My Dad's birthday!

I just realized that I didn't take a better picture of my Dad at the party. (How did that happen?) He is the one in the above picture in the middle. He is also named by my kids Grandpa Byrne the one that gives them candy :) Although that is the first thing that they think of when you say his name, it is by far not the only thing that they love about him. We are always grateful for his help and willingness to watch and play with the kids. Ben loves that he will take time to make smoothies with him and Erik love to wash dishes with him. His birthday is in July ( I know, I know, I am a HUGE slacker!!!). We love you Dad/Grandpa Byrne.

As you can see food is the way to Ben's heart :) We love to watch him eat... although I hope that he doesn't have our food issues.
We met at a park, here is everyone playing red rover.

Ben and Bekah were so cute walking down the pathway together. I love it when they're nice to each other.
This is my oldest brother and his family, my how they've all grown!
It was a great night!

Win Free Family Photos!

My friend Julie is giveaway family photos!

All you need to do is go to

http://jktphoto.blogspot.com/

and follow the rules... then wait and jump for joy when

I WIN!!!

Lol, just kidding.
I will be excited if you guys win too.
But I REALLY want it!!!

We haven't had family pictures done in like EVER!!!

So, that is how I feel... with all honesty!

Finally the 4th of July!

Way... way long over due! I thought about just not posting this, but I wanted to... So, someday I will be caught up and stay caught up... Maybe...okay in my dreams... We had a blast on July 4th! We had friends and family over for our first ever luau! Now it is to late for this year, but we will be doing this tradition every year... so plan on it!! Come next year!!! Some day our hope and dream is to really go all out for this day, but we still had a blast with what we had this year!

Here is Justin (my brother) and my Aunt Frannie (or that is what I like to call Francis anyways:)
This is my brothers Cory and Cody (yes, their twins) and my Dad.
This is my cute little niece that also turned one on this day!
Cody and his soon to be wife Melina... well, now that it is getting posted late... it is coming up next week!! We're really excited for them... aren't they cute!
The rest I will only comment here and there... as you can see we ate great food... even grilled pineapple! Played games...
Hung out...
Played sand box and swing set...











I have the cutest kids EVER!!!! Oh, and do notice the little firecracker bows in Bekah's hair... Way to cute!




Sang to the birthday girl...
What a cute messy girl...
And an even messier girl...lol
Tony made pinacalodas and virgin margaritas for everyone... of course using nothing other then the best blender around... the Vita Mix!
Me and my sis...
We did sparklers...



And had a blast watching Lehi City's fireworks in our back yard with patriotic music Tony put together to go with the show... perfect ending to a perfect night!



Ben fell asleep half way through the fireworks... poor kid was tired out!

Thanks everyone coming we had a blast! Make sure to come next year! The people are what makes it perfect!

Equal in all things...

Okay, my heart is heavy tonight...

I know that there needs to equal in all things... good and bad... but I am ready for the good to get a little bit ahead. Satan is working hard (while I say this... my immediate family is fine so don't think other wise.)...he really is...very hard. I have decided that I will not...I mean it... I will NOT let him win. I am so grateful that my testimony goes deeper then the surface of my skin! I can not deny what I have learned, what I know, and what I have seen. I am so grateful for a husband that loves me and stands by me. I am so grateful for my kids and I hope that I can teach them and guide them to with stand Satan. I am not perfect but will try to be the best that I can and turn the rest to my brother, and friend Jesus Christ.

Expressing myself

Those of you that know me really well, probably know that I don't always make a lot of sense. Things just don't come out of my mouth the same way that I've thought them in side my head. Even while I write on my blog I realize later that it isn't really what I was trying to say. Why am I thinking about this now? Because I have said some things lately that I look back and wish I just never opened my mouth to say. On top of that too... I have noticed more and more with each pregnancy, that I am a complaining idiot while pregnant. I know that sounds harsh, but it is true. I am sure that I drive all of my close friends and family crazy while I am pregnant. (I drive myself crazy, so I know that I do... so, don't say other wise.) Then after I am pregnant I am trying to stop the complaining and start trying to fix what I have messed up. Okay, now even while I am writing this... it isn't coming out exactly how I wanted it to. My point is that I don't say or get across what I want to and I sound like a bigger idiot after each kid. I stood up a couple of weeks ago in Relief Society to share a couple of thoughts, and then my daughter started fussing in my arms... it all came out wrong and I sounded selfish instead of the selfless... which I maybe (selfish), but my point I was trying to get across wasn't. I just wish that I could share my thoughts with out feeling so dumb afterward. I just needed to get that out. Thank you all for being my friends!

Tony has been training the kids to walk on his back. The kids love it and Tony gets a back massage. What can I say... it's a win, win!
I keep risking it all and moving her, but most of the time she moves back. Maybe she missing being in this position in my tummy...
I finally threw this away! LOL!! What is it, you ask? Well, when I was 9 months old we moved houses. I went back with my mom while she cleaned it up for the people moving in. I took it upon myself to crawl down the stairs and brake my leg. I had to learn how to crawl 3 times. This is my cast. Cute little thing, but I decided there was no need to keep it. I'm such a pack rat!!!
This is a spider that was crawling on Bekah. She FREAKED!!! Hmm, wonder why!?!

Byrne Family Reunion

Above is my Dad and his 2 sisters together at the reunion. Their parents, my grandparents, have all passed away.
This is Jack and his wife. His favorite thing to do is give people a hard time:)
We had a water balloon, or the kids did. It took them a long time to fill up the balloons...
and no time at all to pop them all.
So much so, that they resorted to finishing the fight up with buckets.
Then we all went down to the lake. Bekah had a lot of fun with Uncle Devan!
I went a little picture happy, and then I couldn't narrow the ones to post down much.

This is my niece Brittany... I really like this picture.




Bekah loves to play with her ears. It is a huge stress relief for her. So, it was cute when she started playing with Devan's ears while on his shoulders. She looked relaxed.
My Mom and sister Amber with some random boy...
I loved the weathered sticks...

My nephews...
We had a lot of fun, and for lunch we did "Stone Soup". Every one just brought one or two items each to put into the soup. It turned out really good. I thought it would be to hot for soup, but even though it was hot... it was just fine.

All of our family reunions fell on the same weekend. In fact this same day, we had the Munford in Cedar City. We only ended up going to this one because we didn't really have money for gas or the time that we needed for the other one. Although I think Tony was disappointed (he looks forward to the Munford one every year... it was for the best considering.)

I hate morning glory!!!

This is my house. Yes, I would love to do many things to this flower bed. Although when the time comes, we seem to be short on the funds. So, here it is. Believe it or not this after I pulled some huge ones. My poor neighbors. This probably drives them even more crazy then me... if that is possible. Then I weeded.
Sorry to say... it is needed again. This morning glory weed is horrible. It grows way to fast! Before we laid our sod down... I went out determined to get the weeds out as much as possible. Once I got four feet down and hit a root system that was thicker then my arm... I admitted my defeat. Although I have been taught that you can use vinegar on it... after a few times that it should take care of it, or at least tame it. I did it once so far. It is a bit better in spots... I must do it again. If you want to use it... Drizzle it on the stem.

Hadlock Family Reunion

We attended the Hadlock Family Reunion at Washington Park (a few weeks ago... behind again on the blogging... but who's keeping tabs, right?!?). We took the kids that I watch with us, since it fell on a Thursday. They all had a blast. We had lunch when we first got here, and then they played on the swing set, bounce house, in the creek, and in the water fountains. They later ate cotton candy, snow cones, and scones. We all played water balloon volley ball to end the day with a splash. Then we ended up meeting up with there Dad to drop the kids off, and headed over to Grandma and Grandpa Hadlock's house to eat pizza, and bath the kids.
Bekah got her pants dirty right when we got there so she didn't match all day.
I love when they help each other out. Way to be the man BEN!!

She was trying so hard, but it was in vain. I am glad that she tried:)

Tony's uploaded photos

All of these pictures are from Tony's phone. I just noticed that he finally uploaded them. We were are my parents house a few weeks ago, and we saw Bekah sporting this outfit. It's the new way to wear a shirt! She makes me smile:) The below picture is the dance program that Erik did at his school. Tony and I had to split up, he went to the dance program and I went to graduation. I was sad to miss it, but you do what you have too.
Tony and the boys love to go to fathers and sons camp out! They've done it for the last 2-3 years and I am sure that it will continue. It was kinda fun to hang out with my two little girls at home too:) Looks like they had fun from the pictures:)


There was still snow!

Here is a picture of Tony with a bunch of his friends. He has a great group of people that he went to school with at Utah Valley. So, when he got to do commercials for UVU, he got all of the old group (or most of them) to come and work it with him. A couple of them even came from out of town... Hawaii and California. He loved seeing them all again.