James is 30!!!!

His birthday started at 6:00 in the morning where Brooklyn gave him her gift. We didn't have any wrapping paper so we wrapped it in diapers!!! Brooklyn's choice of course. What is it?.......

GUMBALLS!!! Something that reminds me that my husband is still young at heart is when we pass by a gumball machine and he asks me for a quarter. It is a funny little thing that he does that makes me laugh, so we had to buy him a giant tub of it. Here is Brooklyn wanting some of daddy's gum.
Afterwards I made him a big breakfast of eggs, bacon, toast and orange juice. He thought that all that was planned for the day was a BBQ with my family.... little did he know that we had lots of other things and the BBQ was actually not on the agenda.

Jump On It with friends.

I went and picked James up from work and took him to Jump On It to "Play" with his friends (and friends kids). It was a great way to help him forget that he is now an old man at 30! :)

Here is his best friend of forever Dan.

Here is Marilyn out showing everyone up with doing a straddle jump, You go girl!
Susie and Olivia rolling around on the tramp.
Brookie's jumping with her daddy.
Brooklyn going down the slide. They have a lot of blow up slides and play areas so Brooklyn had fun in there. I have a really cute video of her going down it but it literally takes all day for my videos to upload and I'm not that patient to wait.
James had a blast at Jump on It with his older and friends and younger friends. Little did he know that that was just the smaller surprise, the big surprise was still to come.

Surprise! Your family is here!

For the past 6 months, I have been planning a surprise weekend with James' family. I asked them if they would be willing to come out for his birthday and make a big weekend of it. They all agreed and we decided to make it our big summer get together. I was completely successful at not letting James know that anything was going on until the night before.... I was so mad at this. The night before, the bishopric called us and asked us to speak in church on Sunday. Here it is Wednesday night and they are just calling us to speak. I looked at James and he said "I'll have to call you back", I just started balling! I wasn't feeling well at that moment so I was stressed with everything that I needed to do, and then to have them call and ask that! I told James that we couldn't speak, he said "Why", I said "Because", he hates that answer and says "that's not an answer", I finally had to tell him that I had something planned for his birthday this weekend and that we weren't going to be there! He had to call them back and tell them that we weren't going to be there and he didn't know why we weren't. I don't want to be mad at the bishopric, I have to say that I was SO not happy with them that night. All of the times they could ask us to speak and they choose the one weekend I am trying to keep secret!

It all worked out just fine, his family got up there, hid there cars, decorated with streamers and he was able to be surprised when he walked in.

The 3 babies at coldstone. I love the way that Logan is looking at Brooklyn.
On Friday, we went into Park City and the siblings got to go on the Alpine Slide and the coaster. They had a blast but it was so ridiculously hot that day.
Grandma with her 3 grandbabies.
We had to attempt giving all 3 of them a bath together. This was Lily and Logan's first big bath and I think that Lily was having a blast. Logan looks a little occupied to notice he is in there. :)

Surprise! Your family is here! Continued....

On Saturday we took a ride up through Sundance and went to Cascade Springs. While on the drive up, Greg (James' dad) got really sick, we thought it was something that he ate but it turns out that it was the same bug that James and I had 5 days earlier. He was a trooper and went on our little walk around Cascade Springs anyway.

Here are the 3 babies all strapped in and ready to hike.

The whole family together.
Our little family.
After the hike, everyone took naps but of course us moms who had to stay awake with the babies who were wide awake. Surprise Surprise!
Daddy took Brooklyn on her first four wheeler ride. We weren't surprised one bit when she loved it and daddy started taking her a bit faster than mommy would have liked. She is her daddy's daughter, loves adventure.
The whole family ended up leaving early Sunday morning. It was a fun weekend that James really enjoyed. He was very pleasantly surprised that his whole family was there. We really appreciate all of them coming out (especially Aaron and Julie with bringing the twins) and making this weekend happen and making it a success.

My Family B-day BBQ

As if we already hadn't done enough for his birthday, we had a BBQ with my family at my parent's house.

Here is James grilling his own birthday dinner while everyone else stands around :) !!! He is always the griller so we had to stick him on it even if it was his birthday celebration.

This is a ritual that Brooklyn and I have when we go to Grandma's house. We always take her out to the stream and wade her feet. She sees grandma and is reaching for her, she is becoming a grandma's girl (grandma lets her do stuff that mommy wouldn't let her normally)

For anyone who has never been to my parent's house and seen their backyard, I had to take some pictures. This is the most amazing backyard I have ever seen. I wish someone would get married and have it back there, I have always wanted to plan a wedding back there.

He got spoiled this year but I think he had a great time with everything. I think all of the activity kept his mind occupied from realizing that he really is 30 now!

Check out the teeth

I am finally getting some pictures of Brooklyn on here. Since we have moved, it has been really hard to think about taking pictures and getting them posted. I did get a few so here they are.

Brooklyn in her new bathtub! The problem with this tub is that she can almost climb out of it.

Here she is wanting my camera while in the tub. Check out those cute teeth, I love the gap, it is so funny.

Eating her necterines.

She just woke up from her nap and here is her cat and dog I mentioned earlier. She loves these stuffed animals and sleeps with them every night and every nap.

SHE DID IT!!!!

Ever since we moved into our house, I have had to chase Brooklyn because she would climb up the stairs and then when she wanted to come down, she would turn around and basically take a nose dive down. I have tried and tried to teach her how to go down backwards and she would never grasp the concept. Well, today she surprised me! She turned around and just started going down backwards like she had always been doing it. I was so excited!! I love that I don't have to worry about her landing on the hardwood floor face first anymore. This video clip is the second time I had her do it. As soon as I turned on the camera she started crying so that is what you hear, but you see her go down part way. She was so tired that we put her in bed immediately after.