BYU Ballet Camp

Maddie started the Advanced Ballet Workshop at BYU on Monday and it's been so great and so HARD! I'm wishing we would have spent the extra money and had her stay on campus with the other girls because there are about 30 girls that made it and signed up. Maddie is the only girl from Utah County (maybe even Utah) and is the only one NOT staying in the dorms. She's meeting some really nice girls too.

I think she's glad she gets to come home every night so her mom can do her laundry and she can soak and doctor up her bloody feet all night and get ready for the next day! She has another week and a half of this ;)

Happy Birthday Talbie!

This is one of Talbie's baptism pictures and today she is 13 years old!

I hope you're having a great day!

My parents were so nice and took her to Vegas with them for the week so she is with them right now and having the time of her life (and I'm sure getting spoiled rotten!)

Have a great day, Doodle!

Loveless Family Reunion

Saturday (after the pioneer breakfast) we headed to our family reunion on the Loveless side. This is my mom's side of the family. There are 3 girls in her family - Dena, my mom (Pat), and Georgia. My Grandpa Loveless died when I was 8 and Grandma V (Vivian) died 12 years ago. Every Christmas the girls get together and carry on the traditions of my grandma, but we havent' been together with the entire family since my grandma died. This was a great day and a new tradition we will continue with every year.

We were blessed to be able to hold this reunion at my Uncle Reed's Sister's home in Lindon. This place is amazing!

We started our day out swimming. Bronson going down the waterslide

Talbie going down the slide

Emmie with Maddie who isn't sure if she wants to get her hair wet :)

Me and my honey

Aunt Georgia and my cousin Mike Kimber

Dave, Boston, and Uncle Reed

Uncle Floyd, Dena, Payton, and Carlie

Me, Dad, and Brittany

My cousin Chad and his wife Jeannie with their cute boys :)

Time to eat!

Emmie found a life vest and was so happy because then she could do the slide all by herself. She's not the best swimmer and wouldn't have drown without it!

My cousin Stacey just had twin girls!

Ally - still not sure if she likes us yet :)

Emmie again

Dave and Emmie

Jared wanted to go down the slide with Dallin but Dallin FREAKED! But...

he did it anyway and Dallin ended up having fun!

Dave trying to win Ally over

Talbie trying to win Ally over

On to the basketball courts...

Boston :)

Then we did the batting cages. This is Logan

They have the best train set up at this house. This is Emmie and Dallin riding the small train by themselves

And then waiting for their turn again!

Dave batting

Starting to get really tired! Grandma Pat, Emmie, Talbie, and Maddie

Brittany and I love to get "blackmail" pictures of each other. I couldn't resist! SORRY BRITTANY :)

Ally - FINALLY warming up and blowing us kisses!

My brother Cody with Talbie and Maddie

And the end it was time to ride the big train! This train goes through their property and the property their kids have. It's about a 2 -4 block ride and so fun!

All Aboard!

We had such a wonderful time with everyone and can't wait to do it all again next year!!!

Pioneer Breakfast

Yesterday morning our ward had a wonderful Pioneer Day breakfast at the church. We have such a wonderful ward and over the last 13 years we have made some life-long friends :)

Joseph, McKay, and Bronson - Took over the handcart. McKay's grandpa and grandma served a mission a few years ago at Martin's Cove. His grandpa makes these wonderful handcarts.

Rachel - our gracious cook and our good bishop behind her at the grill.

Britney, Maddie, and Talbie

Here come the Heals :)

Kylee and Talbie

Me and Emmie - she won't smile and I'm in my favorite pose - hiding behind someone!

Poor Boston had to come to the party in his nightgown :(

Logan - stealing someone's streamers off their bike or wagon!

What a clown!

Latest on the Birds...

Our little family of birds got really big last week and grew feathers! I didn't realize how quickly these baby birds grew up and "left the nest."


Yesterday morning Bronson was outside working on his new tree house (more on that to come) when he heard the mommy bird squaking and he saw the baby birds fly out of the nest. One baby couldn't quite fly and before Bronson could realize what was happening, Zoey (our naughty dog) went for the bird. Bronson caught her but no before she had hurt the baby bird :(

Dave put on some gloves and scooped the baby bird up and placed it back in the nest, hoping the mommy would still come and take care of it...

But, later that evening when Dave went back to check on the bird, it had flown out of the nest again and was on the ground.

So Bronson and Dave decided they had better try and nurse it back to health until it can fly on it's own...

Luckily Dave's a farmer and knows what to do in these situation. He made a nest for it and placed it in a shoe box. He was even able to feed it some worms and cherries. We'll see how it does. Hopefully it will be a success!