Camping and soccer- more soccer than camping

This week we had a soccer tournament in Cache County and decided to camp up Blacksmith Fork Canyon (thanks for suggesting it Trent). Well, it ended up being a lot more soccer than camping. We played some hard teams in higher brackets than us and even though the scores didn't tell the whole story about each game Chad was proud of the team. We got better every game and held our own against the top team. The score was zero to zero at half time and they scored one early in the second half. They did control pretty much the whole game but our defense held up until about ten/ fifteen minutes to the end of the game then the heat and the fact that they had played 2 games caught up to the defense and the other team scored 4 in a row. It was too bad because like I said the score didn't show the fight the boys put up.

Every other year we go to Bear Lake with Chad's family and stay at a cabin there. As you can tell from my bazillion pictures we had a great time thanks to Chad's parents. We played volleyball, went swimming indoors (during bad weather), went jet skiing,, and just plain relaxed! I had to share lots of pictures - sorry if it is picture overload.

More Bear Lake...

Fourth of July at Bear Lake

A new family member!

So Megan made me sad that I won't be having a cute little baby ever again so Chad, against his better judgement, gave into London and me and let us get a new baby of our own. If you know anything about me you know this is a HUGE step for me because a am NOT a dog person. They are kinda stinky, they shed hair, and puppies chew everything up. So why in the world did we get a puppy well it all started a couple months ago when Chad's mom got a new puppy- Zoe. She is a Cavalier St. King Charles too and she is the sweetest little dog. She has a cute personality, good with the kids, a lap dog, doesn't bark. London fell in love and tried to convince grandma to give her up and let us take her home. Well, of course grandma wasn't gonna give her up so we have had to make many trips to see Zoe over the past couple of months which kinda made me want a dog like Zoe- not just any dog. Anyway we decided to tend Zoe for a couple days and see if we were up to the challange and I found out puppies are a lot of work and I decided I wasn't ready for a puppy. Well not 2 weeks later Jane calls us early one morning and says there is a puppy on KSL and they weren't asking too much. I told her no at first and then I started thinking well MAYBE... and this is what happened next....

her name is Rainey. Isn't she cute?

Family Fun in the Wilderness-

The weather has been pretty bad here in Utah through the month of June but we decided to brave the wind and rain and go camping. We wanted to try somewhere new so we went out to dugway by Toole- there were wild horses and tons of antelope.

Summer Camp Fun!

So to keep the kids busy we signed them up for some fun camps. Braden did the Fremont Football camp and loved every minute! I can't believe my little sensitive Braden can love hitting other kids. Chad says it is little brother syndrome. Austin chose to go to Utah States Robotics camp. They built robots out of legos but they had a program that you use with a computer. He made his able to pick up other legos and also made a scanner thing that could detect what color the legos were. So he could tell the robot to pick up only blue legos. It was pretty cool- now he is saving his money to buy his own robot kit and computer program. I kept telling Chad that Austin is to old to play with legos but now I think maybe he'll make us lots of money one day.

My neighbor was in charge of bible camp at St. Mary's this year and she invited all my kids to join in. Of course Austin didn't want to do it but London and Braden said sure why not. By wed. Braden was doing the cross and telling everyone fear not. By thursday he was telling everyone he was switching to beong catholic. I told him he has to go more than a week to a church before he converted. When you sing and do crafts of course you think you want to join thta church! They both loved it and think God is great so overall I think it was pretty great for them.