What A Weekend!!!

Our family had one crazy fun weekend full of adventures! First off- It was tanners birthday on Sunday! Our little tantor is now 3 yrs old! And he is such a 3 yr old boy- he defines it! He loves mud, dinosaurs, cars, bugs, and teasing his sisters. He also loves to cuddle, tickle, and wrestle. Most of you know he was a preemie when he was born- he has come a long way from that for sure. Grandma Westover go to be here too thanks to fact she saved us this weekend... WHy you say? because both Tyson and I were gone- but not together!...

Ty took a trip to Moab with all his High school buddies and Rusty. This used to be a yearly event, but with everyone having carrers, families and spilt among different states, it has been a while. These guys are sure special and have gone through everything together. They had a lot of fun and stayed fairly safe. Ty realized the dessert was a lot more "desserty looking" than he remembered -we have been spoiled with green all winter! So While Ty was in Moab, Utah- Mom flew to Houston Tx because I was in...

Huntsville, Tx with our 4th year High Adventure group. I am the ward camp director this year- and therefore really felt I needed to be there. You can imagine from the picture below how much sleep I got with 40 - 14 yr olds! I also got to go Biking, Hiking and best of all Kayaking! and Yes- there ARE alligators here in texas. We were at a lake and I made sure to ask a lot of questions before getting into the water (are they here in THIS lake? Do they stay on shore? have any been seen today?) my answers were similar to : our rules here are that you can't "poke" the gators with the oars, but they are really used to people and stay on the shore during the day, and no- no one has seen any today. I guess they thought that I was curious instead of cautious because as soon as we got our kayaks in the water they called us over to see soemthing (I was thinking... beaver?) sure enough there was a 6-7 ft. gator swiming in circles near the shore. We were probably about 15 ft away. The guide told us not to get too close because she was probably a mother protecting her eggs. She then turned her head at us and raised her tail- I found out my kayak could go pretty fast the OTHER direction. HAHA. And No -I did not have my camera with me- after watching the previous group of girls get very wet- I opted to keep my camera on shore.