SO MUCH too BLOG...SO little TIME!

We have been having WAY too much fun. This summer has been such a blast. Not that we did anything BIG and EXCITING, but we just power packed it with lots of fun little stuff. It's the small things in life that really count, right? Well there is so much I want to blog about and so many pictures I want to share. So hang on to your seats...here's Shu Family Life...at a glance. SHALL WE...? WARNING: This might possible be really boring and long to anyone that isn't me.


Activity #1-August 8th

Celebrated Jed's Dad's Birthday by doing what he does best...work. We spent the day working on clearing the cabin lot of all the dead logs, by sending them through a very LOUD wood chipper.

Here's Jed looking very manly, showing those logs whose BOSS!

The Kids couldn't get enough of the 4-wheeler and pile of wood chips, I mean come on nothing says FUN like a huge pile of wood chips and some cups, right?

ACTIVITY#2 -August 10th-17th

Jed took a much needed "male bonding" trip with his Uncle and cousins for A WEEK. They went to the High Uintas on a back packing trip. He loved it, even if they did get snowed on and all his stuff got wet. He came home, stinky, hairy, but REFRESHED. Sadly he didn't take any pictures.

What did me and the kids do while the hubby was gone? PLAYED! I didn't want to sit home and mope, knowing that would just make the time go slower, so we had sleepovers every night. Once with Jed's cousin's wife, and my good friend, Angie, and the rest of the time I had some of my Young Women over. It was a blast. I kinda felt like I was in college again.

WE went to the Zoo. Sorry lots of pictures here, but I was under strict instructions to take LOTS of pictures and video of Jocelyn since this was here first visit to the zoo and Jed was going to miss it.

Look at all the fun cousins my kids get to hang-out with. We love 'em!

Jocelyn loved these cute, little monkeys. P.S. If I look hot and sweaty, it's because I was!

AWWW! The cute baby Giraffe, I HAD to take a picture of him/her.

She's cute...that's all.

She LOVED the little cats. I had to drag her from this place.

We took a train ride. Cute little cousins!

Jocelyn sharing a little "cheese" with her aunt Chissy.


She is SO crazy. She got bored in line so thought this would be a good idea, except that her chubby little fingers could barely reach over the pole. But yet somehow she managed.

What a handsome little fella......

Christian took this picture, impressed? I am. This is me and Bethany (one of my cute Young Woman)baking cookies for the fourth time that week. They are SO good! And if I am going to be truly honest, then I must admit, it was more like Bethany baking cookies and me eating cookies.

I made this skirt for Jocelyn. With help from Angie P. (as part of our sleepover activities :)), and my Mom. It is SO cute, and she loves it. I am making her a Christmas one kinda like this too. It is so fun, and empowering!


Even after all that fun, we still missed Jed like CRAZY! The kids helped make this sign. Christian even wrote out the bottom line all by himself. He was so excited for Jed to see his special sign, but Jed wasn't getting home until after the kids were already in bed. So christian told me, "When I wake up I'm going to ask Daddy if he saw his sign, because if he did then that means he's home." I guess he didn't catch on that if he could ask him if he saw the sign, then that would mean he was home. Kids are cute.

Activity #3- Christian started his 2nd year of Pre-School!

He was SO excited to go back to school. All summer he talked about going back to school, to see his friends and his teachers. He loves his teachers SO much and cried hysterically the day he found out that they won't move on to Kindergarten with him. "But I need them Mom, they know all the good songs. I can't go to school without them." Oh, my little Christian.



Activity #4-Sleeping with daddy!



Jed was up sleeping with Christian and I was putting Jocelyn to bed, but she was adamant about giving Jed and Christian kisses before bed so I took her to them and then she wouldn't leave. She clung to her daddy like her life depended on it, and so they all fell asleep together.

They truly LOVE their daddy! I love seeing stuff like this, it brings everything back into perspective.

Activity #5-Onion Days!

We did it all this year! We had Jed's 10 yr class reunion which Jed was in charge of. Went to the Carnival, fireworks, band concert, parade, picnic in the park, pig wrestling, and amongst all those festivities we had our 7 year anniversary! I forgot the camera for most of the activities so here's what I did get to document.



The Parade...

Jocie loved it...of course, she LOVES everything.

Christian hated all the loud noises...of course, he always does. This kid has the most sensitive hearing...EVER.

My hottie husband...of course!

Christian wrestled a pig as the HULK...

This was his team. A team full of girls he didn't know what to think about that.

Then he spotted the team behind him and he KNEW that there MUST have been a mistake.

I forgot to take pictures of him actually trying to "wrestle" the pig because I was too into it. OOPS! He was cute and was very careful to not get too muddy, and he covered his ears because the pig was too loud and he knew the buzzer was going to go off.

They didn't get nearly muddy enough!


After they wrestled they got squirted off by the fireman. He that was so COOL

Activity#6

AW! We really DO love each other! Don't we? We got to sneak away together for a 3 day Park City getaway. It was so nice! We went to the Draper temple, got massages, ate delicious food, played Frisbee golf in the gorgeous mountains, went swimming, went to the movies, went shopping, and had so much fun!!! But isn't it sad that this was one of the only pictures we took. I'm a slacker...I know this.

HUGE, HUGE, HUGE, thanks goes out to G-MA Sharon, and G-PA Karl for watching are precious little ones. YOU GUYS ARE LIFE SAVERS, once again! Oh, and Jed, THANKS for 7 amazing years of pure BLISS with my very bestfriend. LOVE YA!!!!!!!!!

Well now, that WAS REALLY long. Sooooo sorry, but hey you were warned. :)

P.S. This post was dedicated to SHARRON STRINGHAM. Happy now? :)