Sunday, August 23, 2009

What A Man!!

I just want to let Brad know how much we love him! He is a great father and a great husband. This summer has been great but hard as well because Brad has been gone soo much. He works so hard for our family and does it without complaint! He is a wonderful man. When he comes home and the kids are still awake he always pays with them and lets them know that he loves them and misses them. On average over the past two months he has probably gotten 4 hours (if that) of sleep a night. I DO NOT know how he does it. But he does not complain, he is such a trooper! I love him with all of my heart! I love that he can fix anything. There is not one thing that he can not fix around the house, and he will figure if out if he is not sure what is wrong with it. I just wanted to let him know that we appreciate what he does for us, even though it is hard!


We Love You Daddy!











Friday, August 7, 2009

4th of July!

We went up to the Gorge for the 4th. Katie's family and my family came and we had a great time. We found the perfect spot, the water was rising a foot and a half a day so we were lucky to find such a good spot.

This is one of the many mortars we let off over the weekend. We put on quite a good show. The boys loved it and we couldn't keep them away from the matches after that. We are raising little pyromaniacs.

This is Sam preparing the mortars! The next night Stef and Lamar brought out a lot of fireworks, but I was too busy making sure the kids didn't blow themselves up that I didn't get any pictures.


We had a friendly game of texas hold em going on. Sam is still holding out on my mom to pay him the 40 dollars:)


Lamar and Austin on the wakeboard. Austin is soo tough!!


My dear sweet sisters, haha!

Alyxis chillin on the boat, eating her sandwich! She did so good wearing her life jacket!


Austin, Taycie, Val, and Jaden on the boat! Aren't they cute!


Sammy, Cindy, Colby and Jaden with their sparklers!


Mommy and Lyxi Lou on the boat!


Brad and Val on the tub. That looks like it was an easy ride, but they were being tossed like rag dolls on the water. Val got dumped three times and them Brad finally bit the bullet the last time. It was pretty funny to watch!