Rusty's Birthday!

So Rusty had his Birthday this last weekend, and as it seems tradition. I made him a crazy cake. A Dragon Ball Z cake, which is a cartoon. And it's awesome! The character is Vegeta! I think it turned out pretty good!

He's a SUPER SAYAN!

And here is my back-up cake. lol. A chunk of the cake came out of the center when I removed it from the pan and it reminded me of the body of a dinosaur. So that is what it became. I made this in case Vegeta was a flop! They both turned out all right!

We love you Rusty! We were so glad that you were in town for a while and that we got to share your birthday with you!

Hopefully we will see you soon!

Love you!

Labor Day HIKE!

So, for Labor day, Chad and Beth and their Kids, and Nana and Our Family all went and had a picnic near Bridal Falls and went on a hike on a trail. Before we started of coarse Mikkelle, had to get her "pre-hike dirty" on!

She looked like a little raccoon or something!

We played down by the river...

Hung out waiting for the coals to heat up!

Enjoyed nature!

And had a nice time visiting with each other!

And finally the grill was ready, so we cooked up the hamburgers, or chad did (thanks chad!) and ate up! YUM!

Then UP the trail we went!

And up!

(Sorry this is crooked, I've been doing that a lot lately!) And up!

And this was McCoy like the whole time. Awake...but not really awake!

ALMOST THERE!

VOILA! The Falls! These aren't Bridal Falls, but there was no one there and it was beautiful! Everyone who went to the top took turns touching the falls. You could hear some of them screaming because it was so cold (aka Kelby)

Cute Little McCoy

more hiking...

Beth was incredible! Here she is pregnant and is kicking all our butts while she has three kids hanging off her! All in all it was a great day. No one got hurt although Nana almost fell down a hill and Kelby almost didn't fit through the "gate" in the beginning..lol. But it was awesome! Very refreshing! Especially since later on that day all of us would be stuffing our faces : )

My "Craft Room"

YAY! I know it isn't much but I am so excited! Kelby and I finally got our basement cleaned and my crafts organized! We also got some more lamps so I can actually see down there in my own personal den!

Having those shelves makes it about a million times easier to find things!

Here are some of the things I've been working on! The two on the right are alligator clips covered in ribbon with two ribbon roses that I hand made and attached! The one on the left is a flower I sewed with another hand made ribbon rose and a cute button in the middle!

And here are some of the bibs I've made! They are reversible and have a coordinating pattern on the other side! Yay for being crafty!

This is what happens...

...when Mikkelle gets bored.

I was working on crafts and heard some banging noises so I went upstairs to find Mikkelle with about 5 or six headbands on her head, a paintbrush and a candle hanger banging them together to make some BEAUTIFUL music!

....Notice the yellow marker on the wall?

Nana's in da Hood!

Nana's at BYU! It's already been a ton of fun having her and Kelby and I are excited to get to spend time with Nana. We went all over BYU when she first got here! We checked out her books...

Spent most of our time in a line...

Spent the rest of the time walking....

In between those two things we actually got some stuff done! Like taking her "Mission" pic of where she is going to be living!

Got her ID

And of course waited in line for it!

We drove around...

And looked things up on the computer! She's been trying out for dance teams, and flirting with boys. (WHAT!) And has already been a huge help with Mikkelle. It was great to spend time with Jeanie and help Nana get started. I haven't seen her apartment yet but Jeanie took pictures so you will have to track her down for them. (Unless I go take some!)

We love you Nana and are glad you are here!

FREEEEEEE!!!!

Mikkelle saying "so long" to her cast! (sorry it's crooked)

Waiting patiently to get her cast off....

This machine is a lot more intimidating than it really is.

Almost there....

FREEEE!!!!! She kept rubbing her hand on everything and all over her face. She was obviously happy to have it off! And so were we!

SMILE!

Some of the yummy tomatoes we have gotten from our garden this year.

I'm so Proud!

Ward Carnival!

Our ward had a Carnival a little bit back! It was a lot of fun! They had all sorts of fun games to play and yummy things to eat!

This is the pool that Mikkelle drenched her then not water proof cast. We had to go and get it re-done and opted to upgrade.

Kelby gave us both Ladybugs : ) This is a great picture because you can actually see Mikkelle pouring her pop-ice all over me. Good thing this was taken about .25 seconds before that.

They had a ring toss! Which was fun for all the kids. Mikkelle was actually pretty good.

Kelby got volunteered by a woman in our ward after she attended a party we through and saw that Kelby did face painting.

Here he is all set up! It was a lot of fun! The food was great and the company was fantastic!