We, as you can see, had a great time with the babies on the slide. This is Luke with his cousin Charity. We have the awesome opportunity to be in the same ward as my little brother Chase (in the first picture) and my parents. It is pretty fun!
As part of our summer we were lucky enough to have two of my cousin's kids come and spend several days with us! Nathan and Maddy were a great joy to have around! They are great kids and we love them! We love our family! We are very fortunate to be able to be close to our extended family! I consider it a great blessing!
Our 4th of July was fun, but uneventful! We weren't able to go camping for the Kraync family reunion and that was a bummer but we had our own little firework show at home with Grandpa and Grandma Greenhalgh. Luke was quite impressed with the fireworks but didn't want to get too close. He did like the sparklers though.
The day after the 4th we did get to go to our traditional Scofield trip to watch the fireworks over the lake with Karl's family. I have to admit it is not my favorite tradition, but my husband and my kids love it so what do you do? LOL
Does this look like trouble to you? Three boys with matches? AHUH! LOL
Finally we get a little respite from the rigors of the house building! Around the 14th of July the kids and I were able to go with Karl to Colorado! Even though we had a broken trailer! We stayed at Island Acres campground. It is a great little place with several fishing lakes and a little lake with a beach for swimming! We went on a bike ride along the Colorado River while Karl was at work and the kids had a blast playing in the lake. It was soooo good to get a way.
If you can't tell that is a little tiny frog in Jax's hand. They are all over the place at the swimming lake. The kids had a whole frog town going on in the sand. I wish I would have got a picture. It was pretty cute!
Jax and Jacee were chasing the geese. I told them to be careful but they didn't seem to be afraid of them.
I thought these pictures were cute. Luke and his sisters enjoying books together. Memories!!!
This is a picture of Jax smoking Chris's bees. Chris is Karl's friend and project manager in Colorado. He has bees, as you can see, and he was so kind to let us come over and see one of his hives. He even let Jax smoke the bees and see how they respond to the smoker. It was a great opportunity even if Jax did get stung! LOL Thanks Chris!
On our way home I was able to get a video of Luke saying some of his cute words. He has really started talking a lot the past week or so but I still have to try and post this video of him because it is soooo cute!
We had the very RARE chance to get to gether with my whole family for a short couple of hours one weekend and I captured some cute moments of the afternoon:
This is my grandpa and ma Noyes with my sister Tracy!
This is the back of my niece, Kassandra, LOL! My nephew Travis and my brother Chad, and brother-in-law Kevin.
This is my Aunt Leila and Uncle Larry with their daughter Joann, her kids, and my sister!
This is just the beginning of the blizzard. We had to set the backdrop down and, as you will see in the next pictures, everyone huddled under the covered patio. Thankfully this only lasted about 1 hour.
Yes you are seeing correctly! I didn't even know Jax was standing in for the throwing of the garter and yes, of course, he caught it! It was pretty funny! We got quite a chuckle out of this!
Trent dancing with my mom. They invited Kenzi half way through the dance! It was cute!
Jax had a good time dancing with Natalie during the money dance!
This is a picture of the beautiful evening and the bride and groom dancing together! In the background you will see my little nephew, Kyler. He was less than impressed with all this mushy stuff!!!! As I said the evening turned out to be beautiful and Natalie parents yard and it's views were both breathtaking. To top it off they even were blessed with a beautiful rainbow on their wedding day!!!!
Okay before I end this VERY LONG post I will post a few pictures of our home. Which, by the way, we are LOVING! It is so nice and peaceful to finally be where we know we belong! We plan on raising our children here and growing old together here! We are still not all unpacked. You will see boxes in some of the pictures and we still need to get some electrical done, but it's still peaceful. I am so blessed I feel as if I'm living in a dream.
The front entry
This is our great room
This is a picture of our rock arch being taken from the kitchen looking into the great room.
Our railing in our house turned out beautifully, in my opinion, but Karl worked hours and hours on them. They were a nightmare, but now they are a dream! LOL
This is our master bathtub and below is the master shower.
I took this picture so you could maybe see the glazing that is on certain walls in our home. It is very, very beautiful and I get A LOT of compliments on it. (Thanks Bryan!) I love it! This picture doesn't do it justice, but it's pretty. It sort of gives my home the Tuscan style feel. That and the color of my trim, the railings, and the rock bring the most compliments. Nearly everyone who comes to see it falls in love with these features. I love them too! They are just warm and peaceful and inviting, welcoming! And if there is anything I want to portray in my house it is that everyone is ALWAYS welcome!
