Once, in June, it was Janet's birthday. I never got the pics from that night til a bit ago, so here they are- in all my allergied-swollen-dripping-sad-eyed glory...... It was a GREAT night.
We went to Zupa's, then shopping- where i scored some fantastican finds-then to 17 Again- that movie's sooo funny!!!

Me, Heath, Tiffy, Lori, Janet, and Mary

Heather, feeling my pain in my eye


G to the N to the O
consisted of dinner at 5 Guys=fabalus- then partaking of some laughing our pants off at
The Proposal
how i love my friends!

We've had oodles of fun swimming this summer. Sometimes we get friends to even join us! This one fine day, we got to have Mary and the boys all to ourselves. It was great!! Even no fighting betwixt the chillins all day long!!!!!!

Kaden, Max and Keagan---Mary- they're crackers

Playing some game in the agua- Keag, Max and the friend they made that day

Me and the Mar


We've also had AWESOME swimming time at Ange and Janei'a's- it's the best there, cuz they have a kiddie pool- ask my place why the didn't put a kiddie pool in....idiots!

Janei'a+Kaia, Me+Sawyer, Ange+Alec, Nicolle+Kennedy, Heath+Hayleigh

The big kids in the little pool

For a celebration of Ange, Nicolle and Jess, we met up at Iceberg one nice evening in July....mmmmm shakes....mmmm fries....mmm friends

Me, Ange, Janei'a, Meggan, Nicolle, Kim, Jess, Em, and Lucy


Having one car has its perks- like the fact that if I want to go anywhere fun in the mornings, I get to bike my 80 lbs of children behind me, and drag Max around the lil city on his bike. Kids' a trooper! So, a few weeks ago, we trekked over to the "wooden park" as my kids like to call it, and Lindy met up with us a bit later-as my knight in shining armor=swig in hand. It's soooo blasted hot!!!!

Of course Max had made about 4 friends within the 4 minutes we got there, but i got a couple of shots of him playing before he vanished for the morn.....

Sawyer had a BLAST exploring

monkey bars of fun

making a lil ditty for Conli's dancing pleasure

takin a breather in the shade
my big boy

Swings=Sawyer's love.
I hate swings.
I am going to invent automatic ones-
like baby swings,
but bigger,
and I'm going to get rich, cuz I HATE pushing the swings......
maybe i'm a bad mom...but I really don't enjoy it.

Sawyer on another adventure in and out and in and out and up and down the grounds

Ready for lift off

David & Conli- such buddies

Here Max and Conli are making a map of the park...for future reference of where to find buried treasures

We got to have Brynn, Bubba and my new found love, baby Pierce, over one night-
they're so cute! I'm so grateful that my friends have kids that are my kids friends. It makes life great!

Ok Mej- I know you got these in May, but we just decided to make them- don't be mad!

These are little tile magnets. You paint them, dry them, and have your own customized artsy for the fridge. I drew out some things for the kids and they drew some for themselves- needless to say, the after picture looks nothing like the before one- except for mine- but it was so fun, and we had a blast doing it together- oh, and where is the after picture you say? Well, I forgot to take one!

Last weekend, we decided to venture down to the cabin and have a little family time.
It was SOOOO FUN!!!! We didn't do much of anything, but we played, and just hung out together and it was soooo great!!!!

Max made a "4 stuff" oreo- they are his fave

Meanwhile, I munched on a bit of my faves

Then, conli, Daddy and I had a dance off. It was hilarious.

The next morning, we went on a bit of a walk. Conli has now added fear of woods onto her list. Oh, that poor girl- she's so nervous about everything- here, we are walking towards a dead end- that name made her a bit wary. I had to coax her down the hill.....Cutest part was when we came to a little stream and had to walk down a lil hill to get to it- Conli was DYING of fright, and Sawyer was trying to let her know it was ok- "Con, see daddy and water go roun an roun anda walk down...an iss okay!"

throwing rocks rules

pretty flowers on the journey

Conli had all the lil animals lined up at one point and time, and they were all bears and this lil guy. She said, "mom, look! bear bear bear, skidoo, bear bear". I've always called them raccoons-i dunno, i'm just sayin

Monday morning, we headed up to the Oquirrh Temple open house with Brent's mom, and Xander and Mara. I love that we've had the opportunity to take our kids to 2 of these in the last 5 months. I love that they get to see inside the temple walls, and feel the spirit that is there. It's so beautiful.

Mana and the kiddies

T.L.A.

that night, Brent and I got to take Max to le peaks of water fun!
He got a free day pass from reading 100 hours in a month from school, so we took him on a lil date. It was SOOO fun. I was brave, I tell you, I went on some tall slides- and mama doesn't like tall things- well, cept for brent- he's tall- but anywho...back to our fun

playing in the wave pool

he was so cute- he'd just giggle every time a wave came at him

on our way up to the slide of my fears- i fully was under the impression that we were going on a different slide- then the boyz sprung it on me- and i was DYING. sweat, shakes, oh boysies. but, we did it, and it was fun....

Went through my camera and found some pics Max had taken- fun with Ethan

and here are my girlies that I love so much! Post lunch, sporting their aprons....oh i love them

Friday we went up to my parents. We were going to go to the carny or the rodeo, but opted out of the crowds, and the wind and decided to go bowling instead. We took Mana with us, and it was great amounts of fun-

say cheese

we love Mana

Max's first attempt

he got a spare- this was the celebration afterwards

conli giving it a go

the form of the pros

our fancy shmancy shoes

girls

bit of toe tappin going along with the groovy beats of the "Gutter"

and the kids pretending to play the games in the arcade after- so easily entertained

We came home a little earlier than planned, but we had so much fun!!!! We got to even go to dinner with some awesome friends Sat. night--mm mm good!!!

til we meet again......ciao