Boat'en with the" J Gang"

We took the boat out with the"J Gang."..as we like to call em...and had so much fun!

They are just a fun family! It's nice when every thing meshes well...!

So Matt was awesome on the wake board...I'm pretty sure that he might loose his hearing in one, but hey you have 2 right, it's all for big air!!! Gotta love it.

Also Matts adorable lil sis came along! My kids used to think I was cool when I wake boarded now, their like Mom how come you can't do it like that! Thanks Natt!!! My kids love her!!!

Chris of course wake boarded look'en like a pro....!!! He did tweak his neck pretty bad jumping the boo-wee the 2nd time!

It's started to dark so we had to break out the tubes!!

So fun! Our adorable husbands went on the monster tube with Berklee and Parker and they fell off like 5 times...the DADS that is! They were being so silly, jumping up and down, dancing to High School Musical...I think they were even standing on their heads at one point...crazy! We were laughing so hard!!!

So after they went, I forced Erica who was perfectly happy on the boat to ride with me, and Natt! Well after Natt and I pulled her off the tube and forced her to get wet...and then it took like 20 minutes for us all to get back on....we had a Crazy ride...thanks for that Chris! Poor Erica, of course the one who didn't really want to go in the first place....was the only one to go fly'en off...bout' 10 feet in the air...no big deal!! I don't know that her neck will ever be the same!

Matt took all the picture...lets just say maybe Matt should stick to Dentistry!!!!

So 3 injuries, a little Beasty Boys and Alvin and the Chipmunks, and one good time later our boating adventure came to an end!!!

So fun...lets'aaaaa go again soooon!!!

Happy Birthday My Love.....

Happy Birthday to the Man made for me!!!!

My Father knew what he was doing when he hand picked my husband!!! Chris is so super perfect for me it's funny! Today he is 31 so for his birthday here are 31 reason and/or memories of why I LOVE him so!!!!

.....IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER.....

1-He married me in the temple...of my choice...big bonus!!

2-He and I created the 3 things that make me happiest in life!!

Berklee...Mason...Marlee

3-He is FUNNY...!

4-He loves the Rouge Valley...that I love!

5-He loves and respects his Mother deeply!

6-He loves his children!

7-He wants to be better!

8-He loves the out doors! as do i!!

9-He and I LOVE the Twilight books...together...so fun!!

10-He and I can get lost in movie quote talk...I used to be left out when him and Mitch would go off on movie quotes..but now we can do this and it is so stink'en funny to only us who understand!! He and Mitch still leave me in the dust when they are together!

11-Inside jokes....we have a million, and they are all hilarious!

sum(seriously chris you need to come up with something better than that..I'm still waiting!!)...he smillee teeth so white...hey look at her hair...just to name a few!

12-He loves the Young Men and takes their success personally!

13-He loves North Carolina!!

14-He served a worthy mission...and looked dang good doing it :)!

15-He honors his priesthood!

16-He always supports me in all my crazy ideas!

17-He is UNSELFISH!!!

8-He does not complain about dinner...ever!

19-He makes me breakfast in bed on my Birthday!!..nice..

20-He is fun...which I'm realizing is not a quality lost of adults have...he is always the adult that is swimming and running and playing with the kids! FUN!

21-He loves Scouting...I am always joking that we need not fear, we have an "Eagle Scout" amongst us!! :)

22-We never fought building the house....that is now our home!!!

23-He stays up taking with me until the wee hours...I'm sure it's more for me than him but often we lay and laugh at nothing...and say over and over ok stop for real this time! i love it

24-He can find the good, when others get stressed or annoyed he picks up and pushes through and makes the best out of it! I try to be more like him in this way! It's a true talent!!

25-He goes along with and follows all my "parenting ideas"...family bed...anti spanking....thank you love!!

26-He has a personal and different relationship with each of our children...quality not quantity.....he gives them quality!

27-He has been super supportive during all my pregnancies, rub my feet, ignored my moodiness...most of the time...., way excited and way into my labors!! and let me just cry...lots...especially with the last one!

28-He loves the lower Rouge River trail and has such passion for it...makes any one who hears him talk about it love it too!

29-He handles what I call all the "man" stuff, taking to neighbors about fences or dealing with problem renters or a wrong bill....anything that has to do with confrontation...even if it's my deal, he'll help, gotta love a manlee man!!

30-He works hard for our team....week after week!!

31-We have great chemistry :)!!!

I LOVE YOU!!!

(your getting old!!!)

The Adventures the Erica and Stephanie. . .

OK. . . so the last week both our husbands were at scout camp and I must say having a partner in crime sure made the week a lot easier to get through! So we took

our kids...7 all together...to the little water slide park in Ashland.

We had so much fun! I'm not kidding the day was seriously a disaster! We got a late start we got food on the way and it was a huge mess...but it was all so super fun!!

We laughed our butts off! The kids went down the slides over and over...we had to go with the little ones and then we went down to the lake and swam for a while, we were a sight to see with towels, a double stroller, an huge umbrella...which blew away down at the lake and we never really needed anyway, food, water bottles, snacks, bags, cameras, floats.....you name it, we had it!!!!

We were laughing so hard at our selves, it was pretty funny! The kids ended up having a great time together and even with all the obstacles we had fun! On the way home we were looking dang good too! Gotta love pink sparkle lip gloss!!! Seriously...it is Erica color!! To bad we did not get any pic's of that!!!!

Letter Boxing....

Me and My sister in law and my little nieces and nephew and of course Nana went to the coast and tried out Letter Boxing for the first time...it was so fun! You get your self a stamp, some people carve their own but we just bought some, all the kids have there own and it's some thing they like! They you get a cute little notebook, a ink pad next and get a location off the Internet and your set! We found one in Bandon, but they are all over the place! The kids had so much fun with this! The girlee's especially! We printed off the directions, like a treasure hunt and the girls got way into it!

After we found our little letter box, we went to the beach and the kids had a blast! The water was super freezing but they did not care, they all got soaked! The ran in and out of the water for hours and then played in the sand for a few more hours! The beach is just heaven when your a kid! I must say I had a great time too!!

Letter

Frogs. . .

We have a seasonal pond in front of our house, it fills in the winter and then drains in the summer. Last summer we had

tuns of frogs, so at the begging of this summer Berklee and Mason went down the little pond and caught a bunch of tadpoles and we got a book on the life cycle of a frog and everyday the kids would check to see what was happening. It was such a fun little science experiment, we watch as the tadpoles got bigger and their legs grew and when their tails fell off! They were tiny little frogs, I've never seen a frog so tiny. Marlee tried to eat it when we put it in her hand! Nasty!! It was such a fun little thing to do with the kids!!

River fun!!

We have the most awesome neighbors, we went out the to Applegate river with them 2 week ends ago and had so much fun!! The water was beautiful and it was super HOT out, so even though it was pretty cold it felt good! All the kids got right in, even Marlee was playing in it no big deal! Up a little ways is a little rapid so the Dads took the kids in inter tubes down it...it was lots of fun! There is also a rope swing that is a crazy jump, it hangs from a tree on a cliff that is like 20 feet up from the river and you have to hold on forever before you can let go so you don't hit the rocks, so my neighbor, Mike....does it just fine...but when it's Chris's turn he can't just go off the rope swing, nooooo....he climbs a tree like 10 more feet so it is the most dangerous it could possibly be!!! Of course he loved it!! I didn't get a pic because I was to nervous to look away!