Catching up with Summer!

This summer has been one of the most care-free, playful summers on record. I don't think my kids have any idea how good they've had it this summer. We've managed to play somewhere every single day. Today is the first day that we didn't leave the house all summer long, hence, I have to time to catch up on my blog.

We went out to the gorge with some friends and of course, had to blow up Caribbean Island. The kids loved it.
This is Teag and he BF squeezing into the coupe. The coupe was given to us several years ago and has always been a fan favorite around here. Very thankful to our friends who gave it to us.
We also spent a full week down in SLC in July. This is Presley making sure that she doesn't drown while riding the bike. We played in our cousin's circle for hours this day.
As you can see, we got very creative with our bike riding skills. For those of you who think this might be dangerous, don't judge me. I figure I used to pump people and do all kinds of crazy things on bikes and I survived. I think its good for them to experiment a little bit.
Took a break to get a picture of all three of them.
Cooling down in their pool.
Josh's mom turned 50 while we were down there so we were able to blind side her with a party. We had a delicious dinner and were able to spend some time with everyone there. It was a lot of fun.

The next morning we took the kids on a hike up to a waterfall that is really close to Josh's parents home.
This us at the top.
You can kinda see the waterfall behind us. We let the kids take off their shoes to feel how cold the water was and of course Teag tripped and got completely soaked. While we were there we saw some people canyoning down the waterfall. It looked like so much fun, but also so very cold. We had a great time in SLC.

Overall the summer has been a very active, crazy summer. Good times though. We got a break today but we are off and running to Bear Lake for the rest of the week and then onto a road trip to Missouri for 2 weeks after that. So I will enjoy today while I can because its about to get busy again. Gotta love it though!

Lovin' Summer

This summer has feel full of park days and water days and mixtures of the two. We have been hitting up parks every day and loving every minute of it. My laundry consists of towels and swimsuits and pajamas. My kids have it so hard, I know ;)

Beautiful Kenady!
Handsome Teag
Lovely Presley
And their cousin got an awesome Pink cadillac barbie jeep for her birthday. So now one of their childhood fantasies (and mine, who didn't want a little car when they were younger. Too bad I don't fit in it now!) of driving on their own is fulfilled. Kenady is definitely the commander in situation. At least she can steer it though which is not something I can say for Teag!

"Wip and Wide"

Everyone needs a slip and slide at some point in their lives. We had one as children but I don't remember being able to hook up a hose to it and have water spray up on you like these new fangled ones do. I even bought the cheapest one. Kenady and Teag had a blast on this. Presley wasn't feeling too well this day and therefore did not get to participate in the action.

According to Teag it is called "wip and wide." Does anyone else's 2 year old have a hard time with s's? It doesn't matter because I think it is much funnier as "wip and wide."

If that face doesn't explain it all, then I just don't know what would.
Teag running back to the top.

So much fun. Boy do we love summer. And my grass really loves the path that was created as a result of "wip and widing" two days in a row. Its been over a week now and it still shows the path. Ah well, whats grass for if not for playing on it?

Temple Square in the summer

We had a really fun day last week. We got on the trax in Sandy and rode them down to temple square. The kids thought the train was so cool and then it dropped us off right in front of temple square where we explored every pool, pond, waterfall and feature available.

This is me posing in the same picture as I did 10 years earlier, except 10 years ago Josh was with me and I no longer fit in my wedding dress.

Teag having an opinion about something.
All the cousins trying to put their feet in which we repeatedly told them not to.

Sucker time....


My kids love this part of temple square.
Church History museum upstairs has really fun stuff for the kids and the best part of all is its free. This is the girls dancing to some mexican music.
Teag enthralled by the lizard puppet.
Trying to catch some fish with his cousin.
Catching a fish with some help from mom, those dang magnets weren't very strong.
Such a fun day. Thanks to Julie and Mandi and their kids for going on the adventure with us.

Castle Dale and Beyond

I can't believe that I haven't posted for a month. Its been a whirlwind. I will condense that whirlwind now:

We spent a quick awesome weekend in Castle Dale with my friend Cammie and her three kids. It was a car full of kids and a car full of fun!

These are some pictures of us at the "Wedge" or what I like to think of as little grand canyon.

Kenady and Cali at the Indian writings.
Me and the kids at the writings. Very cool by the way.
Presley and Carter, caught holding hands. This happened numerous times during the trip.
Playing by swinging bridge.
Playing on the cables of swinging bridge.
Most of the kids at "pancake rock." The kids loved climbing all over these rocks. They could have stayed here for hours instead of just hour.
Later in the month we had tickets to "Day out with Thomas. " in Heber City. We stopped at the Dairy Keen before heading over there. This is the kids outside on the train. They got those cute train hats in their happy meals.
This is waiting to get on Thomas!
Getting balloon animals. Two of them bit the dust before we even made it back to Rock Springs. Talk about drama!
Teag trying to sneak under the fence to get a closer look at Thomas.
All the kids in front of Thomas. He is the "real Thomas" according to Teag.

We had a good month. Plowing on through May. I also did a graduation cake for a lady here in town. I thought it was super cute. Just thought I would share.
Yay for June!

New family pics

My sweet friend Rachel took these pictures for us. Its been a long time coming to get new pics since Teag was 8 months old when we took our last ones. As usual it was cold and windy on the day we were taking them so we improvised at the Rock Springs Historical museum. She did a great job taking them. Now to decide which one to enlarge to put above my fireplace.....

This one is actually inside the old jail in the museum. One of my favorites.