Rylan's new trim... yes! I know I am WAY behind!

So, yes! This was clear back at the beginning of August and he has since had a couple more, but I need to blog about it for memory sake! To this day, his hair still doesn't lay down. Some times I call him Halo when it gets really long. But I think he looks so cute with his new haircut!

Have I mentioned that he LOVES to drum!!!

This is his crazy drumming face :o)

Josh Groban Concert

My Mother's Day Gift this year from Rich was a ticket to see Josh Groban in Salt Lake. I went with Katie, Connie and her friend Carrie. There is just something about his voice that makes you melt! I love it!

His opening act was a guy who was on America's Got Talent a few years ago. His name is Elew. He plays the piano standing up and doesn't use a bench at all.

He is amazing and goes mad on the piano!!!

He even "plucks" the piano strings inside the piano! Who knew!!! He was awesome~

After he finished, Kate and I went out in the hall so she could see the concert shirts

and guess who we found! So I had to take a pic! :o)

Told ya he was "mad" :o)

Awww! And then there was Josh! I could listen to him all day!!!

Nephew's birthday party bash!

This cute little guy with my boys is my nephew Gabe. He had a birthday at the end of July and ALL of my family happened to be here so he was lucky enough to be able to celebrate it with about 40 people! There is a community pool where they live so we all went swimming and then had cake and ice cream! So blogging World.... Meet MY FAMILY!

Gabe, Cohen, Jordan

Rich and Brin

Brother Steve and Sister Jonna

Step Mom Shana and my Dad

Sister Kimberly and her hubby Hector (Gabe's mom and dad)

Bro in Law Todd, his son Teagen and niece Alexandria

Cohen and Rebecca

Brooklyn, Megan, and Hannah

Caitlin and Micailey

Brother Kevin and 2 of his boys, Parker and Alex

Brooklyn

Little Phoebe

Brother Rick and his wife Jenn

Macie

Sister Kim and her baby Landon

Alex

Birthday boy Gabe

Cohen and Jordan

Thanks to my sister Terri for taking pic's that day! I just realized that I have no pic of her because she was behind the camera. There are a few others missing too, but that is a good portion of us! I hope you had a fabulous birthday Gabe!

Rich's birthday at the Grotto

For birthday's around here, we celebrate as a family! We try to do something that everyone can do. This year, the kids and I tried to think of something that Rich would want to do. Our thoughts were hiking the Y, hiking the falls, a place called Spring lake... ( I think that was it's name), and a friend told us about the Grotto up Payson Canyon. We decided with as many little kids as we have this year, that we would do something a little easier and stay close, so we chose the Grotto. The kids thought it would be a so fun! We have a trailer and had been camping a few times and they decided to make a cake with a camping theme and then go hike in the "woods" to the Grotto. We invited all of his brothers and sister and his parents to come play with us. The kids had a blast but the water was freezing!

Rich's cake with our trailer, a tent, a picnic lunch, campfire, and a lake full of fish to fish in.

Dallas did an awesome job of shaping all of the picnic pieces and fishing pole and fish!

Our campfire complete with roasting marshmallows!

The Grotto

If you haven't been there, it is a cute little waterfall that drops into this circular bed of rocks and forms a pool and is surrounded by tall rocks that almost form a cave. It was very pretty and on a less busy day, it would be very relaxing!

Rich and Rylan at the Grotto

all my kiddo's in the freezing water :o)