NEWELL HAPPENINGS

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

4th of July

Boni and Darin lighting the fireworks

Baby Paxton on his first 4th of July

Watching the show!!!

Gracen, Dawson and Brennen

We didn't do a whole lot, I was tired and worn out still from our camping trip the weekend before so we just hung out at, Darin did some work on our wall out front and I took the kids swimming, we went out to dinner at Noodles, then did fireworks that night at our house. Bonni and Abe came over and so did Lisa and her kids. It was fun.

Britty Boy is 3!!!!

His birthday was on the day we got back from Bear Lake, so he had just had a bath and then we did his cake.

Blowing out the candles on his Spiderman cake!!!

What can I say, my baby is now 3!!!! Wow, the time flew by. We had just gotten home from Bear Lake on the 1st, so on the 2nd, we went out to Sweet Tomatoes for dinner and then to see Transformers, the two things he wanted: Spiderman cake and to see Transformers.

Preschool Graduation!!!

The kids on the bleachers

Gracen and his graduation cap

Gracen and Mrs. Hammer

Gracen also had his preshool graduation the end of June. We were sad to say good bye to preschool and Mrs Hammer, luckily Britt will go in the fall and we'll still get to see her. Gracen can't wait to go to the "Big" school with the girls. Kindergarten will be so fun.

Gracen's Bday

The fishing pond

The fire pit where they roasted dogs and marshmallows

Before we went outside, he had the birthday boy catch a fish for a backyard pond, Gracen was sooo excited!!!

All the kids at the party

I forgot to post my cute little boys birthday back in April. Gracen turned the big 5!!!!

We had a fishing party, a place close by hosts them, you get to fish then they do a big BBQ lunch over the fire pit. It rained a little on us, but the boys didn't seem to mind. Five year olds loved the fire pit as much as the fishing!!!!

Where has the summer gone?

Kimberly with Avery on her, Martin and Britt on the front. Danni is on the side of them.

Jaden
Gracen on his "little" bike.

I am so sad it is already August. Where has the summer gone? We have had tons of fun and been super busy. We've had lots of camping trips, we've been twice to Bear Lake and camped up at Cherry Hill for Darin's family reunion. We stayed a night up at Snowbird over our state holiday, the 24th of July. We've had lots of fun and stayed busy. Here are some photos to update our summer thus far.

These pictures are from our fun weekend up at Bear Lake the 28th of June, Darin did the first Bear Lake Triathlon and my good friend, Kimberly and her family, her husband, Martin, their two boys Tyson and Dallin and baby Avery all came up to camp with us. Kellie and Greg were there and Janie and Mike stayed at another campground. It was a great weekend, we had lots of fun. These pictures are from the bikes we rented at our campground. (Kimberly has all the other pictures, the battery died on my camera.)