MAY

FATHER/SONS CAMPOUT
Our church has a father/sons campout each year. This year Wes took Jake again and they had a blast. Cooper was just a little too young to take, we were sure that if he went he'd end up in the fire or off playing with bears or something. That kid never stops, so we thought he'd be too much for a campout. He will get to go next year, leaving me all alone that weekend, I just might have to have a girls weekend, any takers?
Oh, and I had met up with some ladies at Costa Vida the evening of the campout for dinner. We were running late due to Cooper's constipation issues so I may have been speeding...just a little. And of course I got pulled over - apparently my little bit of speeding was going 61 in a 45, so I guess the pull over was called for. He asked if I knew how fast I was going and my reply was, "No, my son is constipated and that's all I've been thinking about." I am sure he's never gotten that excuse for speeding, but it was the gosh darn truth. And in case you are wondering if that would be a good excuse to get you out of a ticket, it's not. He still gave me a ticket. Grrr... did I mention that I had just left my house, making my 20 minute drive to the restaurant the longest drive of my life. To make up for it, a lady in front of me at the restaurant was ordering and a little all over the place and turned to me to apologize for being so frazzled. I told her it was okay and that I was feeling the same having just received a ticket. She felt so bad for me. When I went to pay, she said, "Oh no, we are paying for you, you've had such a hard day!" Nearly brought me to tears! She bought me a drink and then had her husband bring out my food to the patio where the ladies were since I was holding Cooper. You have no idea how that made my day! Thank heavens for good people!

Ok, back to the campout - here's some fun pics:Cousins
Ya, this is why moms aren't invited I suppose...


MEMORIAL DAY
We spent part of our Memorial Day weekend at YMCA of the Rockies, Snow Mountain Ranch. One reason we went was so that I could check things out b/c that is where we were holding Girls Camp this year. We had reserved seats to go on a horse wagon ride that took us to a cookout. We'd done it the cookout before and loved it. We opted to not do the horseback ride to the cookout because we figured Cooper wouldn't last that long. The wagon ride was a challenge because you are required to sit the whole time, ya, like Cooper can do that. He hated the whole sitting bit. Jake fell asleep on the way there. The food was awesome, steak, potatoes, so good.

We took the boys the next day to ride the horses. We had a mama horse, super hairy and she was ready to eat I guess because as we pulled the rope for her to come along, she had other ideas. She stopped at nearly every grass patch and chomped away. Yeah, she knew who she was dealing with and who she could pull one over on, and it was us. What a joy!They had a campfire that evening - we went to roast some marshmallows and eat some smores.

We went to the KIVA center that has rollerskating, volleyball, ping pong and basketball. It was fuu-nn!After our mini-hike. We tried hiking up a trail but once walking, most of the trees around us were chopped down because of the pine beetle issue so we had to turn around. So sad -
SWIMMING LESSONS
I put Jake into swim lessons that are given at my gym. He loved them!

RANDOM STUFF IN MAY
Boys making messes, Jake and Ella watching a movie in the play room, Cooper being Cooper, My construction worker cowboy fixing the couch and lego mazes..
Happy Mother's Day!UTAH
My parents helped me fly out with the boys to come visit - we traded their coming to stay with us for us going to stay with them, if that makes any sense. Wes had to travel part of that time, I believe so it was mostly just the boys and I.
Pics below: Leslie & Jake; Lita & Jake Movie Night at Jeremy & Brooke's house. Here's my 3 brothers and then myself with mom, Jen and Gabriella
Grandaddy with Cooper. All the kids love grandaddy, they cling to him when he's around.
We were able to spend Saturday afternoon to go see Wesley's parents. Jake was thrilled to see his cousins, here he is with Zach. He loves Zach, Alex and Karli
This trip we also went to "The Little Chocolatiers" candy shop in SLC. They have a tv show on TLC, and I was curious to try out their chocolate and see the stars themselves. We also went to this yummy cookie shop that our friend owns, Smart Cookie, but sadly, no picture, grrr...
Here's our Sunday afternoon, dog pile on Jeremy. And then Jeremy pulled all the kids aside to tell them a story - it was so cute to see the kids so into his story!

Movie Night - We watched the movie UP. Jeremy has an incredible media room, 1500 sqft... ya, big! It's awesome, he has a projector and it shows on the whole wall, it is awesome! Ashlyn offered to take COoper and he sat there with her for a good 1/2 hour, unheard of! It was nice for me to watch that much of the movie.Sunday afternoon vegetables. Jake went to town, he loves vegetables... as long as dip is involved. It was cute to see Jake and Gabriella hovering over the veggies.