the past few weeks...

We have been busy! Some fun stuff and some not so fun things....

At the 4th of July campout, Bonnie (Chriss mom) was not feeling well. She went to the hospital the next day and has been in and out of hospitals in Idahofalls and Utah for the last month. She was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. This was a total shock to everyone and is completely devastating. It has been a very emotional and sad few weeks. But, Bonnie is such an amazing woman and if anyone can beat this, it will be her! She has been through so much testing and surgeries this past month.  It has been very hard on her but she has such a good attitude and is a fighter.
We have been able to go visit her in Utah a few times. And Warren (Chriss dad) had total knee surgery a few weeks ago, so I went to Rexburg to help him with appointments. We have been back and forth from Rexburg to Salt lake to Boise a bunch this last month!

This was one day in Utah at the hospital. Denise and Allison gave Bonnie a pedicure. And Avy pushed the nurse button about 100 times... oops

Are these two twins or what?!! What a lucky little girl to look exactly like her beautiful grandma!

These are some pictures of us in Rexburg playing with grandpa Warren in their back yard.

I need to give my parents a thank you shout out! They are always there with an open door, room, food and entertainment. Thankyou so much for letting Avy and I basically live with you this summer :)
Avys best friend, "papa". He is the only person she will sit and watch Seinfeld with.

Playing with her other best friend, Anni, at the splash park in rexburg. What a blast!

My parents flew us back to boise so we didn't have to do that drive again. I can not tell you how amazing it is to only have to fly for one hour, compared to a 5 hour long, carsick, screaming toddler car ride. Avy and I both slept the entire way. It was awesome!

  We are back in Boise now. At least this week :) back into our routine of going for walks, swimming at the pool, playing at the park and trying to cleaning all her messes

( I went ahead a drew a shirt on chris :) sometimes its just to hot to wear shirts around our house ha!)

And on a little side note, Chris and I celebrated our 4th anniversary on the 8th! Avy and I had balloons everywhere and made a box cake. We went swimming at the pool and just hung out at home. It was the perfect way to celebrate! Im so in Love with this man and am so lucky to have him. Thanks for being such an amazing man, Chris. Love you forever!!

Beck Family Reunion in Island park

Such an amazing weekend. The weather was perfect and our cabin was so nice! I wish we could repeat this weekend every month. I love my family more than anything in the world. We always have so much fun together!
This is not even 1/4 of the pictures I have... Sorry so many :)

4th of July and camping in Stanley

For the 4th of July this year we went to the annual Thomason camp out in Stanley Idaho. It was so much fun! Perfect weather and such a beautiful camp site. Here are ( a ton) of pictures from our little weekend...

We drove up on the 4th and met everyone for the fire work show in Stanley. It was actually a pretty impressive show for such a small town.There was a little school with a playground close so we all played and took pictures of the amazing sawtooth mountains. They are breath taking- so beautiful.
 Chris, Avy and I spent most of the fire works in the car because she hated them so much and would not stop crying... maybe next year she will like them :)

The rest of the weekend was full of motor bikes & four wheelers,  river rafting, camp crafts, eating way too much food, and talking around the campfire. Avy and I stuck around camp most the time. She is too little for most the activities and Im too big! But Avy was in heaven playing in the dirt and collection 400 rocks and playing in the river. It was seriously so much fun and we are already getting excited for next year.

Avalee absolutely adores these little girls! She would yell "sara" and "Toori" the entire time. Thanks Tori and Sierra for playing with her the entire time! 

 Avys new best friend, Gus. You would think she would be scared of such a HUGE dog, but she loved him and chased him around camp the entire time.

 Just painting some crafts and making bead necklaces.

 This was our little home for the weekend. The tent is made for the bed of the truck and has a air mattress in the back. Its actually really comfortable and we all slept great!

We always camp in the Yankee fork of Stanley. It has a lot of history with miners and dredging for gold. There is a little ghost town close where you can shift the dirt for gold. It is pretty fun and everyone always finds ( a little!!) gold to take home :)