Summer is well under way. Minus the weather

June is already half over. I can't believe it!! Time goes so fast, the kids will be back in school before we know it. We really haven't had the best weather yet. It has rained almost everyday since the kids got out of school. WE ARE READY FOR SOME SUNSHINE!!!

We have been busy running kids to all their various activities.

Bailey started volleyball camp this week and has really enjoyed it. They are working them pretty hard and she is coming home very sore and tired. She is going to go to Logan next week to stay with Wade and Lori and babysit for them while they work. After she comes home from their house she will be leaving for 4-H camp. She is a busy girl and I am really going to miss her. She helps me so much with the boys and around the house. I am going to be lost without her.

Tyus is very involved in sports and loves them all. Right now he is playing Soccer in Evanston and also Softball in Randolph. His games and practices for both seem to always fall at the same time so we are running from sport to sport with him trying to make it to as much of both of them as we can. Later in the summer he is also going to go to golf camp. He can't wait and keeps asking me when he gets to go. He will also go to scout camp this year and also seems to be excited for it.

Peyton is involved in sports too. He is playing Teeball in Randolph and also plays Soccer in Evanston. He is doing so well at both sports. This is his first year to do both of them and he is loving ever minute of it. In teeball his coaches pitch the ball to them instead of using the tee and he does very well hitting it. He is so proud of himself for not having to use the tee. I am his soccer coach and I think I may request to not have him on my team next time. He is a little stinker sometimes and I think he would do better with someone else coaching him. Oh well, it has been fun coaching him and his team mates. They are cute little kids and not bad soccer players either.

(I have only remembered to take my camera to one of Peyton's teeball games. I will have to take pictures of his soccer and Tyus' softball and soccer and post them later.)

Peyton up to bat (without the tee)

Running to first base after hitting the ball

My brother Alan and his wife and kids are moving to India in a few days. We decided to have our family reunion before they left. We went camping up to the creek and had a ball. The weather could have been a little better, but other then that everything was great. We will really miss Alan and Kerri and their kids. They will be gone for 2 years. That is a long time and a long ways away from home. Good luck guys!!! We love you and will miss you.

Here are some pictures of our reunion

The kids took the treats we all brought and put them together and made a candy store in one of the tents.

Caden, Peyton and Machesney eating their treats from the candy store

Jackson was the advertiser for the store

My Dad and Chad enjoying dinner. You've got to love camping food!!

Sweet little Savannah (Alan and Kerri's baby)

Katie and Chase (he is enjoying his candy from the candy store too)

The Erickson Clan

Alan, Kerri and Savannah

Chad and I have been looking for a newer camp trailer for about a year now and haven't had any luck at all. We had an older trailer, but it was just to little for our growing family. We were looking for one that would be better for us. We had almost given up, and then we found the trailer that we had been hoping to find. We decided to call on it in hopes that it hadn't already been sold. To our surprise it hadn't and we were able to buy it. We have only had it for a few days and can't wait to try it out. I think we are going to find somewhere to camp this weekend. Hopefully the weather will cooperate.

Our new trailer

We are way excited that it has a slide. It adds a lot more room inside

The living room

Kitchen, Hall and Bedroom

Wow!!!! It has been a long time since I have posted anything....

I can't believe how fast May went. We have been running from one thing to the next. I am going to try to update everything we have done, so this post may be long.

To start things off, Tyus got to go to the Heber Creeper on his field trip this year. Peyton and I got to go with him and we all had a great time. The weather turned out to be pretty nice, but was a little chilly while the train was moving. We won't complain, it could have been worse.

Peyton and Tyus enjoying the train ride

Mom and Tyus- Wow look at that hair! (The wind was blowing)

Meeting the Conductor

Tyus and his friends checking out the sights from the train.
(I love this picture! They were all totally loving the camera!)

Tyus and Peyton posing on "Thomas the Train"

Bailey's field trip was to the Hogle Zoo. Chad and Peyton went with her, but I don't have any pictures of her because her Dad didn't take the camera. They had a great time and actually got a little bit of a sunburn, because the weather that day was great.


Peyton's preschool graduation was on Wednesday May 13th. I can't believe my baby is done with preschool and off to Kindergarten. It was such a fun night. The theme was "Let Them Be Little." The kids walked into the song "Let Them Be Little" by Billy Dean. I will admit I got a little teary eyed. They just grow so fast and as much as I am excited for my kids to grow and have new experiences in life, I also wish that they could stay little forever. Peyton and the other kids all did a great job with their parts, songs and poems. I am really going to miss seeing these kids. It was a great year and I would like to thank all the moms that helped make it a success.

All the moms decorated a table for their graduate. This is Peyton's. He told me that he loved sports, so that is what I decorated his table with.

The Graduate walking in to "Let Them Be Little" by Billy Dean

Finally Graduated from Preschool.
Kindergarten Here I Come !!!!!!

Peyton's Class- (Top Left to Right) Payton Richey, Hattie Cornia, Ryann Staple, Dixie Huffaker
(Bottom Left to Right) Jeremy Brown, Peyton, Jayken Downing, Ryan Leifson

Next... Was Peyton's 5th Birthday. He had a great day. He was a little on the crabby side most of the day and I sang.. "It's my Birthday and I will cry if I want to." It must have stuck in his head because he went around the house singing it for the next couple of days. It is hard being the center of attention and I guess he thought that he could act however he wanted to on his special day. None the less he had a great day and got spoiled rotten as usual.

Peyton's Birthday Cake- He asked for a hunting cake. Grandma Tracy had it made for him. Thanks Grandma!!

Peyton opening his presents

Time to make a wish

The day after his birthday he had a friend party. The weather was wonderful so we got to have it outside. Thank goodness, because 14 little kids came. That would have been a house full. We played pin the tail on the donkey, had a pinata, had an awesome water fight, and ended it all with presents and cake and popcycles.

The party crew

Hitting the pinata- Hoping for a lot of candy & prizes!!!!

School is finally out!!! I am probably as excited for school to be out this year as my kids are. I may change my mind but for now I am glad for the break. Chad went to the awards assembly the last day of school. Both Bailey and Tyus received some awards. Bailey got.... Presidential Physical Fitness Award, President's Education Award, and 1st Place for her Soil Conservation Poster Contest. For this award she received a nice trophy and also a $100.00 Savings Bond. This award was a pleasant surprise and we are very proud of you Bailey. Tyus' awards were.... Presidential Physical Fitness, and Reading Achievement Certificate for his AR points. Great Job Kids!!!

Bailey being presented with her award for her Soil Conservation Poster

Tyus getting his Presidential Physical Fitness Award

We started our summer with Memorial weekend. We usually go camping, but didn't this year. We went to the Annual Testicle Festival on Saturday and then Grandpa Allen and Darlene came to stay with us that night. We stayed up visiting way to late that night so we just had a lazy day on Sunday. Monday Grandpa & Grandma Erickson, Jason, Sheila & girls, Ryan, Susie & boys and our family went 4-Wheeling. We had a great time even though we got rained out. The plan was to have a weenie roast in the hills, but we ended up coming to our house and having it in the fire pit in the back yard. Alan, Kerri & their kids stopped by on their way home from the ranch in Pinedale. It was so fun being with all of our family. (Minus Katie and her family- We missed you)

The 4-Wheeler Crew

The kids after we got home.
It rained so hard that they got wet and then the dust added a nice muddy coat to there pretty faces and clothes.

Bailey is finally done with piano lessons for this year. She had her piano recital last Sunday. She played two songs and did a great job. She says that she doesn't like it at all, but she does such a great job. I hope having the summer off will give her enough of a break that she will be ready to go again next year. I hate to see her give up now. She is doing so good.



Katie is up for the week, and we have had a fun time with her and her boys. Caden came and stayed with us one night and he did great. The boys had so much fun having him stay. Bailey has been staying with Katie and Chase at Grandpa and Grandma's house and she wishes that she could go home and stay the rest of the summer with her. To bad she has a mean mom that won't let her go.

Caden, Peyton and Tyus all tucked in for the night and enjoying a movie

We have started all the summer sports.... Teeball, Softball, and Soccer. Pictures and posts on these events will be coming soon.

I will try hard to update a little better so my posts aren't so long next time!!!