So much fun!



Jordan had a two week break from school in August so we decided to make the trip home and visit friends ad family.  First stop... Fish Lake National Forest to hang out with friends.  We got to the cabin really late on Friday night so Brooklyn was already asleep.  When she woke up the next morning she was just being such a cheese ball! 




Our first project of the friends trip was tie-dye. 










Everyone took turns and dyed their own shirts.  It was really fun to see how they all turned out!



The next activity was riding four wheelers up to a lookout over a coal mine.  The ride was fun and the view was AWESOME! 

I just had to post this pic.  Brooklyn being a cheese and Kenz just being so darn cute.  I just want to squeeze those cheeks.

The gals working away getting dinner ready.  We had yummy dutch oven pork and potatoes and of course cobbler.  We sat around the fire talking and playing games.  It was such a fun night!  We have the best friends ever! 



We needed our friend picture before we left the cabin and we wanted to show off our new shirts.  Pretty good lookin' I think!



We had to have our family picture.  It was pretty sunny that morning so we were all squinting trying to keep the sun out of our eyes.

After Fish Lake I dropped Jordan off in Kaysville to go hiking with Dean, Jake, and Riley (I would love pictures of the hike to post but Jord didn't give me any) and I headed off to Logan.  I stayed with Kami and babysat her kids on Monday while she worked and she took the dogs to get fixed.  This is post surgery.  They were pretty miserable.

Lily just looked like she felt awful. 

On Tuesday Kami and I packed up and headed to Burley.  It was fair week at home so we went to the parade on Wednesday morning.  All the kids were excited to watch the parade and get all the candy they could.

Ellie, Tate, and Emma were all in the parade for their hockey club.  Ellie rolled on by and Tate and Emma rode on the float.

Thursday we went to Steadmans just to have a fun day with the family.  Casey and Candice had to work so Jord and I stole Madison for the day so she could come play with us.  She and Case LOVED the swings and they couldn't get enough of the slides!

The three babes didn't care much for the day in the sun.  They are so darn cute and such good little ladies!

Jord and Bodey were slide buddies.

This could be my favorite shot of he day.  Kelly with a bunch of the kids. 

Madison had such a fun day she was gonzo beans before we even hit the freeway.

Jordan and I got to cruise in the caddie and he found these Blue Blocker sunglasses.  What a hottie I got.  Hands off gals.. he is mine!

We got to go to the zoo with Case.  He was so proud that he had his own ticket and wanted to show it to everyone. 

He says the monkeys were his favorite but this one about made him jump out of his skin.  He was crouched down looking in the window and it ran right over to him and sat on the other side of the glass.  It was fun to watch Case jump.

Ayla thought she was such a big girl when she got to ride in the backpack.

We had our annual Hunger Family Car Campout too.  We stay up Farmington canyon but the road washed out so we had to drive up the Bountiful side and then drive over to the Farmington side.  LONG DRIVE but well worth it.  We stopped to look out over the Great Salt Lake.  It was a beautiful view.

Audrey picked some wildflowers and we put them in a can on the table.  What a lovely centerpiece.  Now that is car camping!

Standing around waiting to start getting ready for dinner.

Lindy made some killer potatoes!  YUM!

It's shake and bake.. and Al helped

I love Audrey's face in this one.

The pups liked camping but they hated being tied up the whole time.

Our little birthday girl!  Lacey Jane had her first birthday on the campout.  What a cutie she is.  I don't know if I have every seen a happier baby.  I could really steal her!

ALEX... enough said!
We really had a wonderful two weeks.  It was so much fun to get to see and spend time with everyone.  We are so blessed to have such wonderful families and friends.

Date Night

Last week I decided that Jord and I could use a fun date night.  We saw the movie Just Go With It in the theater and almost died laughing and since the movie just came out I thought we could do a date based on the movie.  I got out our souvenirs from Hawaii (and Jord thought we would never use them again.. HA) and picked up a fresh pineapple and coconut from the store.  I thought the table looked pretty cute!  I thought it would be fun to make our own leis.. I will be honest it is a cute idea but not so much fun once you start because it takes a while.

I got a large paper pad and taped paper onto the window so we could paint our Hawaiian scene to set the mood of the night.

Gotta love kids paint!

Jord was a good sport and played along with the lei making but as you can tell we both got sick of putting the flowers on and gave up with it halfway done.

While I finished making dinner I put Jord in charge of painting the beach and a palm tree.  I thought the sun and the ocean would be easier so I said I would take care of that.  Well, the sun was easy.

For dinner we had Hawaiian Haystacks of course.  This could be one of my FAVORITE meals.  I usually ask for it for my birthday dinner.  YUM

We decided to pose in front of our masterpiece.  I think my wave looks like a certain monster from Scotland but oh well.  I don't think I will be taking the place of Bob Ross and whipping out any happy little trees anytime soon.

I thought the dogs should get in on the fun.  Lily was a poser when I put the lei on her.  She just pranced around thinking what a pretty little girl she was.

Malcolm HATED the lei and just cried when I put it on and tried to bite it off and kill it.

After dinner we went for a walk along the beach..
Actually it was a walk on the sidewalk.  Date night or not the pups still have to go for a walk.  Then we got in our swimsuits and went to the hot tub because you have to be in your swimsuit when you are in Hawaii.  When we came back up we had strawberry sherbet and lime soda treats and watched our movie.  It was a fun night will lots of laughing!  We had so much fun I think we need to do theme dates more often.

COUPONS!!!

Jord and I went shopping tonight and I think we made a pretty good haul and I wanted to share!  I usually just have to call my mom and tell her about my shopping trips but it is late and I am sure she is in bed.  We got 4 boxes of Life cereal, 3 tubes of toothpaste (FREE), 4 bottles of dressing, 6 cans of beans, 3 bottles of Wisk, 4 packs of pudding, 3 boxes of powder pudding, 1 lemonade mix, and 1 miracle whip.  We also had a $3 coupon for produce!  Another good deal was milk for $1.79 per gallon. 
All said and done the total was $103.42
we paid $43.31
we saved $60.11 or 58%

Wupatki National Park

There are some ruins about 30 minutes away from Flag so we decided to take a half day and check them out.  I LOVE this kind of stuff and Jord is sweet enough to join me ad be a good sport.  He did say that it was really interesting so I guess he had a good time too.



This was the first pueblo we stopped at called Wukoki.  This one was fun because you could walk through all the rooms and it was in really good shape.  They think three families lived together in this pueblo.  The sign said that there has been no rebuilding of the pueblo they have just mortared the walls.  It is crazy that after 800 years so much was still standing.



You really had to think short and thin to get through some of the "doors" in the pueblo but it was worth it to stand in the past (this would be the history nerd talking) and imagine how it used to look.

Jord took time to look out the window and contemplate life.

I really wanted a picture close and I told Jord not to get the sign in the picture... he listens well doesn't he?

The next stop was the Wupatki Pueblos.  This was a massive community that they think held up to 100 people in its prime.  There were several different pueblos close together and they had all the different rooms marked and you could walk around and look at most of them.  There was only one room you could actually go in though.  There are still people studying the ruins so there were a lot of off limit places here.

There are parts of the pueblo that are three stories high.

There are just so many rooms that are just one after another.  It really makes you wonder what life as like here 800 years ago when this place was a busy farming community with the active volcano near by. 

The last stop we made was the Citadel and Nalakihu Pueblos.  The Citadel was really little and sat at the bottom of the hill and Nalakihu took up the entire top of the hill.

Nalakihu was very interesting because it is the only pueblo that hasn't been worked on at ll.  The sign said that you should be able to see 8 other pueblos from the top of the hill but we could only see 3.  I guess you need to know where to look.  All in all it was a fun field trip!