24th of July

For our annual 24th of July celebration, we all got together at Tim's parents house for dinner, a bike parade for the cousins (grandma bought stuff for them to decorate their bikes, scooters, & ride on toys), then we did a car race this year where each family made a car with anything we wanted and had to attach fireworks to them and see whose car would go the farthest. Tyler was most excited about this. Tim and Tyler built a car out of Legos. Our car was the first to go and unfortunately Tyler was quite disappointed when the car didn't even move. Ju and Ali's car went the furthest. They have done this before so they knew what they were doing. :-) Then we had dessert and when it got dark we did a whole bunch of fireworks. It was such a fun evening. The kids all had a great time!

Jump!

Tyler is ready for the bike parade

The bike parade

Gavin and Zach in the parade

Waiting for the fireworks

All the cars! It was fun to see all the creativity

Tyler and his car Tim helped him build

Getting it ready to go

Hmmm, it didn't even move.

Zach enjoying dessert

Zach and Gavin stomping on "Pops"

Grandma with all the grandkids

Tim took this cool picture while we were waiting to do fireworks. Pretty cool!

A few days in Logan

I took the kids up to Logan for a few days to see my family. We had a great time. The cousins always have so much fun together. It was also my niece Jojo's 12th birthday. While we were up there we met 2 of my good friends (Suzie and Amy) that I grew up with and their kids for lunch. It was so fun to see them. i love that we have been able to stay in touch after all these years. I can't wait to get together again, hopefully soon!

Grandpa got the train out for all the grandkids

Jo's Cake and Ice cream party


Jojo's birthday dinner @ Mandarin Gardens

The girl's painting their faces

Camping Trip #1

We spent a few days camping at Tanner's Flat over the weekend. The kids had a fun time hiking around, playing in the stream, roasting marshmallows, and getting plenty dirty. Camping seemed to be a lot more work this year, but it was fun to spend a few days in the canyon. Hopefully we will be ready to go again in August cause we have another camping trip planned.

The squirrel that the kids were feeding their snacks to...





Trying to catch a squirrel in their trap...

Roasting Marshmallows (they didn't eat them, just liked to catch them on fire)

Kangaroo Zoo

Tim had a week off of work for "Summer Break," so we wanted to take the kids and do some fun things...one of the days we took them to In N' Out for lunch and then to Kangaroo Zoo to play. They had a great time playing, climbing and bouncing.

Motherhood: An Eternal Partnership with God

We were shown this short clip in Relief Society on Sunday and a friend of mine also posted it on her blog, and I wanted to share it as well. It is very touching, and a great reminder to me how greatly blessed I am to be a mother.

***Pause the music at the bottom of my blog so you can hear the message***

Our 4th of July Weekend

We had our friends, The Deputy's over on the 4th for dinner, to let the kids play and to do some fireworks...

Tyler and Kayli

Zach



We went to Tim's parents house for water fun, dinner outside, and fireworks with all the family. It was a great afternoon celebration.

Water fun!

Zach and Meg

Kayli and Ty

watching snakes

The cousins (a few are missing)

Zach and Alyssa

Zach!