2 more weeks of Goodness. Summer, don't go......

Sunday morning we headed down to the cabin with Jd, Chris, and the little one (that's Sawyer- even though, she's not really little...) Mana was kind enough to take Max and Conli with her the night before, so they had a great "over sleep" with her, Karri and the Tolman's.

THANK YOU MANA!!!!

When we got there, Uncle Pat led the kiddo's on a little bug catching excursion!

We played Pop 5 for about 2 hours I think---maybe not, but it was a LONG game!

stats: Tolman's 1st -I guess we'll call it winning, even though it was cheatsies

KIDDING!!!!

we were second- because we didn't read the last question....but whatever!

JD and Karri= 2 out of 6- are you kidding me? You can do better than that!!!!!!
Chris got in some good reads
what the face????

oh, sweet before the kill... i get it!
Auntie Karri-face taking Gooey on a walk. Karri's the best! She's so willing to play with the kids!
This is how Sawyer returned. HOlY MY MOlY!
the dirty's proof of the belly button obsession spoken of later in the postgood BBQ for dinner, good times with the fam! What a good weekend!!!

Saturday night, our place did an outdoor movie night- my camera died= lame- so this is the only picture i got. Thanks Jesse and Dave for coming- it was fun- these 2 Loud Talkersons- on the other hand----well, they had fun....

Con and EllieAnd this was Keagan's bday party at the greatest park ever!!!! me- don't mind me in this picture (ewwww), but my beautiful friends deserved it-

how i love them!
donut time- open the box and run away- hordes of children- beware

I went to find her and found this---- she was stuck- holding on for dear life. Poor thing! I think this was her 3rd donut- nuf said
dirty hands

helping each other clean out their "fwops" two more pics to add to the wedding video birthday boy and Max
thankfully Heath brought a water bottle so Sawyer could be entertained for 2 hours straight...who knew bottles were so much fun?

in the bee hive
peek a boos!!!!

Sawyer and Conli are OBSESSED with my shoes- the "high" ones- and this picture was Conli having some "tood" with me when I told her she was being too loud for the downstarsies...oh bother- picture her like this, in about 10 years, with her own high ones!=oh bother!
just a cute pic of the kiddo's curled up watching a "moo-bee"
Labor Day was pretty much the worst weather we've had in a long time.


Um, excuse me, but was there snow on the MOUNTAINS????? I'm moving.

Since we couldn't do anything fun outside, we ventured to Cabellas- that'll do.
Max pretending to "hunt" the creatures in the woods

Sawyer's face every time she saw something exciting and new....that was about every 10.6 seconds..... OHHHH!!! OHHH!!!!
Aunt Kara, Uncle Ben and neighbor Jason joined us for our day's fun
Sawyer and Conli want to help daddy to build strong muscles.

So, they asked him to do push ups with them on his back.

Sawyer thought Summerfest was upon us once again. Oh the FUN!!!!!!

AHHHH- can you feel it!!!???Mana found some AWESOME new dressups up at Swiss Days- the girls were in princess heaven!Modeling the goodsSawyer even decided she wanted to play, tiara and all.Sawyer's face in this picture is the funniest ever!

Somebody has their first loose tooth!

YEAH for Max! This lil fella became loose about a week ago, and hasn't stopped for a breath of fresh air. It's hanging by a thread- and since I can't not pick at things---- it's about ready to come right out..... Max wanted to pull it out so bad but he= kinda scared so nothing much was happening.
So, daddy got in on the action

1 tooth
freshly plucked from the baby bed
tucked away some where safe
Our neighborhood threw a luau Saturday night, and Brent and I decided to be supportive of the neighborhood for once- high five- it was fun. the food was great, and we learned how to dance the hookie lau- no idea how to spell that one- sorry-- but it was fun.

Jason and Becky- cheers
gettin our shake on- too bad the hubby's missed our insane moves cuz they snuck out to watch the BYU game- whatever, no love for you!
supportive couple #2

Jason and Lindy
fire dancer= wowser
Mel and John

Thursday night, after sifting through the heaping piles of bunco drama, we had a G.N.O. It was great, we went to Red Robin and decided to throw in a celebratory night for Tiffany and Jess's birthdays so we could get the rockin' free dessert- oh scrumpcious!! (we were being honest- tiff's birthday was the night before- and jess's hadn't been celebrated with us yet- so don't worry- thou shalt be honest is still intact!)

Mel, Becky, Me, Sum, Tiff, Heather, Jess

oh, and Heather surprised us with new hair- a foot shorter than it used to be-

it's SOOOOO cute!!!!

Sawyer's discovered how fun "be-bo's" are (that's code for belly button) Any time anyone within reach may possibly be baring theirs, watch out! She'll get it- and she laughs her head off! Here she is trying to find hers, under her skirt- don't think she realized her shirt was off and the be-bo was a free for all!
going after mine
right after she "got it"
oh to be one again!

Mr. Ben had a birthday to celebrate! So, of course, we did. Lucky for us, we were invited and he wanted to go to Tepanyaki---- I HEART Tepanyaki. and we heart Ben. Noodles anyone?

Ben's first try at sushi: (i say sushi = sick-uh-ning)
but enough about me- he grabs it, he throws it in his mouth, he chews- slowly, thoughtfully contemplating every chew.....
thumbs up! Good for you Ben! Brent has yet recruited another to the dark place of sushi world
We got to have a baby shower of BOY JOY for Mej and her lil guy( who was finally named Ryker)- thank goodness we made it before he decided to come 18 days early eh??? It was fun! Thanks Dar, for letting us have it at your casa!!!! Good food + good friends= good times!!!!!

(And it was kind of like a good ol BYU 146th ward reunion of sorts!!!!!)

Em, Summer, Me, Mej, Dar, Saunie, Jesse
Mej, Sum, Grayson, Dar, Kristen, Janene, Lindsay