A Night at the Range

Poor Recon had to lay at home cause he doesn't have opposable thumbs

Happy 4th

We had a great long holiday weekend. It was so nice to enjoy some time off with Ryan and my family. Ryan and I went off roadin up the mountain on Saturday night, set up a nice cozy spot in the back of the truck and sat back and enjoyed the stadium of fire and all the other fireworks across the valley. It was so quite and peaceful from where we were and the view was amazing. We also had fun over the weekend golfing with my parents, having a wonderful dinner at the cabin with Grandma and Grandpa Clyde, walking around the Provo Center Street festival and driving to Wyoming early Monday morning to buy these...

We threw a little family party at our house last night. We played b-ball, ate smoked chicken and brats, and of course the boys put on an awesome firework show for us. My favorite of all were the flying flowers and the giant aerials. 

Eamon was so cute. Amazed by the fireworks, he would stare wide-eyed and flap his arms in excitement when they went off.

 Mom and dad got to sit back, relax and enjoy the show

 As well as G&G

And guess who else....

It started raining, so we took a break to enjoy the flag cake I made. I told everyone that I made it in honor of Ryan's cousin Cody who is serving as a marine in Afghanistan right now. We are so proud of his courage and dedication to our country. Thanks to him and everyone else who are fighting for our freedom.

The rain slowed down and eventually stopped, then we got to move on the the big boy fireworks. 

Ryan told me not to post this pic because he looks really goofy. But I'm gona anyways cause he'll never know, since he doesn't ever read my blog.

And here's a few pics from golfing the other day...

golf

I had to post these pics real fast cause they make me laugh. A few days back Ryan, Matt, my mom and I all went out golfing. A huge rain storm blew in right after we started so we had to get a rain check. We were all completely soaking wet and my mom thought it was pretty funny. We all laughed and then went back the next day and enjoyed a perfectly sunny day. 

The Whole Family

Where should I even start? I have so much stuff to post about from the last few weeks, so I guess I'll start with the most important thing first. Anna and Michael's wedding.

They got married on the 17th in the Timpanogos Temple and then threw a beautiful reception in the Sculpture Garden at the Springville Art Museum. Our entire Smith family was here in town and it was so much fun being all together again.

Some more of my favorite pics from the wedding weekend

We had some good times all together with the fam, and we had a special surprise for dad on father's day

We went to Payson Lake up Payson Canyon a few days ago with my parents and Matt. We had a fun time watching the dogs swim. Recon has been loving it. Look at the huge log he drug into shore.

We've also taken him a few times to Rock Canyon park to swim and he's had lots of fun in the water and playing with the other dogs there. 

Recon did however manage to really embarrass us at the park. Ryan and I were flying his kite and he was off playin in the water. All the sudden we hear yelling and we turn to see Recon running off with something white in his mouth and a whole family chasing after him. I run to catch him and while I'm chasing him he drops a sock out of his mouth but still has the match. I keep chasing him and then he stops about 5 feet in front of me and starts doing his you can't catch me dance. The second I lunge at him to grab the other sock, he takes a big gulp and swallows it whole. 

Embarrassing enough, he has developed this nasty little habit over the last few months. Unfortunately we have learned the hard way to keep our socks off the floor or our bedroom door shut. We have sacrificed a handful of socks to the belly of the beast in just a short amount of time. 

So to finish off my story, I walked shamefully back to the family and found the small boy that the lone sock belonged to. I explained to him that my dog had ate his sock. Stunned, he sat there staring at me and his face all but said that this crazy women and her strange dog had ruined his day at the park. He turned and ran off to his mom, crying that the dog had eaten his sock. The mom looked at me disgusted and then the family walked off without a word. We took this as our cue that it was time to go.

Doggy Paddlin and the Bachelorette

On Friday we took the dogs to the lake and Ryan got to play with his new kite. Then later that night I went and partied it up at my little sis' bachelorette party.

 Ryan got this kite the other day, I guess it's like a practice kite for wind surfing. It's pretty fun if you have some good wind.

 Scared to get her head wet so she looks like a lion

 Recon totally took to swimming and was way out there before we even realized it.

You'll have to excuse my high pitched voice, for some reason I always talk like this to Ember and it's totally involuntary so don't make fun of me. 

 And here we have our sexy little bachelorette, my one and only sis Anna

My camera died halfway through the party. I'm waiting to get some more pics from Maddie.