Cousin Zoo Day

Holy cousins, Batman!

And, this isn't even close to all of them

What a great idea, Tiff!

I hope we can do this again soon,

and hopefully even MORE cousins will come!

It was HOT and fun!

The Gorge

I know I have been slacking BIG time on getting these Gorge pics up,
and I am sorry!
I haven't been feeling well.........*wink* *wink*
But, I FINALLY put together a little movie!
Enjoy!

Doesn't it look amazing?
It was!
I can't believe I have to wait a whole year to go back,
Hurry 2012!!

My Birfday

My birthday celebration started on July 11th,

4 days before the final Harry Potter came out,

My Dad and Beth got us advanced screening tickets to see it!!

Oh, man was I geeking out!

Not to mention, they also got me a brand new Harry Potter 7.5 purse!

(EEEP!)

Now, I could go on and on about how AMAZING Harry was,

but I'm going to stop right here and say- GO FREAKIN SEE IT!

You will not be disappointed!

Ah........Best. Birthday. Present. Ever.

On my actual birthday, I woke up to this:

Don't I have the CUTEST hubby in the world?

He also got me a new flash, remote, and reflector for my camera! YES!

Then, all three of my cute boys took me to Rodizio Grill for dinner,

and we ate more than we could handle.

And, AND I had the world's BEST flan, oh droooool........

My dad made GRAPE LEAVES for my party on Sunday,

They are one of my favorite things, ever!

And they got me a marzipan cake with raspberry and creme filling from Schmidt's

LORDY!

FEED ME, dad!
We let a "Rainbow" of balloons off for our yearly tradition!
It was BEAUTIFUL
Nellie the rashy belly was still wild as usual!
My girls met me at Farmer's Market and bought me all sorts of goodies!

Thanks my loves!!
My fav? The Octopus necklace that my momma gave me:
We all met the Traynor ladies for lunch,

I was so happy to see all my favorite women in one day!

Thanks for lunch, Sis!
My Whit and Lou bought me what I wanted most- TOM'S!!!

YES!
We had our 3rd annual Seven Peaks party with my Grama, aunties, and cousins

The kids had SO MUCH FUN!

Thank you for singing me Happy Birthday with my little Hostess cupcake :)

I love you guys!!

Check out Max and Andrew on this slide!

Scares my heart!!

This boy was nervous at first, but then he LOVED IT!

Especially the wave pool

Here is me and Jacky going down FLASH FLOOD

"I like this!"

hee hee

THANK YOU EVERYONE!
For a wonderful birthday!
It was nice and relaxing,
and I got so many awesome gifts!!

Brooke's Photo Session

I had another (PAID!) family photo session!

My cute friend, Chrissy, from work referred her cute friend, Brooke!

We had our photo session at International Peace Gardens,

and it was actually really beautiful!

Here are a few of my faves:

Refer YOUR friends too! :)

Daddy's Day

Argh, I forgot one EXTRA special event before I did my Gorge post.
DADDY, POP, and PAPA day!
Lucky, lucky me to have these 3 awesome dad's in my life!
Not to mention the other amazing dad's I know like Park, Chase, Grampa Jim, Nick, Kenny, etc...etc....

And the daddies in heaven looking down on their families today like Grampa Donald and Uncle Lorne

(Ty is a really good dog daddy to Juno, hee hee)

I am surrounded by amazing male influences, and that is so important for my boys.

They have SO many amazing men to look up to!

We went to Silver Fork Lodge and got to reenact our ceremony, ha ha ha

*Sniff, sniff*

It filled me with sweet memories of a very cold day in Sept

How thankful I am for my Matty

What a strong man and daddy for my boys to learn from

We had dinner at Grama Pat and Grampa Jim's

Grampa made delicious hamburgers and we had lot's of tasty fixin's!

The boys got to hang out with Grampa Dan, who is their best friend in the world

Here's the deal: me, Max, Jack, and my Pop are BFF's

We just understand each other

And Nellie is just smitten with Grampa Dan,

No one can hold her when he is around!

We gave Papa Tony a giant, golden..........rooster, ha ha ha

How lucky am I to have 2 father figures in my life

Papa Tone takes care of my momma so good,

and he turns into a kid himself when he gets to play with his boys and Nellie belly

Divorce seems bad in the beginning, but in the end- it is all happiness,

So I am so thankful for the ways things turned out



What a lucky daughter and momma I am,

and how lucky my boys are to have such amazing men to learn from,

and I hope they learn to be like the fathers and grandfathers in their life

Collage Catch-Up

Before I can share my AWESOME Gorge pics,

I have a little catching up to do.

I can't blame school for my slacking, because I only have one class:

Elementary Astronomy, ha ha

It is actually tons of fun!

But, I will blame the amazing amounts of things that we do in the summer.

Gosh, we make winter look bad!

First, I had my very first PAID photo session!

This was freaking exciting for me.

Here are a few of my favorites.

The sunlight was horrible and made shadows I didn't like,

but we found a few shady spots that were awesome.

Here is the link to my Facebook photo page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ashlee-Traynor-Photography/155650617841423?sk=wall

(go "like" it, and tell your friends!)

I am currently charging (for 1-2 hour session, and all rights to photos):

$50 for 1 family

$100 for 2 or more families

+ extra for drive time outside of Salt Lake County

Lindsey is the best assistant ever, I couldn't do it without her!

We got to have a girls night while Sammi was in town.

Poor pregos had to watch us drink delicious beer at Porcupine Pub,

BUT we took them to get ice cream after :)

LOVE my girls!

Our annual summer hair dyeing was interesting this year!

GREEN!

It only lasted a few weeks though, and I am kinda sad.

I don't know how to make it last longer?

They are handsome, right?

My cousin Jessie did a fundraiser kids camp to raise money for soccer.

The boys LOVED it!

Max was so into his Jack Sparrow character, ha ha

The boys love any excuse to play at Jamie's house!

We went to the Arts Festival, and I am so glad we did!

There was some amazing art there, and I especially loved the 3D skeleton frames

*see below*

The mouths moved with this little metal handle! AMAZING!

Come on, won't you lend me $500 to buy one?

I had such a great time seeing my long-distant Auntie and cousins.

I just love them so much.

I sluffed half of my Friday, and went swimming with the kiddos at Grama M's pool.

It was soooooo worth it :)

Mr. Lukey pants had his 3rd birthday party!

We had so much fun playing at Jungle Jim's

Though, the rollercoaster made me throw up, ha ha ha

(yeah, one reason why I thought Traynor baby was coming earlier than we had planned, but no worries- not yet!)

(side note: NO, I am not pregnant. Yes, I hope to be soon! Think some PINK thoughts for me ok? This is my last one!)

Back to Luke- he is the CUTEST right?

Such a little old man face, I just love this kid.

Every time we see him, he says:

"Masshew, Ashee, I wanna go wis you!"

Ahhh, I love nephews!

Max started outdoor Soccer, and just loves it

He can't WAIT for each game to start.

He does so great, and is so much more coordinated than I gave him credit for!

His mind does wander sometimes, ha ha ha

But, I just love seeing him so active.

GO MAX! Go Royal Blue!

Ok, that is about it since before the Gorge!
I only took 790 pictures+Whit's+Beth's+Lou's
Ah.......... it might take me a couple days