Ahhh, Sunriver

our bike ride the first night, beautiful!
The bears in the village.

Paigey Crockett

Relaxing at the stables during another bike ride.

They look forward to the HUGE otterpops!

Seth and Taylor actually finished theirs.

The kids with Great Grammy, Frank, and Grandma and Grandpa Brodine.

On our way into the Lava Caves, cold but FUN!

This is as far as I go! I can do anything in flip flops. I did start out in Tennis shoes, but my cousin's daughter had on flip flops so I traded her.

I wonder why Grandma didn't want to go to the caves. She wouldn't have felt claustrophobic :)

They are cute for cave dwellers.

We are having way too much fun. Bike rides 3-4 times a day, swimming, hiking the lava caves, playing in the village, and lots of fun with family. And that's just the first 2 days. We are off to take the chairlift up Mt. Bachelor this morning and then I think we will take it easy today. Seth has a bad cold and cough that I don't want to stop him from doing the fun things here he enjoys. We will see.

Temple open house
Jack's first time swimming

Ally and Sophie loved each other

The boys and the girls swimming at Grandma Strong's

The enormous slug I found on Grandpa Tom's patio, yuck!!

...but he will jump off the high dive?graceful Paige!

Cute cousins

Asleep at last

We had so much fun in Utah. We packed something into every day! Cherry Hill waterpark, Movies, Museums, golfing, swimming, and lots of visiting with family. And this was just the first week with Matt's family. Then we were off to pack in another full week with the Brodines. Stay tuned :)

Last Day of School

Second grade, here I come!
The first year of Middle School, over!

School got out June 18th. Well into the summer, and after everyone else. Here is Paige on the last day, no big backpack to lug around, Yay! And Seth at the park with his buddies after the last day. The Lakers had just won the championship, GO LAKERS!! good thing we already had the jersey to show our laker pride! Ahhh, Summer!

Finally, a family photo

My sister in law Angi has a nice camera and wanted to practice taking photos for a class. I jumped in and asked her to take a family picture of us. The hard part was getting the rest of the family to agree. It was last minute, so no coordinating outfits with cute hair, Paige had just taken a shower, and Matt had a hat on. Oh, well. We have a picture together, that's what counts!

Gwen, Michele, Becky and Michael

This was taken during a girls weekend to Las Vegas, maybe 4 yrs ago? We were waiting to eat at Cheesecake Factory in Caesar's Palace and there was a lot of commotion in the Virgin Record store next door, so we asked the hostess what was going on. She told us that Michael Jackson was in there and they close the doors and whoever is in the store is locked in with him, and she proceeded to tell us that after he would go into Niketown next door and same protocol would be followed. So being the person that Becky is, far left in photo, oops I mean right :), she went and ran into Niketown before he did so she could get herself locked in :) This was the photo Becky got with Michael, she even talked to his son. That is my claim to fame for the King of Pop!

Sophie is 7 months

Sophie Graduates!

The dogs in her class loved her, but she wasn't so sure.

Why do you do this to me?

The battle scar.

We love our Sophie. I just realized that today is her 7 mo. bday. Here are some fun pictures of her and some not so fun. We had her spade at the end of May and had a hard time keeping her away from the staples all the way up her stomach. We tried the cone, but she gave up licking and started scratching with her hind leg. This led to going back to the vet the next day to have more staples put in. Finally someone told us about putting a onsie on her. It did the trick even though I felt like I had to explain to anyone I saw that I really don't dress up my dog. She is healed and we are back to a clothes free Sophie!

Oh, and she graduated from puppy school! Yay!

Seth's end of year fun

Open house, 2 Seths

Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk

Tiger of the Month

I am so far behind with blogging I am going to try and play catch up this week with pictures and a few words.

Seth finished First grade this past week. He had the best teacher and a lot of friends in his class. It will be hard to live up to that next year. He had open house, his Jack and the Beanstalk play, and end of the year festivities. Oh, I almost forgot, he was the tiger of the month for May for being trustworthy! What a great way to finish off a great year! Look out 2nd grade!