St. George 2009

Every summer we spend a weekend in St. George with Derek's family. The boys go golfing a couple times and the girls go to Cedar City to the Shakespeare Festival. Although it is always really hot, we always have a great time.

Cooper and Derek on the go-carts at Fiesta Fun. He was barely tall enough to ride with him.
Cooper and Abbey played for hours and hours.

Brrrrrrrrr!

Spanish Fork Carnival

Anyone who looks at this blog knows that Cooper loves to go on rides. We took him to the Fiesta Days carnival this year and he was big enough to ride some of the big kid rides. Derek thought it would be fun to take him on one that spins around really fast.

Here is the BEFORE picture.....

And here is Derek AFTER... (He was one sick dude!)

Say Cheese!

I'm really not sure where Cooper gets his love for being such a cheeseball when he is getting is picture taken, but he is always asking me to take his picture.

Fiesta Days FIESTA!

Every year on the 24th of July we host a party with both of our families to celebrate Fiesta Days and watch the fireworks from our backyard. Because we live so close to the ballparks, we have a great view of the fireworks. Thanks to Cooper's love of Dora and Diego, he learned what a FIESTA was and decided we needed to have one. So this year we had a fiesta with Mexican food, music and a pinata. There are a ton of pictures, but I didn't want to forget about any of the fun stuff we did that night.

Micailey

The kids plays "Freeze Dance". This was Oliver showing off his ROBOT dance.

All of the kids playing freeze dance

Cooper and Abbey dancing with Aunt Pam

The kids after they broke the pinata.

Katie, Luke and Bailey

Some of the Fam.

Micailey was the one who broke the "big kid" pinata. Sorry Oliver and Dallas! Maybe next year you will get a turn before it breaks!

CANDY!

Derek

Marian, Cooper, Brinley, Abbey, Pam and Jordan just chillin'

Cohen

Jordan

Marian, Jordan and Clara hanging out with Grandpa

More CANDY!

Cooper thought it was awesome that he could hit something without getting in trouble!

Fiesta Days Parade!

This summer Cooper has learned the joy of WATCHING a parade rather than being IN the parade. He thinks catching the candy is the coolest thing ever! I didn't take very many pictures, but here are a few from the SF Fiesta Days Parade.

Tyler, Zak and Cooper on the lookout for more candy.

Cooper and Dallas

Yee Haw!

Before this summer, I had not ever been to a real rodeo (unless you count the PG rodeo once when I was a kid. I was so bored that all I remember is walking around and eating strawberries) So this summer we really found our inner cowboy and cowgirl. We attended not only the Nephi Rodeo, but the Spanish Fork Rodeo as well. We had a fantastic time at both and will be back next year!

We had an extra ticket so we invited Cooper's cousin Micailey to go with us. It was her first rodeo too. I am pretty sure she has just as much fun as we did.

Cooper with Uncle Jordan and Aunt Jamie

Jumpin' Jacks

We spent an afternoon at Jumpin' Jacks with a few of Cooper's cousins. He absolutely LOVED it!

Cooper and Paige

Paige

Maddy

Cooper loved the big boat, but was too much of a wimp to go on the really big one.

Nothing To Wear!

It amazes me how often I say "I have nothing to wear" and give up trying to find something cute to wear. This usually happens on Sundays before church, but when I cleaned out my closets, I realized that I really do have plenty to wear, I probably just couldn't find it in my disaster of a closet.

Summertime Update

I am finally getting around to catching up on this blog. I really don't know what I do with all of my time, but it sure goes by fast!

Things are going great for our family. Derek is still working 10 hour days in Salt Lake, but doesn't seem to mind it. We really hope that Gov. Herbert won't change them back to 8 hour days. I don't know what I would do if he wasn't home on Fridays.

Cooper is still as fun and cute as ever. He says the funniest things and is always amazing me with his incredible memory. He will remind me of things that happened such a long time ago. I don't know how he does it. He loves playing with his friends and cousins. We are very lucky to live near such wonderful friends and family.

My pregnancy is still going well. I have my ultrasound appointment in 2 weeks on July 29th. I will be shocked if it isn't a boy. Guess time will tell! :) A girl would be fun, but a boy would make getting things ready a lot easier. Based on the heartbeat, the doctor said it was "definitely in the boy range". He was right with Cooper, so like I said, I'll be shocked if it is a girl. I'll keep ya'll posted! I started feeling the baby move a few days ago and I had really forgotten how cool it is. Sometimes I feel like this is my first baby all over again because it has been so long!

I guess that is about all for now. Hopefully I'll have more updates soon!

YeeHaw!

We were very lucky to be hooked up with basically the best seats in the house for the Ute Stampede Rodeo in Nephi last Saturday. We were front and center in box seats for our first rodeo together. We were not quite sure what to expect, but overall, we had a great time. There were some crazy events that made me wonder why in the world anyone would want to participate in this sport. It was sure a lot of fun to watch though. We are going to be rodeo experts this summer. We already have our tickets for the Fiesta Days rodeo and hopefully we will have as much fun there as we did in Nephi.

Pony Ride

Play Ball!

If it is Friday night, you will find us at the ballparks. Derek has played softball with his brothers as long as I have known him. Some of our first memories together are from the ballpark. One of the first games I went to, he had a couple other girls there watching him. He actually ditched me to go walk them out. I was SO offended! Guess things worked out OK in the end. : ) I love this time of year and being able to spend time with his family and watch my cute boy play ball. His team is awesome this year! It has been a fun season!

Reed, Sallie and Jamie

Angela and Zak


Run Derek Run!

Justin, Derek and Tiffany