Ure Family Reunion and the 4th

For our family reunion we hiked up to the Timpinogos caves. It scared me to death. I'm not one for steep cliff drop offs about a foot away from where I am walking. Especially when I'm watching my kids hike it. Yuk. I hugged the wall practically the whole way up. Anyway, this is Jen, Matt, and their family. Chuga chuga chuga. It was a tuff hike.

Camri, Joshua, Sierra, and Ashton. Such troopers.

Nicki, Diedre, Trevor, and Darren. Yes, we all looked quite exausted at the top.

Nell and Tiff

Jen and I were testing our flashes inside the dark caves. Obviously, they worked.

Lake inside the cave.

Heart of the cave. Okay, so in all honesty I just wanted to run through these caves. We had a tour guide and it about killed me. Information like that does not stick in my brain. I hiked up with my baby in a backpack and we had to take our backpacks off before we went into the caves. So I had to hold him the entire time inside the caves because he fell asleep. And if you've been inside these caves, you know you have to squat and suck in and all of the above and I had Tyler in my arms the whole time. Then Joshua fell asleep in my nieces arms and she was about to die, so I had to give my baby away and hold Josh. It about killed me. The tour guide had no simpathy, he just kept talking away. If I had a gun, I don't know what I would have done with it. J/K :0)

The fourth was pretty eventful. We decided to take our kids up to the fair grounds for the fireworks. We had a huge storm while we were up there. It hailed and thundered and I got completely soaked. So we came home and our street was flooded along with every other street in Chubbuck. It was crazy.

Our beautiful Hostas and Coral bells got thrashed. So sad.

This is the park behind my neighbors house the day after the storm. Yes, it was completely dry the morning before.

Happy Anniversary Rob!

This slide show was made because we had our 8th wedding anniversary yesterday. I love looking back at our pictures. Rob and I always have had a good time together. I have to say that I got unbelievably lucky and I will never know why. I put him through so much when we were dating, it is amazing to me that he stuck with me. I don't think I was a picnic. He is so sweet to me, he is so sweet to our children. I think I would be more lost then I could ever imagine without him. Anyway, ROB I LOVE YOU! Happy Anniversary.

Joshua's birthday and Sierra's recital

Joshua's birthday was actually a month ago. I just haven't posted it yet. Better late then never, right?

Joshua is in a trance. Wow... fire.

The cake may have been ugly, but he thought it was awesome.

Obviously he turned three.

Tyler kept trying to wear the clothes that Joshua would unwrap.

Sierra had her ballet recital yesterday. She looked so pretty. I had her practice a few times and kept telling her to make her movements big. So when she was actually performing she made her movements big, but she forgot to smile. She looked so mad throughout the entire performance because of the expression she had on her face. It kind of made me sad. She was still the cutest one up there. Of course I could be just a little biased.

This is her friend that danced with her this year. Her mom and I would take turns taking the girls to dance. They became great friends. Of course you wouldn't be able to tell by the look on Sierra's face.

Rob and Tyler's Birthdays

I won some free lift tickets to Targhee a while ago and so Rob and I went a couple of days before his birthday. It was great. The rest of the slideshow is their birthday. Tyler's was on the 6th and Rob's was on the 7th, so we celebrated them together on Rob's birthday. Tyler turned 1 and we won't mention how old Rob turned. He he he :).

Valentines Date

Rob took me on a very fun Valentines date this year. And since he was in charge, he didn't think about taking a camera, so I will just have to write about it. He told me about three weeks ago not to plan anything for Valentines night. He was surprising me. I love surprises. Anyway, so I got a babysitter (thank you Jaci) and Rob made the plans. He blindfolded me at about 6 p.m. and someone came to pick us up. So I didn't even know who we were going out with. Then he led me through the snow to the car and I hear our friends Natalie and Chad talking. Chad drove us around, making it seem like we were going up into the mountains or something. It was hillarious. It seemed liked we were on dirt roads when really we were just driving on the side of the road. I bet we looked awesome. It also seemed like we were driving in a bunch of snow drifts. He was just driving in a trailer park where the snow on the road hadn't completely melted. And because we were blindfolded our equilibriam was a little off. Natalie kept saying things like "Chad we're upside down," and then he stopped and said "I need to check this out." He and Rob were such good little actors. Natalie and I were wondering if he really needed to check something out or not and Rob said "If you knew what we were looking at..." Then we drove over something huge. I don't know what. Anyway, they just took us to Chad and Natalie's camper that was parked on Philbin. It was so cute. They made us a delicious dinner and we played games. It was so much fun. I was totally impressed. Good job Rob.

I've Been Tagged!

1. Go to your documents/pictures
2. Go to your 6th file.
3. Go to your 6th picture.
4. Blog about it.
5.Tag 6 people to do the same.
6. So here we go...

Our pictures files on our computer go pretty far back. This actually isn't the 6th picture in that file, though. The 6th picture was all fuzzy and you couldn't really see what was happening. Don't know why it's still there. Anyway, this is Sierra when she was about a year old, I think. I remember she was pretty sick. Her nose was running down her face, and she looked miserable. Her hair's a little psycho too. I still think she looks pretty adorable. Just look at those cheeks.

Tag you're it!

Tiffani Adamson

Nicki Iverson

Jeni Niu

Diedre Clark

Danielle Webb

Jessica Springer

We Love Daddy

I know I seem to post a lot lately, but I just thought that these pictures were so cute. Tyler looked like he was practically falling off of the couch and they were both out. The rest are just the kids loving on their dad. And I added a picture of Sierra skiing. We went again yesterday, and kept the camera warm this time.