{A hiking we will go...and off to the park!!}

Austin got home early from working yesterday so we

decided to go for a hike nearby our house. It was a

fun little hike and all 5 us made it!! The views of our

backyard were amazing!!

The Snake River

Earlier yesterday while Kaydree was at a birthday party, I took Brayden and Jaxton to play at the park by the Jefferson rodeo grounds! It's a fun little place with caves, tunnels, and slides. Brayden loved it!!! While there, a group of kids who had been doing a service project for scouts were waiting for their mom to come back and pick them up and were playing. It was just me and all the kids. A guy drove by and got out and yelled over to the kids, "Come on and get in". They were a little older like 11, 9, and 6 i'm guessing. Any way, the boys took off running and hid in one of the caves. The man turned around hopped into his truck and took off. The kids told me that they didn't know who that man was. So I called the police. I remembered everything except the license #!! It was pretty scary!! Our neighborhood is the safest of anywhere that I know of!! But before that all happened we had a great time!!! :)

{Out Of State.....for a day!!!}

This weekend we headed down to Orem and went to a funeral

for Austin's great Aunt. It was so fun to visit and hear stories

from his relatives from back in the day!! It was a last minute

trip but we were able to take the kids to a splash park in

Highland, of course hit up Cabella's, hang out with our close

friends the Newman's, and visit my sister in Ogden!!! It was a

fun day trip!!! Here are some pics from her place and her little

girl who is about 7 weeks older then Jaxton!!

I wasn't able to make the pics bigger :(

{4th, Boating, and Half A Year}

What would summer be without 4th of July???

I love this time of year! It's finally getting warm(minus the 48

degree weather at breakfast held at the church that morning :)),

we get to spend the entire weekend with friends and family, bust the

boat and jet skis out, hold our annual football/softball games, go to the parade,

watch the greatest firework show ever!!!, and set off some fireworks of our own!!!!

And we of course wore our 4th of July shirts(thanks mom!)!!!!

Another attempt @ a family photo :)

I'm not giving up!!!

Aerika, Jon(her boyfriend :)), and Aaron

Boating and Jet skiing was of course a favorite minus the crazy wind!!! :)

Brayden is quite obssessed with this particular jet ski!! How can you turn

down this sweet face?? :)

And usually our back yard is empty this time of year as they all head up the

mountain for the summer. But this Doe was right there last night to greet us.

I don't think we could ever get tired of seeing this. We love living out here!!

AND I'm sad to say that Jaxton had his half birthday yesterday!!!!

No, it's a good thing!! He's such a lady's man already and is growing up so fast!!

He's now 17 pounds 4 1/2 ounces(47%)

and 27 inches long(70%)

He started doing some 360's on the floor,

he holds his hands out when he wants to be held,

has mastered the walker and running over people's toes,

loves to EAT...food now too!!!

has only woken up once a night for the past 2 nights(instead of 3-4!!),

He makes everyone he sees smile!!!! And..... WE love him!!!!

Hope everyone had a good weekend like we did!!!!

{It's getting HOT!!}

I'm back to posting again!!! I just posted a couple of new ones!!

This week it finally feels like Summer!! Wahooooo!!!!

We have managed to make it to the Spray Park twice this week already

and the kids loved it!!! Kaydree even made a friend there that would help take

her down the slide. :)

My sister-in-law Amber and her daughter Kamryn


Afterwards we all rode the carousel!!!

{Shh......baby sleeping}

Jaxton has always been such a good baby and can put himself to sleep (during the day) all on his own. Since he has become quite the mover I have noticed a pattern of some really funny sleeping positions. Here are some of them!!!! I just love sleeping babies!!!

{Happy Daddy's Day}

Happy Father's Day to the "BESTEST Daddy Ever!!!!"

The kids love Austin to pieces! He's their first pick for hanging out, reading books,

laying in bed with, making forts, sand castles, and getting anything they want out of!!

(Guess who's 2nd??:) )

Here was our attempt at getting a fun picture before church.....

Brayden made up his mind that he was NOT going to! :)

I'm noticing it might be a 3 year old thing. :)

{FOR-EV-ER and a half!!}

It has been almost a month since I posted anything!!! Geesh!!

We have been crazy busy and having lots of fun!!!

MEET MARLEY:

The kids have been begging for a puppy so Austin surprised them one night with one.
He's around 3 months now and was formerly called Charley. We didn't care so much for
the name and so came along the name Marley. The kids love him except the jumping on them part. He's quite the scavenger out here in the country and likes to bring us not so pleasant guests at our front door. :)

Brayden and Kaydree were so happy!!!

2 weeks ago we took a drive over to Sun Valley because I had never been there.

It was so pretty and there were lots of cool bridges. I claim the town of Hailey as

my next place to live!! I love it!!!

I love Brayden's not so happy, happy face!

Every Memorial day we visit our family members gravesites. It's always

such a great experience to relive stories of them and to run into old family friends.

Here is the 21 gun salute where Grandma and Grandpa Farmer are buried and Austin's uncle.

The kids love to go visit their cousins. Amber and Kevin

surprised us this year and had a headstone made for Kurtis.

The footprints on theirs is the real size of their feet. We get

the tenderest of feelings every time we visit here.

And now that summertime(kind of) is here bring on the rodeos!!!

Last weekend we went to the Jefferson Stampede Rodeo and

watched some friends bullride! Next year we'll get the kids started on

riding sheep!! :)

My attempt at getting Brayden to take a picture! :)

And Jaxton!!! He's getting so big and is already 5 months!!

He's starting to act like he's going to crawl and does 360s around

the floor. It's so funny to watch. He's no longer allowed up on the couches though!!:) He is such a sweet baby!!

I plan on posting a lot more soon!! We're still working on our house and yard!!!