Friday, August 2, 2013

The 4th of July!!

This year Autumn wanted to run the Main Street Mile just before the parade in Hyrum.  Brian said he would run it too.  The morning of the run Brookie decided she wanted to run also :)
Here they come



Brian ran back to run the rest with Brooklyn


Brookie putting on some speed to finish the race


Love these kiddos

Enjoying the parade


Hunter decided he had enough candy and wanted to hang out with Grandma


We went out for lunch.  Autumn helped to entertain Jaxon

Autumn's Birthday

Double digit birthday!! Wow! Here are a few things about Autumn:
She loves soccer.  She plays for a U12 FC Bayern competitive state soccer team which means she is playing up a year.  She loves to write books.  She is very creative.  She can be a great helper around the house...when she wants to.  I love her so much!
We invited grandparents over for some cake and ice cream.  She got some fun gifts.




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We didn't have a 0 so we couldn't make the number 10...
So if you add all the numbers up it equals 10!!
When we sang Happy Birthday, Jaxon just smiled

Still singing :)


Blowing out the candles



We rented an inflatable water slide for the kids and Autumn's birthday party.  They had so much fun!!!  Maybe we will have to do it again next year :)





Playing "squish, squish, SPLAT"

Fill the bucket relay

Opening presents

I made cake balls for the first time with the kids' cake ball pan


The girls seemed to really like them

WATER FIGHT!!



Found a grasshopper

He caught it....then tried to eat it!!!

time for an update :) Summer fun!

Hanging out at the zoo

A friend organized a little lunch get-together with some old school friends.  After we walked through the park to see the animals.



Feeding the fish






Swimming at the Insurance company pool party

It wasn't the warmest day so it made night swimming really cold.  But the kids still had lots of fun.

Checking out the pool


That's pretty fun!

Swimming with daddy

Underwater :)



We decided to head home a little early.  When we got home I wanted to see the picture I got of Jaxon under the water, but my camera was not to be found.  I searched everywhere.  I was really worried.  I decided to drive back to the aquatic center to see if I left it there.  But it was not where we had all our stuff. As I started back out I stopped by and asked a life guard if there was anything turned in that night.  They asked me what I was looking for.  I told them my camera and he said some boys had turned in a camera.  I was so grateful.

Four wheeling in the mountains

We took the long drive up to check some of Brian's trail cameras.  As we drove, one of the tires on the trailer started to burn up.  Then when we got there it was a complete down pour!  I was not excited to have to make the long trip back without getting out for a ride.  We ate lunch in the car and then after a while Brian and his dad decided to go out in the rain since it had calmed down.  Autumn went with.  They came back a while later to get the rest of us.  We could it raining where our truck was but we didn't get rained on until we headed back.  It was a lot of fun.

Hiking up a trail



Having lots of fun!

Jaxon's "cool dude" picture

The girls

Playing in the dirt


So tired

Autumn got to drive Grandpa's four wheeler

Funny faces...

And more....

And more.... I don't know what he was doing :)


They crashed on the drive home.