Honey, Honey, and more Honey...

Our bees worked hard for us this year! We ended up getting 4 gallons of honey! We weren't really expecting to get much. They say usually your first year you don't get anything. You have to leave the bottom two boxes full of honey for the bees to survive over the winter and the rest is ours! We actually got about 8 gallons of honey, but our deal was to split our honey with the guy helping to take care of our hive. It is super yummy!

Here are some of the peaches from our tree this year. They were so much bigger than in years past, I think the bees may have had something to do with that!

We were busy one Saturday bottling peaches. I am hoping we get more grapes this year so we can bottle more grape juice!

Preschool

It has been well over a month now but I thought I would post pictures of Makenna on her first day of preschool and a few of her preschool field trips. We are doing the neighborhood/joy school thing again this year. There are six kids in the group and we each take a turn having preschool at our house. We also go on a field trip about once a month. The kids have a lot of fun together!

This was our field trip to Kneaders.

They went on a tour of the Bakery and then got frost cookies afterwards!!

This was our field trip to Wheeler farm. Here they are feeding the ducks.

Makenna and her friend Haylee on the tractor.

Herriman Fire

On Sunday night as we were driving home we noticed the mountain right in the backyard of our home was just glowing with fire. As we got closer to home we could actually see the flames and smell the smoke. It was scary not knowing what would happen. They evacuated over1200 homes in the area. We were only a few blocks away from the nearest evacuation point. Luckily we never had to evacuate. What a crazy night. We were outside in the backyard with our neighbors just watching the fire burn until 1:00 in the morning. Amazingly, only 3 homes were destroyed. I thought it would have been much more. The firefighters did an awesome job! These pictures were taken right from our backyard...

Dallin took this footage from the front yard of our backyard neighbors. We thought this home would have been destroyed for sure. Luckily the fire fighters showed up just in time and saved it.

I took this footage from our backyard right when we got home so the fire looked a lot worse later into the night, but I wanted to post it because if you listen carefully you can hear Makenna narrating and she was just cracking me up.

My little fluff ball...

So about a year ago I tried straitening Makenna's hair and we just got a good laugh out of it. Well I thought maybe I would try again and here are the results...

This is what her hair looked like after I blow dried it. Holy Cow it looks just like mine! She looked at herself and said, "I look sassy!"

This is after I straitened it. Still it looked a little silly. Makenna looked in the mirror and said, "I don't look like Makenna." I just had to laugh!

It looked a lot better after I put it in pig tails. At least she's cute with curls!!

Meet my new niece, Kaylee!

On July 23, 2010 my cute little sister had her baby girl. Kaylee Violet Bingham was 9 lbs. and 20 1/2 inches long. On our way up to Idaho we were able to stop in and meet her! Isn't she so adorable!!

Makenna loved holding her! She said to me, "I only got to hold her a little, daddy held her medium, and you are holding her way too long." So I had to give her up and let Makenna have another long turn!

She has been such a good little baby, Congrats Alise!!

Island Park!

We got back a few weeks ago from our annual trip to Island Park, Idaho. Dallin's Grandpa has a cabin up there so us and his whole family spend a weekend there every year. Here are some pictures of our trip doing our usual stuff every time we are there.

This is me and Makenna going for a ride on "The Big Birtha." She definitely wasn't scared and only wanted to go faster!

Dallin and Makenna getting ready to swim.

Makenna loved floating around in this baby floaty thing.

This is Dallin's Grandpa. If you look closely you will notice a squirrel on his lap snatching a peanut out of his hand. The squirrels sure aren't shy up there. I think the peanuts the kids feed them all day long might have something to do with that!

Every year we make a trip to Big Springs and feed the fish.

Our family at Big Springs.

Makenna and a few of her cousins checking out the fish.

Dallin and his brother Tyson.

Makenna and one of her favorite cousins, Kailey. These two love to play with each other.

We also make a trip to West Yellowstone every year and just shop around. Don't they look scared of that bear?

Sorry Dallin, I just had to post this one!

Makenna's cheesy smile!

Coral Pink Sand Dunes

It has been almost a month ago now but we were able to go down to Coral Pink Sand Dunes for the weekend. My family has done this every year since I was young. We had a great time camping and riding the ATV's.

Makenna posing with her helmet on.

Ready for a ride.

Makenna loved to ride with Grandpa Ballard. She tells us she would rather go with Grandpa than Daddy because "he rides up the BIG cliffs."

Water Fight!! Here are the kids going after my brother Brandon!

Oh how dirty camping can be!

Another pose with the helmet on.

The guys out on the dunes.

Will they all fit?

Makenna and Maren on the ATV.