Friday, June 27, 2014

Too busy! Ahhh!

I am 31 and I still struggle to find a healthy balance between being busy and being so overwhelmed that my house is messy and we are eating dinner at 9 pm and no one has clean clothes to wear. With that in mind, here is a brief summary of our last two months.

Field Trip with Rosie to Murdoch's! We got to hold baby ducks, chicks, rabbits, and a gosling. She almost had me convinced that we needed a rabbit in our lives. I said we'll discuss this again when she's 10. Why 10? I'm not sure, but she was happy with it.




Playing firefighters at the Ronald McDonald house in Salt Lake City. Our dear friends have a 19 year old daughter who had kidney failure. After a long wait, they found out the mom was a match. She donated a kidney to her daughter and they've been in SLC for the past two months. We went to visit and they had this fire station there.


Will turns 8! He wanted to go to a trampoline park in Utah. We took along three friends, L to R is Cash, Fletcher, and Colt. We didn't think they could finish their massive milkshakes, but they proved us wrong!



Will learning how to cook a grilled cheese on the open fire. There is more to this story, but he had an adventure with some friends where they made a fire, cooked dinner, and slept under the stars with no adults (ahem, Clark was feet away in case of any emergencies!)


Clark and I celebrated our 9th anniversary! We went to Park City, rented mountain bikes, and biked the trails for the day. Then we ate at Red Rock and mostly talked about the kids :)


Amy visited us! She is done with her first year at BYU and working in Laramie for the summer. We sure loved seeing her!
Jake (Clark's brother) and Brittany got married! Steph (Clark's sister) made all the girl cousins matching dresses. Are they not darling? :) Back row: Rosie, Allie, Lucy. Front row: Addy and Shaylie


Will promised Sylvie a slow dance :)

The whole bunch, minus Monte (at a rodeo)

Will's chaps! It was a real sunny afternoon so I told him to close his eyes and then to open them when I said THREE but he opened his mouth instead.

And there's his handsome smile.
June 16th I kid you not it snowed! My kids loved it though.
Here's the fellas about to adventure. I guess these pictures are a little out of order. They saw wild horses, went skinny dipping, and ate cold soup. Their fire started shortly after dinner :)
Meanwhile Rosie and Addy had neighbor girls over for tea.
Hope everyone is having a great summer! Loves!!!

7 comments:

Amy said...

It looks like you're having a great summer! Addy is so brave to go out in the snow in her swimsuit haha!!

Anonymous said...

Love this post!

Theturnerfamily5 said...

I Just want you to know that there is still no balance in my house! I miss you!

The Weatherford Family: said...

these pictures and blog update are marvelous! we have loved seeing you a bunch this summer.

I love Will's chaps and Addy in a swimsuit in the snow--only in Wyoming! :)

i'm still working on balance and i'm 54 so let me know if you get it solved.

love you and your family so much!

The Weatherford Family: said...

Oh, wow! This is such a cute post, Maria. I love it. The photos are darling, and they do a good job of catching the personalities of your precious children. Thank you so much for posting. I love you!!

PS Of course, you and Clark would talk about the children on your special anniversary date. :) Hee hee! We still do that. :)

The Weatherford Family: said...

Oh, boy, dad and I post from the same identity. Try to guess who is who. :) :) Love, Mom

The Weatherford Family: said...

when Rosie turns 10, remember our Thumper :)