the Witches at Gardner Village

We continued our annual trip to see the witches this year!! We went with my friend Jenny Patrick and her daughter Sandiee .
Audrey and Sandiee are about 2 months apart. Jenny was one of my roommates back in Collage and has stayed my really good friend all these years!

Cambria loves to come and see the witches each year. Her favorite of course is the Potty Witch which has a sign above her outhouse that says "witchy poo"! I took a picture of it last year and decided i didn't need a picture of it every year!
This year we printed out a scavenger hunt sheet to find all the witches hidden around the shops. We saw some that we had never seen before it was way fun!
This was Audrey's second year. The first was when she was just a few weeks old and I didn't take her last year so she really had fun this year!

She really liked the hula hoop witch and wanted to watch that one for a while!

She did great at posing next to the witches!
There was a witch in the pond in a boat and Audrey and Sandiee were mesmerized by the ducks!


Me and my cute girls!! It was such a perfect beautiful day to go outside and have fun!

The sign says "you call me a witch like it's a bad thing!"
I'm trying to write this post and Audrey is loving seeing herself and all the "pumnins"

This one was new, a witch getting ready to jump into the water!! Can't wait until next year for another fun trip to see the witches!

The Birthday Party

We had a birthday party Friday evening so everyone could make it. It was a lot of fun. Doug, Kristin, Ryan, Morgan, Brandon came. As well as Meagan and Ryan, Natalie, Jenny, B, and Sandee, and Mandy and Steve Nord.

I was going to try and make this cupcake cake but decided just to buy it instead. (it ended up being less expensive in the long run!)


She got some way soft and cute Winnie the Pooh stuffed animals from us and some fun coloring stuff from others, and meg got her a tinkerbell movie!



What a fun day and we are so happy to have such a cute, vibrant, funny, energetic two year old!

Audrey's 2nd Birthday

Tim thought we needed a cake on her actual birthday even though we were having a party the next day. So here we are celebrating her birthday on September 23! What a cutie!!
I think she was excited to celebrate something just for her!!

We gave her a bunch of winnie the pooh stuff, note book, coloring book, little figures and shape and color books.
It turned out to be a good prebirthday party party!

My two cute Girls!!

I had the girls picture taken a few weeks ago and so here they are my two adorable girls!! I was so worried about Audrey and getting her to sit still and smile, but she did great! Audrey is 23 months and Cambria is 5 yrs and 8 months.

First Day of School

Cambria was way excited for her first day of Kindergarten. We put her in a Charter school called Summit Academy in Draper, so she has to wear a uniform which is a white top and navy blue bottoms. She didn't seem to mind at all and is of course sooo way cute! The first day was rainy but we loved it and were way too excited for bad weather to spoil it!


Here is is at her desk doing some type of work before the day starts. I wasn't the only parent with a camera!!

Already hard at work and it has only been 5 minutes since she arrived!

Mount Timp

All of us before we started our hike! Very happy smiles. I forgot to get another pic after but it I'm sure it wouldn't have been so happy! from left to right-- Lindsey, Jason Green, Lee Peterson, Kate Walker, Kristin Johnson, Doug Johnson, Meagan Smith, Ryan Smith, Kim, Kristin, and Ryan Johnson
On the way up enjoying the wild flowers. I thought of Cambria and how she would have loved to pick them and pick up all the rocks on the way! About 2.5 miles into the hike up (which was a little over 7 miles) my inner left knee started to hurt and then it was just excruciating pain evey step to the top, and then the right started to hurt almost to the top. It was great fun...not. Not sure why it started to hurt in the first place, never has before.
Here is a pic of 15 more minutes of agony hiking to what is called the saddle. After that it is another 25 min to the peak (which i did not hike to). I did make it to the saddle and it was beautiful!
Here is what it looks like from the saddle. You can see Utah county. From the peak you can see Utah county and Weber county. (you can also see Weber county on your way up the mountain)
Yea for me I made it!!!
There were sooo many rocks. They were hard to cross because they were loose and wobbly. Here I'm standing on a glacier!!
Me and Meg at the Emerald Glacier Lake (more like a pond). Here we took a rest and got ready for the hike down (another 7 miles).
A pretty water fall coming down.
Another waterfall but bigger! The scenery was very pretty going up and coming down the mountain. Glad I went and suffered through my physical pain!!! Will I do this ever again? Probably Not!!!!

Fair week- Monday

Monday we headed to the fair to watch Cali and Paige show their horses. They did great, blue ribbons and headed to state!
Audrey had fun playing by the fence and finally getting the horse noise and not making a cow noise!
Kade and Cambria had a fabulous time entertaining themselves!!

Fair Week- Wednesday

Wednesday was kids day at the fair. Me and the girls went over to Laura's house and decorated bikes for the kids to ride in the kids parade. They were so nice to let Cambria use the big trike!
Me and my mom made the girls shirts with the letter of their name on it and they all wore them Wednesday! They turned out cute and the girls are adorable!!
Waiting for the kids to pass on their bikes down main street!
Woo Woo totally flying down the road on a big trike! She thought it was so fun!
I can see Kade to the left with a blue shirt and a blue and yellow balloon and Cali to the right!
After the parade they got Popsicles at the park then we went to the big top and watched as much as we could of Dizzy Hips a guy who did pretty cool things with hula hoops.