci Taylor, Barry & Angi Johnson and there 3 boys came up for dinner. We had so much fun and ate way to much.
Cienna is awesome riding a 4 wheeler so she gave all of my kids a ride. They love her so much!

Jordan is Bowdy's favorite. She is the best! She took care of Bowdy the hole time (including diaper changes) I don't know what we would do with out her.

Cienna and Aspen

Ben had a ball on Jeff's 4- wheeler

Jeff and Kris snuggling up. This was hard to get a picture of because Jeff was very very dirty from riding the 4-wheelers so Kris didn't want to get close, HA HA. It is hard to tell but he is covered in dust.

Ben and the kids

The kids got so dirty,but they had so much fun.
Mandi with a dirt makeover

Kiersten and Tucker built a hut in the tall weeds. This is them coming back with there walking sticks. They said they heard an animal growl by their hut, so I sent Ben to investigate. He found nothing, but who knows what it could have been. There are a lot of bears and mountain lions in the area. OOOOOH

This is the kids playing in the sand pit.


We had such an awesome weekend. Thank you Jeff and Kris for all of your hospitality. We love you guys.

A sad day for Ben

I am sure all of you know that Ben finally was able to buy his dream truck about 1 1/2 years ago. He has loved it so much and he took such good care of it. Unfortunately we all have to make sacrifices in life and this had to be one for him. We just built a new home so we have had a lot of bills come up. He chose to sell it so we could get things paid off. I told him he didn't have to, but he said that he wanted to. Heavenly Father blessed us so much. We sold it in only 1 1/2 days of having it up for sale. I am so glad Ben was willing to make the sacrifice and sell it. I love him so much and I hope some day he can get a new one because I think he was so cute driving it. He was like a little kid in a candy store when he drove it. He is the best!

Big sleep over with the Allred cousins

We had a fun sleep over a couple of weeks ago with the Allred cousins. We had 11 kids total. They all had so much fun. every one thought I was crazy for having so many of them over all at once, but we had so much fun. It wasn't hard at all. It actually was easy because they all entertained my kids. They all wanted pictures taken so these are some of them.





Girl cousins (girl power)


Boy cousins(they are very out numbered)

Lunch was a fun experience. Lucky we have 10 stools, so they all fit. We had a huge pot of mac and cheese. Of course they all ate it right up. What kid doesn't like mac and cheese!

Mandi loves to give cheesers






Apsen always poses like a model

Tucker is as cute as ever!

Kiersten loves to pose. She is so Beautiful

Bowdy was asleep so he is not in any of the pictures I know my kids look like rug rats. Welllll they are. I love it! They look like little poor children about 99% of there lives, but then I don't have to worry about them getting things ruined. I sure wish I could be a kid again!

Family Fun at Moon Lake

After my family came to our house they all went up to Moon Lake for 2 days. We went up to visit on one of the days. It was a blast. From the left this is, Kallee (sister), Me (Autumn), Traci (sister-in-Law), Brandi (sister-in-law), and April (Mom).
Bowdy didn't like the sand, so I had to hold him most of the time.


The kids went fishing. They had so much fun. One of the times Heston took them and they didn't come back for about 2 hrs. We thought they were going for a short ride. We got worried so we went to the lodge and they sent someone to look for them. Heston was being a great uncle and wanted them all to be able to catch a fish so he just lost track of time. We were all glad to see them safe and sound. We actually cooked and ate some of the fish. I normally don't like fish, but it was pretty good. Tucker loved it. We had to actually make him stop eating it so everyone could taste it. We don't even own a fishhing pool, but I told Ben that we needed to get one because our kids loved it. Thanks for taking my kids fishing Heston and Chad.

Most of the day we sat around and relaxed. It was so nice to sit and visit with my family. I don't get to see them often. I miss them so much!
The kids played in the water. It was ice cold! They love there uncle Josh.

For some reason my kids gathered sticks for no reason. I guess we just don't have many at our house. HA HA
We all had so much fun and we look forward to going to moon lake again. Thanks for planning it Kallee!

Fun with Grandma and Grandpa and the cousins

We had a lot of fun about 3 weeks ago. My parents, Kallee, Jay,David, Brandi,
Decklan, and Dallin all came out to see our new house and to visit. we had so much fun!
We went to the pool and had a ball. Bowdy cried about 1 hr strait and for the last 30 min he finally started to like it.

We went to the park for free lunch 2 of the days. It was a lot of fun and free!

the picture is pretty dark but we went to the park one day and found to baby kittens someone had left. I gave them to my sister-in-law so she could give them away. Even though David says he doesn't like animals he didn't want to let them go. We sure miss David. He was one of Kallee's foster kids but he is no longer with them. He was a great kid.


Aspen and Manid adore Decklan. He is so cute

Of course Bowdy's favorite is grandma. He loves her so much. I know he doesn't see her allot but I know he remembers her. How could you not? She is such a wonderful grandma!

Kiersten and Tucker got in trouble and couldn't play while we were at the park so they were on baby sitting duty. I love having older kids to help. They are the best! We had a great time with all of them and I hope they come and visit again.