Labor Day WEEK!

This week was so nice to have a holiday! We took full advantage of it, and went on a family outing up the mountains! Remember last year when we went on a HIKE up to the wind caves for our bucket list?! Well, this year we went a bit more simple....The RIVERSIDE NATURE TRAIL! Good stuff I tell ya! We still counted it as our hike, and had a great time doing it too!

We.....walked along the trail, ate a picnic, skipped rocks, took silly pics and ate cookies! Can it get much better than that?

Proof that we went THERE, and did THAT!
Walking.....(or hiking, ha ha!)
So DANG cute....
Skipped rocks....
Waterfall picture time...
Picnic fun...
Perfect picnic surroundings!
Cute boys!
And being DORKS as always!! ;)
After enjoying time with just our little family, we went out and enjoyed an evening with all of Aaron's side of the family. We ate TONS, played around the yard, visited, and just goofed off! The kids love hangin' with all the little cousins! Good times.

Just CHILLIN' and eatin'!
Studs muffs! Awww yeah!
Roastin' mello's!
Playin' with cousins around the yard!


Playing (learning) catch!

Cute little sweeties...swingin'
Bro's!
Another day, this sunset was AWESOME from out our kitchen window! Not lovin' that the days are getting so short...BOOO... but we do LOVE the sunsets of beauty!
BEAUTIFUL! YES!!
While watching the sunset this particular night...we made homemade ICE CREAM for the first time this year. YEAH, you heard me. PATHETIC!! It was about dang time, right???!!!

LOVE LOVE LOVE Davin's face in this! HAA HAA
Tis the season for some FRESH salsa also! It is so nice to go out back at get all the veggies right out of the garden for it! YUM!
The park choice for the week was WHITTIER park!!! What a great and FUN one! The boys LOVED it for HOURS!!

So cute with LOTS to do!
What a BIG boy now! That is my BABY!!! Sniff!
I LOVED these little animal rocker things as a kid! Like mother, like son!

Great PALS!
Here we go down the SLIDE!! Weeeeeeeee...

It was again time for FATHER AND SONS camp out!! Aaron loaded up his sons (and all of their gear) in the BIG grey truck...and away they went!
Baa Bye boys!!!
See ya love muff!

I then was alone all by myself! This is so rare and nuts, what do I do with myself?????

Well.....My niece just got here from OR to go to her second year of College at USU! So, we hung out!!! I was not sure how I would like chillin' with all of her roommates! (or more importantly...them with me..an OLDIE GOLDIE!! ;)) But lo and behold...we had a BLAST!!!!

They taught me how to balance and swing on this nifty little contraption. (Who knows what it is called!!) It can't be THAT hard can it???

My niece can do it!!
Her roommate can do it.....really good!
Well heck....I MUST be able to do it!! RIGHT??
WOW!! This is really...HARD!!!
I may be 30 and hanging out with a bunch of 19 year olds....but I can DO IT!!
We laughed and joked! We talked til late too. I even taught them a CHEER!! HAA HAA
Good times with these young gals! (My niece is closer in age to me, than my own brother!!)
NUTS are we??!! YES we are!
We laughed at this picture for quite some time! Could my nostrils get any bigger???

SCARY!!
They even got me to go into a DANCE that was going on just right next to their apartment complex. I showed them some old fashion moves from my time...UGH (like fishing, and so forth, you know what I mean!)

I met a boy that my niece has her eye on (or more so his on her.) He seemed nice, but WOW...I was just changing her diapers...she can't get married yet!!! AHHH I drilled questions on him. Don't worry!! Then I went home to a very lonely and quiet night! sniff. Missed my boys.

Saturday, my old friend JoAnn from college days came up to Logan for a visit! It has been at least 9 years since we have seen each other. After MONTHS (and I mean LOTS of months) of trying to get a weekend to work out on both of our ends...finally this was the one to do it.

The husbands met, and TALKED like crazy! They both are Landscapers...so they both were talking so much, we couldn't shut them up. For reals!
Mean while the kids played! (We came back to this SWEET and ohhhh so grand park from the other day. The kids LOVE it here!!) Tate wants to come back every day now.
We had a great chicken picnic DINNER! It was yummy!

The kids had a great time with these new friends! Gotta love the swings!
Until next time JoAnn! Hopefully sooner than another 9 years!! Good times all around!

Until next week....

Happenings of the week!

Summer feels like it is officially over. Bummer deal! School and work started, the calendar flipped and in the next breath the temperatures dropped. ALREADY!! UGH! I do enjoy fall, but I HATE being cold! I am already wearing jackets and not happy about it...at all. ;) We did get some fun and enjoyable outings in though during the week.

Our friends have a family boat, and never take it out. WHAT????? Crazy I say!! ;) (They didn't know how to drive it.) They took us out one evening...and we all had a GREAT time!! (They even took driving lessons by Aaron. They did GOOD!) We went to good ol Hyrum Dam! The water was PERFECT, the sunset was gorgeous and our time was just splendid..of course!

Finding a spot to get in!

The newest boat driver! Not! He wishes!!
The fab flag holder!
The wake boarder holder!
The queen of wake boarding! Go Angie!!
Getting ready to HIT IT!
Here's sweet AARON!
BIG JUMPER!
Out of all of the million times and years of BOATING, I finally tried some wake boarding! Hip Hip HOORAY!

and........I am UP!!

But sooner than later...DOWN! This happened LOTS! (it was fun though!)

Tubing was the funnest though! Laughed so hard that we nearly choked on all the water! All I can say is we got some MAJOR air and never let go or fell off! HA HA! It was super romantic in the evening light also. ooh la la!
Another day, we hit the splash pad in the evening. There was not a soul there. The kids ran free across the pad....

They took it all in, and enjoyed all the water to themselves...
Played on all the jungle gym equipment...

and did whatever they wanted to do! (There are some perks of course when school has started and everything in town is dead due to HOMEWORK!!) Ha Ha!
Our cute little neighbor JACOB got this sweet new little ride. Tate is taking in all the ENJOYMENT also!

Another day Davin and Tate were too!
My dear friend EMILEE notified me she was coming to town (for the mud run) and wanted to get together the night before. Work schedules and such made it frustrating to get it all worked out...but we did make it ~sorta~ work. THANKS EMILEE! I LUV YA! A few of us got together though at Chili's. A bunch of friends weren't able to attend, but KRISTY, EMILEE and I had a great time! The laughter was contagious and NUTTY!!
We got Chilly, at Chili's! ;) YES...we are DORKS and proud of it!
Ice cream time at Charlies Ice cream was a must after. We got a few more laughs in just before we parted. (NICE face Kole!)
Here we are at CHARLIE'S!

Mean while my hubby was home slaving away on this BEAUTIFUL deck that he and Garth were building. It was on a deadline, so Aaron wasn't able to attend the evening. Bummer deal, we missed you lots! The deck looks SUPER good though!
Showing off their master piece!!

Aaron heard about the NEWEST mud run around...it was in CACHE VALLEY!

MAN VS MUD to be exact!!

He signed up for it months and months ago. He has been SOOO excited!!! I wanted to do it also...but it was spendy and we don't have the money...so I then was the official picture taker for the group. (There are LOTS more pics taken than shown..so I will email them to you Emilee and Annie (and whomever) if you would like them all!)

The DIRTY BIRDS....still CLEAN! A bunch of our family and friends!
Emilee and Annie looking HOTTTTT before the run!!
Aaron ready to get down and dirty!

The finish line! You slip on down this huge hill...into the last MUD bath of the course! NICE!
Dirty kisses afterwords!
He was MUDDDDDDYYYYYYYY and loved it!
Brothers! ahhhhh!
Some of the group afterwords!
Here are some more! They all were having a great time. Next year...I am IN! Saving up for sure! Looked much more fun than just taking the dang pics! ;)

Aaron then hurried and showered up so we could get to a family get together. My nephew came up to Logan to go through the temple for the first time before he leaves on his mission in a few weeks! AAHHH..I feels so OLD! I was just wiping his BOTTOM I swear! I really was!

Good times with family, along side YUMMO food!
Davin's learns how to FLY!
Sweet cousins....(my sweet nieces!)
Some of the old and young COUSIN'S together. So cute and sweet!
We sure will miss good ol Christian on his mission, but are so proud of him of course also!

Until next week! More CrAzY DaYz ahead!