I Love Summer

It was a good summer, shorter than I'd have liked, but good nonetheless!

Here are some of the fun things we did. 

Sweet Pea Parade

The kids actually ask to go to the mall, just because there is this fun mat that is interactive they can play on.

They all love it.

Lemonade Stand!

The kids were asking to do this all summer and we finally set it up. 

They were happy as could be and actually made some money because of the nice, generous neighbors we have!

Can't forget our fun neighbors that were a big part of our summer.

We had our anniversary, 9 years, woo hoo!

Isaac's anniversary present to me...right.

The Swensen's came for a weekend towards the end of summer.  We had some rainy weekends that really reminded us of Oregon, but we still had fun.

We decided to hike to a little waterfall that is up the canyon.

Emry and Brielle keeping dry.  

They giggled the whole way up.

AT our friends' carnival themed birthday party.

Growing up

Lots of bike riding

The next door neighbor's "green machine"

Emry moved into a big girl bed.  

She loves it!

 Even with the guard we still found her on the floor.

Helping Dad mow the lawn.

She can really be a great helper and this time she was determined to stick with Dad and help him until the job was done.  She walked around and held the cord the whole time.

What a great summer, I'm ready for it to start all over again!

Utah Photo Craziness

We went to my parent's house in Utah for a visit and had oh so much fun.

I didn't do very well at taking pictures, but we went to a reservoir, ninja warrior course, ice cream and so much more.

They had some fun nerf dart blow guns.  We went to the church and had a battle.

My parents watched the kids for a day while Isaac and I went to his cousins wedding.

I think they had fun.

Irrigation

Ice cream.

Emry still loves her baby tiger she got at the ice cream store.

We did some slacklining.

My chair as a little girl

We also went to the Ogden temple open house.

Love this picture of the kiddos.

Thanks for the great time, good company, good food, and warm weather!

Glacier Photo Dump

We got to go camping at Glacier National Park!

I had never been and was excited to go.

We had the whole Swensen family there, except for Oliver, who is on a mission.

It was a bit of a chilly weekend for my comfort, but absolutely beautiful and so fun.

canoeing and fishing down the river

We were the ones who got sick...there's always someobdy!  

We hadn't been sick in so long, but Kason, Asher, and I ended up getting a 24 hr flu bug (so fun in a tent) and Isaac caught it on the way home.  Luckily, Emry and everybody else escaped.  I'm glad it was just 24 hours and that we still had time to have fun.

Hanging out around the campfire.

These little buddies!

They were blowing a tire pump on each others faces and cracking up about it.

I wondered how the kids - especially Emry- would do sleeping in a tent.  They really did great, despite moving around so much in their sleep they wouldn't stay in their sleeping bags.

So pretty!

The glacier water was so blue and so cold!

I don't have any pictures, but we all did jump into the river off a bridge.  

Even the kids braved the cold water.

It was so fun!

Forget actually riding in the wagon.

Good buddies

Cousins are the best!

The kids (and adults) worked so hard to finish their junior ranger pamphlets.

Here they are being sworn in as junior rangers.

We got the advanced pamphlet for the older kids and it had the adults even working on it!

Lake McDonald!

We were at Apgar and there were so many bike trails around.  We had all brought bikes and it was so fun to bike around.

Exhaustion from all the fun took over and Emry zonked out on one of those bike rides.

It was a great time and good to get out and camp and enjoy being outdoors!