Thursday, July 25, 2013

3rd annual Warm River trip

We were lucky enough to be able to go up to Warm River with Londi's family. They are brave and spend the week up there, but we only went Thursday through Sunday. There was lots of tubing the river and even more fishing. We barely saw Jayda the entire trip. She was in 7th heaven with her cousins.
 
Smoky the bear visited us on Saturday. The cute little girl on the right is from another family we got to know. The three girls were instant friends.
 Aunt Londi is amazing at hair and did this cute little number on Jayda's hair. She always looks so different when her hair is done up.
 Papa Schow came up for a while on Saturday and Jayda just wanted to be with him. She wanted to help him unload the car and while he was reading, she took her lunch and sat next to him.



 A lot of the trip you could find these two playing "kidnap" in the tent we brought up to hold our stuff.
 This little guy was hard to win over. It took him a while to get used to the idea of camping and being around his cousins, but all uncle Ben had to do was give him licorice and he was a happy camper.
 Fishing.... that's all I have to say. There was a lot of it going on.



 Bryce tried to get Bentley to touch the fish but all the flopping around it was doing freaked him out and he wouldn't touch it.
There may have also been something called the "cray cray qualifier". Let's just say it is a secret initiation that must be done in order to be accepted into the cray cray family! It involves glow sticks and guts.

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Double weddings

Woohoo! Congrats to both of my brothers on landing such hot mammas for wives! Landon married Melissa on March 16th in California. We drove out for the wedding in the Oakland Temple and were able to enjoy a few hours with him in downtown San Francisco before he tied the knot.
 




 
  Jason married his cute high school sweetheart Jenae on June 7 in the Bountiful Temple and it was such a fun day. Everything was as gorgeous as any wedding I have ever seen. It is so nice to have two sisters now!





End of year recital

Miss Jayda had her very first end of year recital. I am biased, but I think she was the cutest one there :) She danced to "Let's get Loud".  The Monday before the show she had a practice at the Bountiful park on their big stage. She cried and was really scared to perform in front of so many people but I handed her to her teacher anyway and as soon as she was backstage practicing with her class she was all about it! The final performance was that Wednesday night and she did fantastic. I was really impressed with her improvement from her Halloween performance and impressed that she could keep up with the 5 year olds. Her Dad also did a daddy daughter dance that was so fun to watch. It was fun to have him be such a good sport about it. He practiced a lot at home and was actually excited to do it with her. I hope she loves dance for many years to come because it is so much fun to watch her and get her all dressed up.
 

Grandma Kinnear brought her flowers and came to show her support.
 Nanny wouldn't have missed it for anything!
 Mom and Dad got her flowers and skittles. (Her favorite)
 She also got two trophies for doing such a great job.
 Showing off her moves afterward at Nanny's house. We had to give the costume back because it was a rental so this is her concert tee and shorts.