Canada Fun!

Ok, this picture was down at the bottom, and for some reason got erased. But it couldn't be left out. This is me, Crystal and Jordan. Life wouldn't be the same without them. I love them soo much.


Ok people, this is going to be a big one. How do you narrow down 100 pictures?! I just did my best. Soooo, we'll start here, just before we left. Poor Chaddy got kicked in the eye by a young man at one of his activities! It looked so bad! He's all better now though!


This is my birthday party! I made myself a cake (it was supposed to be Emilys cake but I never got around to doing it, so I made it for my birthday!) Then our neighbours the Hydes came over to sing to me and eat the yummy cake! Fun was had by all!
This is the first night of our trip! We made it to a hotel in Great Falls, then after swimming - in which Riley almost drown (thanks to his uncle Jordan who walked into the pool and assuming he could swim, threw Riley into the deep end! Luckily, Riley managed to stay afloat in time for us to rescue him!) - we came back to the room, had some snacks and went to bed, after midnight of course!
We stopped in Lethbridge to visit my dad for a few hours. We ate McDonalds and went to this park to play and burn off some energy! It was fun!



And we made it! This is our first night at Crystals, they threw me a birthday party! 30 candles and all. The kids all helped me blow those out. Yummy DQ ice cream cake!

No trip would be complete without face painting! Look out for all the tigers!

And here is my new hair cut and colour! I LOVE it so much. Who knew that being a brunette would be so fun!


Here we are a Calaway Park. The kids loved all the rides...well, there were a few that Shelby screamed on, but, on the whole they loved it! I had a million pictures here, so I had to narrow them down a bit!

This roller coaster was the highlight of my day. The look on their faces just as the ride started was priceless, then slowly as they realized that it wasn't scary but really fun, the smile spead accross their face and oh what joy!


Mmm cotton candy. We needed like 3 more bags to satisfy everyone!

And here is the log ride. If only you could see the inbetween picture that they took as the log was going down! Riley was so freaked out. His look was pure terror! But here it is pure joy! He loved it. Emily, who hid behind Crystal was scared too, but in the end they wanted to do it again!

And here is Riley Park! A little wading pool that the kids loved! Riley couldn't stop jumping from this pillar onto the floaty! We had lots of fun! And we left just in time for the storm to come blowing in!

Ahhh, my sister and brother! They had fun running and frolicking in the water! Love them.

Jordan and Riley climbed this tree. Actually, all the kids climbed it. But this was a priceless picture. Uncle Jordan took such good care of Riley this week. (well, except for the whole drowning thing!)

And here is my long lost friend David Walker. We were able to get together this week. It was so fun and so nice to catch up a little. We were laughing so hard here. Good times! Thanks David for taking the time to coming to visit and for the gift! LOVE IT!

Now phase two of our vacation, our family reunion! Oh so much fun and wonderful to see everyone! Here Riley was going down the zip cord! I couldn't beleive he did it! He was so brave! He went like 5 times!

Shelby, Elayna and Brianna playing on the grass. It was so cute to hear them laughing.

Most of the reunion we all just sat in our circle moving with the shade. Here is Emily and her best friend Sydney playing a little game. They had so much fun together that I hardly saw them! Oh ya, eating Dill Pickle chips..mmmmmmmm. So good.

Riley had so much fun too, I hardly saw him as well. He was off with his cousin Branden as weekend. Down by the creek they caught some minnows with his bare hands, he was so happy and proud to take a picture to show his Dad.

Gotta love Old Chief. Nothing says Alberta better to me than this mountain.



This is just before we left to go home. There was no clouds all morning, but the moment I go out to take a picture, clouds come and hide Old Chief.

All of the Boyer kids. They had so much fun. It was the best vacation. The only thing that was missing was our Daddy. Other than that it was such a wonderful time to visit and play with all my family! Thanks to everyone who helped me.. Crystal for letting us stay, and for the dress :) Jordan for helping me with the kids on the drive and other times, Mom and Dad.. well, I couldn't have come without you, and pretty much could have had no fun with out you! Love you all.

Just Hanging Out

Well, this is the result of our Dean Girl Spa day. My beautiful Emily looked SO cute with her hair all curled. I hope that she lets me curl it again!




My beauty queen, always posing for a picture.




And here we are, just sitting on the couch relaxing. Gotta love having girls!






And of course, we can't leave out the handsome Riley! He was busy playing his Lego Star Wars while we were doing hair! (smart boy)

The 4th of July and Some Summer Fun!

So my Dad came down for the week to visit. It was so fun to see him. We had fun just hanging out, swimming in our little pool and getting ready for the 4th.

Shelby took to Grandpa right away and didn't even play shy, which was really nice. Here they were just playing and being silly and reading all the library books that we got!

We went down by the river to have lunch and feed the ducks. There were hundreds of ducks and geese and they took the bread right out of our hands! It was fun, and lunch was really yummy too!


Our family tradition is to sleep out in the tent on the night of the 3rd before July 4th. And my husband, of course, does not do ANYTHING half way. So we had the matteresses from our beds, and the TV and DVD player. We watch a movie then attempt to go to sleep with all the many fireworks going off till 1 in the morning! (I actually got kicked out of bed and couldn't sleep, so I went inside to my own bed!) You can tell that the kids love this tradition and how happy they were by that top picture of Riley kissing Emily... that would NEVER happen on just any old day! It is so fun. Then in the morning we get up and go to the parade, come home and take a nap, then off to the river to sit till the fireworks! This year Grandpa went down to the river early to save our spot - more like fight off everyone who wants to steal our spot! Then we go down about 5 and cook hot dogs, eat candy and just people watch! The fireworks are the best EVER, and totally worth waiting there for 5 hours! It was great fun this year having Grandpa with us. We even got to meet Jordans girlfriend Thresia! What a fun 4th of July!


Chaddy loves to set off fireworks. We did our own the night before the 4th. Shelby was scared at first, but by the end she loved them. They loved to hold the sparklers, and this one firework called a snake. But it was very fun!



It took some convincing, but finally the girls were able to hold the sparklers and know that they wouldn't get hurt. I was the same way too!


So on the 4th down by the river they had a little carnival thing. There was facepainting, but it was 5 bucks a face, um, no thank you. But the kids wanted to have their face painted. So on Monday I bought some face paints. This was our first attempt. Since then, I have tigers running around my house... and of course the neighbours want to have their face painted, so, it's a whole coven of tigers around here!!



So Emily's birthday was on June 24th. We celebrated in Boise when we were there. But she has a good friend Abby, whose birthday is on June 29th. They have the same friends so we decided to have a joint birthday party! It was fun. Abbys mom made a unicorn pinata which was very cool. I made this rainbow cake out of cupcakes. It was a hit and very easy for the kids to eat! I can't believe Emily is 5!! Crazy.










Well some of the fun that we've been doing this summer is some good ol' fashioned fishing! We take the kids down to a little creek, or just down to the Snake River (where yes, I did catch my very first real live 12 inch fish on my daughters fishing pole using bread as bait!), and the kids love to look at the fish they "caught" (daddy usually catches it and the kids real it in).