One year older and wiser too!

My little lady is 6! Wow! The last 6 years just flew by it seems, but what a great 6 years it's been.

Avery had been counting down the days until her birthday starting from day 19. Everyday she'd say something like, "Mom, it's only 19 days until my birthday, then I'll be six!" Then the next day it'd be much the same except 18 days to go. Funny girl!

She was SO excited when she saw what this was!

"Pretend make-up!"

Oh her beloved pretend make-up. She had patiently been waiting to get this for her birthday for months.

Kristen, Madelyne and Savannah joined us at the splash park for some more birthday fun.

Avery's really been into posing for pictures lately, can you tell?

Quinn captured this lovely shot!

Takin' a spin on her new wheels.

The birthday festivities continued that evening with Avery's chose of dinner, Red Robin. Then off to the movies we went. It was so fun having all the family join us for Toy Story 3 at the theater, which was such a cute movie. Avery was especially excited that Uncle Mike, Aunt LeEtta, cousins Josh, Lee, Alex, Hailey and Hannah were here on her birthday, it really made her birthday extra special for her. What a great day!

Happy birthday my cute little 6 year old! You are the best little daughter a Mama could ask for. I love that you are always so happy and outgoing, and how you make everyone around you feel loved and happy too. You'll always be Mama's special little Avery and I love you SO much!

If you're happy.....

If you're happy and you know it clap your hands!

If you're happy and you know it clap your hands!!

If you're happy and you know it then your face will surely show it, if you're happy and you know it clap your hands!!!

CCC @ TF in LC

Coburn Cousin Camp at Temple Fork in Logan Canyon, that is!

Our family was in charge of CCC this year and it was great! The theme was, "Coburn Cousins star in the Movies". Danny designed the T-shirts this year and they are awesome! Way to go Danny!

Friday night we took everyone on a Universal Studios tour that included, King Kong, Shrek, Psycho, Jaws, Toy Story and E.T. King Kong escaped from his cage during the tour so at the end he jumped out and scared everyone half to death! Good times!

After the tour we watched some old home videos of the Anderson's and The Little Rascals. Mom and Dad rented a popcorn machine so we had popcorn in cute little popcorn bags and homemade root beer for everyone while they watched the movies. It was a great night! Except I'm so mad, I forgot to take pictures!

Saturday we took a drive to see Old Ephraim's grave.

This little fella stayed behind and took a nice cozy nap in the Motorhome shower.

When we got back we had some 'movie themed' games for all the kids. Then it was off to the river we went to cool down.

Saturday night we played a fantastic game of Family Feud that Jana made while we chowed down on yummy treats.

It was another fun year at CCC!

Sun Catchers

This is one of the fun things the kids picked from our "fun jar".

Quinney made the elephant, lion and turtle, Avery painted the giraffe, penguin and monkey, and I did the tiger and alligator.

Now they are hanging up, catchin' some sun in our front window!

My Summer Love

I'm in love with Splash Parks. I love them. Best invention EVER!!! I don't have to worry about my kids drowning, they can get as much or as little wet as they so desire all by themselves, and best of all, I don't have to get into a swimming suit! Perfect.

The new Splash Park we went to today in Riverdale was seriously dreamy! Loved it!

And my kids did too.....












We'll be going back real soon!

B.U.G.S.

B.U.G.S. stands for: Building Up Girls Standards.

This was the girls camp theme this year and I had the best time at girls camp! I always loved it when I was in Young Womens, and I loved it just as much this year being a leader. Our girls are such great girls! Really! We had no drama at all. Well, unless you count the day we got infested with ticks, that caused a lot of drama, just a different kind!


I believe this walk is where we picked up all those lovely little ticks! Fun times.


Singin' around the fire...."Big booty, big booty big booty big booty!" And I must say, Mckenzie was the "Big Booty" champ!




The food was outstanding, the girls and leaders were great, the activities, lessons and crafts were so fun, it was just all around great!

Thanksgiving Point

This little Noah's Ark-ish splash pad at Thanksgiving Point was so fun. Avery and Quinn loved playing in the water and I loved seeing and visiting with great friends. It was so good to see Amber and Cookie and their kids, and of course the best Aunt ever, Rosanna. It was like the good ole college days...except with a few extra little pip-squeaks running around! Good times!





Quinney's Top Model pose! :) He's so stinkin' cute!


Unfortunately, on the way home from this lovely event, is when we got crunched from behind on the freeway.

Where's the whole side of my bumper, you ask? Oh, just hangin' out on the side of the freeway is all, no biggy.


It aint no swagger wagon anymore!


Silba is at the shop right now getting her body and a few back innerds re-done. They tell me she'll be good as new in about 2 weeks. I'm hoping that's true, because this rental car business has got to go! I mean the rental car is nice and all, but it's not my spacious, perfect sized, big windowed, smooth riding, absolutely perfect Silba.

Two weeks and counting.....

~ Fun & Adventure Jars ~

Julie emailed me this cute idea to do with my kids for the summer. What a great idea, Avery and Quinn LOVE stuff like this! But really, who wouldn't? I had just as much fun making the jars and thinking up fun summer-ie things to put inside as Avery and Quinn have had picking a slip of paper out each day.

I get just as excited as they do anticipating what the fun activity will be for the day. And we all love Sunday night so we can see what our great adventure will be that week too!

But before we can pick an activity out of the fun jar each day, I've got a strict schedule to enforce. :) A little structure never hurt anybody, right?

.....not to mention the fact that I happen to LOVE making lists and schedules!

Avery too loves a good schedule, just like her Mama! She takes it very serious and is so good at making her bed and straightening her room before she comes downstairs. She even laid out her dance outfit in preparation for her little dance class later that morning. That's my girl!

Aww, this just makes me smile, she is just the cutest!