Happy Birthday Sequoia!!

For Sequoia's 7th birthday we wanted to "make it easy" so we let her invite a few friends to the movie to see Finding Dory that just came out. She was so dang excited about. In the end, I can't just invite "a few" kids. Blah. We invited Ayebuke, Zaycia, Olivia, David, and Darian along with our whole family. Craziness. So a simple party turned into a bunch of kids and money. But it was all worth it. She had a blast. We watched the movie, went back to the house for cake, ice cream, and presents, then I took them all back home. No games, so that was nice. She is entertaining to watch when she's with her friends because she's so different than with us, I love it!  Since it was Finding Dory day, I thought it would be a good idea to get her a real Beta fish for her birthday. Not really. She did a really good job pretending to like it, and it only lived for about a month. Poor thing.

Nana Reunion 2016

This year our reunion was out at Marysvale, UT at Gaylene's family property. What I can remember of it was that it was super hot, there wasn't a lot of shade, but I was happy to see my cousins and spend time with my family. 

It was super close to Big Rock Candy Mountain, a place where you can rent tubes and float down the river. We all did it together as a family and I'm surprised I didn't have a full on heart attack that day. I was seriously so worried and stressed that my kids were going to fall out of there tubes and die by drowning. For real.  Yes they had life jackets on. Yes they were surrounded by family at all ends. But I still was freaking out. I'm not very fun to go on outings like that. I was super happy to go home after that reunion. I do wish I would have gotten more pictures though!! Usually my biggest regret. Blah!