15 years!!!

Happy Anniversary Babe!! I love you! Thanks for making marriage so fun and exciting! We always said we wanted go to Portugal for our 15th and we made it!!!! -- but who knew we would take our three kids with us!! Here is a picture our kids took of us in Portugal!

I want to go back BEFORE our 20th and maybe leave the kids home this time!!

Thanks for 15 wonderful years!

(The pictures from the rest of our trip are coming soon -- I promise)

3 Days in Northern England!!!

Here are some pictures of what we have been up to....Just remember that the camera can never capture what the human eye can see!

More details to come..but for now we are off to London!! Hopefully we can update from there!!

Bear Lake..The Greatest Place on Earth

Beautiful kids and surroundings!! Mylee enjoying the sand and the toys!!!
Ally getting ready to dive off the boat!

Dallon getting ready...
almost up...
You did it!! Dallon is now a water skier! He had so much fun. He has caught the water skiing bug and cannot wait to return to beautiful Bear Lake!!

A rare picture of Mylee clean on the beach...she is usually covered from head to toe in sand!!
Our spread!! And boy are we thankful for Amber and Nate providing us our private beach to enjoy!! The secret is out on Bear Lake and the beaches are becoming more and more crowded!!

Amber and Nate threw the funnest party on the Beach...a 4th of July BBQ with an amazing Fireworks show!!

Ally and Natalee trying to drive the boat!
The hottest boat driver on Bear Lake!!

We love the time we get to spend at Bear Lake In the summer!! Who could ask for more, beautiful water, nice sand, sun, family and lots of fun!! My older two are moving from the sand to the water and on to the BOAT!! The babe on the other hand ate more than her weight in sand!!

Thanks to Amber and Nate for the use of your boat, beach and time!! And thanks to all our family for the great summer days at Bear Lake! We will be back soon!!

Now we are off for our BIG summer adventure of 2008....we decided to let Mylee try some sand in another part of the world... from the Mediterranean Ocean! We are so excited to visit England and Portugal! I just hope we can survive the long plane rides with 3 kids!!

Oh what do you do in the summer time?

Here are some of the things we love to do...

Spend a day at the Zoo...

Run in Relay Races...

Baseball Games....

Get Wet...

Bear Lake...

Take a Hike...

March In Parades...

Go to Concerts!!!

Back to Las Vegas!!

We worried the weather was never going to get warm up north so we headed to Las Vegas to find some warmth!! Boy did we find it!! It was about 110 degrees each day we were there. Thank goodness we had the Grensing's Pool to cool down in. We used it a lot. And little did we know...

Mylee would be such a fish!!
She kept her life jacket on and would just jump right in to us!! She didn't even care when it flipped her to her back. She would just float around for a bit. Then she would yell "MOM" or "HELP ME"! Ally worked on her dive and made major improvements!!

The main reason we went to Vegas was for Dallon to do the UNLV Basketball camp!! He did awesome! And learned a lot!
We also got to see the Incredible Hulk Movie in a private "booth". It had about 12 seats, your own control of lights and sound. There was a big piece of glass between you and the theater so now one could hear or see us. It is the PERFECT way to watch a movie with little ones!!
Mylee and Tryce enjoyed cooling down in the fountains at the famous Town Square!! It was a great trip to Vegas! Thanks for the fun time Grensing family!!

Crazy Days of Summer....

For me Summer officially starts on Memorial Day weekend--I only wish the school system felt the same way! But we start our summer celebration that weekend! So we have kept busy since then. Here is what we have been up to....Cousins and Friends beating the heat with Popsicles!

I went to Vegas with the Ladies...

Yummy Cupcakes!!
Gotta love Vegas...we went from Mt. Rushmore to...
the Eiffel Tower!!

But best of all I finally got to see Phantom! I thought it was great! It takes me back to my choir days!!

A new Addition to the back yard!!

Kevin worked for 16 hours to get this put together!

(with a little help from Papa and our friend Jason)
It has provided great entertainment for the kids. Mylee and Ally love to swing, Ally and Dallon do plenty of climbing, and it even worked as a great hiding spot for Dallon's air soft battle with his friends. Now we just need to get new sand and a cement barrier.

Fun at Lagoon!!

Mylee's one and only ride!

You can see how much Ally looks up to and Loves Aubrey and Gentry!

Oh, Papa convinced her to ride the carousel, but not get on an animal, they had to sit on the bench with him holding her the whole time.

Dallon, Ally and Mylee had lots of fun at Lagoon with the Grensings, Papa, GiGi and Brie! Tryce was a brave boy! Mylee on the other hand was very scared! I couldn't even get her to ride a little boat with Ally.

More to come....