Cousin Bowling Fun...

We signed up for this kids bowl free club thing and thought we would use it all summer long. But here it is the end of summer and well this is our first time doing it! We went with cousins and had a great time. At first it was a little crazy as Tayson was picking up every bowling ball he could. But once we got the shoes on and lanes were set these kids had a great time!

Wow! I can't believe Summer is almost over and School starts next week! Well for Cole at least. Dailey has her Kindergarten Assessment and than will start the Thursday after Labor day!

I am so excited for this new school year and I Love Fall time! But I have just LOVED summer and being able to just hang out with my Family has been Awesome! Don't get me wrong. I had my days where if the teasing and fighting didn't stop I was sure I was going to Lose It! But it has been a good One!

Weekend and Birthday Fun...

 We spent the Saturday doing some back to school shopping and we had to hit sam's club too. Outside of Sam's had some booths that we had to go check out since the kids spotted the  Ninja Turtle!

Kevin and I than got to escape on a date to the Parade of Homes! I haven't been since before I was married and I forgot how much I love it!
I love the ideas you come away with!

On my birthday Kevin got up and made a yummy breakfast and he even had the kids help him make fun birthday signs. When Kevin got home from work he brought ice cream and a brownie mix and made my birthday treat!
We went out to dinner with the kids at Pizza Pie Cafe! It was a great Birthday!

Father and Son Campout and Girls Night...

We got home from Bear Lake around 3:00 on Friday and Kevin and the boys helped us all unload from  that and than we packed a cooler and a bag and Kevin's Dad picked them up with his camp trailer to head out to our ward Father and Son campout!

Cole was asking all summer when this campout was he loves going and I think he loves taking Grandpa Dearden's trailer and hanging out with just the boys!

 I kept telling Kevin to leave Tayson home. Just because it had been a long week and I wasn't sure how he would do but he refused he said he is a boy and he should go too!

So off they went.
We stayed and cleaned up a few things and picked our tomatoes from our garden and than headed off to Zupas for dinner. The girls loved it and ate it so well and boy is having only the two of them super easy!
We came home and watched Ella Enchanted and went to bed!

The next day we did a morning Teaparty with Banana muffins and Chocolate Milk!

Bear Lake 2014...

We went to Bear Lake on Monday August 4 and stayed until Friday afternoon. We packed up and went hit winco on our way with another stop at the Gossner Cheese factory in Logan.

We got to the Ideal Beach Resort and walked around and tried to get in and look at the condos.
This year we got 4 different condos. They were spread apart. The unit we stayed in was nice and more updated than the past ones. It was unit 141.

We swam and rode wave runners that Jeff borrowed from his brother, which was so nice of them to let us use. We loved having them without having the rush of renting them and trying to hurry everyone on.  Since I am pregnant I did not ride them. But oh how I wanted too! We also rented stand up paddle boards. I love those too but I didn't' think my balance was very good and I was a bit self conscious trying it in front of everyone with my big belly in my swim suit! So Next Year is my year!

I think this year Cole loved the freedom of being able to go on his own a little more as long as he told us where he was headed. We didn't have room for bikes so we had them use the scooters to zip back and forth to their cousins condos.

Cole found $20 dropped on the ground at the store with his cousin Morgan. The cute little things turned in the money to the store worker without anyone telling them to do so.
I think that may have been Morgan more than Cole but I thought it was so cute. They kept hoping the lady wouldn't come back and claim her money so they could keep it!

Dailey and Lucy both were very timid to jump on the diving board they had to have help doing it! Maybe next year they will be more comfortable.
Cole was not afraid. He was doing flips off and all sorts of tricks he even did a backflip which he did not want to do again. I think there was some bribing involved on the back flip!

It was a great trip and we always leave having had such a good time! The weather was great it rained a bit but overall it turned out to be a good week to go!

Camping over the 24th of July...

We decided to go camping over the 24th of July! Some of the Bushes were going to come and camp but it ended up being just our family. We were worried about getting a spot on such a busy week so the kids and I headed up to the Spruces on wednesday morning. We drove around looking for which camp site would be the best and had the flattest spot for our tent!
Than the kids and I set up our cool new this summer tent and explored the campsite a little and than left back home to pack the rest of our gear!

Kev got off work around 3 and we headed up the mountain! The kids were so excited!

We played games, went on walks, roasted starburst and marshmallows and did some crafts and picked wild flowers for our table decorations!

We even had some visitors come up! We had The Boyer's come up on the 24th for the evening and they brought a tin foil dinner and cooked it over the campfire.
It was fun to have them up.
Than on the 25th we had Grandma and Grandpa Dearden come up in the afternoon and stay until later that evening! We walked with them around Silver Lake and hung out and talked. It was so nice to have one on one time with them and our kids!
Than we had another visit from Grandma and Grandpa Bush  and Mel and Mckay the morning we were leaving and taking down camp. It was fun to see them too!


Our menu for camping was:

Wed night- Tin Foil Dinners
Thurs Morning- Pancakes
Thurs lunch- sandwich, chips and fruit
Thurs Dinner-BBQ Hot Dogs
Fri Morning- Hashbrowns, eggs, sausage mixed all together
Fri Dinner- Grilled Chicken, baked potato, corn on the cob
Sat Morning- Cereal