Friday, July 24, 2009

Summer Time and the Living is Easy!

**The kids found a new pet:


Jaylee and Kaysen watching their new pet!


Jaylee, (friend) Kaden, and Bretten with the pet toad!


Bretten with the toad. He's the only one who dared to hold it and it kept escaping out of the bucket and all the kids would scream until he would come catch it for them. Too funny!


**Our old Bishop owns the land right next to our house and they put up a small goat cage right next to our house. We used to have the cows come right up to us so we could feed them, but now we have goats to entertain us. The kids are enjoying having a new animal to watch and tease. They love feeding them and they've even named them.


Bretten and Kaysen waiting for the goats to come over so they could feed them.


Jaylee, Bretten and Kaysen feeding Little Horn.


Bretten loves feeding Little Horn (that's his favorite goat).


If you look closely you'll see that Kaysen was trying to feed the goat a rock...funny kid!


**We've been hitting the Splash Park a lot this summer. I only remembered my camera once, so I got a lot of pictures on that one day!


Kaysen is going to be a beach BABE (instead of a beach baby) some day!


Bretten and Kaysen filling up their gear!


Jaylee and Parker....somebody has a crush!


Jaylee


The whole crew at the Splash Park!


Kaysen deciding what to do next!



**A Tumbling and Singing class we went to:


The kids at a tumbling class.


Tumbling and Singing


Doing a hand-stand!


Bretten and Jaylee doing hand-stands!


Bretten and Jaylee doing their stuff!



**Our 4'th of July:
I was hoping to be able to stay down in Cedar City a little longer and then meet up with my family in Kanab for the 4'th, but that didn't work out. Jason couldn't find a one-way rental car to get back to Vernal, so we all had to come home...bleh! I was so looking forward to spending the 4'th in Vernal...NOT...but we still had a fun time and I'm glad Jason didn't have to spend it alone.


Jaylee, Bretten and Kaysen at the parade!


It's getting HOT!


Jason was trying to cover up Rylan's ears because he wasn't fond of all the noise. Do the fire engines really have to let the sirens and honking go non-stop??? Once is good guys...really!


Ohh...ANOTHER oil rig in the parade...geesh these Vernal parades are so entertaining! lol!


Only in Vernal!!!


The kids waiting for some candy!


More Parade pics!


Jaylee decorating our 4'th of July cake! mmmm!

When Rylan went down for his nap, I took the older 3 kids down to the park to visit with one of my friends Mandy and her son Conner. Jason got our BBQ going while we were there:


Rylan fell asleep in his bouncer...poor guy! He was one tired baby!


Jaylee playing at the park on the 4'th of July!


Kaysen went down the slides non-stop while we were there!


Bretten relaxing on the grass for a minute!


Jason put on a great fireworks show for us! The kids loved it!


The kids watching the fireworks!


And that's how it's done!



**Kaysen, (aka Kascal Rascal):


He's such a happy go-lucky kid!


He is such a cute big brother to Rylan. He loves him so much and wants him all to himself sometimes...but we still have to watch him closely because he still likes to poke his eyes...little stinker!


He loves him some baby Rylan time!!!


We love this kid!



**The kids making a 4'th of July Craft:





Trip To Cedar City

We didn't do much to vacation this year. Staying in motels isn't a whole lot of fun with 4 little kids, so we opted to spend a relaxing week in Cedar City at Jason's parent's house. The kids were excited to go to Cedar City, but were disappointed when we got there and they realized they weren't going to be able to see Grandma and Grandpa (they are on a mission right now). Jason's niece Kristie and her husband Jeff are living in their house while they are gone though, so the kids weren't sad for long. They can't get enough of Kristie and she is so cute with them! We LOVE Cedar City...after all, that is where we fell in love! We went on lots of drives (there is so much to see around there), went shopping in St. George, ate at all of our favorite places (Vernal has NO good eating options, so it's not hard to please us!), went to all our favorite parks, and of course we visited family and friends. It went by way too fast, but we had a fun week!


We went to my brother Andy's house and had a BBQ and then played Rock Band and visited all night. Clarissa cooked a delicious cake to keep the kids entertained while we played!


Jaylee,Bretten and Cambrie (and Kaysen) playing in the basement while we rocked the night away!


Clarissa, Aaron Miles and Jason playing Rock Band! It was mine and Jason's first time with this game and we loved it!


Aaron and Jason...very into their band!


Kaysen, Bretten, Jaylee and Rylan hanging out in Cedar City!


Chillin' in the swings!


Rylan and his cousin Hailey. They are only 2 days apart!


Sunny and Hailey- I was excited to see my little sister Sunny. I hadn't seen her since January and we were excited to get our babies together since they are so close together!