Weekend with the Fredricksons and Westovers

What a great fun camping trip!!!!

We went with Lisa and Zane and Lisa's family. Lisa's parents have a Camper World membership and came along with us so we could all go to the campground up near Plymouth. They are along the line of hot springs that runs up in that area. The in ground pool is fed by one of the springs. It was wonderful!

Lisa's brother Brian and his wife Tiffany came up with thier kids and we all had a blast! It turns out Tiff and I grew up in the same region and went to the regional activities. I knew her! She was wearing purple birks and I only knew one other person who had them besides my best friend. Her! I saw her on the beach trip when we were like 16. It was so fun to talk of Oregon ect.. we just really hit it off!

The kids swam and swam and swam some more. They LOVED it! I got kind of frustrated cuz even though I put sun block on my kids 4x in as many hours they all came home as lobsters! I think the 102 deg water had something to do with it..... I got some nice sun and got more of my book read. It was a very relaxing time.

Sat night Lisa's other brother came up and we sang songs around the campfire. We heard a whole group of coyotes howling and they had pups it sounded so cute! No one wanted to leave. I have decided we must do it again allot!

Crash

While I was off running errands Holly took the kids to the splash park.

It was all fun and games until someone got a black eye.

Yup Ryan again....

AMERICAN IDOL!!!!!!!!!!

What a crazy day!!!!

Britt and I got to the arena just after 5am! We sat around outside til 7:30 when they started letting people in. There were people singing everywhere and talking about the last time they did this. It was interesting to see how much talent really was there. Kind of overwhelming. There were those who were there for attention as well and sucked but how else will you be on tv?!

Once we were in the arena in our assigned seats we waited for the auditions to begin. Before they did they had to do all the filming for the show showing all the hopefuls. Then Ryan Seacrest came out to do his little parts going and coming from commercials.

Once all of that was done the auditions began. Our section was 3rd to go!!!!!! I don't know how we lucked out but it was nice! The anticipation grew. Brittany finally made it down to the floor.
They had 11 tables set up each with 2 producers. Groups of 4 went before them and sang one at a time. After they were all through the producers would decide who is any went on . Then the next group of 4 would step up. It was quite efficient.

After all the suspense my awesome sister did not move on. We were all sad and heartbroken but she took it in stride and chalked it up to a learning experience.

GO BRITT!!!!!!!!!!

Milestones

Today was the first day of school for the 2008 school year!!!

Katya is in 5th grade and in Ms Bridenstiene's class

Taylor is in 4th grade and in Mrs Leavitt's class

Brynn is in 1st grade and in Mrs Murphy's class.

So I have 3 in full time school!!!!!!!!

Ry Ry is glad to have me and the house all to him self. I am still trying to find a good pre school for him that isn't full and doesn't cost a fortune! If you know of one LET ME KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday (the day before school starts lol) Brynn learned to ride a 2 wheeler!!!! We are so proud of her!!! She got to ride to school like a big kid with her big sisters!

BRITTANY SPEER!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! Its Brittany Speer!!!!

Ok not THAT Brittany.......... but my super cool sister!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday night I went to the airport and got her then Sunday at 5am we went to the Energy Solutions Arena to register her for AMERICAN IDOL!!!!!!!!!!!! We were done by 8am!! We were SOOOOOOOOOO surprised!


After church we went to Park City since she has never been there. We had a BLAST!!!! On Sundays they have an open air market so that was fun! Then we just wandered and took in the sites. It was a beautiful day! We saw a real live Lotus!!! Took pics with the giant cow and the moose. We took the back way home through Heber.

Royal Tea Party

My niece Leah is now 3! My sister Emily had a royal tea party for her. It was magical!! I couldn't have planned it better!!!

I can't even describe how perfect the day was so just view the slide show.

I am pretty proud of the cake though... I made it myself. Its rolled fondant with skittles!

Isaac Platt's Birthday!

The kids had a great surprise yesterday! Our good friends the Platts, who lived behind us in West Jordan and then moved to California shortly after we moved to Riverton, came into town for Pioneer Day like they do every year.

This year was special though. We celebrated Isaac's birthday early so his friends here and ALL his cousins could be here to celebrate him! The girls were SO excited to see Isaac and his brother Parker and sisters Chloe and Ella. I was so happy to see them all too! I love her family as if they were my own.

We went to The Tesseyman's(Steve's family) home so we could caravan to the swimming pool. The kids had the best time! Holly caved and got inner tubes for all the kids to share amongst themselves. They did a very good job of sharing too! There was a slide and a whirlpool and lazy river. Every one was quite upset when it was time to leave. We went back to the Tesseyman's for pizza and cake and ice cream. Then the favorite part of all the kids. PRESENTS!!!

After the party died down we stayed to just be with the Platts a little longer. The girls had a great time playing with their friends who live so far away. We finally left kicking and screaming at nearly 11pm! Ok I was kicking and screaming...... I love my best friend so much. It is very hard to be so far away from her. But I do save $$ HA HA HA!

Happy Birthday Isaac! We love you Platts!