Wold family reunion

The Wold Family Reunion:) WOW...pretty much sums up how that went.  I'll let the pictures describe but we went up American Fork canyon and went four wheeling and dirt biking.  It was a great day and Preston would really like Grammy to buy him a four wheeler for him.  How 'bout it Grammy:)  ??

We also went to 7 Peaks in Provo.  I only wish I'd had my camera out more.  I have never laughed so hard as I did when I convinced my sweet older sister to go down a death drop (and she didn't know, since she's legally blind without her glasses).  I am so mean.  And these are my nephews who are under the impression that they are the coolest people walking the planet.  

So in defense of my two overly confident nephews...I was impressed that they could breathe while going down this slide, let alone be cool for the camera.

Hill Family Reuion

What would a Hill family reunion be without a boat, warm weather, and lots of water toys.  Actually we did do other activities, but the camera only made it to the water events.  We did a humanitarian project, made Harry potter wands that were so real looking- they could have been used in the movie, we played games, went fishing and had way too much food.  It was AWESOME.  Definitely a do-over and over and over...you get the idea, we had a lot of fun:)

I love my son but he's about as photogenic as I am:)  By the way see that belly button.  Well, as of this thursday he will no longer have it.  Preston is getting surgery to remove the umbilical hernia that causes it to bulge out like that.  He's a little nervous but after I promised a day full of XBOX, he said he's be fine getting it done.

Craters of the Moon

So while my family was here...we had every intention of going waterskiing, but then we remembered that to get that boat up here from Boise, we'd have to tow it behind the Passat.  And while I was all for trying, Jared didn't think it was a great idea.  Plan B:  My brother, Eric, said he remembered going to Craters of the Moon when he was 8 and having a blast and its only an hour from us.  He went on and on about how cool it was and how all of us would love it.  But over the next couple of days, logic started setting in.  How cool could walking on a bunch of rocks be..and how cool would they be in 95 degree weather?  But we were determined and so we set out!

This one might need some explaining.  This was the only red colored rock in a 10 mile radius and Boyd saw the inspiration it created immediately.  He's still 12 years old.



So to sum up.  Craters of the Moon is still awesome.  We all had a blast and will definitely be going back.

Wold family fun

So I did this post about a month ago and never posted it.  I'm a slacker:)  But here they are... the beginning of the summer pics..more to follow soon.   

I'm a little late posting this but we had so much fun. Big thanks to my brother, Boyd and his wife, Natalie with their 2 kids and my brother, Eric, from California for making the trek out here to the middle of no where.  Jared and I decided to cover all the small town venues including the rodeo, a BBQ/western musical producion, and of course, fireworks.  I love my family, we had so much fun.

We made the Wold family waffles.  Clearly one can see that the bacon is the flag pole and then there is obviously the flag.  My sweet niece, Maddi, made this particular work of art.

Next we made it to the parade.  This was not Preston's idea of fun until the candy started being thrown.   My brother, Eric, picked out the spot of sidewalk that was sure to have shade by the time the parade started but that never happened:)  But what's a parade without blistering heat?

Can you imagine walking the whole parade on stilts?  Newfound respect for these girls.

Next we made it over to the Rodeo.  Preston quickly found his little buddy, Brady.  He told us a month before that he would do the mutton busting but when actually came down to touching one...not gonna happen.  I especially like the lady up front eating her icecream:)
This was the highlight of the whole rodeo.  

Wow more pics to come but that will have to be another post:)  

THE water ski video

So the video says it all so I won't even try to explain.  Check out Jared's latest movie on youtube:)

Link is on the right column.  Make sure to watch it in HD

Summer has officially begun...it may be still 60 degrees but we are most defiantly calling it summer.  We are loving the lake and have had so much going out.  So this is before I got up on the wakeboard:)

This is after I got up and thought I was really cool, and then obviously fell.  Zoom in and you can try and guess what naughty word I'm saying:) 
This is just nothing but cuteness.  It only took his cousin Hannah 45 minutes to convince him to get in there and go out on the lake.  He's our little risk taker:)
Kevin in the back, then Jared, and Cash up front.  Maybe one of the funniest things I've yet to watch in this life time.  Nothing like seeing grown men flying around on the water and then all getting flung out into the air to crash land with style.

Our little graduate

Preston graduated preschool!!!  I may be slightly biased but he was so handsome and looked so adorable giving his flowers to his teachers.  He really wanted to hide them and say "surprise," (I think we have a romantic man in the making:) They marched in the room to the graduation theme song, sang some songs themselves and then the school provided the scariest clowns ever for entertainment for the kids.  Noah was a little taken back when she came at him with a squirrel but I don't blame him, I was too.  We didn't know whether to laugh or hide but either way, scary nightmares that night were inevitable.  Anyway, we are so proud of Preston and loving seeing him so pleased with his accomplishments.