July Shenanigans

While Andrew and Cheryl's family was here we got to do some fun RAMP activities with them.

On this particular day we went to a Scout place that had a ropes coarse. 

We had no idea it was even there. It is just up the hill by Arctic Circle.

Bensen and Vivian were pretty good sports, they were to little to do anything but kept themselves busy for the most part.

Jaycee and Wesley were too young to do the whole ropes course, but they were able to do the rock climbing. That was a fun new experience.

After they went to Weber State to ice skate, that was also something they had never done.

I took Bensen and Vivian home for a nap, so we missed out on that one.

We also were able to eat our first tomatoes out of the garden and they were yummy!

For some reason I didn't take any pictures of the 4th of July, but we started the day off at the Brigham city pool just as we have for the last couple of years. Grandma LouLou had some amazing crafts for the kids to work on. They made shirts, hats and bracelets. She is such a fun grandma! Then we went to Grandma and Grandpa Baileys for some more cousin time, sparklers and pops!

What a great day we had. We  love this country that we live in and we are so grateful for the blessing that it is in our lives!

Camping at Memorial Park.

We have loved having a trailer! This weekend we were able to go up South Fork to Memorial Park Campground.

We went with Mikes family.

We stayed right next to the river. Which was fun and hard at the same time. We had a really hard time keeping Vivian and Bensen out of the water!

Jaycee and Wesley were just as bad, but I don't have to worry as much about them as I do the littles.

They seriously could have stayed in the river all day!

They would have too if we would have let them.

There were little fish that the kids had fun catching with cups.

Viv loved throwing rocks.

The kids loved tubing and we only lost two tubes.

Everyone was able to come up at some point or other.

Camping with the whole family is always so much fun!

Happy 10th Brithday Jaycee!

This girl! We sure love her, and we are so blessed to have her in our family.

 This year for her party we went up to Pineview reservoir. She took most of the cousins her age and a couple of friends.

 The girls had a blast on the water wienie.

 Then we went up to our trailer and roasted hot dogs, had cake and opened presents.

 Jaycee is so lucky to have so many cousins her age, and to have such good friends.

 She really is a lucky girl.

Jaycee is the best big sister. She is so helpful, especially with her siblings. She is a water girl, any kind of water she loves and would stay in all day. She likes to read, draw, play outside, jump rope, play soccer and basketball. She is funny and still the biggest tease.

We sure love her and wouldn't trade her for the world!

New Stuff

I have been wanting a new van for a while, but having a hard time finding one that was as nice as the one I already had. I almost bought one a couple weeks ago but the people backed out right after I test drove it. Well, I went to basketball on Monday June 12 and when I got home Mike was pretty excited about an Expedition. We hadn't even looked at those! It was a little more then we were wanting to go, but it was super clean and had pretty low miles so we bought it! While we were at it, since now we had a Expedition to pull things, we decided to buy a trailer. You can't have one without the other...right?

 We are pretty excited to use them. Bring on the camping!

Last Week of School!

Oh my goodness, this year has gone by so fast!

Wesley loved 1st grade and he rocked it! 

 His end of year program was so cute. 

 We love Mrs Toomey, and we hope she stays around for our other two.

Jaycee also loved 4th grade and her teacher Mrs Gus. They are both going to miss their teachers.

 At the same time they were both super excited for summer!

 The kids think they need to have a sleepover in the living room every night...I think I will let them for a couple days.

Alright summer, show us what you got!