Hi Again

    Well it has been quite the busy month.  We have been all over.  Okay to start with I want to tell you that Garrett has started a blog of his own.  It's really quite interesting.  So it is Garrett's Blog.  Enjoy it.
    So the first week of August we had cub scout camp.  Brayden is a Bear and loving scouts the most.  Mom and Dad ran the whole show.  Then they volunteered me to be in charge of the little kids that aren't in cub scouts.  So Tyler and his friends hung with me the whole week.  The theme was Native American Indians.  The kids made all kinds of cool crafts, played games, went fishing, and shot BB guns and Bow and Arrows.  Quite the week.

 

This is a cool sand box that Dad made out of a old tractor tire.

   The next week Mom, the boys and I went out of town to visit our friends the Royster's.  So first we went and saw Maw Maw and Pop Pop Semple.

Us with Maw Maw

Us with Pop Pop

I thought that this picture was kind of funny

We stopped at a rest stop and the water fountain was really big.

So on Wednesday we met the Royster's at a river house near the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia.  By the way a river house is just like a beach house except it's on the river.  This river was fed with the ocean so it was salt water and we had our private beach in the back yard!!!!
Here are a couple of pictures of the beach.  I was always holding the camera.  The sunsets were beautiful.

We went swimming, kayaking, fishing, touring, and just had fun.  Also on Friday Garrett and the Dads joined us.  The little kids caught some crabs so on Saturday we had crabs for dinner!!   I will just put a bunch of pictures of the week for you.

Also this past Saturday Dad, Brayden, Garrett and I went to a BYU football game. It was amazing.
Then more exciting news our Watson Grandparents will be going on a mission for our church in January in Africa.
Have a great week, Carly :)

Sunsets

Dad and Tyler on a two person bike

Go Figure, this is how homeschoolers spend vacation

Elizabeth and I got the worst sunburn. Not fun.

Two hot mommas.

Genevieve, Brayden and Grace 

Grace and Tyler

Brayden and Genevieve 

Emily, me and Elizabeth

We swam with the jellifish.

Tyler

Fun, Fun Summer Days!!!!!!

          Hi All,  We have been nice and busy this Summer(of course doing fun things).  We are starting to settle down to things for the fall though.  Brayden and I were in Hansel and Gretel this past week.  It was a lot of fun and Brayden said he loved it.  I have pictures of that coming soon.
      Also I owe a apology to everyone. I failed to mention on my last post that Mom and Dad had their 20th wedding anniversary on the 3rd of July.  So happy very belated wedding anniversary.
      Garrett and Dad got back from Scout Camp a week ago.  They went to the new camp in West Virginia call the Summit.  I was quite jealous.  They had a lot of fun I heard.
      Some of the fun things we've been doing are swimming in the river, playing in the yard with our dogs, working in the garden, playing at the playground with friends and being together as a happy family.

                                                                             Our beautiful garden!

                                     

A over shot of the river

  

Two very cute boys.

We got a little silly(that's me),

Actually we were really silly,

We were even a little scared,

But we were really just crazy,

So we jumped right in,

We have a great home school group and we enjoy getting together with them. 

Swinging.

Brayden and his friend Matthew.

Me and my friend Hannah.

So we butchered our first chicken.  Mom was so proud. 

         

In the middle of the process. 

                                                                                 

The finishing project.

 
I have grown these beautiful sunflowers.

                                                       

Tyler enjoying the great outdoors

 
FLOWERS!!!!!!!!!!!!

MORE!!!!

                                                                  

Here are more sunflowers that I'm growing.

  
Here is a chicken that we had.  Unfortunately she was killed by the dogs.
                                                           \
But we still have this cute chick.

Everyone enjoy your summer and Have a great day.
Love, The Watson Family.

Fun in the Summer!!!!!!!!!!! :)

                Hi!!!!  Sorry I haven't been here in awhile.  First Happy late Father's Day.  I have been gone for a week and a half.  Garrett and I went to Kirtland, Ohio 2 weeks ago with our church.  It was a lot of fun.  Then this past week mom and I have been gone at our church's Young Women's camp.  THAT was a lot of fun.  We stayed at a Boy Scout camp in northern Virginia.  We learned how to play ukuleles, give first aide, and CPR.  We hiked 3 days in a row.  On Monday all the 15 year old girls went on a 5 mile hike to water falls.  Then we went on a 10 mile hike Tuesday and on Wednesday we were in charge of taking all the other girls at camp on a 5 mile hike.  Also our last day mom had to leave but I got to stay.  We did a COPE's course.  There was zip lines, and ropes courses.  It was so much fun.  My favorite was the pampered pole.  I had to climb up a pole and stand on top of it.  Then I had to do a superman leap and catch a bar(trapeze).  I did catch it.  And of course I was on ropes so if I were to fall then the people would catch me.  Here is a picture of some friends and I on our 5 mile hike on Monday.

Elizabeth, me, and Emily(we are wet because it rained on us)

  
               Last week while mom and I were gone,  Garrett stayed home and held down the fort. Brayden and Tyler went to see the Grandparents in Richmond and Dad went to work.  While the boys were there they went to the zoo and the playground with Maw Maw and Pop Pop Semple.  Also they went to a big, fun indoor playground and putt putting with Grandmom and Granddad Watson.  Then they had a b-day party for Granddad Watson.  Here on some pictures of them at the playground................

                            

So also I have some pictures of Brayden, Tyler and Dad when they were at the Home School Conference.  They went to a playground, a zoo and a old  railroad station.  

Brayden at the playground

                                                       
                                                                 A cute baby baboon.

Brayden and Tyler with elephants and tigers, oh my!!

This past Sunday we finally celebrated Garrett's b-day.  I have been baking a lot lately, so I made a yellow cake with chocolate frosting(Garrett's Favorite).  Also a couple of weeks ago I made these amazing chocolate crinkle cookies.  For Brayden's b-day I made the best chocolate cake.  Here is the link for the chocolate cake recipe.The Best Chocolate Cake  So here are the finishing results.

Happy 18th