Summer of 2013!

 We started what feels like summer in April....
Chase had his 3rd year of soccer.
Practices twice a week, and Games every weekend
for about 6 weeks.

 Then we had 2 Birthdays in May. Zackery turned 2 on May 10th. The loves cars and trucks of all shapes and sizes.

He always plays with hot wheels, so for this birthday we focused on big trucks...


I found a really big fire truck and he loved it.
I think is is actually bigger than he is. And of course what would a 2 year old party be without a first tricycle!

Tyler turned 7 two days after Zackery's birthday!
And true to his personality he still loves Mario!

So I made Mario cupcakes for his class at school
and then we went to play at planet kid.

When He got home I had a Mario Kart cake ready for him!

Mostly he got plush Mario characters! You might be thinking that is a little over kill on "Mario" but he loves them. But I had to plan months in advance and order all of them off of ebay from China. They are hard to find for a reasonable price in the Sates.


If I had to do it all over again I would do the same thing.

 Then on June 7th Tory's niece Aspen graduated from High School.  So naturally we took a trip to Elko, Nevada to support her, but this trip we decided to leave the kids!

 I was a nice break. There wouldn't be much for them to do in Elko and sitting through a graduation ceremony outside in 90 degree weather wouldn't work well either.

Tory took me around to some hiking areas he liked when he lived there.

 It was nice to be with the Hebdon family again. We don't get to see them as much since we are all about 3-4 hours away from each other.

One are still had snow!

 I am only into the first month and a half of summer and have already spent over an hour on this blog post and Camrey and Zack are crying at me! No wonder I haven't blogged in a year.


This was our Vacation to Willawa Lake in Oregon.

 I have over a hundred pictures but this will have to do for a preview since my kids have run out of patients!

We had a lot of fun but the details will have to wait for another post. To all those who have missed my updates over the last year, it is my goal to keep up my blog this year so keep watching!