Lake Powelooza

Where do i start? It was an absolute bblast. Everyone was able to be there this year and ooooo it was sweet. I'll start with some pics to tell the story.

 Bonjour, welcome to the arch de powell. This is the night that Chef Matteu made the most deluctable  home made goat cheese  pizza (to drop dead for) with some other frenchy salad and grape juice. Grape juice. :) Cute mamma Jules made sure we took pics with Welch's. ha :D

Can you tell all of the boys are little Pier's and the girls have nasty beauty mark moles?  Just to give a lil  flavor.

 

 All the babies were in heaven on this trip! Nothing short of a smile like this 24/7 thanks to grandma Jules and her adventures everyday!

Wow,  I just love goggles. That is really somethin.

 I could not love these kids more!

 Happiest

 Oh dear, Aim Bo brought the unders back. Stained and all. We found these dainty specimens while playing a somewhat spooky, super fun game of capture the flag in the dark! May the tradition live on. :)

 Happy birthday parties!

 "Does this cake make my bundt look big?"-   Daddy Steve

 Oh Forv! (Korver) You brighten our day :)

 Oaklie Capri is an angel!

Triplets

 Aim bo is such a fishy

Like mother, like son. This boy (East) swims like a dolphin and does back flips in the water, all the while with this (above) happy, joyous face. :) And after getting chucked into the water this (below) is how he comes up. ha

 My husby gets to become a rock climber cuz my bros always make him climb big rocks or anything really slick or impossible looking. :)

 Yes, while the boys we climbing, the girls did synchronized swimming. I really felt a bond with this event at the olympics.

 50's night! Thanks to Nikki we learned all these fun ballroom routines and got to watch her do her incredible thang

 Perfect couple :)

 With their perfect lil' miss :) And her trinkets that Grandma hid on the beach for the little ones to find every morning, sooo cute

 Go Joshy and Ellie!

 Cutest dad awards

 I am sooo happy playing with these guys all day!

 Oh, stop it. Can't handle you 'girla!'

 Adventures all day

 What a precious pic! Seriously kind of got happy, emotional tears going as we took these pics with the siblings! I love them with my whole heart. This happy shananagan is why Matt and I are having a huge family :) Huh matt? :)

Just heaven on earth :) So grateful for bunch!

More to come later, i think.

Piggy's Plungin

It was all a bunch of hogwash.
We had noo idea what we were getting ourselves into.

Manure.

Ok, ok, maybe not manure. But who really knows.
It was just dirty dashing, pig, & SOUTA lovin mud.

It all started with Amy's car. But not quite.
So, I was waiting in a parking lot to get picked up by the racing crew. Aim said they were pulling in. So I got out of my car, watched them pull in to a parking spot, and walked to the back door. I opened it, saw a baby car seat and chirped "EEEEEEE!!" (because that is what I call my nephew Easton, who was supposed to be in that carseat)
I scared the living daylights out of that poor, random family.
So I started apologizing and explaining that my sister has the exact same white car and oops, oops, oops, have a great day..... when I slammed the door, turn to see my real sisters pulling in (in a black, totally different car) and I jumped in the right one.
Okay, take two, let's try this again.
We were all a bit concerned that we didn't quite know how to get to the race, but OH SO thankfully, shandi had made a map. So we bring it out. You guys :) Shandi had drawn a treasure map of real necessities such as: where the vendors at the location were going to be, the snack area, and showers.
Not to mention the map was completely wet and torn all over. hahaha, so awesome.
Mishaps like these took place every 5 minutes until the race started :) That's why we have so much stinkin fun together.

So, on to the dirty details. It was the most fun day I've ever really had with my sisters I think! We were nasty. Holding nothing back, literally swimming in the oopy goopy stuff. We laughed the entire way. For each obstacle course it was a bit backed up, so kinda a long wait in line. So we would just squeezie our lil' ways up there and walaa. We were dirty dashin again. Seriously felt like piggys. As we approached one of the backed up lines we didn't even have to discuss our game plan, we were headed to the front. We went bounding down the water slide as joyful as farm animals and went running across the finish line.
The finish line?
We basically just started this fiasco.
This is wrong.
Strike 10.
So, much to the confusion of the little, proud, cheering crowd there (and our husbands), we turned around and went sprinting back to really finish the race. We accidentally cut out about half of the thing!!  We got to finish twice. Back to back champions.

Thanks to Shand, we had to swim under all these pipes, which was not necessary but soo much more fun. As we came up absolutely covered and eyes closed, I think we all imagined these brown bodies with a white looking smile... But once I smeared the mud on my eyes away with more mud, I realized...black. Through and through. Crunching, swallowing, loving every grain.
We did rightly cross the finished line and ended bottoms up, face down in the mud :)
And then we had hand stand contests, ha.
Everyone is welcome to join us for next year!!
You guys, it was so much fun and it's an annual shabang now so plan on it!

It truly was magical for us, kinda a dream come true. :)

 Thanks to Amy, our creative mastermind. We were Katniss.

 May the odds be ever in our favor.

 Don't mess

Okay you can

 The mud had a mind of it's own. found it's way into every nook and cranny.

We love you daddio! That's him in the background :) So much fun, and we are 100% getting our husby's to be Peeta for the next games.
May the odds be ever in your favor.

Smiling n' Springtime!

Oh you are looking at one happy little camper! It’s been crazy wild over here with so much fun stuff. At first I was thinkin’ that I could split these fun events up into like 7 posts… but no thanks. Ha. So this one is just gonna be a big bubba and i’ll just prance around between all the topics in no great order.
I just graduated from byu! Yippee! I love everything about that place. My professors, classes, the gorgeous campus, and how the gospel is the center of it all.

 Never been so happy to shake a stranger's hand!

 Just wanna squeeze em. I love my family with my whole heart, they make things like this so much more exciting. So grateful for their support.

 haha go matt. interpretive dance?

 Greatest examples

 Ma seestas are my best best best besties

 He made me feel like I was graduating with my doctorate or something :) ha

 Look at all that cougar blue :) woowooo i love byu! love!

 Fun surprise to run into smash and jordo! my cousins

Some of my best friends. I feel like they were some of my greatest blessings of going to byu was meeting these girls! Angels! I feel so lucky to know these girls.

 Matt let me pick my favorite activities for graduation day so i chose... a hike and this awesome park that has this massive structure we are playing on and this other cool dizzy, round about thing that i was making me squeal like a piggy and i was giggling my head off because i was soooo dizzy, matt kind of walked away like he didn't know me because i looked 5 years old. haha no, he didn't walk away, but he just watched with his arms crossed, a smirk,  and raised eyebrows. ha
But look! He climbed it with me! Such a good sport :)

 haha this is almost funny to post. CONGRATS LIZA LIZE! She is such a riot, I adore her :)

 And look how happy i am! It's Heidi you guys! She is home from her mission :) She is absolutely amazing. I've missed her.

 Lize's wedding luncheon, just glorious.

 1st time at City Creek baby! ... See? I wasn't lying about making this one fat post. It's fun to relive tho!

 Omg this is my favorite place because BEEJ could come! That is my perfect world, having my doodle come with me everywhere.

 hehe snuck that

Happy birthday Stephy! I love my mammas :) and that I get to share my birthday parties with both!