Fun with Cousins

We have been able to spend a lot of time with cousins! The kids have loved spending time with Aliya, Landon, Parker, and Zurie.

Easton is going to be so sad when they go home. Everyday he asks to play with "Landon and Parkers."

They have really had a lot of fun together playing in the dirt, chasing lizards, and going to man stores.

The girls have also played really well together and would just go off by themselves and play dress-up and dolls forever.
We have gone bowling, miniature golfing, and the kids really liked riding in the bumper boats spraying each other.

On Fourth of July we had a BBQ and took the kids swimming. Then we came home and did our own fireworks show.....sparklers.

Then they ran around and played with glow sticks.

It has been so fun seeing the cousins bond and just love being with each other!

June 2015

June was a fun and crazy month for us. I was called to be the assistant camp director and was able to go to girls camp the second week of June!

It was so much fun to get to know the girls in our ward.

Grandma and Grandpa Clayton were so awesome and took the kiddos for the week!

Grandma helped Sophie make her very first quilt! She made it for her doll June.

They had so much fun and talked my ear off when I got home. They went to a little summer craft camp which they loved too!

The next week we all headed up to Idaho for the Clayton Family Reunion! On the way up we stopped and visited with Grandpa Buchanan.

The kids colored him pictures and we brought him his favorite candy, Worthers caramels.

Friday night was the adult dinner night. We got to eat dinner in Great Grandpa's garage with all of the Model A's. We played some really fun car games too!

The next day we brought Easton into the garage and he was so excited! He kept running all over saying "An Eleanor! Over there!!" (He calls all Model A's Eleanor).

This little boy was in heaven and it was really hard to get him out of the garage. He thought they needed some cleaning though and decided to help Great Grandpa.

The kids were excited to take a ride in the old cars!

We ended our car ride at the church and played some fun games.

It was fun to spend time with family. But it was sure hard for Easton to say goodbye to his dream garage!

On June 30th Chad and I celebrated our 8 year Anniversary! Grandma and Grandpa Miller were awesome and watched the kids for us so we could go on a date.
I am so lucky to be married to such an amazing husband and father. He makes me laugh everyday and I can't wait to spend the rest of eternity together.

Sophie's Kinder Graduation

Sophie graduated from kindergarten last night. She was so excited and nervous. All week she was reminding me what time we had to be there, what she needed to wear, what we needed to bring, and how she wanted her hair. Silly girl is such a worry wort.

Grandma and Grandpa Miller and Aunt Sarah were able to come! They sang a bunch of really cute songs. I think Sophie may our little actress. She really got into all the songs with her facial expressions.

And when she went to get her diploma she did a cute little pose. I guess they told them all to look at their family when they grabbed their diploma and we were behind her.

She did a great job and we are proud of our Miss Sophie!

Carnival Fun and Almost Camping

A few weeks ago Sophie's school had a fun carnival. Grandpa Clayton, Chad, and Easton went on the father son campout so the girls went to the carnival. Grandma Clayton came with us and they had a lot of fun little games to play. They especially loved riding the ponies.

There was also a fun clown there making animal balloons...

Sophie's teacher is such a trooper and nearly froze to death at the dump tank. But she made sure every one of her kids got to dunk her!

For Mother's Day weekend on Saturday we went almost camping. We made tin foil dinners and had yummy smores.

Easton enjoyed getting good and dirty...

The kids started to get cold and we needed to put out the fire so we let them all play in the van to keep warm. They were playing with the lights and pretending to drive and all that. When we finally got the fire out we all jumped in the van to go home when....it wouldn't start. Yep dead battery. So Chad and I jumped out and ran to the nearest hill. He climbed to the top and started making phone calls to my family to rescue us only......no one was answering! Seriously we called 6 separate phones....nothing. We really wanted to go almost camping Not real overnight camping and we had just used all of our water to put out the fire...not the best emergency preparedness. So onto Plan B.

We walked to the closest campsite to ask for help. The gentleman came out of his tent and.... hallelujah he had jumper cables! He also had a very large machete on his hip and informed us that he had loaded his shotgun when he heard us approaching because his wife and him were nervous when they heard us getting closer. Comforting haha. But he ended up being super nice and jumped our van so we could go home! I think I can speak for everyone that night that we are really glad we didn't have to sleep in the van.  

Happy Birthday Easton!

Last weekend we celebrated Easton's second birthday! Whenever we asked him what he wanted for his birthday he would immediatley say "A Puppy." He had the same answer for weeks. We were a bit worried we would have to get him one since it was so dang cute how much he wanted one, but Grandma Clayton saved the day and took him to Build a Bear.

He affectionately named it "puppy" of course. Right when we got home he found a little blanket for puppy and has been inseparable from puppy ever since.

We took Eleanor to church since Easton loves...okay is obsessed with Eleanor.

Both Grandma and Grandpa's came over for his birthday dinner!

Chad and I made a McQueen cake for Easton. 

He proceeded to open presents by ever so carefully tearing the wrapping in small pieces. Once he finally got it open though he was excited to get some fun books and a car pillow case from Grandma and Grandpa Clayton.

He absolutely loves his pillow. Not only doe he sleep with it but he is insistent he has it to watch a movie.

Grandma and Grandpa Miller pitched in with Chad and I to get him a Lightning McQueen car from Ridemakers (which is like build a bear but with cars!) He had to literally drag Easton out of the store crying in Downtown Disney and knew he would be thrilled to get one!

Even better was that he got to build it with Pop!

Happy Birthday little man!!!!



Sophie has had her 4 front teeth loose for quite awhile now. And Chad and I kept telling her that Grandpa Miller was a expert when it came to pulling out teeth. We kept teasing her that she should let him pull it when he came for Easton's birthday. She kept saying she wouldn't and wanted it to fall out on its own. When Grandpa came in Sunday he said "come here I want to see how much it wiggles" I immediately thought "I know that trick!!  and he wiggled it and flicked it hard and Sophie lost her tooth and didn't even realize it! We laughed and I said "I told you Grandpa was good!"

When we asked how much she thought the tooth fairy was going to bring her she said $10!!!! Holy smokes I though $1 was a fortune as a kid! She wasn't disappointed at all in the morning though when she found her tooth out of her tooth fairy bear and replaced with a dollar.