EWE go girl!!

This year McKayla felt a little bit more prepared when it came to showing her lamb. She picked her lamb out and bought it in the spring. Then she has to feed and water it everyday. Towards the end of the summer she had to start walking it and training it everyday for at least an hour. It can be hard! Lambs are really DUMB! She got walked on and drug around quite a bit, but she never gave up.  Her lamb wighed 115 lbs, and she only weighs 58.Her hard work and effort paid off when she got a blue ribbon at the County fair. She placed 62nd out of 300 lambs, not too, bad!
 

Madison's Baptism

I know I promised more posts. I am so behind!!! I am going to get caught up one day, I hope! These posts are not in order of how the events took place, but it will have to do!

Madison was baptized on September 6th, 2008. It was a little different not having any of my family there. Her Grandma and Grandpa were in Beijing with Uncle Marlon, Tim Kim and Addie, were with their brand new baby girl Drew, and Mary and Cam were at home in St. Louis. We missed everyone, but it was still a very special day , and we had other special family members and friends that were able to attend.

                                                            Here is Dave with Maddi
My Mom's friend Connie makes the BEST cakes in the world. She ordered Maddi a special cake for this special day. Isn't it so cute in the shape of an eight. Can you see the father and the daughter in the baptismal font, then she had a cheerleader in the bottom circle. It was so cute and so supper yummy!
Here we are outside the Stake Center. Marlie isn't looking, but oh well. We had a great day and we are so proud of Maddi and the great choices that she makes in her life everyday!

Pictures of California trip

Here we are at the airport. We were quite the scene! It is funny now, but it was quite hectic. I hate to fly, but it is so much faster! We made memories that will last forever!
We went to my aunt Cheryl and uncle Kelly's house for a delicious meal. We visited with family that we have  not seen in a couple of years.
We went to sea world and the Wales were so awesome. Dave and the kids got soaked in the soak zone! Mason got a Wale that he named "Shampoo". (lol) My uncle Val and Aunt Debby came with us and we also meet up with Jason and Claudia Ayotte and their cute family.

We made a trip over to Corondo Island and spent a few hours. The weather was perfect and the kids had fun playing in the water.
We had a wonderful time visiting with my Grandpa and his sweet wife Shirley. She spoiled the kids as usual!
This is us visiting with Marlon at the Olympic training center where he lives. He gave us a VIP tour on this golf cart, that started to smoke and would not work after we went on it. I think we overloaded the maximum weight capacity!
    Can you see the pictures of Marlon in the background on the building? Cool huh!
             Here is Tim, Addie, and the kids swimming in my aunt cheryl's great pool!

New post!!!!!!

 I think that everyone has stopped looking at my blog because they are sick of seeing the same old posts. We have been having such a fun summer I have neglected keeping my blog updated. I have been taking a lot of pictures though, so one day I will post them.  I will post a few pics of our San Diego trip. If you want to see more of them you should check out my sister in law Kims blog. She posted a lot of the pictures and a lot of them are the same as mine. She posted them right after our trip though, so you might have to scroll down a bit. (Hey thanks Kim for saving me some time!) Well, the kids start school in 5 days, not that anyone is counting, and after Saturday we will be done with the fair and McKaylas lamb, so hopefully things will calm down soon. (I can't get my computer to download any pictures right now, so I guess you will have to wait for pictures.)

Happy 4th of July to EWE!!

Every year we are in the Deweyville parade with the Gorings! It is a 4th of July tradition for us. The entire family gets on the back of a flat bed trailer, the kids through candy and have a great time! This year they made cute hats with lamb ears on them for us to wear. (The Gorings own a sheep ranch.) 
Dave had to work during the day, but he put on a firework show for us when he got home. Natalie, Lincoln , and cousin Easton came to watch. Mary and Hudson were there,too. Poor Lincoln got a little traumatized with the noise, but he sure made us laugh with his animation!!

Family pictures

If anyone knows my family we are all about taking pictures. Every time my brother Marlon comes to visit it is a given that we have to get a family picture taken. Dave is always so thrilled for this event! So once again we posed for a family picture. We are going to have to get another one taken when Tim and Kim's new baby gets here, but I think the pictures are going to get far and few in between now that Cam and Mary are moving to St. Louis. I think that I am actually going to miss the dreaded family picture!

                     Isn't that a beautiful family, and yes, I know that my hair is totally in my face.
                                  Grandma and Grandpa with all of the grandkids.
     Here are my little darlings. Thanks to Nat for being brave enough to be our photographer!

Lagoon

Every year Daves work sends us to Lagoon, the best part is that it is free!!! This year Marlon was here visiting so he came along. He was a great uncle and took Kayla and Maddi on all of the big rides while we took Mason on the kiddie rides. The time we get to spend with Marlon is always special! We all had a fun day! The girls were never around, so I didn't end up with any pictures of them, but they were there having a blast! Later in the day they got me on some of the wilder rides that I couldn't ride last year. It is nice that they are finally tall enough to ride all of the rides.

   Marlie was such a good girl. She hung out in her stroller and endured a long day in the heat.
One your mark... get set...... go........................Dave and Marlon always have to have a little healthy competition. They are still in disagreement over who was the winner!

                Mason and Lincoln had a great time riding  all of the rides together.
Mason even got Dave on a ride with him, he has to stick with the kiddie rides though, otherwise he gets sick.