HAPPY BIRTHDAY GAGE!

Our second child has now hit the double digits! Gage turned 10 on August 14th. The Tuesday before his birthday we had a few of his friends meet us at Veteren's Pool for a swim party. We had yummy popcorn cake and then spent the day in the sun having a ton of fun.

Gage, Dax, and cousin Roman on the way to the pool

Delicious popcorn cake (Gage has Celiac too)

Cameron, Roman, Gage, Connor, Tyler, and Dad (who stopped by on his lunch break)

Dax was so tired from the sleepover the night before with Gage and Roman that he fell sound asleep at the pool and slept for a good hour and a half. He was so much happier when he woke up!

Then on the 14th we had his family party. Many family members came to help him celebrate and he got a lot of fun things. He had hot fudge brownie sundaes for dessert..yum!

Gage and Dax laughing hysterically at a funny card Aunt Cassidy got for Gage
Sweet BYU t-shirt and hat Grandma and Grandpa Bringhurst got Gage to wear to the games
Kung Fu Panda on the Wii that the boys have been wanting FOREVER!

Another Bike (last year's bike was stolen from our house within 2 weeks of him getting it for his 9th birthday...this one was accompanied with a bike lock!)

Moving Day

So this is the reason I got really behind in my posting. We now have a new address!

After living in Provo for 11 years we finally made the long trek back to our hometown of Orem. In fact, we live in the same neighborhood as I did when I grew up, although not the same ward thankfully! But my kids attend the same schools I did which does mess with me a little, it's very strange, especially since Hailey has the same 7th grade math teacher at Lakeridge as I had!

So the story of the move goes something like this...we closed on the house July 18th and had to be out of our other house July 31st. We decided to remodel some of the new house, not knowing (cause we had never done anything like this before) that it takes A TON of time. Basically, we painted three of the upstairs bedrooms and one of the bathrooms, AFTER tearing down wallpaper for three days. Then we tore out a wall on the main floor and made two small rooms into a family room. Well because of the way it was set up, we had to rewire the entire room, so that meant having to sheetrock and mud and tape everything. The whole house project took more time and about twice as much money as we planned and because of the limited amount of time we had, Tom and I were working on the house 20 hours a day, for most of two weeks. I have NEVER in my life been so exhausted. It was SO crazy. Oh and in the midst of all this craziness I had to get Hailey packed and off to girl's camp and Tom's brother Steve got married. But now that it's been about two weeks, I can finally talk about it without going insane!

We absolutely could not have done it without the help of family. Without them we would have gone crazy and not gotten finished or settled like we were able. My brother Jared was able to help Tom with the new family room all day most days, and Lisa and the kids helped with wallpaper take down and priming. We had Tom's mom and sisters come and help a few nights with painting, staying until 2 Am even though she had to work early the next day. Tom's brothers Jared, Nate, and Stevo helped a ton, as well as my sis-in-law Ashley. My Dad came over one Saturday to help paint trim with me which I was so grateful for.

When moving day came we had everyone over either moving stuff or scrubbing the old house. Those that helped move were Kimber and Brian, Jason and his brother Mike, Tom's bro Jared, and Tom's friend Bart. My sister's and sis-in-law's Lisa and Ashley all helped with the scrubbing.

I cannot thank you guys enough for everything you did for us! We are forever grateful!!

And if anyone is in Orem you better stop by to visit!! :)

Scrappin' at the Cabin

At least once every summer Hailey and I meet up with Mom, Noelle, Lisa, Asia, Erin, and Kimber and we go up to Tom's grandparent's cabin in Timberlakes (which is just outside Heber) to scrapbook for the weekend. We always have such an amazing time, we go up Friday afternoon after loading up our supplies and tons of food and scrap WAY into the night. Then we sleep a few hours and get back at it all day Saturday. We have such a great time and it's such a fun girl's getaway. Here is us scrappin...
After the girl's left on Saturday, Tom and the boys and Jared and Roman came up to spend the rest of the weekend. We rode 4-wheelers, then went to Park City where we rode the Alpine Slide and the Coaster. After a quick stop for ice cream we were headed home to get some much needed sleep!

4th of July

Okay, I am way behind in posting but in a few posts, you'll see why...

For the 4th of July we thought we'd try the balloon launch out instead of the parade that everyone hates. Well we had to get up at 5:30 AM to go see them, Tom and I thought they were cool, Dax was thrilled and the other two...
Pretty funny huh??

We loved the pig balloon

After the balloons and a nap, my parents, Erin and her family, and Kimber and Brian came over for a picnic lunch/dinner. After we ate we played Rock Band for awhile and then headed for the Stadium of Fire.

Stadium of Fire was fun, we really enjoyed the Blue Man Group. Miley Cyrus was lame but hey, the teeny-boppers loved her!

This is the kids while we sat in a parking lot for 45 mins before we even got out after the Stadium of Fire. Long day for the kiddies!