Brinlee turns 9 years old and our trip to Utah for a week...

Brin turned 9 in June and she had quite the birthday.  For weeks she told us that we must not love her because we didn't talk constantly about her birthday.  The actual day of her birthday was very long for her while we waited for her dad to come home to celebrate...

This cupcake was made by her friend Christina and it was so exciting for the kids to get a big piece of cupcake!

This is the cake I made for our blondie and she was thrilled with the butterfly themed paper plates that went along with it. :)

The inside of the cake matched the neon frosting of the wings.  Looks appetizing doesn't it?  Actually, it was a pretty tasty cake!!

We took the kids to a place called I Jump.  It was so much fun.  For one hour we jumped our hearts and energy out!!  It was exhausting and those foam pits are fun to jump into but they are something special to try and get out of.

Cole loved it too.  He would crawl off the edge and fall into the foam pit in the kiddie area.  It was a good time for all...

I may or may not have just thrown Aidan into the pit....

Brinlee is born 1 day after my dad's birthday.  The year she was born it was in the 90's all week.  My mom had come for a visit and stayed because the Dr. told me I would probably have the baby at any minute.  I was dilated to a 6 and stayed that way for another week...in 90 degree temps living on the 3rd floor of an apartment complex without air conditioning.  My mom would make me walk and walk.  She was a trooper and stayed a few extra days until I could come home from the hospital.  (She was the Relief Society President at the time and had a lot of people who needed her while she was away but she stayed and I loved the time we were able to spend together.)  My dad came to get her and we were very hopeful that Brin would be born on his birthday, but she had other plans...

She weighed 9 lbs. 2 oz.  She was very round and such a sweet, sweet baby. 

She has amazing blue eyes and beautiful blonde hair.  She tells hilarious jokes, talks in foreign accents most of the time and calles me mudder, or madre, or mama, or mother(said in an english accent).  She has an adorable happy laugh and I love to hear it.  She is such a joy when she wants to be...(she also suffers from middle child syndrome something fierce so that is a struggle.)

We love our Brin and couldn't imagine the past 9 years without her!!!

Last week, my dad had some classes he needed to take.  He is also teaching summer school and had to have a sub for his class.  So, he asked if I would come down and teach for him.  We went down and it was an eye opening experience to teach 4th going into 5th graders.  WOW!  ...anyway....

While we were there, we went to the movie Brave one afternoon, spent some time at the lake with Kristin and Crew and then my little brother Sean took my kids to 7 Peaks.  It was a great week for them.  Here are a few lake shots.

Crew hanging out in the raft.  He liked when the kids were in with him, but when they got out he decided he hated it!

Crew looks so much like my brother Andy it is crazy.  These teeth are just one more amazing resemblence.  HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

While it may look like a beautiful sandy beach this is a LIE!!!  The sand was up at the parking lot.  The lake was far away and it was filthy gross mud.  That stunk like dead fish and everything else.  Oh well...kids have fun with anything I decided!

I didn't get any pictures of the kids at 7Peaks since I didn't go.  Sean and his cute girlfriend JaNeil took them and they had an amazing day!  Brin was rescued by a lifeguard, Aidan came home with a head wound from one of the waterslides and Cambree was so tired at the end of the day she knocked her head into the wall.  :):)  They LOVED it all and it wore them right out.  This was about 10 minutes after putting them to bed that night!  Yay for Sean and JaNeil!  You guys can take the kids any day!! :)