Memorial Day Weekend-May 25

There are a lot of pictures, but I posted so many mostly for Laura. I got home from running on Friday morning and peeked into my bedroom and this is what I saw...

We got to Rexburg late Friday night. Saturday morning Wes went on a short motorbike ride with my dad. Grandpa David (below)
Wes decked out in his motorbike attire

Then we headed out to Grandpa Nye's house and the kids had a blast out there working in the yard, shooting Grandpa's carbyde cannon and playing with the hose water.

Londie and Jacks in Grandpa Nye's backyard

Then we went out past Beaver Dick Park and went shooting with Grandma and Grandpa and Kent, a friend, and his little girl Andi who Jackson and London adored.

Me shooting Kent's gun-I don't know what it was, AK-47?

Wes shooting the .22

Then we were back at Grandpa Wood's for a birthday/going away party for my brother, Sam, who is leaving for OCS (the Marines) this summer. Don't worry, he will be back in the fall for school. Me in front of the pizza....where else would I be?Jackson and Sam

Lighting the candles...J and L were just as close as they could possible get

Jackson had to go to time out for ringing the doorbell about 100 times while Uncle Sam was asleep. London decided to sit right down next to him.

This pic is out of place. Paula, Aspen, and Dillon on our way out to the cemetary on Monday.

On Saturday we went to Yellowstone to Old Faithful. We were going to stay at the cabin, but the pipes were broken so there was no water. So we just spent the day up there.

Wes and the river he loves

The kids throwing rocks in the river

Dada and Jackson

Old Faithful

J and L waiting for Old Faithful

Old Faithful Inn

On Monday we spent the day at the Nye's. London making funny faces

Family picture at the cemetary on Memorial Day. Wes' brother, John, is buried here.

All the cousins who were there.

And finally, playing at the Sand Dunes on Monday afternoon with everyone. The kids had the most fun here I think. I am still finding sand in their clothes and in my car. Jackson making a huge leap.

Londie's jump

Daddy, Mommy, and Jacks

Mommy and the kiddos

Just the girls

Can anyone guess what this is?

Jackson found one of these looking exactly like this today on our front porch underneath an overhang of cement by the stairs. They were very very tiny, you could hardly see them. He showed me and I started freaking out and I wanted to hurry and get the bug spray and kill them all. We got to see them actually being born--squirming out of their little cacoon. It was a Discovery Channel moment. I was worried they were spiders or some type of bug that would eat all our flowers. Then I looked closer and thought they were grass hoppers. Then Jackson looked very closely and said, "Look Mommy, they are Praying Mantis!"

All of a sudden they became "cute" to me. As cute as baby bugs can get I guess. I kept saying to Jackson, "Don't touch them, leave them alone, look how cute they are!" Now, pretty much the only reason I wanted to save their poor little lives is because Praying Manti eat other bugs. Any bug that eats spiders and flies and mosquitos and fruit flies can live on my porch anytime. So the whole thing was over in a matter of minutes and I think it was pretty cool that me and Jacks got to witness it all. Keep in mind, had it been any other bug, they would all be dead by now by my bug spray.

Jackson's elbow wound

This is the video of Jackson scraping his elbow. It doesn't happen until the end, but his reaction is so funny....I think it is anyway.

Random pictures of the last few days

Jacks was riding his bike on a board up and down our front steps and he fell against the side of the stucco wall and scraped his elbow. He was fine until he saw the blood....then this pic was the result with a lot of crying until we got a bandaid on it.
Nice summer attire. He is ready to go mogy-biking....Grandpa, you ready?

Jacks put all of Londons bows and barretts in her hair. It was really funny. And she was so patient. They make a good team.

Here is Jacks "rock-a-baby-ing" London. She wasn't asleep, but she held perfectly still so Jackson could rock her and tickle her face. I love it when they get along.....which is hmmm... about 50 % of the time.

Mother's Day

We had a wonderful Mother's Day because we got to have Grandma Nye stay with us. We had a very nice Mother's Day dinner with Grandma Nye and Jim and Lindsey's family. It was a fun day. Thanks for staying with us Grandma Nye

Grandma reading the kids stories
Bundled up like "eggs" or so Jackson says

Daddy and Londie

Happy Mother's Day

Jackson's Mother's Day Program

Jackson's preschool put on a Mother's Day program. They sang songs for us and Jackson sang loud and clear and even looked at me and smiled...then we had snowcones...and Jackson gave me a present-his handprint on a tile. I love it! I love being a mom to 2 sweet kids and I wouldn't change a thing.

White Rim Bike Trip-Day 1, 18 miles

Saturday May 2: Day 1 White Rim Bike Trip: We left the kids this morning around 9am. They had a fun weekend with Grandma Susie. We headed down to Moab and it rained hard the entire drive down. We met up with our group-15 people including us,(5 women, 10 guys) at Dead Horse Point in Canyonlands Nat'l Park. It rained the whole way up there. We were getting nervous. As soon as we started biking it turned beautiful and we had great weather the entire trip. We biked 18 miles the first day to our campsite. We got there around 7pm. It was a good ride and a good day. We had steak, salad, and baked beans for dinner with cheesecake for dessert. It tasted sooooo good out there.

Jackson and Londie right before we left.
The turnoff to Canyonlands-look at the menacing cloud in the sky
This is out of order, but look at the cool arch in the clouds-very fitting...

In the parking lot preparing for the ride-dark clouds overhead

Right after we started biking-look at the clouds now...

Beautiful La Salle Mt Range-I am in the corner if you look close

Wes and the road below that we biked on

me looking over the edge

The road below

The road we rode in on...ha ha ha

Mussleman Arch-neither Wes or I would walk across it even tho it was about 6 feet wide. One of the girls in our group did handstand on it. We weren't there to see that and I am glad. I would have freaked out. (The arch is in the background of the pic, but it kind of blends in)

Beautiful View

Hot Man on a bike

Me looking off the edge of a cliff-don't worry, I look closer than I actually was

First campsite at a place called Airport

Wes rolling up our tent the next morning