Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!

This year for Sierras Birthday party, she had one with friends, and one with family. She decided,with a little help from me :)to have an 80's themed party. All the girls came in their best 80's costume. It was fun, they did an 80's themed scavenger hunt and Name That Tune. Then they watched 13 going on 30...yes I found Razzles. It's funny to think I dressed liked that, and liked it... a lot. I still love 80's music , and hopefully now some of Sierras friends do too.
Sierra wanted me to bake her cakes for the family party. I really don't bake well. But we found these cute star cake pans, Sierra loves stars and anything sparkly. Yes, she is 15. The cakes turned out cute and hopefully tasted okay.

Thanks fam for coming over to celebrate!! We love you all!! Happy Birthday Cute Girl!!

Summer Time!!

What a summer this has been. The kids both told us that they were a little burned out and just needed a relaxing summer. Last summer was full of basketball, football, and dance camps. Not that those are bad things, but I really over scheduled. Matt would say I always overschedule, not just in the summer.So this summer has been a lot of R& R, and it was much needed. SO the kids decided that they will do one camp this year , instead of 4 or 5. Hunter did go to one basketball camp, and had a blast. He is getting ready for a football camp this week. Sierra has a 2 week dance camp coming up in August.Last week we all had a week of vacation. Our first day was Sierras 15th Birthday, we went to her favorite Chinese restaurant and to a movie .I will post pics from her parties soon..they were great. The next day we spent at Lagoon, both of the kids brought friends and it was really fun!! Sierra also got her learners permit that day. Woo Hoo! For the rest of the week we went up to the Birch family cabin at Strawberry and just vegged out. The kids rode their dirt bikes, we took the raft out, and did a whole lot of nothing ( even Matt... sorta.) This is Hunter riding his motorcycle
Matt, Sierra and Hunter in the raft.
Sierra on her motorcycle.

Below are some pictures of some fun things that happened earlier this summer. Hunter doesn't have a ton of pics from his activities, because for some reason 11 and 12 year old boys don't like their moms following them around with cameras. This will change............

"Workin' at the car wash.." This is a picture from Sierra and some of her dance company friends at their fundraiser at the beginning of June. They did a great job washing cars to earn a little money for their trip next year.
A BIG SHOUT OUT TO BOSTON!!!!!! I have to say we were all pretty excited that Boston won. The kids all dressed in green for the big game. We are huge Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen fans. If it couldn't be the Jazz, Boston was a great team to cheer for this year!!!
Sierra and I trained to run our first race together, and possibly our last. I don't know that Sierra loved it enough to keep training for longer races. Sierra hates to run , but for me,she trained to run a little 5K with me. Sierra is fast, she kicks my trash every time we go running. This day she beat me too. I am SO proud of her for running with me.
You cant really tell in this picture, but she has pink streaks in her hair for the summer, it's cute.
Our whole family went to Lake Powell for a few days with some of the youth in our ward. It was such a great time. We went on the 3 man tube in the picture, and seriously laugh so hard the whole time. Sierra and 2 of her friends were maniacs on the tube. I had taken some great pictures on my old school disposable camera, which still needs to be developed, but here is a great one of the kids.