Last weekend Briana was hiking the Grand Canyon with my dad and Norris, Mom and I got to take care of her boys. Loved having them. Love building those relationships! Want them to love their Auntie and cousins! On Saturday Briana came home and on Sunday we got to have everyone over for dinner. Mom made yummy food as usual and I pulled homemade (by Sierra) cupcakes out of the freezer. We sang "Happy Birthday" to Corbin! He turned 2!

Last Friday Sierra had planned a swim party for her primary class. Luckily 2 of her friends came. They swam and we brought popsicles. Because there were only 2 girls plus Si and Ashton and Nixon they each got to have like 5 popsicles. :)

 I registered for my class. That is terrifying.
Sierra's legs are finally healing thanks to the introduction to Doterra Essential Oils. LOVE them!
We have been really enjoying watching the Olympics! Swimming is our fav!
Ashton was invited to go with my mom camping with Brett and Briana and today they are at Sea World! Lucky guy! He was going to have a busy weekend but we let him make the choice. Of course he chose to go with Grammy.
Today was his last day of basketball, a private karate lesson, his bball party and tomorrow he was supposed to give a talk. Hopefully he can give his talk another week cuz he already put it together and was practicing it. He's a busy guy! :) We signed up to bring cupcakes to his party and we still need to make an appearance cuz Jake helped coach. Sierra made cupcakes and we frosted them this morning. They turned out SO cute!

Miss my boy! Had fun last night with Sierra, took her to see "Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days". Cruised around the mall, Brookstone is SO fun! Took her to Soup Plantation for dinner. Jake and I have never been. Sierra went for a birthday party and now it's her fav! I ate so much!!! All you can eat buffet=danger! It rained yesterday too, lightening and thunder, AWESOME!

What a day!

Started early! Sierra had a Pumpkin Meet. Sierra and I had to be at the COC pool between 7:30 and 8 am. We hustled and made it. This was Sierra's first meet as a COC Super Dolphin and she was nervous (as was I but she didn't know it!:))
Her first swim was 50 yard backstroke. She got 2nd place in her heat...

that's her in the middle...

Uncle Brett recorded and put her race on youtube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr_VVydYXVw
she won her first pumpkin!

Next she swam 50 yard breaststroke...she is on the far right.

She had turned around before the other girls even got to the other side, way to go!!! She got first in her heat...

and won another pumpkin!

picture by uncle brett

Then she swam 50 yard freestyle, she is on the left...

She got first in her heat...

Once again Uncle Brett is Sierra's hero and put this race on youtube too!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p6rLOb5yrY
and won ANOTHER pumpkin, that's 3 pumpkins! She was so EXCITED and THRILLED!!!

each time she won they gave her a slip of paper to write her name on and put in a raffle to win a GIANT pumpkin. When we were packing up our stuff a man said in the microphone, "is Sierra Young here?" Me and Sierra both said "YES!" He said, "Sierra if your here you just won a giant pumpkin!" OH MAN!!! Now she is so EXCITED she just started running to make sure they knew that she was still here. We drove our car around and 2 boys carried her pumpkin out and put it in our car. Everyone was at Grammy's so she called over there and announced that she just won the giant pumpkin and they all screamed. SHE LOVED IT!!! She had so many family members come and support her and she loved that too. Grammy came, Uncle Brett, Aunt Brenna, Aunt Briana, Aunt Sophi with her boys and Uncle Norris. Thanks guys!!!!

Grammy cut it open...while Brenna and Sierra were deciding on a face.

Grampy got out the crowbar because we couldn't get the top off. :)


Sierra loved comparing the seed size to a normal size pumpkin seed.

Aunt Brenna helped her cut out a face.

Meanwhile Ashton was off with his cousin's and Uncle's to go ride 4 wheeler's and shoot guns, yep big boy stuff! He LOVED it!!!
Then it was off to her Cupcake Class at Clarice's.


She LOVED every minute!


When Ashton got home he drew on his face and Aunt Briana helped him carve his pumpkin.

Me, I just squeeze babies all.day.long!

What I want to be when I GROW UP!

Sierra has decided that when she grows up she wants to open her very own cupcake shop. We have watched a couple of episodes of DC Cupcakes and so now she has a new obsession. On Monday we had to take our car in for repair and Aunt Sophi picked us up and just brought us over to her house. Aunt Sophi helped Sierra make homemade cupcakes with homemade chocolate frosting. THEY WERE SO DELISH! Sierra has made a binder and has compiled a few cupcake recipes and ideas for her cupcakes at her cupcake shop. She has also taken up recycling and the money she earns she wants to save to pay for her to have lights on in her shop. :)
Not quite as pretty as she would like but only because they had traveled home with us under some foil wrap...