Lake Powell

My amazing parents took their entire family on a trip to Lake Powell. We had such a good time. We never got bored and I felt like I could have easily stayed another week. It is such a beautiful place. I have posted a lot of pictures on here but I narrowed it down from over 500 pictures. So I hope what you see is enough to show what a great time we had.

Thanks again Mom and Dad!! Love you guys!

My Mom and Dad! Larry and Kathy

Craig, Debi, Alexys & Katie's foot and hand prints
Craig on the top of the houseboat.

Alexys' artwork. Katie as a mermaid.

Out Cruising around the lake on the houseboat. Beautiful day!

Craig's backflip off the top of the houseboat. Very patriotic don't ya think =)

Surfing behind Greg's boat. That's the houseboat in the background.

She loved the slide!

Backflip!! Alexys

Backflip!! Craig

Jumping off the boat with Dad

Jumping off the back of the boat alone!

SO much fun

A two second break from swimming

Lounging in the water and the sun.

Cliff jumping together Craig and Alexys

Having some fun while cruising on the Lake

Craig's first catch of the trip. A catfish.

Playing in the sand

Alexys basking in the sun.

Fishing at sunset

Hotel pool on our way home.

Yellowstone!

This is what I wanted for Mother's Day.

A trip to Yellowstone!!

It was well worth the drive. We saw so many things and really enjoyed our time together. We are a strange little bunch but at least we can laugh together. I never did get a picture of any humans but most of the animals we saw were photographed. I did not get the deer or the bison. =( But I did get all the rest.

Enjoy!!

Momma Grizzly and her two cubs

Crane

Momma Black Bear

Her two cubs

Elk with velvet

Fox

Wolf

Mountain Goats

Second Grizzly we saw (Picture from the back window)

Grizzly from the back side window of the car

It was a pretty good day to see some fun animals.
Happy Mother's Day everyone!!

April

Part One: D.Y.W.

Alexys has been working very hard these past few months preparing for the Distinguished Young Woman program. (Formally known as Junior Miss.) She did such a wonderful job. The only clothing she wore that we didn't get a picture of was her talent. But we did get a picture of the fitness and her everyday hero look, The Dr. She sang the song Someone Like You by Adele. She did a great job! So proud of her! Love you Alexys!!

Sunday after church she still looked beautiful. this is her dress she wore for the poise part.

You can see the sense of freedom in her face compared to the days prior to Junior Miss. It's good to have it over. =)

She has a great laugh

So pretty. This is a pin that belonged to my Grandma Hemming. It looked great in her hair.

Part Two: Easter 2012

Easter was good this year. I love Easter and wish that the spirit you feel during this holiday was with me all the time. What a wonderful thing we have in our lives. To know that we will all be resurrected some day and that this life is not the end.
Katie got some scarfs ( her favorite toy in the world) and a very bright orange and pink tutu. Alexys got a new purse and wallet set. You can't see them very well in this picture.
Katie loved searching for the eggs. this year she was prettu excited to find the money. Of course she talked about going to Big J's to eat every time she found more money. Silly girl.

We went to Grandma and Grandpa Housley's house for Easter dinner.

I hope you all had a great Easter and April. =)

Three months later...

So I will start this post from the most recent and go backwards.

Alexys went to the Sadie Hawkins dance on Saturday night. She had a great time. She went with a good friend of hers named Shad. They seem to have a great time together. They were being pretty goofy during these pictures. I took a lot of pictures and made a collage for each of them instead of spending all that money on the pictures they take at the dances. I will try to scan hers and see if I can post it later.

Bubba had to get in on the action with them.

My Alexys! So beautiful

Alexys turned 17 on March 6. It makes me sad to realize I only have her as a kid for one more year. She will be an adult on her next Birthday. =( This had been a long weekend for all of us so after she opened her gifts and blew out the candles we put the ice cream cake back in the freezer and we all went to bed. Pretty funny.

Craig got me a scope for Christmas this year. I have wanted one for when we go into Yellowstone. We have taken it out on the desert a few times to try and see some animals. This trip we didn't see anything but the one before we saw a huge moose. He was very impressive.

Katie turned 10 this year. She is getting pretty old herself.

Katie and my little Mamma share a Birthday so this cake was for both of them. Also an ice cream cake.

She was pretty excited for her big day. Such a silly little gal.

Well I hope that life will slow down a little more soon and maybe I will get a chance to Blog more than every 3 months.

Have a great Spring!!