Lake Mead Weekend

We took the family to the lake this weekend. We left Sat. to Lake Mead and boated all day, we had tinfoil dinners, and played games in our trailer. Sunday we woke up had breakfast, packed up the camper and then boated ALL DAY, for 7 hours. The water was amazing, it was like glass most of Sunday and barely any waves on Sat. For those of you who know Lake Mead this never happens, it is usually so windy especially in the afternoon! We called this our Mexico vacation, cause we couldn't go down to the Cabana this year. It was so much fun to spend time with our kids, they are all growing up and it is so much fun! On the way home we had some trailer hitch problems, but thanks to Brad's parents driving down and rescuing us, everything was fine...it just took 5 hours to get home instead of 2!

Brad normally doesn't go on the Hot Dog, but I can't take Emily so he was a sport and went with her and Izzy. (I think he secretly enjoys it!)

Holly had a good time. We were worried how she would do, but she loved the water and kept a close eye on everyone and loved to bark at the fish and ducks!


My friend Jaylin came down and spent Sat with us. She had a good time learning to WakeBoard and ride the Hot Dog!


MaKayla learned to Wake Board this year, she is doing so great! She can get up really easily and is learning to control it and steer. Next year she says she will try to learn to skii!



Emily just couldn't get enough of the water, anytime we would stop she would climb to the back and sit down and put her feet in. She was so funny, anytime someone would fall off the skii's she would say "where 'd go"

Izzy loved the Hot Dog more than anyone! She must have spent at least 3 hours riding on it! She even got hurt pretty bad once when she fell off and the rope got her, but she climbed back on and was ready to go!

Here is a video of MaKayla wake boarding. I got a longer one, but can't get it to work for some reason, she is doing so great!

The First Day of School 09'


Izzy started 1st grade this year, she was so EXCITED! She picked out this outfit to wear on the first day! She looks so big!

MaKayla started 9th grade this year a FRESHMAN!! She choose to wear her sweet new leopard print heals and matching outfit! I can't believe she looks so grown up!

Holly Groomed!


So you may have noticed in the picture of Izzy's birthday Holly was looking pretty shabby! So after I took her to the groomer we took a picture to show how cute she is normally! She is doing so good, and is a sweet dog. She is almost 1 year old! We are deciding weather or not to breed her this time.

Izzy 6th Birthday!

For Izzy's 6th Birthday we had a busy day of fun activities, we went to the hair salon and she and MaKayla got their school hair cuts done, then we went to Sears and got their pictures taken, and then we went to the movie G-Force in 3D. We came home and had pizza, cake and presents. I can't believe she is 6 already, time sure does fly by!
Pizza Yum!


The 3D group


She decorated her very own cake!

A Day at the Beach


We woke up Saturday morning a couple of weeks ago and had the urge to go somewhere, we packed our bags for an overnighter and headed out. We ended up in Long Beach, CA. We stayed only one night and played at the beach all day Sunday. It was so much fun. The girls played and played. The trip home was VERY LONG cause Izzy got sick and then we had to keep stopping, but other than that it was Awesome!



July 24th 2009 Family Reunion


I got this little pool for Emily. I was worried about her trying to run down to the hill or away to other camps, and this worked like a charm. She spent almost the entire time in this little pool even though the water was FREEZING!
My mom always brings her kayaks and they are always in use, I couldn't take Izzy out, so my brother Jason took her. She had a blast!


We always have a craft and this year my nieces had us do these fun flip flops mine and MaKayla's are tied with fabric and Izzy's are water balloons, they are so cute!
MaKayla was out on the boat pretty much the whole time, I got a picture of her finally making her shoes!

On the way home Izzy lost her second tooth in the truck!

Here is a video at the reunion, my brother Mike was in charge of the nights activities, here they are playing a game where one has to feed another chocolate pudding, and both of them are blindfolded. Brad participated in the being fed part, he did awesome especially cause he hates chocolate pudding!

Izzy's first ride on motorcycle

Izzy has been waiting and waiting to be Big enough to go on her dad's mtorcycle. Finally her feet touch the pedals and so she got to go. She is wearing the sweet motorcycle jacket her grandma Hawker gave her even though iit was over 100 degrees outside! She had so much fun!


Fathers Day







For fathers day this year we went to Duck Creek with my Mom and Keith, and Brad's parents. It rained the whole time on and off. Brad spent a lot of time fishing and me and the girls hung out. We went on our usual hike up a trail about .5 mile. the girls all have their names carved in a tree, so we like to get a picture of them standing by it each time we go.