Repeat

Last year as we were sending Grace off to college, we had a play day with cousins before she left.  Well, here it is a year later, and she's leaving this week for her second year.  Another fun day was in order before she could leave.  We went bowling again, just like last year.  Fat Cat's is easy and cheap, the perfect fun place to have a fun afternoon.  I had forgot that I took my kids to Subzero last year as well, until I was looking at old pictures. 

 My kids all took after me, it never takes very much to talk me into ice cream!

 Davis avoided the camera at all costs today, he even ran away screaming.  But, he loves Grace and finally stood there, cranky, but he still allowed me to take a picture of him.  I actually don't think he was cranky, Davis is more emotional then Owen, he internalizes things way different, and I just don't think he felt comfortable as we were all saying see ya to Grace. 

 So much to be proud of in these two!

Tall people problems

 

Happy 24th

We had a fun evening last night celebrating the 24th of July.  Nothing fancy just water balloons, cousins, hot dogs, and fireworks. 

 

Just have to say!

We are having a little 24th of July party, but I'm quickly doing a blog post, because I've found the BEST invention in the world.   All kids love water balloon's, but they are a major pain in the butt to fill and tie.  Not to mention the hours it takes to do so, and then it takes about 30 seconds for them to all disappear.  I saw this invention on FB, it is kinda pricey, but sometimes ease wins. 

 Each bundle has 40 balloons, you hook up the hose and in less than a minute......

 Bam a whole basket full of water balloons.  Seriously, I will forever be singing the praises of the "Balloon Bonanza". 

Back to the water balloon fight, I will post pictures from the fun evening later.

Float Preview Party

A few years ago, Sheila took us to the float preview party for the Days of '47 parade.  It was so fun to see the floats up close and in air conditioning, that I've wanted to go every year since.  But we didn't make it back until this year.  We took the frontrunner down today and had a fun afternoon.  Josh and Rachelle's boys went along with us, thank you for letting me have them for the day!

 And the favorites.....the Jonah and the Whale float was my favorite. 

 BYU of course would be Owen.  He is a cougar  fan!

 Davis on the other hand is a Ute fan and this was his favorite float. 

 My Red, White, and Blue loving girl.  She picked the float with the biggest flag. 

 Showing off their face painting.

 Balloon hats and face's painted, we were exhausted and ready for the ride home.  We got a lot of looks on the front runner. 

Pineview weekend

We are just getting back from another weekend away.  We spent the last couple of days up in Huntsville with Stewarts having a family reunion and we had a great time.  Dave and Sheila rented a bed and breakfast called Snowberry Inn.  We need a place like this in the family that we can go to whenever we want.  Although then we would have to make our own breakfast every morning instead of having bacon, eggs, French toast, pancakes, fresh fruit, and cereal made for us.  We arrived on Friday afternoon and the kids just dove right in and never stopped until we left this morning.  Most were too busy to even sleep, they couldn't waste any time.  We went to dinner at Huntsville Barbeque Friday evening.  That was  such a fun place.  We sat outside at picnic tables and listened to a band while we ate yummy food.  The kids got to run around on the grass and it was a perfect evening. 

After dinner, we went back to the Inn and played yard games.  It was nice and cool and a fun stress free environment and I just didn't want the evening to end.  We moved inside and played games in there for a little bit, but eventually we did need to take a little bit of a nap to prepare for a fun packed Saturday. 

Saturday was a full day, after a yummy breakfast, we went for a hike.  We had no idea what kind of hike it was when we saw the sign, but it was beautiful and went right along pineview reservoir.  The trail actually led us right back to the Inn, so most of the littles ran across the road and they were back playing games and eating lunch, while the rest of us turned around and went back on the same trail back to the cars. 

The weekend forecast was 70% of showers for Saturday afternoon.  Well, we all hoped and prayed really hard that the storm would stay away because we were heading for the lake all afternoon.  Well, it worked and it was a beautiful sunny afternoon.  Perfect for playing in the water!

After swimming and dinner, we set up a tournament.  The games were horseshoes, Bocce, and ladder golf.  We ran out of daylight and horseshoes had to be eliminated because we couldn't see, but on the lawn there was light from the cabin so we finished Bocce and ladder golf with the little guys Dallin and Jake taking the championship.  At first we had an age limit of at least 12 to be able to enter the tournament, but all the adults were so tired from the day we opened it up to a couple of little guys and they go and beat all of us.