Rainbow after the Rains that calmed the fires!

I have never seen a rainbow this intense and bright! This picture is not enhanced at all. It was totally shining like that

Superdad Party

 Since Brady was so good to me for Mothers's Day, which I forgot to take pictures of, I figured I needed to do a GREAT Father's Day Party... or SUPERDAD Party!

 We had the most yummy meal: Tri tip steak from Costco, Parmesan seasoned fries and corn on the cob! Oh my goodness it was delicious!

 So were these!

 Of course we had to have some DAD'S

OUR SUPERDAD!

This was Marshall's surprise present to Brady! So cute!

Marshall & Friends

 Jared and Marshall

Best Buds

 Diana, Claire, Marshall, Abby, Hunter, and Vance

Claire Abby Marshall

 Claire Marshall Abby

 Marshall and Abby holding hands!

 4 little monkeys jumping on the bed!

 I walked by Marshall's room and found them like this!! So Cute!

 James 3rd birthday party. Jamie is so cute to make little Caterpillar costumes. She even made it so you can put pieces of paper of a picture of the food he ate inside the mouth and down in the tummy of the caterpillar. 

 Here they are reading the book and putting the food in the mouth!

 Marshall and Claire's picnic UNDER the table

 Library Date

 Watching "How to Train Your Dragon"

Marshall and Hunter... the one kid in the complex older then him lol

Outings with Daddy

When Daddy is home we try to do as much as we can with him! Here we are at Temple Square! Marshall LOVES Temples!

For some reason Marshall really wanted to take a picture with the "cool" surf board at the Gateway!

This is at Bridal Veil Falls up Provo Canyon with the Goulding's!

Beautiful!

 TOYS R US 

 Mommy and Daddy boat trip WITHOUT the kids to Utah Lake! Super fun! Thanks Britany and Ryan!

Appendicitis then Sick Sick Sick

Driving back from our camping trip I started to get a major pain in my stomach. It just got worse and worse as we got home. I thought it would go away if I went to bathroom or threw up.. but it didn't! Tried it and did it and the pain was still there.. just moved a little bit from my upper stomach to my lower. I could feel something right around my appendix so I suggested to Brady it could be Appendicitis. He looked it up and sure enough I had all the symptoms they had on there. I called my Mom who suggested we go to hospital right away. So in pain, where I couldn't even stand up straight, we had Chelsea come over to watch the kids and went to the hospital after just a couple hours of getting home from camping.. where I was totally fine.. I thought. 

When we got to the hospital of course I started to feel better. You always do when you go to the doctor. But, I told them my symptoms and from that and a CAT Scan they decided to take out my appendix. This was good because they said it would have burst in a couple days. So, they knocked me out pretty fast and then I was in a recovery room.. at least that is all I remember. Everything went really well but I felt like CRAP! Getting over the anesthesia and dealing with the pain and discomfort was super not fun! I thought it would be great to get a good night of sleep in the hospital without a newborn needing to be feed or being at home with a 9 month old next to me, but NO.. I had nurses in constantly to check on me.

LUCKILY, Brady and my mom were there! Brady was able to take care of the kids since I could barely move let alone pick up kids. Mom and Kim helped a lot too! Thanks!  It was hard when they all left but I think I am basically back to normal with a few tiny scars and a hate for liquid diets! 

Well just a couple weeks after the surgery and finally feeling better we all got sick! First Scott, then me, then Brady and Marshall got it just a bit! Lame!

We just sat around a lot for a couple days!

Luckily, we are all doing better now! No fun!

Camping in American Fork Canyon with the Floyds

 Here we are after a FREEZING night of camping!

We made a delicious breakfast in Brady's Dutch Oven!

 E.T.??..... NO sweet little Macie!

The path to our amazing camp site.

This is AF canyon a few weeks later.. on FIRE! :( sad!

Marshall's new Book Holder!

Great for space saving and easy to reach when he is in bed!

Dan and Kailey's Wedding

 Marshall dancing with the Bride!

 Kimmy & Scott

 Marshall with Great Grandma and Grandpa Marshall

Travis trying to teach Marshall how to tie his shoes.. He just has to get them untied first!

NEW YORK ... without the kids!!

OH MY GOODNESS! We had a such a great time in New York. Brady's sister Jamie and her husband Matt dropped their kids of at our house in Utah with Tyson (Brady's brother) and Jessica to watch for the week. We spent a few super fun loaded days in New York City staying right in Time Square. 

It is seriously the city that never sleeps. Everything is open so late and so bright that we stayed out super late every night (which you can't do with kids).

Here we are in Time Square! This is where we spent most of our time. Eating at places like the Hard Rock Cafe, the Shake Shack (DELICIOUS.. best burger ever), etc. 

When we first got there we ran to catch the last half of a NY Mets game. It was so fun! Thanks Matt and Jamie!

 In the mornings we were beat. Long nights and rain means I don't get ready! lol

This is at Breakfast in a cute cafe!

 This is Brady with a headband he found in a shop on Canal Street haha Creepy!!

This was the view from one of our hotel rooms! Sweet huh! 

Thanks again Jamie and Matt! 

 Brady's friend is the head chef here at a sweet restaurant near Central park. He created all the menu items and they are all really interesting and really good.

 Central Park What??

Tired of the rain!

One of the most fun things we did was going to see "Wicked"! It was amazing! Way more amazing then I would've ever thought!

We also spent a day in Palmyra. That was really fun! Brady and Jamie had never been so it was great! 

This is looking at the Sacred Grove through a window of the Smith Farmhouse.

 Here is the first Smith Farmhouse!

 The Palmyra temple. So pretty. The missionaries told us they trim back the trees because there are windows in the front of the temple so you can see the Sacred Grove from inside the temple. Just Cool!

 This is the house that Alvin was building before he died. The Smiths lived in it for a while but had to move back to the small farmhouse because of financial reasons.

 This is where Joseph pulled up the brick and hid the plate in the dirt underneath when a mob was coming.

 This was just funny I thought!

 They hid the plates in this little shop too.

 Sacred Grove!

 The sun was shining down through the trees! It was pretty cool!

 Just sweet and beautiful! It was pretty empty which helped us really feel the spirit there!

The Printing Shop

 One of the coolest things we saw there was a copy of the characters Martin Harris brought to the professor. COOL!

 Two of the churches on the intersection where there is a church on all 4 corners. 

At the top of the Hill Cumorah!

A HUGE THANK YOU to Mom, Dad and Jeff for watching the kids while we went to New York. Mom and Jeff picked up the kids from JFK and just took them to Connecticut. I'll admit I had a hard time just letting them go. But after I got over I was over it and we had a BLAST lol! 

We came back to Connecticut for a few days and hung out with the family! We had a great time! Thanks again MOM and DAD!!

Here is Grandpa teaching Marshall to play ball!

and Scott haha

Thanks Jamie and Matt for the fun time! I am so glad we went with you guys! We seriously had a BLAST!