Family reunion

This past weekend was our family reunion. This is one of my favorite parts of the summer. Every year we go camping at Warm River. It is the perfect spot. Right next to our camp site is a river and it is not even close to warm. We just spend the weekend camping, floating the river, hanging out, and eating(which I think is the best part) We have tons of extended family that goes to this and I really enjoyed hanging out with them all weekend. We have such a fun family!
I was really worried about taking Paisley camping. She is still so young. I was worried that she would get bitten by mosquitoes, get a sun burn, hate the Idaho wind, or not sleep well. She didn't do any of those things. She was so good!

The weekend before the family reunion we were also in Idaho. Lorin and his family went and did some white water rafting. I stayed behind with Paisley because I'm just not ready to leave her for that long yet. I'm way too attached! Lorin said it was a blast and I hope that they do it again next year so I can go. I made him take his camera to snap some pictures but they wouldn't allow them on the boat. :( I spent the day with my mom, Hailey, and Tasha & her girls. We went to Heise swimming. These are some of the pictures from that trip and some random pictures of Paisley that I just couldn't help but share.

I know this is already a long post but I have to add one more thing. Maybe if I didn't procrastinate so much I wouldn't have so many things to post!
Everyone always tells me and my sister Hailey that we look like twins. We are seven years apart! I've never been able to see it until I saw these pictures. Maybe it's the matching outfits that my mom got us for Christmas but when I saw this picture I thought I was Hailey! Love ya sis!

I'm the bigger one. I probably should have been holding her up. Sorry Hai.

Trying to be cute. TRYING is the key word!

4th of July weekend

So I never get my posts done in time. The fourth of July was a week ago and I am just now posting my pictures. I am such a procrastinator! But we had such a fun weekend in Idaho. We hadn't been there for a while so it was nice to go back and spend time with family. I am always so bummed to come back to Utah!
On the fourth Lorin was in a golf tournament with his dad and my uncle. So he missed out on the Menan fair and parade. Something tells me he might have planned it out that way on purpose. Everyone else's husbands said they wanted to know how Lorin got out of going. To tell you the truth I'm not sure how he got that one past me. So I just went to the fair and parade with my mom, Hailey, and Paisley. After the tournament we all went down to the river for the fireworks. My Mom's side of the family ropes off an area down by the river so we always have an awesome view. We had a little grill and BBQ'd while we waited for the fireworks to start. And they were amazing this year! But poor Paisley didn't like them at all. She screamed until about the last ten minutes. I felt so bad for her! We had so much fun and I can't wait to go home again! I have turned out to be such a homebody.

Dad and his girls


Me and Hailey hogging the sparklers from the kids. We went through like ten of them just trying to get this picture. By the time we would get the second one lit the other one would burn out! But we finally got it.

Paisley and Sadie finally met! It also took us a few tries to get this picture. They didn't want to cooperate.

I was so happy I got to see my long lost friend Traci at the parade and the fire works. We made up for lost time by making our husbands sit and listen to us talk about all of the dorky things we used to do when we were younger.


On Sunday Greg and Tasha blessed their little girl and we were able to go to that. But I was so mad I forgot to bring my camera. So This is just a picture of Paisley when we got home from church. I wanted a cute picture of her in her new dress but every time I took the pacifier away she started to scream. I think I'm in trouble because she is pretty attached to that thing!

Paisley and Grandpa Mickelsen

Paisley and Grandma Mickelsen