Grant and David

We have had a great week with all of the kids home. It was a BONUS for us to have Mark and Mary and their two kids David and Kate stay with us. We had fun talking and staying up LATE!! Grant was in heaven having a friend to play with and they did some really fun things...Here they are with the Chick-Fil-A Cow. Grant thought this was so funny. He has talked about it for two days. Then it was off to Jump for Fun....Mary and Kate coming down the slide.

David going head first!

What a darling boy...Grant!

All too soon it is back to reality! I love having the craziness of everyone home under one

roof!

5 Nice Things about.....

This made me laugh. I was putting cloths away in Blake's bedroom when I saw this piece of paper taped up on his mirror. In his hand writing it says...5 nice things about my brother Blake. Then in Camille's hand writing she lists the 5 things... When Camille...says anything negative Blake makes her stop and say nice things....It has become a little joke. I found out later that Camille had a note on her mirror as well of 5 nice things he listed about her...Of course the lists are funny as well... I will miss Blake when he is gone. He adds a lot of humor to our lives.....

Click on the picture to read the list for yourself...ENJOY! ;)

Baby It's Cold Outside... 8-2009

Ice Skating.....David, Me, Grant and Tyler.

" Baby it's cold outside....." we had a fun day ice skating with friends at Polar Ice. They even made snow for the kids to play in. Grant loved making snowballs.

Tyler, Grant and Camille. It was fun to have Tyler home for a couple of weeks. Grant loved him skating him fast around the rink.

Cute Camille. She was a big help with all of the little kids.

My niece Mary came with her kids. It was so fun to see them. They moved to Michigan last year and we miss having them around. Mary looks ready for the ice in her flip flops. ;) Baby Kate loved the ice.

Afterwards they had hot chocolate and cookies for all of the kids. What a great activity for a HOT August summer day in Texas. I think we all had a great time!

CANADA...business and pleasure 8/2009

Steve had business in Calgary Canada. I have never spent much time in Canada and so I was thrilled when he asked me to go along. He worked all day on Friday and I spent the DAY at a wonderful spa. Yes...I am hooked!! We took advantage of the weekend and headed to a couple of national parks in the area. Everything was BEAUTIFUL! We spent some time hiking here at Lake Moraine. Over looking a beautiful river...

Steve... standing outside of the Hotel in Banff.

Guess who was in Banff the very same day! Honest we didn't plan this or even change our schedule's to make this happened. When She called to say she was in town we were a block and a half away from each other..ha ha small world. We had a lovely dinner together (except for the waitress) Yep! The Boyer's......:)

Stacy stood at this spot and took pictures for anyone that needed them...It was so funny!

A picture of the Banff Hotel. It truly was amazing. We went inside to explore. It reminded me of a cruise ship inside. The wood inside was beautiful!!!

This was at Lake Louise. It was so crowed with tourist ( which I was one of) But it was beautiful.

As we were hiking we came across this sign with a forest ranger standing guard. If you wanted to go hiking you had to wait until 4 people (It was a law) were going on that trail. After I read the sign I really had NO desire to hike that trail. In fact I was a bit nervous to hike at all....

This was my favorite place. Lake Morain....it was the color of the ocean. It truly was this blue. Gorgeous!!!!!

Steve had fun with the chip monks...They were very friendly.

It was a wonderful trip and we loved spending time together just the two of us. The kids at home held down the fort and were so good with Grant. I have great kids...Boy will life change when they all head off to school. They will be missed! Thanks kids.

Birthday Girl... Camille turns 15 !!

My baby girl is growing up! She was able to work a deal with our friends the Hickson's(twice now..they have the boat) to head up the the lake for battle tubing. They all had a ton of fun and great stories to tell.....

Camille's favorite is fruit pizza. It has become her birthday cake of choice....yummmm

At the lake.

Let the games begin....

They ate dinner at the lake restaurant. Blake and Caroline were the chaperone's for the day.

Back to the house for dessert and a movie.

Happy Birthday sweet girl...I love you!

Blake sells his business.....8-2009

Blake has built a pretty nice lawn care business over the past few years. He had several lawns and was always doing odd jobs for people. It kept him really busy and he has quite the business mind. He had employee's and everything. If he needed new lawn equipment he would go out and purchase it. It didn't matter the cost he just took care of it. Most important he took care of us! He was always on top of our yard work at home and the office. It was so nice to have our personal gardener. Blake is heading off to school in Utah this month so he had to sell the business. He worked and negotiated it all by himself.

Blake and all of his" treasured" lawn equipment and trailer. Here he is taking his Blake Lawn Care signs off the trailer. (We now have the signs hanging up in his room...oh joy)

The hand shake. (Blake sold to Jeff, a friend he met while working at Sky Creek Ranch Golf Course)

There goes a bunch of memories. I don't even own an lawn mower anymore. I hope I like my new yard guy!

As he drove away...Blake said. "I feel like I should cry!" Then he headed straight to the bank!

The Boys Hike Timp! 7-2009

Posted By Tyler:
On Wednesday (July23,2009) my dad, brother Blake, and myself left bright and early to hike Mt. Timpanogos. My dad has always wanted to do this hike and we finally took the time to make it happen. We were on the Alpine Loop Trail at 5:30 in the morning and decided that after making it to the summit we would come down the Timponoke Trail in order to see the whole mountain. Although I was a little worried about it, my dad did really well and we made it all the way to the top in pretty good time! We had a lot of fun and really enjoyed the scenery.
Looking down at Emerald Lake from the summit.

Blake at Emerald Lake.

Blake and I at the very top of Timp. You really feel like you have accomplished something looking down from here.

Blake's Captain Moroni pose.

Almost to the Saddle.