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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Where Have We Been All Summer?


I did not take much time for blogging in the summer, so I thought I would do a little catch up. We had a great summer! I think summer time is my favorite. There are so many fun things to do. Our clubhouse and pool were finished in May, so we spent a lot of time at the pool. This is a picture of Marc's family swimming. Everyone got together for the 4th of July. Our family overtook the pool, and everyone had a lot of fun!


Dash and his cousin, Cache, love to swim and eat chips at the pool. They aren't afraid of the water!




Marc's Diet


We had a weight loss competition in Marc's family to get ready for Lake Powell. This is how Marc started off his diet- a big chocolate milk shake. He didn't win, but he still lost weight!




This was the first dessert to kick off the Lake Powell feast. We all dug in with our spoons to eat this ice cream sundae out of the "pig trough."



All ten of the McCann siblings came on our trip to Lake Powell! We had a big celebration before Andrea leaves on her mission. Our talent show was dedicated to her this year.





Marc entertained us by jumping, flipping, and diving off the houseboat.





This is my favorite thing to do at Lake Powell! Water rocket wars! It gets pretty crazy!




One of the highlights of the trip was reading books from the Twilight series. Even Marc's brothers couldn't resist reading them! (Not really. It was part of their skit for the talent show.)




Marc and I celebrated our 6 year anniversary while we were in Lake Powell. It was a lot of fun! We even had fireworks to celebrate.



The Perfect Day- 6 Years Ago!




This is our first ripe tomato! It was my first ever attempt at growing a garden. All we had were tomatoes on our balcony, but the kids loved to water them. They tried eating the tomatoes, but they didn't like them.



We celebrated Dash's 2nd birthday! Grandma Jackie bought him a shaggy dog cake.
He loved blowing out the candles! He did it several times before we finished singing.
We also celebrated with his cousin, London. They share the same birthday! It was her first birthday this year.
She dug into her cake, and then was nice enough to let Dash join in. But she didn't want to share her new little bike that Grandma bought her. She kept pulling the other kids off of it.
What a cute little angel, or at least he was then! Now the terrible twos have kicked in. He's learned to climb out of his crib and he loves to throw tantrums, but we still love him.

This is Kylie's favorite meal. Cheese tortillas, chips, salsa, sour cream, and green sauce! She always wants to eat it down stairs.





We went camping and bought Kylie a princess fishing pole, so she could go fishing with her dad. Kylie caught her first fish! She was so excited, but holding it wasn't her favorite part.





Kylie started preschool! She has wanted to go for over a year, because her friends went to school. This is a picture of her after her first day. She loves her teacher Miss Ann!

20 comments:

Natasha Ireland said...

YEAH Kylie for PreSchool...big girl :) woohoo. Happy 2nd bday Dash and BIG HAPPY 6th to you guys. Jessica You look beautiful in your pic at Lake Powell. (well duh) MISS U

Unknown said...

What a fun summer! It looks like a BLAST!

Patience said...

You've been busy this summer! No wonder you haven't blogged. I miss Lake Powell. It's such a heavenly place! Can you believe it has been 6 years? You are on your way to 10. We just had our 5 and I can't believe how fast it goes. Good thing we have eternity right? Chris started a diet for Jamaica this summer too. Yeah...he eats ice cream and soda almost everyday and has lost 5 pounds already. Ahh...to be a guy. I'm teaching 6 classes a week and haven't lost a pound. Inches but no pounds. Grr....Glad to see you are having fun! And good luck to Kylie in preschool! Loved Dash' shaggy dog cake! How cool he has the same birthday as London.

Chelsea said...

Hi, Jess. Long time no, huh?

In speaking with Alicia the other day and then Patience emailed me today, she mentioned you had a blog. Hooray! We can keep in touch again {because we were pretty awful at it when we lived 5 minutes apart!}.

I hope you're doing well! Your family is getting to be so big - I can't believe you've been married 6 years already. I hope you're happier than ever.

Chelsea

Chelsea Wilkes said...

It was fun catching up today!! We need to do it more!! Sounds like you had a fun Summer!

georgiavargas said...
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georgiavargas said...

Hi Jessica!!! I miss you so much! I'm sooooooooooooooooooo sorry we haven't talk in a long time, lots of things happened in my family(mostly good...) Happy B-day for Dash,,and I'm so happy for Kylie..what preshool is she going to??
I love you so much and WE miss you like crazy, Chris is allways asking for his friend Kylie... We moved (again) still in orem ( just behind target in the townhomes)and we change the telephone number please email me yours (I lost it sorry)so I can call you some time
Any way...my email: georgiavargas@hotmail.com
I Hope to see you soon!!!
LOVE YA!

the Lola Letters said...

Wow - looks like you had one rough summer. Ha ha! Your family is welcome to adopt me, Kyle and Kort ANYTIME! We haven't done the Lake Powell family get together for years and years and years. Jealous.
and Kylie is sooooo beautiful...ridiculous life you've got goin on there...
:)

Audra said...

Cute update! All the pictures are so fun. (the one with the guys reading the Twilight book is pretty funny!).

Bayles Family said...

Such cute pictures! I love the one with Kylie and Marc catching a fish, it's priceless :) We need to meet sometime and catch up and let our kids play together. Halle would love to meet some new friends. PS congrats on 6 years! My 7 year is next month, crazy how time flys!

Macy said...

Well, I have been officially caught up!!! I loved every picture!!! We'll see you tomorrow :)

Sarah Mickalson said...

I Love Lake Powell! You look so good, I am jealous!

Brynn said...

Well well well I found you Jessica and i just found alicia nice try but its not that easy to hide :) I can't believe how big Dash is he is so cute! Kylie looks the same still makes me wnat to laugh just looking at her -she was always so full of spirit!

THE REBER FAMILY said...

Caitlyn caught her first fish with a princess fishing pole too! Sooo cute. Your kids are darling! Isn't it wierd that we have kids in preschool? Weren't we cheering at OHS yesterday? Yikes! Lets get together for REAL!

Dj,Megs & 5 Beautiful kids said...

Hey Jessica, This is Megan Meis. I found you on Joni's blog. We just moved to Arizona a few months ago and are in the Allreds ward. Crazy! How are you guys doing? Your kids are getting so big. Dash has really grown up since the last time we saw him.

Aubrey said...

Hey I found ya! Cute blog! We should be blog buddies--and real buddies of course. And maybe next year we can be on your winning pirate team and find the burried treasure :)

Brian and Lindsey said...

Looks like you guys had a fun summer. I'm gonna have to try that healthy smoothy. I'm all about making veggies taste good! We miss the ward but find it fun to catch up with everyone on their blogs! Well I do anyway:) I'm glad I found a way to stay up to date with you guys.

The Turley Family said...

Hello! It's me, Angela (Salter) Turley. How are you? It looks like you are doing fantastic. You have two little ones? Me too! A 2 1/2 year old girl and a 6 month old boy. My husband and I are about to celebrate our 6th anniversary in December. It is crazy how time flys. I got your blog address from Patience's blog sight. I am so glad to that I can see how you are doing. Feel free to check out my blog if you want.

the Lola Letters said...

K, now I'm pretty sure that you're over-due for a blog titled: "Where have we been all FALL?" ;) We're waiting....

Chelsea said...

Where have you been lately! Hope you're doing well and staying warm!