family picnic

My cousin,  Amy and her family, were in town a few weeks ago.  They are from Texas so we don't see them much.  We got together for a picnic, and for our kids to play together.  It was awesome to have her son Kaden around for Luke.  Luke doesn't have any boys his age around, so it was great to see him have a friend.

 

 

It was also my nephew's birthday, so my Mom brought a cake for Adam.

 

 

Love these silly kids

baseball and tball 2013

Luke had his 3rd year of baseball this spring, and Abigail had her first year of tball.  Luke's games were Monday/Wednesday, and Ab's were Tuesday/Thursday.  It was busy, but fun.  Carly and Hailey started to get sick of spending every night of the week at the park, but they managed :)

 Luke is really improving with each year, he's doing well.  Abigail surprised me a bit with how serious she took it.  She ran her little heart out.

 

 

 

I don't know who the little girl on the right is, but she was not loving the game.

 Some of Ab's friends on the team, Ellie and Keelee.

Luke and his buddy Tomas

 The cheering section

Lagoon

We went on our annual Lagoon journey in June.  My Mom came with us, it was fun to have her along.  I told her that Luke and Abigail were dying to go on wicked again and she'd have to take them.  The older I get, the more sick I get on big rides.   Luke and Abigail aren't afraid on one ride at Lagoon.  So she went with the big kids a lot of the time, and I watched the little girls.



My Mom told me what Abigail asked her while they were in line for wicked.

 

Abigail- "Grandma are you afraid of wicked?  Because my Grandma Sharla isn't afraid.  She went on it.  Are you more scared than Grandma Sharla"

 



 

 

The only picture of these guys that I got was on a little baby ride.  It makes me laugh that they still like these rides.  



Hailey's 3 year old pictures





 

 

 Hailey was being such a little sass when I was trying to take her birthday pictures.  She wouldn't listen to anything I wanted her to do, and she only did the silly poses that Carly told her to do.

 

 
 
 

 

It's killing me that her little baby face is growing up! 

 

 

This one is my favorite.  This is usually how she smiles.

 

She's such a sweet little gal.  We just love her!

summer days

 

So far this summer, we haven't had to try too hard to keep busy.  I guess life just picks up the pace the older my kids get. 

We've been on a few hikes, mostly up on North Ogden Divide.  The kids love to bring notebooks and to take breaks to draw the scenery.  We also have to take frequent snack breaks.

 

 

 

 

 We always find one day during the summer to go to the Hogle Zoo.  Everytime we go, we all talk about how we need to go in the winter instead.  It was hot!  Jess, her kids, Shannon, her kids, Grandma Barb, Grandma Dixie, my cousin Natalie, and her kids, and Uncle Blake all came.

 There were some tears over the zoo stroller until we found a way to squish them all in.

 

 All of the kids except Natalie's little boy Will.  He didn't want a picture.

 Uncle Blake is such a good sport.  Carly does not leave him alone.  She begs him to carry her everywhere.  Which is hard sometimes, because all of the kids love Uncle Blake... they all want a turn with him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I kept trying to get a picture of all 8 grandkids... but people kept walking in front.  You can barely see Carly on the very left over there.  We have 4 girls and 4 boys.  Until October when Jess and Matt will be adding another boy!

 

When Hailey gets nervous, she covers her ears, even though the gorilla didn't make a peep!

 

We love spending time with cousins!