Happy 1st Birthday L!

Look how you've grown!
We love you and are happy you are apart of our family!

Cabin 2008

This is the 4th year the Bair Family has rented a cabin for a getaway. This year we went to a cabin East of Heber City. We always have way fun(with a little bit of chaos involved.) Fun including 4-Wheeling, the kids club house in the woods, swimming in Jordanelle reservoir, hiking to Timanogos Cave, fishing-only to catch none:), taking a walk around the small wonder Cascade springs, shooting BB guns at homemade targets, crafts, late nights talking(after the kids are FINALLY in bed), glow in the dark dancing, Bair family challenge, deer and a famliy of moose walking right through our camp, and of course tons of food, food, food!!! Cahos involving a broken window, lost car keys(still not found), a broken bear tail, bad weather at the Reservoir, and lots of other "fun" that includes 20 people in ONE cabin, and trying to keep 12 children happy at all times. Thanks fam for the fun, we love all of you!

To public pool, or not to public pool?

A wanted to go swimming. Well, we could have went to the Roy aquatic center.....but it was a Friday the day after a holiday and who wants to brave the crowds at a public swimming pool? Who even needs a built in swimming pool in the back yard? Obviously not the Patterson's! Okay, we are a bit RED-NECK, but we had our privacy, fun, and no crowds in our very own 8 foot pool!!! Beat that!

Big man in a little pool!!

L's a veteran when it comes to the ocean...but backyard swimming? This was her first time!
Splash-a-Splash-a!

And that's how the Patterson's like to spend their holiday's...just chalaxen'.

Friends

It was fun getting together with my friends this week. We haven't all been together for 2 years but we still can have as much fun as ever! We went to dinner and laughed the whole time about fun memories and of course because of the fantastic comedy we all have! The next day we went to Liseanne's house for Craft Corner! She cut words out of wood for us to paint and take home. Our kids were even invited (all 12 kids under 6!!!)and they all played together while we painted (chaos but fun!) Thanks Liseanne! You are very talented! (Also thanks for letting me copy pictures from your blog) To all my friends: thanks for the good times, lets not wait so long to get together again!

The end result!

Sometimes listening to telemarketers has its perks?

We went to Park City Monday and Tuesday for a quick getaway. Okay, it all stemmed from Matt GIVING IN to the freebies offered over the phone, including two nights stay at a condo in Park City, given away to listen to a timeshare spill. By the time we decided to go, luck have it, we didn't even have to go to the timeshare spill because they no longer offered it in Park City. But we still got our two nights stay! We spent a lot of our time swimming in the pool where A learned to swim across the pool by himself. He is excited to now go to a pool with a diving board and jump off and be able to swim to the edge by himself. We also shopped the outlets of course! Also on Tuesday we went to the olympic park and did a ride down quicksilver-their version of the alpine slide. It was a blast! It's fun that our boys are now old enough to do things like that. When their little, it's so hard to do anything! Way to go Matt- thanks for the good times!

*As the strapping young man makes his way atop the dangerous mountain, he swiftly lights the torch, giving way light to the grand mountain top....Okay, it's just Matt keeping us all laughing at a photo op at the olympic park!

Let's do it again!