Monson Family Fun

We got together for some Monson Family fun while Mitch and Libby and the boys were in town from California.

We went to Kristen's House for a swim party. The boys decided to pull the tramp close to the swimming pool and jump in. Well I mean flip into the pool. Here are a few pictures of their fun.

Sam had some very nice form.

Matt was a little big, but joined in the fun anyway!

Nate was a little daredevil just like his brother, Sam.

Camping at Smith and More House

We went camping with our friends, Turkey & Alan - their two kids, Robbie and Daxton, and Amber Dawn & Mike - their daughter Hannah.

We all had different schedules, so we just met up at our campsite. Matt and I stopped at the cemetery in Peoa to take a picture of a very interesting headstone that my friend Jeremy had shown be years before. Take a look!


We also some deer, a mom and two baby deer.

We set up camp when everyone arrived and had fun. We went on walks, played card games, went fishing, rafted in the lake, and enjoyed the rain storm. Few pictures of our fun!

Amber Dawn likes to stick out her tongue while having her picture taken so she can see if it will grow.

Daxton fell asleep while everyone was fishing...he didn't sleep very well the night before and his sister Robbie is trying to be quit.

I took Hannah and Robbie out on the raft one at a time as we only had one life jacket for them. before Matt went out fishing. Hannah is helping me row. It was really windy, but it was a good thing we were tied to the shore as we had to help to get back in.

No one was really having any luck fishing from the shore so Matt wanted to take the raft out and try his luck. Well Matt has no luck fishing when he is on the raft. One of the oars decided to fall into the lake. So he was out on the lake with only one oar with heavy winds. We had to wait for him to drift ashore. Really bad luck for him! But it was funny!

One thing that saved the kids from boredom was the hammock that Mike had put up. The kids spent hours playing on it. Here are all three together.

During the rain storm, we put Robbie and Hannah in a tent to watch a movie. They ended up falling asleep eventually and had to be woken up for dinner.

We had a lot of fun with our friends and plan to go camping next year. Hopefully it won't rain though, but since Matt and I are going it probably will.

Family for a Week

No pictures for this event. We had my niece, Arlee, for a week while her parents went to Disneyland and California for a getaway.

We got her on Sunday morning right before church. We packed her in the car and headed off church at 9am. We taught our primary lesson to our 5 & 6 year old class. The kids were pretty good and so was Arlee until Singing time and Sharing time. She got hungry so I took her out and feed her before sacrament started.

We made it through sacrament meeting, but Arlee fell asleep for 40 minutes and then did not want to take a nap after church like I planned. We spent the day at my mom's for dinner and Arlee only wanted me even with my mom/her grandma around. Made me feel like a mom! Yep that felt great!

So other highlights - Arlee slept great the first night, horrible the second night because she decided to throw her Binky on the ground. The third night, we put at least 6 Binkys in the crib with her, she slept wonderful from the rest of the nights.

I had to work, so I would take her to my mom's so she could babysit. Let me tell you I did NOT like that at all. I want to give kudos to all the working moms. It sucks to have to work and raise a family! Get them ready, send them to the sitters, pick them up, make dinner, play for like 10 seconds, and then put them to bed! Not much fun being a mom with that schedule.

We had fun with Arlee and I especially missed her saying Mama every ten seconds for something she wanted, but had no idea the right words.

Matt and I can't wait for our little one, where every he or she is!

Bear Lake

I have missed a couple of fun events that have happened in the past 3 weeks while we have been getting Matt ready for Weber State.

We went to Bear Lake with our friends, David and Kristen, and their girls, Grace and Kate.

We stopped at the outlook over Bear Lake for a bathroom break for everyone and stopped and got a picture of Matt, me, and the girls. David even teased we rented a family for the picture. We love their little girls.

Also I got a picture of a humming bird next to the bird feeder. Matt likes our sister-in-laws philosophy about animal pictures, "Why take a picture when I can see them in a book?" But I took a picture anyway.

We then help set up their campsite. No trees and lots of weeds. Not the best place for camping with little girls, but the beach made up for it. We went to the beach as soon as possible as it was hot. The girls liked the beach more than the water, but who could blame them the sand was fun to play in.


We only stayed for the day, because we had our niece, Arlee the next morning, while her parents went on vacation.