"Loving" Crafts

Two of my friends and I get together for craft days. This is what we made the other day.

The best part is that we didn't spend one cent! I already had all the paper and ribbon!

Pretty hearts for the chandelier

Garland for the mantle. The paper is all valentine-ish but all different styles, I was a bit nervous about that, but it turned out really cute!

(Nathan was watching Veggie Tales as I took the picture, so you get Bob the Tomato too :)

I have a heart stencil so we traced and cut out all the hearts. Both projects were super easy and it is always fun to sit and chat with good friends while doing something productive and making my house cute for my family.

Camping!

We went camping with my Sister and her family over Labor Day weekend.

We went to Rocky Mountain National Park. We had a wonderful time!

Christy and Jana

Nathan's first time camping- he loved it!

Dallin fell asleep at the campfire one night. We wore the kids out!!

My sweet kiddos - they went to sleep so quickly each night!

Sammy took lots of pictures for us and lots of himself.

Our Campsite

Jessica and Dallin

The triplet cousins- they had so much fun together!

Kaylie and Kaitlyn

Beautiful England

Preston took me to England for our 10 year anniversary and to visit his brother and his wonderful wife. We had a fabulous time! I can't wait to go again!

Here a just a few of our pictures:

Miles and Kris

Punting on the river in Oxford

Miles designs race cars at Williams Formula 1- never thought I'd sit in one!

Lovely gate and a college in Oxford

Sheep, sheep everywhere!

Stonehenge- very cool

Bath- this photo is for all you Jane Austen fans- can you name this movie?

In Burford at a sidewalk cafe - so European feeling!

Lovely post boxes everywhere

Arlington Row in Bibury

A "statue" in Stratford-upon-avon

Look at this crooked building! We saw lots like this

Windsor Castle

London Temple-rainy and windy that day

California!

We took off right after school let out for a two week vacation to Sunny California!

Here are some highlights of our trip:

We stayed with Grandma and Grandpa, what's better than that?

Kaylie in their pool- all of my kids are fish!

Sammy is very independent in the water

Dallin mastered diving rings in the deep end this summer- go Dallin!

Cannonball! (Kaylie still yells "Cannonball" at random times during the day)

While Daddy and Grandpa were at a Conference, Mommy and Grandma took the kids to Disney's California Adventure one day

Kaylie was a little nervous on the huge Ferris Wheel (so was mom- my kids were not buckled in and I thought they would bonk their heads, but they didn't)

Nathan sure loved the rides

We spent 3 days at Disneyland.

Nathan stayed home with Grandma, which was wonderful for all involved :)

We went at a great time of year, not too hot and the longest lines were to see princesses and fairies. Of course, the boys and Daddy rode lots of rides while we waited, the boys didn't want to be caught dead in the Princess line :)

"It's a Small World" is a wonderful place for a nap

Pirate's Cove on Tom Sawyer's Island was heaven for our kids

We bumped into our good friends from Colorado!

We spent one day at the beach, it was really windy so we didn't stay as long as we would've liked