Pioneer Day

Cute Cousins Kyla and Katryn

Grandma Bockholt gave Kyla a bonnet for the 24th-so cute.

Kyla Update

Kyla on Sunday in a dress that used to be her Mamas

What happens when you give Kyla a baby biscuit

Kyla weighs 3 oz less than what she was at 4 months and about the same height too. I call her the incredible shrinking baby. The doc says not to worry and that she is the picture of health. Kyla also has her two bottom teeth and one of the top ones just poped through. She has only bit me once so far. She is in constant motion-not crawling but moving everywhere by rolling or scooting on ther back backwards. She also loves to dance with us and on her own. Her favorite bands are Red Hot Chili Peppers and Aerosmith.

Kyla LOVES little pieces of paper so Seth helped Kyla rip up a magazine and then they would throw it into the air. She was so excited that she put her legs strait out and they just kinda hover in the air.

After the paper blizzard they both passed out

Happy Birthday Dad We Love You!

Can 50 candles even fit on a cake? The answer is yes!

He blew them out in one shot.

Big day followed by a birthday nap with Kyla.

Presents

My moms birthday is a few days before my dads so she got some presents too. This is a wedding photo of Bren and Chantal. The very photogenic couple.

Horrid pic of me, I look like a pig woman but I mad the pillow for my mom stiching and all so I had to show it off.

Happy 50th!

My Dad turned 50 although you would never guess especially since he got a pool and a jeep as presents. He's just a big kid at heart.
Scott and Jake taking the 1st jump into the new pool.

This makes me wish I still (sometimes) lived at home.

Kaylee went on a rampage. She mad 4 different kinds of cakes which were all glorious. This one looked like a pile of moldy poo but was actually one on the best things I ever tasted.

The McRae girls.

Drive In Parade

Every year the Drive In parade follows the 4th (Im behind on posting-I just found my camera)

This was our first year going and it was pretty cool, we had gone fishing that day too and I caught 2 pretty trout.
My favorite (I base my decisions completely on the outward appearances)
Seth seemed to like these kind a lot
This was definitly the most unusual. Scott do you know what this is???

Our Troops

Seth is the "furry" one on the side.
Okay, Seth said these beauties are the size of a dinner plate and are everywhere in the forest where they patrol in Okinawa (Im actually not positive on which place). He said in the day time it wasnt bad because you could see their webs and avoid them as much as possible. However at night you couldn't see them so you would just walk head first (especially seth since he was point man) into them and hope you didnt get eaten. I wouldve had a nervous breakdown.
Iraq

Our Troops

Seths brother Matt found Seth's Iraq/Deployment pics, so in honor of the 4th and all I decided to post a few (there were TONS of pics).
Iraw sunset
Iraq
In the Philippines
Seth looks soo young!

INDEPENDANCE DAY

Seth and I had a lot of fun with our neighbors on the 4th. It started with the "big" parade (where we sold one puppy) in the morning, barbeque in the eve and lots of mostly leagle fireworks at night. We bought the sparklers for the kids but I ended up manopolizing them. Oh-and we learned that buring your christmas tree in the middle of the road is against the law. Oops!

These two (Carter Hawkins) had a cracker fest during the 4th barbaque. They seemed to be having a contest over who could smash the most crakers, get them slobbery, and then eat them off of each others sticky chub rolls.

Seth Takes a Vacation!

Seths Grandma Llewellyn flew down from New Jersey for the week-hence the Bryce Canyon trip, sadley at the last minute Seth couldn't make cause his business is so busy (mixed blessing). That is why I took my old college roomate Heather instead of Seth to the Bockholt Family Reunion- definitly non traditional but it turned out really fun. Seth still really wanted to see his Grandma- it had been 3.5 years- so we made a trip down to Orem. One would think that this wouldn't be significant but it is the first time is the begining of May that Seth has taken a Day off (yes that even includes Sunday-no constuction just office work) so it was awsome to spend so much uninterupted time with him that didnt invove talking about work (I now do the books for CLD). This pic is at Sundance, we took the tram which I had never done with out a snowboard attached to my feet so it was pretty cool.
Bridal Veil Falls - Kyla was so happy despite the 90 degree heat. We like Logans 80 degree weather!

Of course what is a day in the canyon without a picnic. Katryn (Krystals babe) seems to enjoy Kyla's blabber and hand waving, Im so glad they are so close in age.

So we have 2 adult labs and 12 lab pups (which are ready to sell now-spread the word if you know someone interested in a AKC lad pup) and we couldn't leave them in Hyrum or ask someone to watch-could you imiagine someone calling and saying will you babysit 14 dogs and feed/water them about 6 times a day? yeah right. We attempted to put all dogs in the back of Seth's big Doge but with all their parifiniala (wow cant spell) they didn't fit. Then my little problem solver remembered he had so extra sod and top soil soooo we layed sod in our dump trailor which could probably carry my car if needed. Then we put a baby swimming pool of water and a couple dog travel kennels. Our dogs definitly travel in style!

The funny thing is -definitly not funny at the time- the truck died in the middle of Sardine Canyon. We had had some work done on it prior to the trip and they screwed up -Seth could give you detials but I dont know a thing about trucks. We could tell the truck was dieing so I called my wonderful neighbor Heidi and told her to come pick up Kyla and I since we would probably get towed. My phone call with her cut off 1/2 way through when I lost service ahhhh! Thankfully a cop pulled up behind us -turned out to be one of our many cop neighbors and let us use his phone to figure things out. His face was priceless when I told him the contents of our trailor. Oh yeah -not to mention that our registration had expired; we renewed it but accidently left the stickers at home. He was a nice cop and took our word for it. So when Heidi arrived with her three kids she offered to help with the dogs too. We fit 2 adults, four kids (all in car seats) and 14 dogs into her minivan. I would have nerver believerd we would all fit! Seth got a ride home with the cop while Big Red was being towed back to the mechanics. Then he had to pick up one of the other trucks and go retreive the trailor. (Truck damages totalled around 3,000-the mechanics admitted their mistake and are fixing it for free)

The dump trailor the 14 dogs were in.