Alex's Boondock Birthday

We went to Cousin Alex's birthday party over at Boondocks. The boys had a really fun time, thanks Alex and Kari for the party! Happy Birthday Alex, your now 8!!

Bryson and Alex at the Party! Alex is showing off his Mission 4 Agents from Lego

Darn that Darren, he will never give me a good smile.

Preston and Travis, you can never have too much pizza!

Grandma and Weston... getting cake!

Bryson driving his bumper boat and loving getting wet!

Preston was too little to drive his own so I got to go!

Then we went Miniature Golfing

The boys had a fun time doing the golf

Bryson was big enough to drive the Rookie Carts... He was beaming from ear to ear!

About 10 minutes before we left Darren hit the jack pot on one of those light games where you have to stop the moving light on the jackpot... he did and got like 250 tickets!

Thunderbirds Air Show

Darren took us up to the tunderbirds show at Hill AFB on Saturday, it was really fun! Luckily we got up there at the start around 10:30, I say that because when we left around 1:30 there were thousands of people trying to get into the show and inside the show already where 10's of thousands of people.
We thought the the Tunderbirds performed during the day so we made it up there early. Apparently they perform at 4:30 and the event is over at 5:00... once we found that out we decided to leave, otherwise I think it would ahve taken us 3 hours to get off the AFB and on the freeway back home. I don't do well with being stuck in traffic, so when I can avoid it I do. Hopefully my boys don't miss out on much because of that. After being up there for a couple hours we could also tell that the boys were more interested in the Snowie's and the 'jets' on the ground instead of the ones in the sky, they did watch a bit of the shows though.

Bryson, Preston and Weston in front of an F-15

Bryson and Preston in front of AWACS Plane

Me, Bryson, Preston and Weston in front of a C-130

Pics of some of the planes showing off!

Bryson entering the HUGE C-130

This plane, a C-130 , is absolutly HUGE in person. I was amazed at it

More of the air show...

Little Westie enjoying the day in the sun! He did really good for being in the stroller the whole time.

Preston inside a Blackhawk Helicopter

More of the arial show...

Bryson in the Blackhawk Helicopter

Bryson and Preston sitting on AH-64 Apache

Happy Weston again!

More Arial show

This is the only pic of Darren, he had the camera the entire day. Thanks for the idea to go up, it was really fun! I think as the boys get older this will get even funner to go to!

Why aren't the cloths Drying???

About 2 weeks ago I was doing laundry and I could of sworn that I heard a bird in the laundry room. The window was open so I looked outside and there was a finch sitting on our porch swing chirping so I didn't think much more about it. Today when Darren went out to feed the dogs, and say a bird fly out of our dryer vent... or did he see one? We went about our day and then when we came home Darren pulled out the dryer to see...

The entire vent was full of nest, grass, branches, lint...

AND it was filled all the way up the dryer, Darren had his arm all the way up to his shoulder and was still pulling out part of the nest.

All the stuff that was in my dryer... holy cow!

And at the end of the line was these 2 eggs, I felt bad that they had spent all this effort and we had to tear it all apart and loose their family. But it couldn't stay in the dryer. So Darren went to Lowes and Sears to get new dryer parts... oh and he bought his Watch while he was at Sears!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Today is Darren's Birthday, I won't disclose how old he is... but is it 13 years more than I am! Darren and I spent the day together and it was great to be out together. I took him shopping for some summer shorts and new shoes. We then went to about 4 stores only to find out that everyone carries the same watches and at the same price. After that he ended up wanting to wait as he didn't find one that he really liked. We stopped and got a bit at the mall, not really a lunch made for a birthday but he didn't seem to mind.

Later that night we took Dad to dinner at Red Robin (had to be kid friendly), Preston wanted to take some pics on my cell phone so this is what we came up with!

Happy Birthday Darren, here are 10 things I love about you ...

1. You are an amazing Father to our three boys.

2. You're dedicated to everything you do.

3. You like to look nice, and stay in fashion!

4. You can fix anything!

5. You are there to support me in my decisions.

6. You honor your preisthood.

7. You love to camp and fish as a family, not just "guy" time.

8. You are not in love with sports more than me!

9. You are a perfectionist.

10. You are my best freind and amazing husband!

On to Coral Pink

After the King Creek camping we headed another 70 miles down to the Coral Pink Sand Dunes which is about 25 minutes outside Kanab. We would be here until Sunday. We hadn't been there before but it was a good half way point for Kevin and Lynda who live in Arizona. The weather was great, a thunder storms in the afternoon so we never had to deal with the heat!
The kids had a great time being around cousins and making their friendships better. We didn't have any fights - probably because they are all boys, which is kinda nice! The camp grounds are really nice, not very big and they have SHOWERS! Nothing is better after a day of 4-wheeling than a shower. They have really long quite hours so we didn't have the loud anoying bikers starting up at 6am like we do at Little Jerico. It was a nice change of pace from the normal sand dune trip, and it sounds that it will become a yearly tradition

The Sand Dunes view from the lookout deck

Preston on Alex's 4-Wheeler (battery opperated)

Bryson - confused.

Our Home Sweet Home!

Weston and his Cool Dude riding gear

Bryson riding his new 4-Wheeler

Daddy and Weston going for a pretend ride!

It isn't a Sand Dune trip if the Willis men aren't working on a broken machine. Look hard for Weston, he is helping to!

Kari, Adam (Kory's boy) and Preston

The Whole Fam Damily! - first family picture in 20 years, we aren't missing anyone! What a family Mom and Dad, a family of 7 has become a family of 23!

The trip was really fun, and it was great to be together as a family. But it was a long ride home and the boys were done around Payson... the last hour was long, but we made it through. Camping is so much fun with Darren, he makes it easy to get ready and clean up. I cannot wait to go out again, I have caught the camping fever.

Kings Creek - Camping

Last weekend (May 28-31st) we got a chance to go to some camping. Our entire Willis side was meeting at bit further down south so we decided to stop a day at this camp ground by Bryce Canyon. It is a wonderfully quite place, not busy and it has so much to do. As you can see it is very shady, you can fish and there are hundereds of miles to got 4-wheeling on. We were only there for a day, but will be going back very soon... I think this is our new favorite spot

The boys at Kings Creek

Brothers - excited to be camping

Darren content that camp is set up

Preston, trying not to look like I have posed him!

Bryson, my sweet tender heart

Weston is excited to be able to get into everything!

Huge, tall pine trees are everywhere in the campground

Darren and the boys down by the lake

The lake is pretty good size, and we were told it has excellent fishing

The Family - looking forward to an awesome weekend (no I am not taller than Darren, just standing on a log)