Ella's Back to School Joke

Ella: Mom, what if my last name was Mentree instead of Jones?
Me: What if?
Ella: Then my name would be Ella Mentree (Elementary). Ha ha ha!

9 years

Happy Anniversary Tyler!
We are thinking about doing something fun for our 10 year Anniversary next year.
We are having a hard time deciding what to do. What do you think? Vote on our sidebar.

Dayna's Bridal Shower

Party favors & cupcakes.

Emily & Grandma

Courtney & her camera.

Dayna & Trevor.

Weekend

Thursday, Ella went to the CUTEST tea party birthday ever! (this picture just doesn't show how adorable it was) I think I might have to copy this theme.
Happy Birthday Jane! and great job on the decorations Laura!

On Friday, I finally convinced Tyler that we should take the afternoon of the 24th of July off work. We went downtown to the Native American Festival. Ella was very excited to see real Indians. She has been very interested in Indians this summer. We also went over to see all the birds at Tracy Aviary. It was "free admission" day.
Afterward, we headed to Park City to look around, and then up to the Cabin with Tyler's family.

Katie offered Dandelion seeds up at the cabin.

The picture above shows Ella playing & waiting for fireworks to start in a small town just South of Heber City. It was the most exciting fireworks show I've seen. Some of the "Aerial" fireworks exploded before they hit the air, which resulted in me hopping out of my seat a few times & some fires that had to be put out. The grand finally was excellent. I thought it was extremely cute. Tyler doesn't think "cute" is the word to describe it.

The next morning Tyler and his brother went out looking for dead trees to knock over.

Ella didn't think it was right to knock them over. She let everyone know how wrong it was.

But they kept knocking them over despite Ella's warnings.

Saturday afternoon we went to the splash part for Cait & Mayci’s "Mermaid" birthday Party.

Happy Birthday Cait! Happy Birthday Mayci!

Summer is almost over

Today Tyler needed some quiet time to make lots of phone calls for work & to get started our house. Instead of attempting to keep the girls out of our office (that has no door) & keep them quiet (an impossible task), we decided to go up to Park city with my mom, Trisha, & Emily to shop for school clothes. I can’t believe Ella starts school in 2 weeks! Trisha gave Ella & Cait $5 to spend. They decided to buy a harmonica with the money. Ella LOVES her new harmonica. She plans on profiting from it.

Ella: Mom, I know how I'm going to make some money.
Me: How?
Ella: What if you drop me off on the side of the road, then I put my hat upside down, and people put money in my hat while I play my harmonica? I really hope I can remember all my songs I make up so I can make money with my harmonica when I’m big like you too.

The Parade... er, uh... Park

Emily invited us to a parade tonight. We thought it would be a nice break from work & fun for the girls. There was just one problem when we got there... There really wasn't a parade tonight. It was okay though, we stopped for ice cream and the kids had a great time playing at the park.

Lily loved flying down the slide head first. One time Tyler didn't see her coming & Lily ended up face first with a mouth full of wood chips. She didn't mind though, she just spit out several wood chips & went again.

Cait going down a slide.

Cherry Hill

We took an overnight trip to Cherry Hill last weekend. I was having too much fun to take any pictures on Friday, then I was much too tired to take any pictures on Saturday... so I stole this picture off their website. Tyler had to stay home & work. We missed him, but the girls still had fun. Lily decided to stay up all night on Friday. She didn't cry much, she just wanted to play and laugh, squeal, & try to knock down our tent until 5:30 AM. The people in the tent next too us weren't too happy about it.

Cherry Picking

T Tyler decided to take a much needed break and take the kids down to Orem for the afternoon to pick cherries with his mom, so that I could try and catch up on work a little bit. Ella and Lily had a great time. Lily even climbed to the top of a 15 foot ladder. They also picked some raspberries, which both girls decided they LOVE!

Lily is blue. Again!

My favorite holiday

We started the day at a carnival. The kids each got to ride one ride.
The carnival was followed by Café Rio. YUM! then we headed home to get some work done while the kids napped.

In the evening we caught a parade.

Lily was sooo excited.

Ella, Lily, & Cait dancing to the band & waiting for fireworks.

Ella playing games on my phone, just minutes before the fireworks started. Ella enhanced her viewing enjoyment by wearing her sunglasses during the Finale.

Entertainment

Two silly strangers (as they called themselves) visited us today and performed a little dance & song.

Friends

I was so lucky last week to see so many friends that I haven’t seen in a long time. First I went to my friend Heather’s baby shower. I worked with Heather at Stampin’ Up! Although we never worked in the same department, it’s was so easy to be friends with her. It was great to see her along with a bunch of co-workers at her shower.
Monday afternoon my friend Dianne brought her 2 cute kids over for lunch. We weren't able to visit long, as we both had a lot of work to get done, but it was fun seeing her again.
Finally, I was able to see some friends from High School, Laura & Kimmi. Tyler, the kids, and I met them at the demolition derby. It was a great show (the kids loved it too), and so fun to catch up. I think I need to get together with old friends more often.

on a side note: I love how nervous the lady in the background of this picture looks. Maybe she’s the wife or mom of one of the drivers?