6 1/2 Months

Am I married to a black man?

Last week Anthony replaced the brakes and a motor mount on our car. At one point he came into the house to ask me something and I had to ask,
'Am I married to a black man?'
He was so black from grease. I wish I could have gotten a picture of his face but he was way under the car and getting annoyed that I was taking pictures of him.
On another note...
I am so thankful that I have a husband that knows his way around cars. He has saved us thousands of dollars through the years. I also know that there is no way the 'big blue boat' aka Bessie, would have made it this many years, and as much as I complain about her, she has gotten us through our college years. Thank you honey for all that you do for us.
Your amazing.

Shoes!

A couple weeks ago, for church, I tried on Alyssa's little shoes and they finally fit! She put her little feet up and wouldn't quite playing with them, she thought they were so neat! I think she may have Grandma Mackley's shoe fetish! Yeah for shoes!

Nate, this post's for you...

I don't know if Anthony was bored, from being home all day, and feeling domestic or if he really was just that hungry. When I got home, from Tiffany's house, at 5 o'clock today, my nose was treated to wonderful smells coming from the kitchen! My first words were, 'What is Daddy doing?' When I came around the corner I was a little confused. I thought that he was just chopping potatoes but once I got closer I saw the corn boiling, the pressure cooker being filled for mashed potatoes and when I went to grab the pork chops out of the fridge, they were gone. I asked him where they were and he said, 'they're in the microwave.' My first thought was, 'oh no, he cooked them in the microwave.' But I was wrong. He had shake and baked 'um and cooked them in the oven. They were staying warm in the microwave! I couldn't believe it. So... I didn't say a word. I just let him do it, and enjoyed my night off from cooking!

Bear Lake

Last weekend my Aunt Shirlene called and invited us to go to the lake with them. We had a blast! It has been way to long since we have seen them. They brought along their boat and Sea Doo's and Anthony had his first ride on a Sea Doo! It was so fun! Now we just need to talk Dad Vick into buying some!

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Hailey thought that the Sea Doo's were fun to sit on, but we were afraid that she would get one of them started. (all you have to do is push a red button)

Anthony Chillaxin'!
Ashlynn digging in the sand

Hailey sitting in a puddle that's probably full of bacteria, it was so warm

Alyssa hanging out on a towel

What a great time we had! Thank you Shirlene for inviting us, we need to do it again. Maybe Yellowstone. Soon!

Around Salt Lake City

After we finished sanding the people of 'this is the place' gave all of the kids a wrist band and told them they could go ride the ponies over at the barn.

Ashlynn petting a baby goat

Ash and Hailey petting a lamb

Ashlynn riding Misty the pony

Hailey had her hand in the air waving in around saying 'yee ha'

Ian

The girls playing in the school

Uncle Eric gets in trouble and had to demonstrate how the pioneers got punished

The girls by the school bell

Hailey looking apprehensive because the guy in this shop was explaining how to pull a tooth

My hotty hubby

After we left the monument park, we went to lunch at the Lion House Pantry. Then we headed over to the Joseph Smith Memorial building.

The girls in front of the fountain at the top of the J.S. memorial building

The Salt Lake temple from the top of the J.S. building

Alyssa missed most of this

Grand Dad is so funny

Grandma & Grandpa Vick

Grandma and Grandpa Vick with all of their grand kids minus Alyssa who was asleep in her car seat.

The kids in the elevator on the way down

My sweet princesses

Hailey playing in the pond in front of the Salt Lake temple

The Christis inside the visitor center

Alyssa's not so happy not so happy to be taking this photo

On top of the conference center

My sweet Hailey girl

This fountain is on the roof at the conference center. It is exactly over the top of the pulpit where the prophets speak! Speak about living waters!

Hailey and her cousin Tyler

Our little family

Service Project

Saturday morning we all woke up and headed down to Salt Lake to 'This is the place' monument park. We had a service project planned and when we got there we found out that we were going to sand down the stairs on the pine valley church replica so that they could repaint it.

Amanda and Tyler watching the little kids

Gran Dad Vick
Some of us sanding away

All of the Vick family

Happy Birthday

Friday morning we got up and took down our camp. After we were done, the girls went home and some of the boys (Anthony, uncle TC, Eric and Ian) stayed to go boating. Later that night we had a little birthday party for Grandma and Charity. (Their birthdays are this week)

Grandpa quarantined the babies

Alyssa tries her hand at playing the xylophone
Then she just tries to eat it.

Happy Birthday Charity and Grandma

Charity's 11 ~ Grandma turned the big 60