Happy 13th Birthday Gretchen

Wow, 13 years old. Happy Birthday Old Girl!!!
I was getting a little worried about her health. She is having a hard time with the stairs and really cant hear that well. When Matt got home from the Afghan he took her in to see the vet and she said that Gretchen is doing well.
Gretchen and King, drooling over the cupcakes.

Here are all the girls and Justice's friend Quincy waiting for their cupcakes.

Lagoon

What a great way to spend the 4th of July... with my awesome sister in laws and nephew! We definitely lucked out! The weather was great and the lines were pretty short. The girls loved all the rides. Justice was a little scared to ride the large roller coasters. It was all about the first hill. After a little bribe from Dad, and a little white lie.....she was off to the races. We could not stop. What a brave girl.
Brandon, Matt, Nat & Becky



Brandon and Becky after the rapids.Matt, Justice and Brooklyn got soaked on Rattle Snake Rapids.Thanks Again Becky!!

4th Of July Parade

This year Brooklyn was in the Riverdale 4th of July Parade. I have to admit I was alittle nervous about the whole thing... dropping her off & leaving her. It all worked out pretty well in the end. The girls and I found a spot to watch the parade while Matt and Brooklyn found their float. Then Matt joined us for the parade.
Matt, Madison, Georgia, Justice and Me waiting for the parade to start.

Here is Brooklyn. She was so cute up there... She loved every minute of it!
We had alot of fun and the girls got SO much candy.

Zoo

Every year we hit the Hogle zoo and this year was no exception. The girls were excited to go, and Matt and I were excited because it was free for all military families!
Justice, Georgia & Madison

Check out Brooklyn's face... What a little stinker!

Marysvale

We took our second annual trip to Marysvale for Fathers Day and had a great time. Our first day consisted of a 4 hour drive down and getting settled into our cabin. Once we got unpacked we headed out for some riding. We took a trail up to Freemont Indian State Park. It ended up being about 5 hours, 50 miles round trip.
Here is Matt getting all crazy with the Rhino. We stopped often to cool off in the streams. Both days were very hot, in the 90's. Throwing rocks was a high light for the girls.
Matt and the girls enjoying some shishkabobs.Our Second day we headed out the east side of Marysvale. We rode for 9 hours and went about 80 miles. We made it up to Manning Meadows Reservoir and took in the beautiful scenery. The cool breeze was so nice at the top near the reservoir. We then headed back down to our cabin but were quickly stopped by a heard of 150 or more cows coming up the mountain.
Brooklyn the outlaw.In the end we waited about and hour and headed back down.
Here is what we all looked like after a day of 4 wheeling. Thank goodness the cabin that we stayed in had a shower!Cant wait to go again next year!

Happy Father Day

Fathers Day started off with some breakfast in bed for Matt, pankcakes and eggs!
Matt is such a awesome dad, the girls and I love him so much!!

After lunch we took a hike up WaterFall Caynon. Its about 3 miles round trip with a 1500 ft elevation gain. It was alot steeper of a climb than Adam's Caynon. The girls were all pretty excited to go. It was hot outside, so the twins were really struggling to keep their little legs moving. Once we got out of the sun and into the shade it was alot better. Here we are on one of our many water breaks.

We made it!



On the way back down no one could keep up with Georgia. She was the leader the whole way down.

T-Ball

Justice started T-ball and so far she has really liked it. She has had practice for about a month and will finish off with about a month of games. This level of T-ball is really about the fundamentals like learning where all the bases are and how to play.
Justice is quite the social butterfly. When she is playing a base or running the bases you can usually catch her chit chatting with the other little girls. Then you will usually hear Matt and I telling her to watch the ball! Justice has quite the arm on her and is getting better with every game.
I am sure this is the first of many seasons of ball for our family.