brent and I took the kiddos to our first Seven Peaks extravaganza of the summer. It was super crowded, but that's what we'd planned since the whole state has passes now. 

Luckily, Sawyer is content hanging with me and the Fin-nut when daddy's not there. We had a blast.

I love my cute kiddos!!!

 i wish this was a video, but you get the jist....she'd march into the water first (above) and then start sumo stepping to get into place. It was hilarious. She did it about 27 times! :)

 Soy and the fountain. Perfect for modeling in of course!

 lovin the slide. She's become the bravest thing this year. She'll go down most slides. Last year was a different story.

 Daddy and Fins. 

 She was super worried about daddy's toe too. She thought he had an owie.

 Just the pose I love!  "can you feel the heat?"

twas a good time!  More to come I'm sure!

again, with the self portraits....

 these 3 lovelies always play at least one round of dress up at Mana's, every.single.sunday.

this sunday just happened to be the celebration of me and brent's bdays!  Karri is the family caker, and she was so cute in stencliling the "frenzy" logo on top. It worked out great!

 and a bit more on the side

 Mine was a cute bag!

 Love these two. What a lucky girl I am. Seriously, so blessed. (not like TAMN)

 Oh. that's weird. more photos of herself.

Later that week, we had some summer swimmin with Whalen's. good times at thee 'ol Pemberley.

 Daddy's real birthday we, of course, had to have birthday muffins. Alec was loving the bday action.

 A lil picnic for the ladies. 

 And why not face the sprinkler with shields!?  I feel that Max looks like the man in Big Trouble in Little China that is the lightning man.  It was cracking me up.

 Fin, Alec, Sawyer, Sidney and Ella enjoying their otter poppers.

 Bubba and Max geared up to face the sprinkler head on.

 hahah!

 And if you've never watched Ramona & Beezus, well, you should for many reasone, but #1, Ramona Quimby is my little red.  She decided this day to take an adventure around the culdesac.....she's so funny.  I just thought i needed to remember it.

1 more week down, now I'm almost done with June. Bare with me....

My mother is amazing, so it was no surprise, when I cried for a little vacay from the children on the wknd of her birthday, she obliged, willingly, and for a lot of days.  She is the BEST. I needed some space, desperately, and she came to my call. I hope she knows how much she saves me....in more ways than one. I love that she is my mom. She's the most giving person I've ever known.

So, Brent and I had 4 days to ourselves. What to do??? What to do???

Well, date nights, eatings, hiking galore!!! It was fun, and quiet, and peaceful, and so fun. I love my hubs. We have so much fun together. It's kind of heavenly.

On the Sunday before they came home, we decided to venture to Stewart Falls. We'd never done that before, and figured why not!? 

Problem number one....we had no idea where we were going. Figured it couldn't be that hard, but it kinda was. We walked up and down this hill 46 times I'm sure.

 Then we tried to get some internet, but it wasn't happening.

 found some good looking stairs and decided why not!?

 FINALLY, they led us to the trail.

 It wasn't too long, but longer than I'd expected....but it was fine.  The views were so pretty, and the falls were awesome

 Then we hop skipped over the river and back down...kinda fun...kinda not, but we did it :)

The next morning, my dad called to say that my mom was in the ER so I needed to come get my kids....

Not good- the mom thing, not the kid thing- apparently she'd been passing out and throwing up since the night before and she fell and smacked her head pretty good, so dad took her in.  Thankfully, she is ok. She was dehydrated and had low blood pressure, but she was ok. I felt so bad it happened while my kids were there, but dad said that when he told the kids, Max gathered them all together and had a prayer- oh that boy. How I love him. We are so blessed to have him.

So, I just "ran" up there and got the kids. Which was fun cuz I had Brent come with me and we got to hang with the fam for a bit. Oh how I wish thy lived closer :(

Tuesday morning, bright and early (gagging) Max and I headed to Jeremiah Johnson Scout Camp- just one of the "perks" of my calling.

He was so excited to go though. Last year, for whatever reason, his leaders decided it wasn't important to let any of us know that it was coming up, and we were out of town the week before, and he missed it...real cool leaders.....he was crushed. So, needless to say, he was so excited.

First stop=slingshots

 Then digging for gold

 Then some lame game.....

 Pictures with my boy

 grabbing a nugget

 Bow & Arrows

 And the blasted hand cart pull/push/death march....seriously. I don't know how those people did it. I feel like I'm pretty strong from the crossfits.... :)  and I was pretty much alone in tugging this thing up and down a hill and I was DYING!!!! 

 Guns.

 We had some lunch, some stilts, and some closing ceremonies, and all in all it was a good, quick, day.  I'm glad I got to go with him!