A Happy Birthday Lick in the ear!

Cause I am cool like that.
(of course you already know that)
Happy Birthday Buddy!

Easter Weekend

Easter weekend is seriously one of my most favorite weekend of the year. (why yes, I do have a lot of favorite weekends) ;)
We always go camping with family. Easter weekend kinda kicks off the camping season for us. I love it. Our school district always has spring break the Thursday and Friday before Easter. Long weekends are always nice! (It does help that both of us are currently in the Education field).

On Thursday morning we started packing and getting ready to go. We didn't actually leave town until 5:00PM. Seems like we had a million little errands to run, but we finally got out of town.

We went to Piute Reservoir. We packed up the truck and loaded up Bruce and hit the road.

We set up camp (with some great helpers) and had a fabulous weekend.
(oh wait, I forgot one tiny small detail - on the way Bruce had an accident. Diarrhea everywhere. Poor Dustyn. Poor Bruce. Poor noses.)

Bruce got some burrs in his paws so Dustyn let Bruce lay on his lap (not that Dustyn had any choice in the matter) so he could get them out. His fur is so matted from the trip. Guess it's time for Bruce to visit a beautician. :)

We did some fishing and caught two fish. We had quite a few more that were almost in, but didn't actually make it.

Everyone else obviously caught more than we did.

We cooked some fish.

Roasted hot dogs and marshmallows.

Spent lots of time by the fire.
(it rained a lot)

We played in the fire a lot. (Not in front of the kids, of course)
I love being an adult. lol

We played with Bruce.
He smelt like a wet dog. Ew.

Wish you could see how big he really is. But you would have to see him in person.

 We rode 4-wheelers and froze to death while doing it. (it was raining)

We played with the kiddos and some silly bunnies that came by.

We loved hanging out with family.

Admired the beautiful scenery.

(that is our camp on the other side of the lake)
Good times, good times.

I love me a nice vacay.

We may or may not have had anything to do with this...

I am such a cool aunt. lol

Catch up . . . C'mon. Hurry.

Here are some pictures from the big Dotson reunion at Gooseberry! It was loads of fun. Dustyn snapped a few photos so I thought I would share!  Most of these are from the talent portion of the weekend.  It's the only portion that we have pictures of!  :)  (And yes, most of them are very blurry - we have been struggling with that lately.  :)  But we try to not use the flash at all, so it gets tricky without a tripod.)

First we have Gabriella and Sharpay.  They are hotties,  huh?

And here we have Gabriella again.  Stunning.

Here we have the absolute best performance of the night.  I can't even explain it.  It was so funny and I have not laughed at hard in YEARS.  Oh my.  There is a video of it somewhere.  I would love to find it.  Little Miss C was so serious while her sisters were having so much fun  It was so funny.  You just had to be there.  :)

Here is Little Miss C being so serious and being a fabulous singer.  She is such a cutie.

Here we have the cast of HSM again.  Garbriella, Sharpay, Troy and Taylor (maybe.  Someone more up with HSM could help me out here.)  We were very lucky to have them there.  Seriously though, CamRee did an awesome job singing her song.  She sang one song all by herself and another one with the kids.  It was so good.  She is going to be a star someday!  :)   (Oh yeah, and in case you weren't sure, this is my niece CamRee, Brynlee, and HadiLee and my nephew Tryen)

Another picture of the High School Musical Hotties.

Here is our special guest that came and gave a spectacular performance.  So much talent!

This is actually a photo Dustyn took over Labor Day weekend at Fishlake.  I thought it was cool.

Cam. Try. Had.

We had a lot of fun while the kids were down for a few days for our family reunion. (more on that later)  My dad and I took the kids to the dairy.  They were completely goofy and silly.  But a lot of fun.  I got a Lemon Yobert which was really sour.  I tried and tried to get them to taste it.  Of course CamRee was the only brave one.  At first.  I was down to my last bite an I finally got Hadi and Tryen to taste it.  They wanted more.  But, it was all gone.  It was quite funny.

I tried to take a few pictures of them in the car, but CamRee loves the camera and kept getting in the center of my picture.  Silly girl! 

Afterwards we went to Grandma and Grandpa's House and played Chet's Wii.  We went bowling.  It was pretty funny.  They got pretty excited, as you can tell from Tryen's reaction.  Then we tried our hand at baseball.  They are awesome Wii players!