Life is good and crazy and simple and pretty fun right now but…I kind of forgot it was Friday so I feel like 10 o’clock is a little bit late to start on the blog, but I’ll see what I can do. 

I mentioned my little upholstery job last week…did I mention I have good help? 

2nd pic was my attempt at a “before” pic.

Guess I should try an after with them in the boat but I haven’t yet. 

Saturday night lake run! I stayed home the Tan and Seth but Look how pretty! That’s Colt back on the wakeboard. 

Sunday was pretty normal I think. Not much to report. 

Monday we had the missionaries and 3 new dental student families over. It was fun and yummy and a lot of work and I panicked thinking we wouldn’t have enough food but we’ve been eating leftovers all week. 

Tanner just loves Addi-but man she gives him a hard time! He’ll ask for a hug or a high five or a smile or anything and she just always says “no” so then he thinks she hates him. It’s kinda disastrous but he snuck in while she was sleeping and traded me places holding her hand. 

A carrot for her horsey. 

Tuesday we were lake bound! He’s outside the wake! On purpose! 

We borrowed a tube from some friends…and then decided we should just buy it from them! Oh and I bought Isaac a life jacket too🤦‍♀️ that thing is terrible. I’m not sure what happened to the blue one—but it also fit about that good. 😏

But Dad and Colt in their pink and purple. I want to buy one more but Isaac thinks Colt wearing the purple one is fine. I feel bad it’s always Colt that gets stuck with it—but no way is Cannon touching that thing. 

 Just give me a little time😉 

Anyway…king of the tube! 

And Tanner tried it!!!!! Slowly-but still!! His face sums it up but he says he had “fun” but didn’t want to go again in case it wasn’t fun and ruined his trip. 🤦‍♀️

So Isaac took it easy with Tanner and I am pretty much always a take it easy driver but holy cow, Isaac can be wild. I was like “can we tone it down a little?—I don’t want to hurt them!”

Cannon wouldn’t even get back on after this wreck! They both went tumbling rolling 2 or three times across the water. 

I thought I was taking a picture but my phone was on video so it’s a 1 second video I just grabbed a screenshot of but yikes!!  Cann obviously got kicked too. 

On Wednesday we ended up helping one of Isaac’s (former) co-workers move. Wow…they weren’t ready and I came home wanting to throw away everything 😆

But they gave us all kinds of little random goodies the kids have had fun with 


Hot chocolate in July…???

My little bike riding buddies! 

And baseball tonight! 

Bout it

Here’s the video

https://youtu.be/RAKLvhAQphg?si=OqidUXdB82DTwnbw

We play hard—and work a little bit too

They saw something like this on dude perfect so they tried it out, but it didn’t work so good we needed helium and we needed airsoft guns instead of Orby guns🤷‍♀️ But I won’t go for that so they were out of luck. This smile from Tanner may have been before he realized it wasn’t gonna work quite like what he seen on YouTube…

Everyone except for me and Tanner made a late night Lake on Saturday evening. Tanner hates the lake so it was really good to have some one on one time with him. We played catch. We rode bikes. We  jumped on  the trampoline— just anything he could think of… And we ran a couple errands for me too 

When those guys got back, he just faked like he was asleep (I told him to) And then I got to deal with second dinner at 10 o’clock at night and such… But they had a blast so —that was good. 
This girl puts a tie on pretty much every Sunday with her brothers when they get Ready for church —and we take it off before we head into the church, but Look at that smile, she is so proud! 

This pic is just in case you think our Sabbath is all delight…(sigh)…I wish! 

I subbed in Primary, which meant I also got to go to singing time and I just thought this was cute—so I snagged a picture

This dang horse had us all cracking up! Cannon had shared his popsicle otter pop whatever but it was pretty funny. 

Monday morning we had big plans for the lake so we were loading up first thing in the morning and Colt took the towels or something out and he came back in and was like “mom it’s cold out there!”…So we looked at the weather and it was like 62° or something and four hours later it was only gonna be up to 68, so we vetoed the lake day! I was going to have cold, wet, crying kids, no thanks! Tanner had a great idea to go for a bike ride instead, Cann didn’t want to come but the rest of us-off we went. 



Family pic with Belle but not Cann🤦‍♀️ our trip to the cemetary confirmed we did need to mow and the cooler weather made it perfect so we hauled both mowers over and Cannon drove the tractor- we knocked it out in no time! 

Oh yeah hallelujah we were there before we lost the yellowmower off the back of the trailer. And Addi was tuckered out —it was nap time! 

Monday finished up baseball for Tanner and the regular season for Cann—just like the ties this girl loves to dress up like her brothers! 



She really wore that to the games 😳—well not the slippers but I purposely couldn’t find her baseball pants so she kept the pink shorts and lil Sis shirt on, but she was pretty proud of herself. 





Playing on the Kraft Heinz team Tanner got hooked up with all kinds of goodies. Here he is sharing his gummy “lunchable” with his siblings during Cannons game. 

Cannons team was 11-0 going into the last game but they ended in a tie. We’ll see what the tournament holds. 

Tuesday was backed to the  hot, muggy weather so we made that Lake trip happen! Isaac had to go into work, but as soon as he was done —off we went! Cannon and Colton both did awesome getting up on the wakeboard!

… I tried…

And I got up pretty easy the second time… And that was the end of it, so dumb, and then I was just mad. Should’ve quit way sooner than I did. 

It’s not hard I’ve done it before but I was trying to do too many things at once. And the boys didn’t have much luck when they made their night run Saturday evening, but they came home and watched the video and then they both popped right up. Well I didn’t watch the video because I was doing dishes or something but I just caught a little bits and pieces and then I was trying to combine that with different things that I’ve done different times and it was a bit of a storm. 

But I think I have a better plan and I’m hoping it turns into me getting up easy like the boys did! 

I’ll report back 😉

The lake was tough on nap time! She did the best she could! 

Colt still likes to kneeboard! 

Wednesday they went over to Ray’s and we’re helping him with a project. 



We’ve got a cute little cowgirl! 

Add a crazy dad! 

Who has been dying to ride his horse across the pond in our backyard…”that’s how the Indians did it” 

We all went over for the show… you’ll have to watch the weekly video. 



Even though it was the Fourth of July, the Nauvoo Temple was open on Thursday, so I went over early and did a session and then got to be there with my friend who had her kids sealed to them—and that was pretty cool then after I  snapped some pictures for them



Our friends the Gondas Always have a fun Fourth of July bash that the kids were pretty excited about! 





And today I didn’t take a single picture! But I should’ve because I started a little project re-covering the boat  cushions… I don’t know what I’m doing, but I figured I couldn’t make it worse! And I was right it is definitely better! I’ve only done one so far, but I tore the original stuff off because it was so bad so I can’t even do a true before and after picture now -whoops oh well. I guess you’ll just have to trust me 😉 I had told Isaac what I was up to and we went on a little date to Harbor freight and bought me a staple gun that hooks up to the Air compressor—It’s a fun little tool.

Anyway! 

Last but not least Young men’s camp (bro Gannon sent me the fish pic) and a couple pics off Isaac’s phone 

Driving the mini back from Rays and hauling Addi’s bike

Swimming at the lake on their night run! I’m impressed he had Cann take a picture! 

oh, and Cannon is… A teenager!!  so sometimes he  gives all of us a hard time, but I loved it so much when two or three different times whether it was dinner or family prayer or personal prayer but when his younger brothers prayed that they were glad he was back!! That was a little thing that  made my heart feel pretty good. 🥰 I mean—cuz there’s plenty of times I’m failing! I’ll take a win when I can get it!! 

https://youtu.be/r6EY9GUTnko?si=3Hbkiq2V4m0ViKAm