Conference weekend=

CRAFT TIME!

This year my sister and mom and I decided to get creative...

Witch Candy Dispensers.

fill with favorite candy...aka...PEANUT M&M's

twist her nose...

catch the candy that falls out her mouth...

and enjoy!
isn't she cute???

TOFW

TIME OUT FOR WOMEN

with my 3 favorite women

A MUCH needed break away from the boys to laugh and cry about life.

A few of my favorite presenters:

Sheri Dew

Dallyn Bayles

Hillary Weeks

DeAnne Flynn

Brad Wilcox

Wendy Ulrich

and my favorite...

Kris Belcher

(pretty sure I laughed so hard that I cried and peed my pants...shhhh don't tell)

ALL BETTER NOW

A few weeks ago our little Payton had to go to Primary Children's Hospital and have surgery.

He had a HYDRO CELE.

Payton is terrified of doctors and hospitals.

We had to do something to prepare him for this day.

So...

We bought him a NEW backpack.

We gave him lots of NEW prizes and toys to put in his new backpack.

Daddy let him play with his iphone...A LOT.

We gave him lots of LOVE.

He had lots of prayers directed his way.

The most important and the biggest help he was given was a blessing from his

DADDY.

He was so handsome in his new jammie's...aka (the required hospital gown)

BIG props to the Primary Children's Hospital staff. They were AMAZING with all the kids. They gave Payton his very own "little buddy". This "little buddy" was dressed in a gown just like Payton. The staff gave the kids ALL the doctor tools and let them play with them on their "little buddies".

This idea=BRILLIANT

Payton held the doctors hand and walked away into the operating room without looking back. His surgery was 45 minutes. Then he was in recovery and waking up for another half hour.

He had a ruff time coming out of the anesthesia. But, he just wanted mommy so that was my highlight of this day.

This was his owie a few days after his surgery.

Payton was a brave little boy and we are so proud of him. Thanks for all the prayers that were directed his way. They were answered and he is all better now!

Love you Payton!

I get to scrapbook a PINK page!!!

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WHO could get mad at this cute face?

Why don't I post as often?

because...

the last time i was on the phone, a certain someone was painting our rug with syrup (couldn't bring it back to life, it now lies in our garbage can).

the last time I was on facebook, a specific little person was spraying bleach on my carpet.

and the last time I got on the computer to blog, a VERY brave little man was decorating big brothers room and bed with the same syrup bottle.

pictures say 1000 words. this picture says it ALL!

WE LOVE SUMMER

we went camping at Bear Lake with the Brown Family.

as soon as we got our camp set up we had to run down to the water.

zack, your diaper looks a little full...let me take care of that.

much better

i am so in love with my boys when they are sleeping

even when they pretend to be sleeping

zack loved to chase the seagulls

"where'd they go?"

on our way home from Bear Lake, we went to the Famous Preston Night Rodeo. payton is yelling, "CANDY, OH YEAH"

the reason I took this picture, yes I am sneaky, is because we sat next to Court McGee.

he was on The Ultimate Fighter show and WON it! He is the guy in the same color of blue shirt as Robert

Our 24th of July

We had a fun, busy, hot, wet, enjoyable weekend in Idaho.

We floated the river a couple time. It wasn't as relaxing as it may look. Several of us hit our bums on a rock at the beginning and learned really quick to keep our bottoms up. We all had fun dodging the rocks and trying to stay on our tubes.

We only had a few minor injuries...sorry to Tom's bum and Audrie's knee:(

Robert wanted to go down the small waterfall.

He got stuck!

It was hilarious:)

When he finally got "unstuck" he kept getting sucked back into the waterfall. It felt like he was in the waterfall for 20 minutes, but he was probably only stuck for 5 minutes.

It was so funny to watch that this HAD to of been the highlight of our trip!

The next day we went to the Weston parade! I didn't get any pictures of the kids getting candy because I must of blinked and the parade was over.

Although the parade was small, the kids got a TON of candy from it. I guess if I had words to describe the Weston, ID parade they would be...

"Short and Sweet".

After the parade we went to the park and the kids played some games and got prizes. Then we went to the baseball field and an airplane came and dropped candy 7 times.

After all the fun Weston festivities we headed to Oneida Narrows reservoir to go on grandpa and grandma's boat.

We saw TONS of fish.

Payton was a little worried at first.

Payton soon realized that it's fun to be on a boat because he could throw his fishing pole in the water and go fishing.

Zack has no fear...

Well, we all had a fun weekend and hope you all got some sun as well:)

until next time...