Twas the night before school......

They were so excited about the first day of school that they all went to bed earlier then their scheduled bedtimes with their teeth brushed! Now, that NEVER happens. I can not believe how grown up they all are. This year I am sad about Amy. She is now in 6th grade. This is her last year of Elementary. I am SCARED to death of Jr. High. Colby is now in 5th grade and he is such a man. Mason is in 2nd grade. This is the first year I was not sad with him. I was sad with kindergarten, I was sad with 1st grade (all day school) But second grade...I was like OK, go onto school. I am ready to let you go. (Yes, it was a long summer with him)

Mason, Amy, and Colby. They are thrilled about school, not so much about this photo.

The Boys!

Me and Mason

Me and Colby!

Say GIRLS!!!

"Mom, can you please go? Nobody else has their mom in the classroom!"

Colby and his gang...I could not get the rest away from their football game.

Amy and her BFF's!

HERE COMES THE BRIDE.....

Ok, so it is Friday night and the boys have gone fishing. So, me and Lindsay decide to make it a girls night! You probably have not seen a girls night like this before. Now I know everyone at some age pretends to marry and dress up for their pretend wedding.....but were you an ADULT? Take a look for yourself. (We are not marrying each other, our grooms are invisible)

Doesn't Lindsay make a beautiful bride?

Jaylin was the best Minister!

No, I got it!

Jaylin and Amy....blushing brides (My Favorite Niece's! Kamrin too!)

Is that a yearbook in my hands?

Get it Jaylin!

Go Amy!

Have you ever seen a wedding dress with a train like that? Isn't that amazing!

This was one of the best girls night I have had in a long time. We are so lucky to have such wonderful kids. Girls Rule!

Take me out to the ball game......

FIRST EVER FORSALEBYOWNER.COM BEES GAME COMPANY PARTY! I have never been to a Bee's game. It was really fun! But I can not really say I watched too much of the game. We went for a summer company party. I have to tell you how much I love everyone I work with. They really are like family......besides that fact that I work with my MOM! But is is true. I enjoy my job......because of who I work with.

Salt Lake City Bee's vs Arizona Sidewinders!!

Me and My Honey

Mom and her Honey

Charlie Brown

Me, Mom (and she is my fellow employee) and Steve

Mom, Steve, Me, and Denny

Me and Mom again....love ya Mom!

Kent and Greg after they danced!

This is my little piece of blackmail.....Kent and Landon. (I do not believe Landon remembers any of this)

Tara, Greg, Melissa, and Landon

I can not tell you how much we ate that night. Me, mom, and the hubbies got there early and got our hot dogs and nachos. Then we find Tara and Greg who had our Bee's Bucks that we did not know about. We each had $15 Bee's Bucks. That was $30 between me and Denny. Denny made sure we used all our bucks! We had waffle ice cream cones, churros, drinks, soooo much junk. We were like kids. I am totally losing the office biggest loser! I woke up the next day still FULL! We did end up getting the kids some stuff too to use them up.

Just a side note

I have quite a few slide shows for your viewing needs....if you have one that may have a screen covering it asking you to make a slideshow, just click on the little x in the top right corner. That should allow the slideshow to continue. I will work on figuring that one out! Hey, I said I have just started my blog. I am not a blog genius yet!

Our camping trip to Ledgfork

Have I mentioned I love to go camping? Our recent camping trip was to Ledgefork which is on the east side of Oakley/Kamas area. It was one of my favorite camping trips this year. I have decided when I win it big I want to live in the Smith and Morehouse area. The cabins and the scenery is beautiful. But there would have to be a Walmart built in that area. I do not know how they survive out there. We had a great time and all of us needed some good laughs. It was nice seeing my mom laughing and joking again. It has been a tough couple of weeks, months, I guess a rough couple of years. Alyssa is having some trouble with drugs and is to the point where she might lose her boys. They are living in foster care. Which upsets Colby and all of our families more than she knows. My mom has put allot of Alyssa's stress on herself. We are all upset and each one of us has even tried to figure out how we could take one or both of them. Colby has offered to help pay for them with his allowance and share his bedroom. We have all done allot of thinking and the boys need to stay together and none of us are financially or emotionally able to take them. They need allot of one-on-one time. They have obstacles they have to get through. We just do not know what to do.....so we decided we needed to go to our home away from home (the mountains)! It was nice. Nobody was able to contact mom with their worries and she was not able to call anyone. We really had a great time. And it happened to be Colby and Mom's birthday weekend! I took allot of photos. I will single out some of my favorites but then put the rest in a slide show. (There was just so many)

Best Buddies

This photo makes us laugh every time. They were going to do a body slam. But really I think Denny just over powered the rest. Such a show off!

These two are the greatest GRANDPARENTS in the world! Aren't they just so cute! We have such wonderful memories with them camping that will stay with us forever.

Here is the camping gang. Steve, Me, Mason, Kristi and Sophia, Mom, and Colby (in back). We are getting ready to go fishing. Me, Mom, and Colby rode on the tailgate from the camp site to the lake. We had so much fun. We kept asking Denny to drive around the campgrounds. When we finally got to the lake, we were so bummed, that meant our ride was over.

They all got a fish!

This photo has a funny story. We kept teasing Steve while fishing because he kept getting these small fish. We called them goldfish. While, me and mom went to camp for a moment Steve got his BIG ONE...he was about to lose it and had to jump into the lake to get the fish. In the process he got his shoe wet. He had to borrow Colby's flip flops that we had in the truck. (Yes, Colby wears a 10 1/2 in MENS shoe!) So it took the rest of the day for his shoe to dry out. I do not know why he was holding the shoe in this photo though.

Some of the most important men (boys) in my life...

This is Denny's mom. She watched Ryanne for us when I went back to work for about 5/6 months. They created the greatest bond. It is so cute seeing how close they are.

The Hills!

I love you Babe!

Ryanne attempts gymnastics!

All right. You will see in allot of photos where Ryanne has mark on her nose. It is a story of Ryanne attempting a flip off the high beam.....here it goes. One day we are on my bed watching the women gymnastics. Now, most of you know that my bed it really really high off the ground. I needed to go and pack some things in the trailer for our camping trip before I forgot. I asked Denny if he could watch Ryanne for a moment. He says "No problem!". Well, while Denny was watching the gymnastics Ryanne decided to show dad her tumble off our high bed. I heard it while I was downstairs and ran up there to check on them. Denny was trying to comfort her. He says he only looked away for one moment and she went off the edge. We both looked at him like "How could you do that!". So now Denny has to live with it in every photo.

Splish Splash!

ANNUAL CRAYTHORNE SURF-N-SWIM SUMMER PARTY
Every year Denny's work rents out Surf-n-Swim for their employees. Every year I say I am going to hit my goal weight and get in a swimming suit. Well, it wasn't happening this time. So, Denny took Ryanne swimming. It was her second time. She LOVES to get in the water. She just crawls all over the shallow end, and loves to splash and splash. And Denny will just love the fact that I have posted photos of him in his swimming suit.

Well kids, maybe next year I will be able to join you in my swimming suit....