Summer Days!

Oh how I love these Summer Days! The kids LOVE to play outside with friends, love to go to the water park here in Herriman, and LOVE to be outside in the lovely summer weather!

Defending the title...

For those of you who want to see an event to go down in the history books, then come to the TOUR de DONUT on Saturday, July 11th at 9 am in American Fork. Regan will be defending his title of Donut King from last year! His trophy still proudly sits in his office! Last year, he ate 25 donuts and biked 21 miles and won the whole race. This is what Regan is best at...a bike race with a food race!
For more details, go to http://utahtourdedonut.com/default.aspx

Stadium of Fire!

The 4th of July was So awesome! We went to the Provo Parade, Regan went on a huge mountain bike ride, we had all you can eat pancakes and french toast at Magelbees and went to the Stadium of Fire! Glen Beck, Shedaisy and the Jonas Brothers were the performers and it was SWEET! The reason why it was so sweet is because we were literally in a SUITE! My dad was able to get our family into a suite in the BYU stadium so the kids were able to run around, it was air conditioned, we had a great dinner and saw everything SO well! I had a fun time with Riley, Angie and Chrissy dancing to the Jonas Brothers music! It was actually really good dancing music! The best part though was watching the fire works outside! WOW-even Ellie couldn't stop staring at them! What a great 4th of July!

Camping Trip

I'm not much of a camper, but we decided to go camping at Squaw Peak in Provo Canyon over the 4th of July weekend. Besides the aching back and feeling dirty, it was great! The kids absolutly LOVED buiding camp fires with Regan, finding bugs and twigs, cooking hot dogs and smores, and just having a good old time in the dirt! Ellie was the dirtiest because all she wanted to do was eat the dirt and rocks! We made it 2 days camping, then went to my parents cabin for the last night! AHH, the joy of a shower! We also went on a HUGE bike ride, 15 miles! We went from the mouth of the canyon, to the riverwoods to watch Ice Age 3, then to lunch, then to the Bean Animal Museum at BYU, then to the art Museum at BYU, then back! I was thinking to myself the whole time, A.)I am in really bad shape B.)It is really hot out here or C.) My bike stinks because I was having a really hard time on the trails! After we got back and loaded our bikes on the car, I tried to spin my bike tire, and it wouldn't even move! Turns out, the seat we installed on the back of my bike for Riley to sit in was clamping my brake so I was riding my bike all over Provo with the brakes on basically!!!!!!! All in all, it was a great camping trip!

Violin recital

My sisters Angie and Chrissy had their last violin recital with the teacher all of the girls in the McKell family had! At the very end of the concert, all 4 of us played the Concerto for 4 violins by Vivaldi and it was SO awesome! That piece was made for the McKell girls! Thanks to my mom and dad for sticking with all of us girls and our violins! It has truly blessed my life!

Twinner Sunday!

Ahhh-I just love a beautiful summer night with my two beautiful little twinner girls!

Operation: Mom & Dad's 30th Anniversary Party!

I pulled off the biggest surprise EVER! My mom and dad usually know about EVERYTHING Going on, so for me to pull of a surprise 30th anniversary party with not knowing at ALL is huge! This was in the works for quite a while, and so when the day finally came, I was a bit nervous because of the aniticipation! My sister and I set up the cultural hall in Draper with my mom's wedding dress, her bridesmaid dress, a tv showing a movie of all of the pictures of them throughout the years, food set up {there was a lot of food!} wedding pictures, newspaper articles, the guest book from 1979, flowers and a ton of my mom's wedding decorations! It was a lot of work, and I was getting really nervous towards the end hoping that people would actually show up! Well, I had nothing to scared of because all in all, we had 50 people at the party and it ended up being a HUGE success!!! Ashley and I cooked chicken salad croissants, pasta salad, spinich salad, veggie tray, bean dip and chips, chocolate cake, strawberry cake and banana cake!