Our Family

Casey and I have been married over 12 years! Casey still loves to cheer on his BYU Cougars and the Utah Jazz and I have time I love to squeeze in my Photography and running. These are some snap shots of our busy life with our 4 children. 2 girls and 2 boys!

July 31, 2010

We ♥ Heidi’s House

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So after our visit with the Baldwin’s Casey flew home to get back to work. Then I drove up to Heidi and Ryan’s to spent the week with them. We get to see Heidi in June back at home, but the kids (and me!) love to visit at her house. We got there on Monday morning and went to her splash park. It was so humid! It started to storm a little so it cut our park visit short.
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The boys decided they were done and started changing their clothes themselves. I looked around and found them like this.
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That night Olivia didn’t want dinner and fell asleep on the couch. I was feeling a little queasy and that night we were both throwing up! There was a stomach thing going around all the Baldwin’s and it had already gotten about 6 of them. Now us. I did feel a lot better by morning so we went to the mall to visit the Quilted Bear and Down East basics. Olivia and I were still a little week so that is all we did on Tuesday. By Wednesday we felt back to normal so we took the train down to Gateway mall to visit the fountain. Our little streakers got caught this time. I tried to cover Nathan between the stroller and a towel to change him, but Cohen just dropped his pants and started changing. A security guard came up and told Heidi that she needed to use the bathrooms to change the kids because there were some “questionable homeless people.” I guess they are too used to changing at grandma’s pool. The kids were a little out of control on the train ride home, and some guy behind Heidi got up and left saying “I’ve had about enough of THAT noise!” Rude! He could have just left, I wanted to. (Just kidding!)
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Check out Olivia’s new smile. While at the Baldwin’s both of her top front teeth were SO loose! She was complaining all week that she couldn’t eat anything!  On Sunday morning I had to pin her down an yank them out!
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On Thursday we went to the Roy aquatics park, a family favorite. The kids had a blast! Both the boys loved the waterslides! They weren’t big enough to go themselves so I had to go with them. Maybe next year Nathan will be big enough and then we can go even more. Both the girls tried out the speed slide. I didn’t think they would really do it, but they did! By themselves! They both said it was scary, but so fun. Brooklyn helped Olivia be brave enough to try. Then they both tried the high dive. They loved that to, they went on the low one. Olivia thought that wasn’t too bad so she wanted to try the high one. She climbed the ladder twice but couldn’t do it. I know exactly how she felt! It looks like so much fun, but it is SOOO high!
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After that the girls (Me, Heidi, Brooklyn, Olivia, and True) went to Ti Pan for some shopping and then got some yummy Hawaiian Shaved Ice. It was so fun. The girls are getting really easy and even fun to hang out with. On Friday we had a nice breakfast with Heidi then headed up to Boise to pick up my mom. We stayed at my grandma Manship’s house and had dinner and visited with my Uncle Brian. On Saturday morning we headed back to Washington. It’s always good to go home, but a little sad to see our vacation that we anticipated all year end.

July 25, 2010

More fun in Utah!

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We went up to the American Fork aquatics center with Casey’s parents, Rocky’s family,  Andrew’s family, and Haley’s family. Nathan didn’t want to go on the big slide. But I knew it wasn’t scary so I dragged him up the stairs crying and screaming. He was climbing all over me all the way down. But then when it was over he was laughing and said it was so fun and wanted to do it again! I knew it! Everyone thought I was torturing him, but I really just helped him overcome his fears!

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For Pioneer day we stayed in town and went to a park and played water baseball, slip’n’slide, had a yummy lunch and did some relay races. I think the kids had a great time!

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Olivia learned to do cartwheels this year and does them every chance she gets. They came in handy for this race. She won.

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Casey actually beat his brothers!

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One evening we went up to Rocky and Rachel’s house to watch a movie outside with projector. We all had root beer floats and licorice while we watched the Tooth fairy.  The kids fell asleep on the trampoline and spent the night with their cousins. 

We also got to see a lot of fun movies for free while we were there (thanks to Casey’s cousin’s husband Mark) The kids saw Toy Story 3, I saw New Moon, and Casey and I saw Salt and Inception. (Inception was WAY good!).

July 22, 2010

Bridget ♥ Tommy

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Bridget and Tommy got married on July 21st in the Jordan River Temple. It was a VERY hot day! It was a beautiful day though. My girls were so excited to wear their princess dresses. I made neckties for all the little boys, and they all looked so cute in them! Bridget was having an Ice Cream Sunday bar at the reception, so the day before the girls went up to Haley’s and crumbled a ton of candy bars. We even had a girl come and give us pedicures while we were there.
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“The Baldwins” –Casey and all his brothers and sisters
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“The Grandchildren” – All of Ray and LaReesa’s grandchildren (plus Laura and Tommy’s sister) The kids were not in a picture mood with it being 100 degrees, plus they all had to wait outside in the heat while we were in the temple. Nathan was especially not feel’n the love.
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Casey’s “got the magic” Doing magic tricks to keep the kids happy while photos were being taken.
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The WHOLE Baldwin side. This is as good as it gets!
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At the reception at Alpine’s Art Museum.
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The cake. Haley made it! She is SO talented!!!
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Brooklyn enjoying the ice cream sunday. Aunt Lacey and Crew and Aunt Whitney and Payton. Sister’s and double cousins.
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Andrew, Whitney, and Payton. Cody cutting a rug with MaryJane.  Casey teaching Brooklyn some new moves.
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