Hello

I has been a while since I have last posted something, anything. I miss blogging and would love to get back into it. Just saying "Hi" and that I have good intentions to get started again.

I'm FREE!

Here is my rant:

I just took myself off Facebook today, yeah! I got completely burned out. It had a lot of what I didn't want or need and not enough of what I wanted. No more Farm, Mafia and Sorority life for me thanks. I prefer to spend my time with family and friends engaged in more meaningful interactions. I will miss certain elements such as connecting with long lost friends and schoolmates. Originally I got on there to just have fun with family and close friends and keep up and stuff. But most of it became full of things I won't miss. I have decided to go back to blogging. Ah, I feel better.

Family Campout

It has been another year and time for another

Pritchard family campout. We stayed at the

Petrified Forest campground in Southern Utah.

Who knew it was going to be so nice! We had perfect

weather and the camp ground was great, it had

hot running water in the bathrooms with

flushing toilets, hot showers, a dish/fish cleaning

station and plenty of big cotton wood shady trees. But best of all we

had a lake! Mom and Ron joined us on Saturday to have

dinner and celebrate Ron's 100th birthday! We took some fun

short hikes, went canoeing and swimming, told fun stories around the campfire

(uncle Rick has a blast scaring the kids) and on the way home we

stopped to take a look at Bryce Canyon. The best part of the

entire trip was just watching the kids/cousins running around

playing and have the time of thier lives!

Looks like tree stumps but they are now petrified rocks

Maddie holding some petrified wood

Joe, Megan and family

The kids

The Vorkink family & Christian

The Utykanski gang

Seth

Grandpa & Seth

The view coming down from our hike to the

Petrified Forest

Rick & Nicki

Mike and his "little me" son Ethan

Sarah and the kids

Joe and Rick taking the kids on canoe rides

Watching the kids swim and relaxing: Mom, Susie and Erin

Who's next?

Seth

Beautiful Susie and Seth - I just love these two!

Happy 100th Ron!

Carson

Damon

Jed

Milly, Christian and Lauren

Erin and Ethan before the big rain storm hit

The kids having dinner and taking shelter from the

pouring rain

My handsome hubby

Mom, Joe and Ron

Everything got quite wet

Off to the lake

Red light, green light

We walked/hiked to some slick rocks where the kids

has a blast sliding down the rock

Seth

Beautiful view

Ethan cautiously sliding down the rock

Laurn lost her tooth while sliding she had to chase

it down the rock but she caught it - she was a little bloody

after that but very excited to see if the tooth-fairy would

come to the campsite - and sure enough she did!

The kids at Fairyland - Bryce Canyon

Rick

Rick and me

Susie and Seth

The fun had to come to an end - the kids were

sulking because they had just been told it was time to go.

Updates

Where do I start - The last couple of weeks have been fun and busy. Easter was fun at Dave & Becky's we had a Pritchard family easter egg hunt downstairs in the basement because it was pouring rain outside. The kids were fun and cute as ever. Conference weekend was a great experience - it was low key and relaxing! I was able to listen to all of the wonderful talks which is so important to me. We had a nice birthday party for David and Billy and the week before we went to Madi's birthday party. David and Stephanie also welcomed a sweet little baby girl named Abby and we couldn't be more excited. There is much to be grateful for!

Sunday dinner with Becky & Dave and Lindsay & kids

All of a sudden we could hear a lot of noise

coming from downstairs - Simeon and Christian

discovered the big styrofoam house that David

brought and they decided to karate chop it to bits

Surveying the damage

Brigham and Darby

Christian and Simeon the karate choppers!

Introducing sweet baby Abigail

David and Stephanie - proud parents!

Happy Birthday Madi - she turned 2

Madi is so much fun - she has the cutest personality

Happy Birthday David & Billy

I should have bought Billy some new socks

for his birthday

These guys are so funny!

Thunder Cats cake for Billy, designed by Rick

Chocolate explosion made for David - decorated by me

A Spring day outside of my work window - my

little visitor looked so cute

Easter at Dave & Becky's

Lauren & Christian

Dylan in the tube and Jed in running in action!

Dylan is so darn cute

Seth and Simeon

Kaylin is growing so fast and is such a beautiful baby

Stephanie and Kaylin

Madi in the tube