4th of July Festivities!!!

So we are a little late, but it's been crazy adjusting back to day-to-day life! We were excited to have family in town for the long weekend. Becky and Doug drove from CA on Thursday and Rachel and Scott drove up from Utah on the 4th to spend the holiday in Idaho Falls with us and Nate and Camille! The weekend festivities begin with a little golf action: Girls vs. Boys! Meghann, a representative from the girls team, documented their victory!

Here we have the team captin, Camille Tracy. Camille led the girls in triumph a whopping 47 on a par 36!!! She has a mean drive, look out.

Becky, although fascinated with the "ball cleaner" was quite the putter. Many-a-times did her ball lead us straight to the cup!

Meghann...well she lost her balls lol. Yes, her yellow Sponge Bob ball got away from her. But that didn't stop her from enjoying her first time golfing with the big kids.


GO TEAM GIRLS!!! They Slaughtered the boys...

To end our first evening we started roasting marshmallows outside on the bbq pit, but once the sprinklers soaked us, we had to migrate inside to the gas stove.

Daniel was not happy.

On the 4th the troops went to see Transformers!!! (go autobots!) And we ended the night with a baseball game (go chukars!) and FIREWORKS!!!! They were probably the best fireworks ever, besides Disney :)

What better way to end the weekend than to all go to church and be there for Maya's baby blessing! We're stupid and didn't get a picture of baby Maya and the GORGEOUS blessing dress that grandma Tracy made (before Maya dumped her pants... and all over Rachel lol)

We're just glad we got to be there :)

HAPPY 4TH EVERYONE!

We hope that yours was family and friends filled just as ours was :)

Taste the Rainbow

Ok, so here is our latest concoction! What begins as a simple box of Betty Crocker white cake mix turned into a brilliant bursting of colors right in our mouths!!!

STEP 1: white cake mix

STEP 2: TASTE THE RAINBOW


STEP 3: TA-DA!!!

Ok, so there are more than 3 steps so here it is....

Ingredients:
2 boxes white cake mix

24 oz of Sprite

gel food colouring

16 oz whipped topping

2 boxes instant fat-free sugar-free pudding mix

Cake:

Mix 2 boxes white cake mix with 24 oz of Sprite (no eggs, no oil, no water). Divide your cake mix into 6 cups or bowls and stir in gel food colours. Next, drop the colours, one by one, into the middle of the pan, in neat concentric-ish gobs. Do the reverse order of colors in the other pan.

To finish up follow the box’s baking instructions.

Topping:

Stir your 2 boxes of instant pudding with 2 tubs of cool whip. The frosting will be a little tough to spread so be sure the cake is completely cool before frosting. Also, I added a little milk because mine was REALLY thick.

This is what it's suppose to look like :)

I think we're gonna have to give it another couple trys before ours looks like that.

But anyway...ENJOY!!!

Swimmin' at Lava

The day began getting to the pool a whole 40 mins before it even opened! Yes, we wanted a nice shady spot under the tree and we also wanted to beat the rush on the water slides. In the mean time Meghann found the perfect distraction for Jensen...PUPPIES! There was a lady in the parking lot who was selling toy poodles and we got the chance to play with them while Jensen clinged to one whispering, "puppies, puppies, puppies!"

Our day at the pool consisted of laying out, snacking, and cooling off in the water. Jensen's favorite game was definitely the "throw me as high as you can" game. She would not stop laughing! It was hilarious! Uncle Dan's and her Daddy's arms were tired by the end of day.

As we snacked while catchin some rays, Jensen was the cookie hoarder. Every time we turned around there she was running off with the bag of Chips A-hoy cookies!

Overall it was a great day! We got to be outside, enjoying the warm weather and be with family. To end the big day we went back to Nate and Camilles for yummy BBQ and watched the Orlando Magic sweep Cleveland off their feet!