Summer Vacation

We started the summer off by heading to Utah for Jordan's sister's wedding.  But we took the long way and saw some sites and people along the way.  After looking at the picture I realized how little pictures we actually took...oh well. First we drove to Spokane and had a nice BBQ with family. We then stopped in Phillipsburg, MT and mined for sapphires.  We had limited time so we did it the easy way. It was all ready for us just to sift through and we were guaranteed a few sapphires. We ended up getting quite a few.

 Then we stopped in Rigby, ID to see our cousins that just flew in from Japan.  Can you tell what they did most of the time?  Whatever it was cousin bonding time.. ha.

 We headed to Hyrum Utah for the 4th of July and stayed at Bevanland.  We enjoyed the Hyrum parade which I haven't been to in years.  It was fun.  Cooper did have fun but plugged his ears a lot for the loud noises. 

Bevan and his family.

We also went kayaking while at Bevan's with the whole family.  5 minutes down the river and the kayak that Jordan, Cooper and I were on rolled over.  All was okay, but it did not help Cooper's fear of water.

We then headed to Sundance, Utah where the wedding was. We went a couple days before the wedding so we could relax and have some fun up the canyon.  Here is Uncle Nolan with Cooper on the deck of the cabin we were staying in.

 Jordan did a bit of hiking up the canyon.

 We hung out with cousins.

 Lots of laughter and getting to know Aaron, Camille's new husband.

Lots of prepping for the wedding.  Good work ladies.

And Uncle Nate painting nails.  What a good uncle.  They all wanted purple nails to match.

Going Private

okay...  so here we go.. I am going to make this blog private.. I know lame for those of you with google reader.  So if you want to be added to my list of who can read it comment me with your email address.
Grandparents: Don't worry you're already added.
Don't worry even if we don't talk much and I haven't seen you in years and you still secretly read...  I will add you. HA.  (That might be interesting to see who does read)

School play

 

 EIEI Oops!

 Emma preformed her the 1st grade play as a pig in EIEI Oops.    She had some speaking parts and sang a solo in one of the songs.  She says she is shy but she loves to be on stage doing something.

Darn head in the way but love this shot anyways.!

Dance Recital

 Way back in June the girls had their dance recital.  They had been working on it since January.  Here are a few pictures from the rehearsal.
Dottie is second one in from the right.

 Dottie had two routines the first picture is of her tap routine and the second of the ballet routine.  Same outfit but different skirts.

 Emma took an acro gym class.  So dance and tumbling together.  She had a lot of fun with this routine.

Final pose at rehearsal.

Skiing

 HA.. don't mess with these girls!
I think it was the last weekend in April Jordan took the girls up skiing for their first time.  They went to white pass I believe.  I wasn't sure how they were going to like it but they loved it.  Jordan is happy about this.  He rented them some gear and signed them up for a class.  The weather turned out to be really nice as well.  Not too cold.

Emma going up while Dottie is coming down.  They can't wait to go up again..  probably not till next season though.  Think we are going to get them some roller blades until then. 

Birthday

 Jordan turned 31 this year.  Not sure why we don't have any more pictures than this.  We celebrated all week that week it seemed like.  HA..  The weekend before we headed down to Vancouver and had a little party then on Mother's day Jordan and I left the kids with my mom and went to Reno for the week.  Jordan had a class he was taking and I just went along for fun.  We had a great time. 

Cooper finishing off his cake...  he is so cute!

Soccer

 We signed the girls up again for soccer this year!  They LOVED it.

 I was taking pictures this day and I don't know how to use Jordan's camera very well.  I usually just set it to automatic but for some reason didn't.. so they are not the best pictures... as in they are all very blurry dang it. 

Dottie after the ball.

 Dottie really stepped it up this year.  She did amazing and we were very proud of her.  She scored two goals this season.

 Emma did great as well.  She didn't get any goals but she was a great defender.

The last game our coach had something else going on so she asked Jordan to fill in.  He loved it ...  He thinks he might actually volunteer next year.  The girls did great.. This was about the only day that we had nice weather.. But it doesn't seem to bother them while they are playing.