2012 Family Pictures

 

11 years!

We had our anniversary last week.  It's been 11 years time flies! My mom and Camille came by to visit and were nice enough to gather up our kids so we could go out to dinner!  We went to Texas Roadhouse, since we hadn't made any plans.  I actually forgot it was our anniversary until Dan reminded me..  I new earlier in the week that it was coming up on Saturday but then of course fell into day to day life and forgot.  That morning Dan said, "Have any plans for today?"  I said no and that I was just gonna stay home and get things done.  He said, "You forgot our anniversary!" Oops! Dinner was super yummy and then we went to home depot and picked up some bushes for the yard, very romantic right!!  I'm so grateful for the friend I have in Dan and all he does for me and our little family!  How grateful I am it's been 11 yrs and we are still going strong!

swimming at the pool!

 I've seen these neat little life jackets on some of my friends children, and on random kids at the pool.  They are fabulous!  My kids can jump in and out of the big pool all by themselves.  My stress level has gone down about 75%  at the pool!  My kids call the deep pool the 'shark' pool and they love it!  I'm always glad to go with someone at the pool, Melissa was with us today and was able to watch the kids while Emmy and I waited...and waited to ride the slide!  Emmy loves, loves the slides, and Brodyn avoids them.  Today we had so much fun!  It was such a scorcher it was good to get some relief from the suns intense rays and cool down in the water!

Fourth of July!

 Fourth of July has always been a favorite holiday for me.  It's the day after my birthday and family always comes to celebrate.  It is so much fun and I look forward to it every year!  Who wouldn't enjoy fireworks on their birthday!!  My mom said when Melissa and I were born my dad was watching the Stadium of Fire fireworks through the hospital window while she was in labor! This year was extra special because baby Hazel was here.  Last year was difficult to get through after we lost baby John, having little Hazel here has healed so many of our wounds!  We were so grateful and over joyed to have her with us!!

 The Hyrum parade is an absolute must for the Brenchley family.  It is such a tradition to be there.  Parades are not Brodyn's favorite thing to attend strangely enough.  About half way through he wanted to ride his bike back to grandma's to play!!  I usually walk to the parade from my mom's and this year the kids rode their bike, it was a genius idea!  Grandma Thatcher and Jade came for a little bit, but didn't stay for the whole thing we weren't lucky enough to find shade so sitting out in the hot sun was hard!  Afterwards we went back to Grandma Brenchley's and had hot dogs and hamburgers and the kids swam in the pool!!  Mck, Danielle, Dan and I went on a horse back ride up Blacksmith Fork Canyon later that evening and had such a nice time, it was a beautiful ride!  It has been several years since I last rode a horse.  I was super nervous but got my groove back about half way through the ride.  I'm not as nervous when the horses get a little worn out and really only want to slowly walk!  It helped that our two horses were so fat and out of shape that they trailed slowly behind...that's my kind of riding!!  Grandma watched the kids and when we got home the city fireworks show was under way and Grandpa had sparklers for the kids.  It was a perfect 4th of July!!