Sierra's Birthday

 My "Sister Bee" turned

6th

Her birthday was on a Friday and

she got to wear her new dress and

I curled her hair so she would 

feel pretty on her birthday.

Sierra wanted to bring popcorn for her birthday

treat to share with the class.  Not the easiest but

it made her happy. 

Sierra wanted a Cow Girl birthday party.

I got her this cute hat that she loved! 

I love her cute little bit of freckles on her nose! 

We had her party that night on her birthday.

We had all decorated western.  I had hats

for all the girls and sheriff badges for the boys.

Some of the adults wore their boots and hats also.

We had dinner first and the party celebration after.

I thought Owen and  Sierra

looked so cute! 

 Grandma and Grandpa Gardner and Sierra 

Sierra and Great Grandpa and Grandma Gardner

Sierra and Aunt Karissa 

Sierra and Great Grandpa LeCheminant and Brenda 

Grandpa Corrigan and Sierra  

Sierra loved her doll she got.   

Sierra and her chocolate cake.  She knows how

to pick the yummy cakes.  

Sierra and Brenda had fun drawing on her 

new white board. 

Grandma and Grandpa Avery drove down from

Idaho just for Sierra's party.  Sierra was in her

Pajamas and ready for bed.  It had been a long

fun day for her. 

SIERRA'S    FAVORITES:

Candy, particularly chocolate

Her banket and teddy bear

Playing with her sisters and their friends

Games on the computer

The color Pink and Purple

SIERRA'S   STATS:

Weight- 34 pounds at 1%

Height- 41 1/2 inches at 3%

WE LOVE YOU SIERRA!

Farmington 9th Ward Summer Party

Lisa invited us to her ward summer party.

They had a BBQ first and then swimming at the

Farmington pool.  Free dinner and fun!  

Can't turn that down!

Brandon's sister and brothers family came too.

Jump Jump Jump

For a family night our family and my sister Kate's

family had dinner and then went again to

 Sky Walker Haven since the husbands 

could go this time and Owen was feeling

better.  It also was the last time to hang out

before my sister headed back home to 

Pennsylvania. 

These video's are for my family since

they are the only ones that would actually enjoy

them! 

Sierra doing her Toe Touches

Paige doing her back handsprings

Sierra bouncing off the wall

Owen jumping over the foam blocks that him

and Aidan kept building

This one is my favorite video.  Riley and Paige

were trying to show me how they back to back

walked on the wall.  And sierra was not in on this

plan but was watching and threw her foam block

down and joined in right on Que.  But then

slipped while trying it.  So cute! 

This last video is my girls bugging me to record

them.  So this is what they came up with. 

It really is a fun place and so many times I wanted

to run out there and do tricks and play with my kids.

Soccer Season

It is that time again for Soccer.

Paige absolutely loves soccer.

And Sierra has been begging me

for a year now to do soccer.  I really

did not think she would enjoy it 

where as she is more of the sit back

and relax kind of girl.  And she really

never watched her sisters play.

However she surprised us all and

got into the game and does quite well. 

Sierra is number six. 

I love this action shot of Paige.  She plays 

very good defense.  

This is Sierra's first practice before her first game ever.

Swimming

I got this groupon as did everyone else and of course

waited until right before it expired so it was

busy at the Ogden Aquatic center.

The kids never seem to mind.  So funny though

I just bought this really expensive swim suit

and everywhere I go I see other women

wearing it.  It's hard to find cute and modest swim

wear for women. So when you do so does 

everyone else!

Owen loved doing everything. 

Riley stayed on the low diving board.

While Paige was brave and went on the high dive.

Riley loved the slide.  

Sierra loved Daddy taking her down the slide

over and over again. 

Out to Lunch

Lucky Owen and me, that Brandon happen to be

 somewhat close that day for work and we met him

 at the BBQ place in Syracuse for lunch. 

We don't get to do that very often since he

usually works an hour or more from home each day.

We loved it!  the food was messy but good! 

ROCK DROP

Brandon went for a week to scout camp and while

he was there learned this really hard game and being

the competitive person that I am I had to try it.  Not

to really compete with others but more for myself.

If someone tells me I can't do it then I have to

 prove them wrong.  I don't know if that is a good 

thing or not! 

Anyway,  it is really hard and I fell a few times.  

You have to have strength in your stomach and arms.

You have to hold on to a stick with one hand and place it

in the ground while not stepping over a line or in our

case the other stick and with the other hand place the

rock on the ground, not throwing it and then pull 

your self back up to a standing position with

one arm.  Crazy I know but fun! 

I only did it a few times and it left my elbow sore.

 Oh, and family I named the game, "Rock Drop".  

Not sure what and if there is a name for it. 

Spencer is so tall that even if I was stronger I could not 

pass his rock.

Rachael and Katie gave it a try which I was impressed
with having had babies recently.  And we all know that
there is no stomach muscle after having babies.
Even Grandma gave it a try and did great! 

We actually went to Brandon's parents so the men could help

Bob tear up the concrete so they could poor a new walk way

to the front door.   The men worked fast and

Lisa made us dinner and we enjoyed each others company. 

Bounce

For Owen's actual birthday and to do something fun with

cousins My sister Kate and our kids went to Sky Walker

Haven.  The husbands were both working and could not make it.

 Poor Owen was not feeling good but said he still

wanted to go.  The kids had a blast! 

Paige, Sierra, Aidan, Maddie, Riley and Owen

The kids spent most of their time on the zip line.

Specially Sierra.  She got creative and would go backwards

and even do a pull over flip at the end.  

Owen however wanted to do it and then got scared 

but finally I lifted him up and he was ready to go.  But then 

too scared to let go at the end.  So funny!  Plus he was 

not feeling all that good. Poor little guy. 

Riley loved doing her Back Handsprings. 

Big Boy Hair Cut

 In lua of Owen's birthday he got his first hair cut professionally.

Usually Brandon or I cut his hair.  He sat so still and was so good

for the hair stylist.  Such a stud! 

Super Hero Party

My little Owen Boy Turned 3

I can't believe it!  

He loves Super Heros so that is what his party

was all about. 

He wore his Cape and Batman shirt for

the party.  Yes I know that Batman

and Super Man with the cape are two 

different super heroes but Owen

loves them both. 

Grandpa Corrigan and Gloria could not make

it to his party at night and stopped by earlier to

give him a present. 

 I made masks for all the kids to wear at the party.

The GIRLS

The BOYS 

Aunt Karissa could not make it to Owen's party

so we snapped a picture when she was up for

Sierra's party.  Owen is smiling so cute and I did

not get very good pictures at his party.  Most of

them were blurry.  I was trying to figure out my new

camera.   

Grandpa Gardner and the all the Great Grandkids

Grandpa LeCheminant and Brenda and the Great Grandkids 

Grandpa loved his Mask and loves being silly with the kids. 

Birthday Celebration

It was my 31st Birthday on July 30th

and so my sweet sisters took me out to lunch

at the Olive Garden, which I love.  And then we did 

a little shopping afterwards.  I could have spent all day

 with them, but we were not that lucky and I had to pick

my kids up from school.  

Later that night after I took the kids to tumbling and we did

homework the kids gave me some presents that they were

so excited to give and then we had a yummy Ice cream cake

that Brandon surprised me with.  

After getting the kids in bed my awesome, sweet friends

came by to visit and give me a gift.  They are such amazing

friends.  They took so much thought and time into to my

gifts.  I feel so lucky to have such great friends.  They

made me the most delicious banana bread and salad

spoons which they got the wood to make from a tree at a park.

So cool!  I loved it! 

I had many other visitors that day.  I'm so blessed to have

great family, friends and neighbors.   

A couple nights later we went out with Brandon's family to celebrate

Mine and Rachael's Birthday at the Mandarin restaurant. 

 We were happy to have Jason in town to join us and

 missed Spencer who was out of town.  

Jason, Ali,  Brandon, Bob, Lisa, Katie, Jeff, Rachael and Kristie