General Conference weekend at the ranch

For General Conference and Matt's mom's birthday, we spent the weekend up at the Ranch. We had beautiful weather. We turned the radio on in our car and we all listened as the little kids played and the older kids and adults put a puzzle together. (My Angelique is upside down in one of the pictures looking to see if they dropped any in the grass.) I prefered to just sit and take notes. I can focus better that way and remember what was said.
Matt's cousin Justin took a few horses and saddles up there for us to ride. Some of the boys actually got into the water, dang cold water! Our dog had a good time too getting lots of attention from everyone and eating people food.
The last picture is of cousin Sammy. This one is for my sister in law.

My little Beau - The Photographer

I found 14 similar pictures to these ones on my camera. My sweet little Beau can't keep his sneaky hand off of it. Anytime we are trying to take pictures, he wants to be the one to push the button. Almost every time I download pictures on to my computer, I will find a few like these. He's such a character!

Happy 11th Birthday my sweet Angel-Pie!

Today is Angelique's birthday!
Yesterday morning Angelique, Jileigh, and I put together invitations for her friends at school for Angelique to have a party today. With that, all but one showed up. The girls had a great time together. The first picture is of Elody, we gave her a muffin and she fell right to sleep after eating it. She missed most of it, but was awake for the end. She loves Angelique and curled up in her arms after she woke up. Anyway, I made pumpkin chocolate chip muffins for her "cupcakes." (I only put in 1/4 cup of chocolate chips per batch of a dozen muffins. They make them extra yummy!) Matt made an amazing Lemon Meringue Pie which was Angelique's requested "birthday cake". After blowing out the candles and eating, they played a game of stomping on each others balloons. Then they went outside and played apples to apples together. Then she opened her presents.

Splash pad

On Saturday, the weather was still nice and warm and the kids were done with their chores, so I took them to the new city splash pad! I didn't take my camera this time, but we went during the summer once on July 21st. My friend took pictures then and posted them on facebook, so I copy/pasted them into my computer so I can post them here.