1st Day of School for the big kids 2010

I love the first day of school...back to a routine, a clean house for at least a few hours a day, get to go out to lunch! As for the kids well at least 2 out of 3 were happy this morning! pEverybody's backpacks were loaded down with all the school supplies for the year and hapy to waer their new clothes! Paige had a royal melt down about her outfit which then caused the rest of her morning to go down hill and was even more excited when I said you can't leave until I take your picture....after the picture she was gone not to be seen again until 3:00, hopefull she got happier once she got to school. Sadie even snuck into a picture. Riley wanted to part of us walking him to school so he bolted on his bike as quickly as he could but our sweet little Hayley girl let us walk with her to school and even take pictures with her bike.

Riley - 5th grade 10 years old (for a couple months at least)

Paige - 4th grade 9 years old

Hayley - 2nd grade 7 years old

Wow typing that out I feel super old for some reason!

Sadie 1st hair cut

This is always such a sad day, when you have to get your baby their first hair cut. I am not really sure why this is so sad as she seriously had a mullet and it was almost embarrassing it was so crazy looking but once you get them that first haircut they don't look like babies anymore. So sad day for me, for sure but she looks super cute. Thanks Sara! My little baby is growing up. She did so good, she said still and let Sara cut her mullet off with no tears or wiggles...good job Sadie girl!

One last fun summer day!

One last fun summer activity...bowling! Yea baby. I took, Riley, Paige, Hayley and of course baby Sadie with Tanner and Talin by other 2 boys bowling for one last fun activity before school started. The kids had so much fun and I have to admit I am pretty darn amazing at Pop-A-Shot...if there was ever a league for arcade basketball I think I would join. :-) Paige even managed to beat all of us with a broken arm in a cast....way to go Paiger

Lake Powell 2010

Sand Hill cliff jumping...Paige looks a little sketchy!

Kaelie pop, locking and dropping it

Tieing down the houseboat for a storm

Riley helping John get ready to wakeboard

Asleep after our Sunday adventure.

Sand Hill

Swimming after Rainbow Bridge

We took our annual trip to Lake Powell this week. As usual it was amazing. The Wright's are an amazing family and we love spending the week. I am pretty sure there is nothing better Sacramento meeting on the house boat. The spirit is so strong there and it reminds me why I joined the church. All the talks always seem to be exactly what you need at that time! We got there Saturday morning loaded the house boat and headed out...with only a few glitches...(Johnny boat wouldn't start on the launch wrap and then we got a ticket hauling stuff to the house boat). It took almost an entire day to find a spot but we finally found one and set up camp...12 adults inside and all the kids up top it was craziness but so fun. Sunday we had Sacrament meeting and then took our annual trip to Rainbow Bridge and Dangling Rope for ice cream...we hiked up to the bridge (actually Hayley quit about half way so I went back with her) and Ryan took the rest of the kids up. It was so stinking hot...we all pulled out on the boats and swam to get cooled off for a while. We then hit dangling rope for ice, gas and a yummy root beer float (I got a Pepsi from the fountain with ice...it was so good). We wakeboarded, tubed and swam the rest of the day. On Monday we went to Sand Hill where Paige lost 1 flip flop on the way up....how exactly does that happen...just one flip flop? Anyway they all had a great time and did a little jumping off the rocks too. Johnny took a bunch of kids on a long boat ride to the Marine on Tuesday but other than that we just chilled, ate delious food and treats all week long. I think I gained 10 pounds but it was worth it! One of the funniest moments this week was from Paige...as adults it is customary that when every we pull in somewhere on boats we turn up the music super loud and everybody gets up on the sides of the boat and dances....it is hysterical. So as we pulled into Dangling Rope we tried to get our kids to do the same and Paige freaked out...she was so embarrassed of all of us we were dying laughing. Why knew at 9 years old we would already be embarrassing our kids :-) We had a couple good storms that brought the kids down from sleeping on top for a few hours but its to be expected at Lake Powell, all part of the adventure right? We took all of our kids except baby Sadie, sorry Sadie a few more years!

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San Diego 2010

Any one want to challenge me?



The girls had so much fun on the rides.


Sadie loved the boats


What in the world is dad doing...

Nice shades

41 hits was our record

Dusty and Dana relaxing on the beach

All the girls


You always have to have one picture you take of yourselves.

Is my 2-year-old laying out?



Bay side park


Paige getting a pedicure
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Literally the only picture I took of my son





Kit flying



This is pretty much what Paige did every day.


The first trip of a new yearly tradition to Mission Beach, San Diego! We had so much fun we are going to do this every year.

We started off our trip with our car breaking down and the dealership could not fix it before we left so we rolled over to SD in the work truck with a trailer full of crap...bikes, food, port-a-crib, bike trailer, beach chairs, sand toys and pretty much anything else you could think of we looked hilarious. The others Bond's (Dusty & Dana & Tatum) came with us.

Saturday night we ate Luigi's famous pizza and yum yum yummy! We went to the beach almost every day. Paige was hysterical every day she would hall an umbrella, chair, a couple of towels, bag with snacks and drinks and then chilled like a beach princess. On Tuesday Riley flew home so we all kind of split up. Paige and I got pedicures, then went shopping with Sadie, Hayley went to Seaworld with the other Bond's and Ryan took Riley to the airport. I think Hayley had more fun than anyone at Seaworld. Ryan and I went to all you can eat crab one night (gross) and I think Ryan ate 6 or 7 claws...the record was 10. We went down to the gas lamp district one night and ate and walked around. Dusty and Hayley got kites and with the beautiful ocean breeze they were able to use them almost every day. Ryan and I became Paddle Ball experts...I think our record was 41 hits, YEAH BABY! We rode bikes to the Bellmont Park almost every day for ice cream and treats. Thursday was wrist band day so the girls rode rides and we played arcade games. I even managed to whip up a few guys in the arcade in some basketball...I took a pictures of my score for proof. Ryan and Dusty rode the Wave Rider which was pretty cool. We rode bikes to the cinnamon roll shop one morning...pretty stinking yummy!

The weather was absolutely amazing and this was probably one of the best trips we have taken, can't wait to do it again next year.