long story short... we are building a new home that will be finished the end of July. Our rental home was sold out from under us leaving us with no where to live for the month of July so we are in the process of moving all of our stuff into 3 storage units and 2 pods for one month:(

We are going to blow this town and take a long vacation to Utah.

I'm super excited to visit my family for a while but the coordinating, packing, moving, building a home, getting a child ready for girls camp and entertaining 4 kids each day on top of the regular mom work is quite possibly going to give me a stroke and some gray hairs... both of which I'm equally not fond of.

I've got to hunker down and get some stuff done over the next couple weeks so may be a while before I have "free" time to post again.

Here are some of the fun things we've been up to lately....

Myla's 13th Birthday.

We managed to find 2 candles, I guess the others are in a box somewhere

Happy Birthday, Myzee Pyzee

We started summer 2011 off with a week long trip to Lake TenKiller in Oklahoma with John's family.

I took over 300 pictures on out trip, here's a few...

This is the view from our cabin

The lake water was up so high the kids were swimming in the parking lot

Royce was doing the funniest dives. He would throw his arms back and dive head first while his pants scooted off his teenie bum cheeks...

Oh yes, Hemsey came along.

Since we are moving to Utah for one month we had to find a place for Hemsey to live. Shelley so graciously agreed to take care of him while we are gone. So we brought Hemsey with and left him behind with Brian and Shelley.

Ash is going through Hemsey withdrawls now.

Grandpa D was so patient and taught the kids some fishing tricks.

Fishing was definetly a favorite on this trip!

We also got to go by and visit with my Grandpa and Grandma Asay... they made us a yummy lunch and we got to listen to all Grandpa's stories... love them!

Such a great vacation!!

My friend Angela and I took the kids to a SUPER FUN farm called Deana Rose...

they fed baby goats

and a bunch of other animals... (not sure what to call this)

the boys fished with these super cute stick fishing poles

Ash rode a horse

Jad had been to the farm once before on a field trip with his school class. He kept saying

"I want to see the buffalo" "When can we see the buffalo".

Well, we finally found the buffalo. He stood and stared at it for a minute or two then turned and said "Ok, where to next".

some tractor races

and of course, ICE CREAM!!!

So cute and so much to do and see... definitely going back

Fun photo shoot with Myla & Tori

BEST BUDS