JULY

It is hard to believe July is almost over. We started the month off by going to the zoo and a birthday party for the Wanlass's children. It was a great time.

This is Malia with Sadie. Malia comes and babysits for us. She is so cute with the kids, and very creative. This day they made puppets and put on a play about little town. Sadie thinks she is going to save those puppets forever. We have alot of little things like this she stuffs in her drawers, bookcase, or she just leaves it lying around. I have to put things on the bottom of the garbage if I don't want her to see them. I've gotten in trouble with her before because I forgot to hide something in the garbage. We tried putting it in a binder first and then after awhile she decideds what to throw out so we have room for new stuff. It works but is hard to keep up.

The River

We asked the kids if they wanted to go feed the ducks for FHE the other night. Sadie said, "no that is to far." She thought we were driving to California again to feed the ducks. So as part of our lesson that night we learned that Idaho has ducks too.

One of my favorite pictures of the kids down by the falls.

Primary Activity

We had a primary activity at newly remodeled Idaho Falls Temple visitors center. It was for families so Tyler and Olivia got to come with Sadie and I. The children were going to walk around the outside but it was to cold. The children watched a movie then listened to the Statue of Christ talk. After that they divided up into two groups and went to different stations. The kids were so cute. Tyler put his hand on his chin and watched. Olivia and Sadie walked around for part of it just holding hands. I highly recommend going and seeing the visitors center.

We cleaned out the garage and washed the van yesterday. While we were outside the garbage man came by. Tyler kept saying wow over and over. Afterwards the girls decided to wash out the garbage cans. They were having alot of fun spraying water. The garbage cans stink because of the grass clippings. Sadie went inside for awhile. I thought she disappeared because she was gagging. She came out with half of a plastic easter egg taped to her nose. It's a homemade gas mask. Olivia just walked around with her nose plugged. Tyler didn't seem to mind. He must have his dad's sense of smell.

California

We went to palm Desert with the Dorius family and had an amazing vacation. The kids enjoyed swimming and playing together. We put 2000 miles on our van. We aren't thinking about how much the gas cost for those miles. It was all about the memories for us and the kids.
Dorius Family - Mike, Alison, Kerry, Mckay, Grant.

On Sunday afternoon we took a walk to feed the ducks and see the area.

This day it got up to 120 degrees. We swam in the morning then went to lunch at the cheesecake factory. After that we tried going to a movie but missed it so we got icees in Target until the next movie started. During the movie no one noticed that Tyler was putting the popcorn down his shirt. When it was over he had a good stash.


Here's the kids just hanging out. Sadie, Alison, Olivia, McKay, Tyler, (Grant was sleeping)

We left Palm Springs and headed to Manhattan Beach to visit the Blanchards. They live a minute from the beach. Of course I left my camera in the car. It's probably a good thing though because I'm known to ruin electronics. It was such a beautiful area. My kids are still talking about how much fun they had playing with Ella and Cole. They loved digging for Sand Crabs and jumping over the waves.

Ella and Sadie

Tyler and Cole

Next stop on the trip was Henderson Nevada. We went to Brad and Danielle's house. The kids love to hang out with their cousins. We felt like we didn't get near enough time to visit everyone. It was all short hi's and good-bye's. Tyler and Olivia had to ride Acadia and Treyson's bikes.

Watching a movie.

Playing at the park

Danielle is helping Sadie rock climb.

This park had mountain goats that just hungout. They came running down the moutain pretty fast. I think Shane and I were more excited then the kids were about this.

This park also had some fun toys.