Fun Summer Pics

I couldn't leave you all in suspense so I put this one on first. Yep, its true, my mother-in-law got a tattoo for her 64th(I hope thats right)birthday! I bet nobody else can say that about their in-laws!

Doing sparklers with her best friend McKailey on the 24th and yes it was during the day and thanks to the Allens for hanging out with us at seven peaks, I love the rope swing

I can't forget to mention that Jake can walk now, I'm so excited and its so cute, he's still a little wobbly and apparently opening your mouth helps you balance.

Malorie, McKailey & Ellie needed A break after all that cheer camp

We can all thank Krissa for her great cheerleading skills and for teaching us the funky chicken!

One of the many, many swimming pics we have

All I can say is I hate putting on goggles

Aren't these the cutest little bums ever!

I think Chelsey got a little more help than she bargained for!

This is all Jake needs for fun is a little water out of the hose and a bucket

Don't these girls look just beautiful! I think dress up has been one of the favorite things to do the past year and all I can say is aren't we all glad they can finally dress themselves!!!!!

Miss Hollywood! Hailey picked a nice outfit, I love the skirt or dress or whatever she thought it should be it looked especially nice just below her chest.




I think Kennedy enjoyed sitting outside tonight, it doesn't look to bad to me!

So Cute!

We decided this was a perfect picture of Jake since this is how he has looked 75% of his sweet little life

We decided to take a few family pics in front of our huge flowers

I havn't posted forever so I figured it was about time. We havn't been doing very much except the usual weekly seven peaks visits and swimming in the yard. We are getting ready for our 15 hour drive with the kids to my sisters house in Omaha and I think it will be fun but I'm not sure any of the kids will make it back alive, I'm hoping Jake will be better than expected. Since we havn't done much I decided to just put up pictures of recent things we've done it has been a really fun summer thanks to all the neighbors and I am trying not to think about winter coming in only a few months, its gonna be a long one! Speaking of long this is the longest blog of pictures ever and I still have issues with getting the words and pictures where I want them to be so just pretend it looks really nice.

DUKE REUNION

Thursday we went to the Duke reunion in Hanna. Yes, there is a town in Utah called Hanna and it is very very small. It's south of Kamas I believe. Anyway it is a great place to camp because it is in the mountains but there is electricity and showers on the property and if you want they have a bunch of these cute little cabins you can rent or just pitch your tent by the river or in our case we are getting to use my parents camper this year and so they also have trailer spots. The first day on the property they have a pond with paddle boats so we took Malorie out for a ride and she loved it. Then we drove to a dude ranch and the girls got to ride some horses, it was Malorie's first time on a horse and she was surprisingly not scared at all. Chelsey of course wouldn't get on one at all. Friday we floated down part of the river that runs along the camp and after the kids were done with that we left them with our parents and about 10 of us floated down the river a couple miles and lets just say hiking up to where my uncle picked us up was right through what was I think a swamp of maneur, moss, mud and I don't even want to know what else and lets just say it was a race to all the showers when we got back. It was tons of fun though and worth the few disgusting minutes. While we were rafting Malorie had a little bike accident and flipped over her handle bars and got a little road rash and a fat lip. Jake's activity the whole time was pushing either the stroller or his buggy across the grass or banging plastic forks in dirty dishes which entertained him for about 30 minutes. As you can see in the first picture everybody was really tired on the way home, which is partly Jake's fault because he wouldn't sleep in his play pen and cried most the night so finally he ended up sleeping in between me and Jason both nights on what I would say is about a full size bed and that does not make for very good sleep. Overall it was so much fun to hang out with cousins we only see a few times a year and we are excited for next year.

JAKE'S 1ST BIRTHDAY

Saturday was Jake's 1st birthday. I can't believe at this time last year I was very pregnant and miserably hot. Its amazing how fast they grow and after they turn one it seems like they grow even faster. I think he had a good birthday and the weather ended up being nice so we could have it outside, the girls birthdays are in the winter so it was nice to finally have one in the summer. Jake was A little on the grumpy side because he's getting 3 molars, so I finally decided some of his birthday pictures were just going to be taken with his binky in the mouth which I hate in pictures. Overall I think he had a good time and he got lots of fun toys. He finally got his own hat from Grandpa Casper but I don't think it will ever be as fun as Grandpa's. This was the first time I have made the birthday cake and it was kind of a lot of work but I had fun, I think I'm going to start doing it for all the birthdays. The cake eating wasn't to exciting because he was extremely dainty with his frosting and kept himself pretty clean, actually he started gagging (I take it he doesn't like my baking).

FUN IN WYOMING

While we were in Wyoming we had a party for Tyleigh at the water park. While Malorie was playing in the water Jake and Grandpa played Jake's favorite game called take grandpa's hat off 100 times and try to get it on his own head. Jake also gave us a little preview of how he was going to look on his first birthday in a week by eating cake off somebody's plate. It will be nice when Jake and Dominic can run and play, right now they just kind of stare at each other but will for sure be great friends and cousins in a few years.

The kids all had a great time at the fabulous Green River water park! Malorie was being pretty brave in the water which is very unusual for her.

Davion was blessed on Sunday and weighs about 9 lbs now and he is 3 months old. We are so glad he is doing good and finally got to leave Primary Children's. When he was born he only weighed a little over 3 lbs. Congrats Korri on your sweet little man!

Contrats to Britany on graduating from high school. I know she had to work very hard and we are so happy for her! They had a fun luau party for her at the county parks.