Shad's Bobsled Birthday!

Uncle Shad is always doing nice and generous things for our family so we wanted to plan something real fun and different for his birthday. What do you get a guy who pretty much has everything and has done everything?

A real bobsled ride down the Olympic track!

Shad is in the back

Made it down the track in 1 minute 5 seconds

He was totally surprised and way excited! It was so fun to watch him race down and we were all wishing we could do it too!

It was a gorgeous day so we hung-out at the Olympic park and watched the ski jumpers flip into the pools and then played at the park. So fun!

Then we went to Shad's favorite dinner spot in Park City - Loco Lizard!

Happy Birthday Uncle Shad! We love you lots!

Memorial Day

For Memorial day weekend, the boys went motorcycling while Q and I enjoyed some sunshine at Aunt Heid's house. Millie was still in California.

We pulled out the Slip-n-Slide!

 

Then I took Q on a date to the movies to see Disney's "Bears" movie. We loved it. Right up her alley.

 

On Sunday we took flowers to the graves and to reminisce about Grandmas and Grandpas

Millie's happy place

Miss Millie totally scored an invitation to go with cousins Kamryn and Jordan to stay in a beach house on Santa Monica beach! They were going to celebrate Jordan's 16th birthday!

She rode down to St. George with my friend Jill, met up with the Parkinson's, and they were on their way to California the next morning! 

On the road

They were totally spoiled, staying in a fancy house right on the beach. Check it out:

They met up with Shelly and Jordan's friends from Arizona (Jennifer and Jodie Parkinson) because they were celebrating Jodie's birthday too. Millie and Kamryn mostly hung out on the beach with Shelly for 3 days. She was in absolute heaven!

A visit to the famous Sprinkles for some cupcakes! Yum!

When the fun was over, BS and I drove down to St. George to pick her up. We took Q with us. We enjoyed having our baby girl to ourselves and spent the day swimming at Parkinson's house while we waited for them to return.  Of course we had a little business to take care of with Aerie.

Garner family bash!

Garner Family. My Mom's brother and sister and their kin

The relatives on the Garner side have many birthdays in May. One of them is my cousin Mike's daughter Michaela - who had just received her mission call to Texas - so we made a big deal out of it and celebrated her farewell at a big birthday bash at the cabin.  Growing up we had countless celebrations at the cabin. So many great memories. It was a fun day for all!

Of course, cute Grandma and Grandpa were cooking and helping out

I love this picture of 2 of my favorite gals

Michaela, Marty, and Mike

Michaela, Aunt Sue, Grandma, Aunt Marcia

The Garner originals. Love them lots!

Easter!

On Easter Sunday in their Easter outfits

We spent Easter weekend at the cabin for a fabulous lunch and Easter Egg hunt!

All ready to go hunt for eggs

 

Each kid had their own color to find - that way everyone scores big with plenty of eggs!

 

Coloring eggs:

Sunday morning Easter baskets!  The Easter bunny did not disappoint.  They even got giant chocolate truffle eggs with their names on them. Yum :)