Weekend at the Cabin

      One of Corey's recent races was in Park City so we decided to make a weekend of it and go up to the cabin.  I love the cabin and the way it seems to slow down time and instantly relax me.  We did a bit of a hike and I was so excited that everyone did so well.  It's fun to have everyone big enough to do these types of things.  We hiked just above Smith Morehouse lake and it was beautiful!

      The bike race was fun too. All the kids got to race and it was really fun.  Brecken didn't actually get on the balance bike, he's skeptical of a bike without pedals.  Avery on the other hand would have stayed on her bike all night long had we let her. Corey did awesome taking first in his division, but stood on the "podium" for only a second and I couldn't get a pic.  

Summer of Biking

      Anyone who knows Corey well knows he's an avid biker.  The fun thing is when we get to share in his passion.  During the summer our weekends and even once-a-week weeknights are full of bike races.  The weekly series Corey likes to do has a free kids race before the "dads" race.  It's awesome and the boys love it.  Corey's been really strong this year placing first in his division multiple times.  Pretty amazing for a man with two less quadriceps muscles in his right leg. 

      This is Corey's good friend and BikER buisness partner Nick.  Funny thing is that I went to school with Nick K-12.  Pretty cool. 

      Corey on the first place podium with our twins...obviously we need to do a little coaching with them about the arm raising.

Corey's little brother Tyler told him he'd buy him this awesome tiger shirt (please sense my sarcasm) if he'd race in it and he did.  Pretty hot babe!
This is him and his older brother Jared.  

School's Out Let the Fun Begin!!

      I love my kids school.  They have great teachers, good programs and a feeling of home there.  One of my favorite things is the annual fun run fundraiser.  Instead of selling aweful, overpriced stuff, they host a fun run.  The kids get donations for their school and then they run a 5k together.  It's awesome.  100% of the money donated goes to the school.  This year they were earning extra money for a mobile computer lab so my kids set up a snow-cone/bake sale table in our front yard and were able to earn enough to meet their individual goals.  I'm sad I didn't get a pic of their table, but it was pretty awesome.
     The first fun summer activity we did was John Huntsman day at "This is the Place" state park.  It's a special day where John Huntsman pays for everyone who goes including yummy ice cream for all.  We went with Kathy and her girls and Hayley and her sweet boy.  So fun to be there together!

Gretel and Tate

                                                           

  Wyatt, Keaton, Mac and Avery....enjoying her ice cream.

                                    

   Cute Ady

   

Me and Wyatt.  This kid gives me deja vu....so like his daddy!!

     Posing at the carpenters shop, a very cool Native American dance program, panning for gold and a much needed shave for McKay at the Barbers shop.  What a fun day!  I can't wait to see what else summer holds for us!

Brecken at the end of the day...time to go home! 

                                

It's Finished!!!

    Our driveway is finished.  It was a very exciting day to watch the three cement trucks come and all the guys smoothing it out and making it beautiful.  The kids have been LOVING the long runway for biking, basketball, rollerblading, rip-sticking and scootering.   The bathroom will have to wait while we replenish our savings account, but until then we'll just enjoy our beautiful new driveway. 

     One of my favorite things that came with the driveway are the addition of my flower pots.  We used to have a "built in" flower bed full of beautiful, huge hibiscus flowers.  Due to the cracks in our foundation we needed to take the concrete to the house.  This made me very sad as I really do love the flowers, so Corey gave me the go-ahead for big flower pots done to my liking....and I do, loooove them. 

     In case you're wondering they're full of red fountain grass, sweet potato vine, lantana, petunias, and coleus.  Beautiful!

Arrow of Light

      Last week McKay received his Arrow of Light award.  It is the highest award you can earn as a cub scout.  In our ward a mountain man comes and does a pretty intense ceremony.  McKay totally ate it up and had a great night.  Thank you to Grandmas and Grandpas for coming out to celebrate.  Way to go Mac, now onto boy scouts!

Happy Mothers Day

     Funny thing...just as I sat down and started to write this post about the beauty of motherhood Breck came in.  He climbed up on my lab all snugly-like.  It's the middle of the day after his nap so I assumed he was tired from the fun weekend schedule and just needed to rest....until he started puking, over and over again down the fronts of both of us.  Kind of ironic, pretty typical of being a mom.  Now it's the following day and he's much better and life goes on and I can finish my post, here goes.    
      Is every mother completely taken with her own children?  They're so beautiful, unique, difficult, wonderful, amazing...I could go on and on.  I took a few pictures for my own Mom and Mother-in-law and loved this one!
     Happy Mother's Day to all you Mom's out there!  I've been so blessed to have an amazing mother, mother-in-law and friends who are great examples of mothers to me.  Corey is wonderful and planned a weekend of activities to celebrate the mothers in his life.
     He started out planning a date for us, babysitter and all.  He took me to my favorite restaurant, The Red Iguana.  If you haven't been there...call me and we'll go.  It's one of those places that I crave and wish for and then when I get there it's even better than I remember...yeah it's that good.  Then we wandered around city creek center and ended the date with shakes from Arctic Circle (I love Arctic Circle Shakes by the way). This date was the perfect treat for me. Thanks Babe.
     On Saturday afternoon we went to Corey's Grandma Rees' house to work on her yard and have a BBQ with his family.  It was great to see everyone and pitch in a bit.  It's not something we get to do a lot and I was grateful for the chance.  It's always good to catch up with family and Grandma's yard was beautiful!
     Sunday was filled with the best kid-made cards, the perfect gift from Corey (I asked for a trampoline and got it along with flowers for my planters, along with a really nice letter), and yummy food all prepared by Cor & the kids.  That night we went to my Grandma Gough's for dinner and visiting with my Mom.  It was a beautiful day, I couldn't feel more blessed.

     After note: Okay, I lied, I could feel more blessed.  A day or two after mothers day Corey called to tell me he'd nominated me for lasik eye surgery through a Mother's Day promotion from Ogden Eye Center and I won!!!  He wrote the nicest letter to them about me and then got a bunch of his family to do it as well.  Thank you everyone. Lasik surgery is something I've always wanted to do but haven't been able to justify it when there are so many other things to spend money on that would benefit my whole family.  I'm beyond excited for this and so grateful!  I threw away my last pair of contacts last night and am sporting glasses until surgery the first week in June.  Whahoooooooo!

Easter

     Happy Belated Easter.  My thoughts have been a little overwhelmed by concrete and such, but we did have a great Easter so I thought I should document it. 
     We had a great time dying Easter eggs.  Corey rolled his eyes when I told him we were doing four dozen (so immpractical to him) but it was fun.  I love the twins pics, Brecks little face just melts me and you can't help but catch Avery's enthusiasm.
     Every year (since I was little) we go to Scipio.  It's where my Grandma and Grandpa Peterson grew up and we love it.  They have a community egg hunt on Saturday morning and then we have a picnic up at the grove.

After the hunt

     At the grove.... This is a great picture of my Mom trying to stay out of the picture.   Hayley and Adam and sweet Wyatt. Below are the twins "fishing" in the streams.

     On Sunday we had an egg hunt at Corey's parents.  So much fun with cousins....such little time to take pictures, oops!

     I love Easter clothes, but I've found I need a little help in the photography department.  This is the best of the bunch.  I couldn't resist a few of Avery, somthin' about girls and their clothes...