Summer Recap 4--FAMILY TIME!

Well, this is a long one--sorry--sit back and relax!

We had an Easter egg hunt at grandma's and grandpa's house. Aunt Lindsay and Calvin were there. Everyone had a great time.

All the kids and their loot!

Here are the kids at our house on Easter morning.

Yes, Jacob is wearing purple pajama pants--he is a funny kid!

This is the only picture I could get with all 4 of the kids at the same time. Logan did NOT want his picture taken today!

Happy Mother's day to me! Yes, it was one of those days--I am still grateful to be mother--some days are just harder than others!

Memorial day weekend at the cabin. The kids loved it!

Fun at the tepee.

Hiking!

Logan and his walking stick.

Alex and his.

Logan always wants to help!

Alex loved looking for deer and moose with the binoculars.

Smore's time!

This year for our family vacation, we decided to stay closer to home. It was great fun. First, we stayed the night at Grandma's house in Kaysville. The kids wanted to sleep out in a tent. Grandma's house is perfect for that. Then we went to the air show at Hill Air Force Base. Logan had the best time I think! He wanted to get into EVERY airplane. It was a nice day and we had a good time.

The Thunderbirds!

Next, we headed to the cabin and rented an ATV. Once again, I think Logan loved it the most. He got to go on rides around the fire pit. He was in heaven. Everyone had a great time. Unfortunately the weather did not cooperate. It rained for the next month, I think! UGGH--it put a damper on the rest of our trip.

All the kids! Look at Logan's face!!!

We next went to the Hogle Zoo.

The merry-go-round was a big hit!

Jacob

Alex and mom

Logan!

We had Grandpa Cory over for Father's Day. We love our dads!!!

Our yummy dessert!

At the last minute, we decided to go down to Gilbert, Arizona for Mason's baby blessing. It was a short trip, but lots of fun! It was great to see Lindsay, Russell, Calvin, Heather, Max, and Ezra. Grandma and Grandpa were there too!

Waterpark fun--a must in that heat. Here's Heather and Ezra.

Logan

Alex

We celebrated the 4th of July there.

It was really hot!

Jacob and Alex at the Mesa Temple.

Because of the weather in June, we decided to finish our family vacation when the weather was better. Here we are at the Gateway fountains.

Logan loved this as well!

We got the fire pit out only once this summer. The smore's were great!

The last part of our "family vacation" was a trip to Lagoon. It was fun to got with Aunt Heather, Max, and Ezra. If you notice, Logan wanted and did ride on just about everthing he could. Alex, on the other hand, was much more cautious. He has the same face in every picture--except the cars--which he absolutely loved. It was great that there weren't very many people at Lagoon that day--he drove them over and over and over.....

Bulgy the Whale

See-nice face Alex--he didn't ride!

Hannah, Jacob and Dad on the Dragon

Boats

Even the merry-go-round!

Max

No Alex!

Hannah and Alex

He was always wanting to go until he was buckled in--of course!

Could that be a smile? Yes, but he still didn't ride!

Max!

The skyride

We took the kids to the farm at Thanksgiving point while Heather was still here. Grandma and Grandpa came too.

Hannah is not too sure about this horse riding business!

Hahahahaha!

We went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house. We are in front of the picture that my brother painted for the temple. He did a fabulous job--he is so talented!!!

Yes, it was windy!

Yeah--I'm done with the summer! It was really fun and jampacked with activities! Well, it's snowing right this minute and now I can't wait until summer again! HAHA!

Summer Recap 3--Hannah

Hannah finished out her 3rd grade year at school. She did a great job and learned so much! Her summer was filled with family trips (coming next!) and SOFTBALL! This was the first year Hannah played and she had a great time! It was also great fun watching her. She had 2 games each week for 2 months. Her team was the Diamondbacks. She played right field, 3rd and 2nd base. She was always 1st in the line-up for batting! Here are some snapshots of her playing.

At bat!

She made it to 1st base!

Her team won 1st place in the city tournament!!! Yeah! Jacob was very impressed that she got such a BIG trophy!

With the 1st place win at the city level, her team went on the the state tournament. What an adventure! Her team had 3 games the 1st day and 2 the 2nd day. They ended up with 3rd place. We are proud of her and her team!

Scoring a run at the state tournament!

On 3rd base!

Hannah also had some great late night parties with her friends. This one commemorated the Disney Channel movie "Princess Protection Program". She and her two friends spent a week preparing a dance, banners, streamers, matching clothes and loads of fun! If I can figure out the video of the dance, I'll post it.

Hannah's softball team had a party celebrating their great season. It was right before school started. It was a home of one of the players. They had horses for rides. We had a great time. However, Logan had the BEST time! He absolutely loved riding the horses. They were just his size and he didn't want to ever get off!

Jacob

Next up--Family fun!!

Summer Recap 2--Jacob's turn

Jacob finished up a great Kindergarten school year. He had a wonderful teacher and became quite a good reader. One of his last events was an animal report. He had to memorize 5 facts, dress up, and stand in a museum. The teacher had stickers as buttons and when people came by, they would pusht the button and he would tell them a fact about his animal. He chose a gorilla. It was quite a challenge to figure out a costume, but we did it. Here is our little gorilla!

We were so proud of him during his Kindergarten program. He loves to sing, so he did a fabulous job and the program was so cute!

Jacob's summer was filled with sports. He wanted to do it all. Despite all the running around to practices and games, I was glad to have him active and be outside. He started with soccer. This was his 3rd season. This year his age group got to use a goalie. That was Jacob's favorite position! He stopped lots of goals!

Here he is with Alex and their jester hats from Grandpa and Grandma Thayne from England.

The next sport was T-ball. It was especially great because Rich was the coach. Jacob loved having his dad as his coach. They both did a fantastic job! They were the Reds! Hahaha!

Finally, he is playing flag football. He still has one more game next week. He was most excited about last week when he grabbed the final flag to end the game. Way to go Jacob! He's in the red shorts!

We are so proud of Jacob. He had a fun, full summer and loved every minute of it.

Next...on to Hannah!

Summer Recap--Part 1

I've decided to break down the summer fun! I'm starting with Alex and Logan.

Shortly after their birthday they discovered a new hiding spot!

Can you see Alex peeking behind?

Alex has such a great smile!

Getting dressed by themselves...

Logan

Alex

Then they decided they didn't like clothes at all. We are

FINALLY(?) out of that stage!

Hard at work painting the kitchen.

Their favorite past time is officially BASEBALL--Rich is VERY excited about that!

Logan

Alex--he has a silly sister!

Logan--he does too!

They love being outside!

We had an incredible amount of grasshoppers at our house this summer. The boys absolutely loved it. They would spend forever searching for "hoppers". They even managed to catch quite a few of them!

Here's one!

Logan became quite good at catching them while they were on the fence.

Logan just being silly--as usual!

Here's Logan with the jester hat he got from Grandma and Grandpa Thayne from their mission in England.

Alex's new trick--he thinks he is hilarious! He kind of is!

Of course, Logan has to follow!

Next up...Jacob!