Searle's Summer Time FUN!

Where does the time go?? I thought I was keeping up pretty good with the blogging..till I looked at the date of the last entry! Oops..guess I'm not as good as I thought. Oh well-I guess that shows how busy we are! I'll start with the latest-

Today was Luke's grandparents 60th wedding anniversary party. Most of the Hall family was there and it was so great seeing everyone. It was a great celebration to two wonderful people that we love so much.









Of course we had to go to the fireworks. This year was especially exciting since Linc is at such a fun age. He LOVED it. He's been asking for them ever since so we had to go and buy some...







We spent this whole week up to Luke's grandparents cabin at Hebgen Lake. We go multiple times every summer and always have such a blast. We play games, eat tons of junk food and water ski, tube and wakeboard. Luke found a way to endanger his life and we took some videos of it...Beware any of you that have husbands that like to do crazy things...this might give them ideas that might make you nervous!


Ok well the video doesn't work so heres a few pictures... it's not half as cool as the video but atleast you get an idea of what he's doing....






CRAZY!!!!

My sister got married last weekend. It was an awesome ceramony on a gorgeous day. Brandi, Hadlie and Josh all looked beautiful. It was such a great day for us all. Linc even found a friend while we were there.....a fence. He couldn't stay off of it!! He even posed for pictures with it!!

Luke's sister Chelsie had their first baby last week. Little baby Zoey. She is a beautiful baby. We are so excited to have this sweet littl girl in our family. This picture is when shes a week old...

Linc has started a new ritual that every morning he climbs up into Ledgers crib and wakes him up. It's wonderful waking up to laugher from a 2 year old and a 5 month old...until the laughter turns to crying. The crib parties only lasted a couple days thankfully but I had to catch a few precious moments.

These are just some random pics...feeding the ducks, Linc killing Ledge with his kisses...ya know just normal everday things that I love.

Well thats the last month in a snap... the next month is going to be evn crazier so I wont make any promises as to when ill be updating... but summer has to end sometime!! Hope all is well with our family and friends.

Time flies when you are having FUN!

Wow! I can't believe it's been 6 weeks since my last post. So much has been going on!! I'll start off with most recent... Luke and I had our 5th year anniversary last week. He surprised me with Taylor Swift tickets....what a sweet husband huh?! He told me he bought the tickets"Just for me" cause he hates country music...but in my defense if we ever went to any concert he liked we would come home either stoned from all the weed being smoked or injured from being thrown into a mosh-pit..Ha Ha! Anyway, last Tuesday we dropped the boys off and drove down to Salt Lake. Those of you who know my husband well knows that he loves to shop. Yes, ladies I stole the only man in the world who loves to shop almost as much as me. We made our first stop at the Gateway Mall where we found tons of nine-year-old girls and their moms shopping...we thought that was kinda weird considering school was not out yet. I thought,"Well maybe some of these girls are going to the concert!"...Little did we know. When we got to the Energy Solutions Arena Luke soon found that he was one of ten guys out of the whole arena filled with screaming girls... It was hilarious. He still had a great time. At one point, Taylor Swift came into the crowd to sing a song and everyone close got out of their seats to see her...Luke was on the end of the isle and grabbed my hand and we ran down to ge as close as we could. He had a great time even though he may not admit it. We left with ringing ears and our hands were tingling from all the clapping, but it was awesome. The next day we woke up early and drove to Park City where we shopped ALL day. It has a Nike Town outlet and thats where Luke spent the whole day. I have such a wonderful, thoughtful husband and I am so thankful for him. What guy thinks to takes his wife to a Taylor Swift concert?? I am so lucky. Here's a few pics of our awesome weekend.

Here's a pic of her bus...Luke didn't tell me he was taking the pic so he caught me taking a gulp of pop...

My parents recently bought a cabin up to Palisades Lake. I took the boys up there last Monday and Linc had a blast playing in the pool with his cousins.

Here's some fun Pictures of the boys on Mother's day...Don't they look like little missionaires?!

Lincoln is the weirdest child ever...he is so cheesy sometimes!

Back in April Luke's mom had her dance recital. This year was her 25th year teaching so she talked the whole family into doing a dance, yes even Ledger danced as well as Luke's sister Chelsie who was 7 months pregnant at the time. I don't have the video yet so pictures will have to do for now. Needless to say it was the most hilarious dance ever. We had a blast. Linc even got a girlfriend while we were there. Her name is Sam and he talks about her daily.

Well, there is our 6 weeks in a glimpse...we have a CrAzY summer ahead so hopefully I won't get so far behind again!!

Easter Fun!

I LOVE Easter...It's a time of family and lots of fun. Kinda like Christmas, just smaller. We (I) decided to decorate eggs with Linc. Luke was not very thrilled with the idea, but I didn't really give him a choice. In the end he had a really fun time. Linc on the other hand was a mess. He would grab the unboiled eggs and THROW them in the dye splashing it EVERYWHERE. Thankgoodness no eggs broke. Although it was kinda crazy we will do it again next year...Linc had a blast.

I also wanted to do a little Easter Egg hunt for Linc at our house. He had so much fun! He kept screaming WOOW!! It was so funny the watch him.

On Saturday we went to Luke's parents house for the annual Easter egg hunt. Linc and Ledg are the only grand kids on Luke's side so the hunt was for us too. They always hide money in some of the eggs so as soon as we got the go-ahead Luke and I went running outside looking for eggs leaving Linc to tag-along with Nan and Ky...we are such good parents...Oops! The girls are such good sports. This year we went to church with our parents. It's easy to do that when both Luke and my parents live in the same ward. I think we should make that a tradition. It was a little crazy getting both kids ready and to Shelley by 9:00 but we made it. After that we had a quick dinner with Luke's family and then went on to my parents house to eat...yes again. Every holiday we eat huge meals at both houses. Needless to say we don't eat much the rest of the week! We played toss the egg, had a hunt for the grandkids and played a few more games. It was such a fun day. Linc came home with the equalvelent of seven bags of candy...gross. This morning I awoke to Linc bringing me candy in bed...who needs breakfast right??

Bowling Night!!

So we decided to let Lincoln try a new adventure...bowling. I thought it would be kinda crazy what with a 2 year old and a bowling ball but it was actually fun and Lincoln had a blast. Half the time was spent hurding Lincoln off the floor when it was someone elses turn...he thought it was his turn everytime and was jumping up and down almost the whole night! Sorry the first pic is kinda blurry... he wouldn't hold still, he was too excited!

Heres a few super cute pictures of Ledger...he's finally starting to smile all the time. We love it!

Lincoln and Ledger's New Rooms...

Ok so some of you have been asking for pictures or Linc's and Ledge's room...here they are! Licoln loves his new room, we had to make it as fun as possible so he would stay in there at night! He is in there all the time but thinks that airplanes are called trains..Ha ha. It was alot of fun putting it together and Luke and his sister and brother-in-law did a great job painting the walls. I can't take credit for the ariplane on the wall though..my wonderful mom did it. She's so full of great ideas.

Ledger's room isn't anything special...it's just Lincoln's old room but I had Ledger's name done to go on the wall... it's a fun sports room for him.

Life is crazy but good... I find myself struggling to get things done each day with two...I'm never ready to leave the house by one each day but I'm sure it will get better, at least I hope so!!

Ledger's Special Day

On Sunday, little Ledger was blessed. His daddy gave him such an amazing blessing. It was such a great day filled with lots of family and friends. He was so adorable in his white suit and Lincoln looked just as cute in his suit. He looked like a missionary. Lincoln's Go-Go asked him where he wantes so go on a mission and he said,"Umm, Taco Bell." Nice Lincoln, Nice... Here are just a fewpictures of our awesome day.