Last days of summer pictures...

Here a few last pics from the summer, not sure if I showed these of the girls from Girls camp, in Heber Valley. We climbed up a post that was 30 feet up and then had to walk across a beam that wasn't flat and then at the end you got to ride a zip line down. It was very scary but very spiritual at the same time, because it was all about teamwork and leaning on our Father in Heaven for support and Guidance, the girls did great! I was the scardy cat!

These are out of order, this is Liz going down the zip line.

She just got done walking across the beam.

She is very intent, she wasn't gonna go if I didn't do it too. I told I was and so she did!

Zip line

Walking across, she was like la de da no big deal....

from the ground up it didn't seem that far up till you were at the top.

Cousins!

Don't have any idea what they are doing????

I like this pic of all of us, you can hardly see lexi we are all so close

riding the bus to girls camp

It was Lexi's first year!

We had a rain storm and Jason told all the kids to go play in it, so they did, and it was coooooold!

Kinda blurry one of Addi jumping in the rain

Liz decided that she didn't want to get her hair all wet, so she missed out on the fun!

I found Addi one morning sitting here watching the rain fall so I decided to take a picture. I like the next one alot.

He was being so quiet, I asked him why he was sitting there and he told me he was waiting for the rainbow.

Creative happenings, but not mine...

These don't make any sense so read below first and then come back and look at this....

As most of you know I married to a very talented artist, for those who don't you are missing out! He has come up with some pretty cool stuff lately and I thought that I might share what he has made with the rest of the family!

This is something he did for work, they are going make 2 more of these "Smart Space Gallery's" for students at BYU to display art work. This stands outside the art dept in the HVAC. Its really neat and looks really cool! Right now the artist is showing her work in it and more will in the future. If he can get it to grow he might add some to BYUI and BYU Hawaii!

To bad this piece is sideways, its really a simple piece and apparently if you understand art you would get this piece, I kinda do but not really.

This is another coke bottle piece and it looks really cool next to the other coke pieces he has done.

He has done a lot of neon type pieces, this one is called Sundowner Lodge.

The inside

This one is really so cool, he did this after the Grand canyon trip with the BYU kids and when he took Lexi and Anni.

Close up.

Jason had a bunch of kids from the trip write their thoughts on the back, including the girls.

He is making a bunch of pieces now because he has a show summer 2011 at a gallery in SLC. I will post more of those as he finishes them.

First day of school 2010

Lizzie is a Freshman this year! We are fortunate to have the Jr High grades be 7th thru 9th grade. So technically she is a Senior at the Jr high, weird I know. She is excited for school but I think that wont last long when school really starts to get going for the year.

Lexi is in 7th grade and is now part of the big kid crowd even though she is probably the smallest in her class. She says that she can never open her locker and gets lost in the halls a lot. She didn't have school the same day as Liz, because they let the 7th graders go by themselves the first day and then the 8th and 9th graders go the next day and then everyone goes together on the third day. Its is nice because they have a chance to get the hang of things before the bigger kids get there. So even though she didn't have school she still had to get up for this picture and scriptures and prayers before everyone left for the day.

For some reason my kids think its cold when its really not???? Aleah is in 3rd grade this year and has 2 teachers. One teaches math and science in the morning and the other she goes to teaches English and history after lunch. Its kinda neat that they do that.
Annika has the same teacher this year that Lexi had last year (Mr. Murry) he is a great teacher, lots of fun and Annika came home the first day and told me that he had a real live tarantula in his classroom that she was gonna find grasshoppers for. (Gross and Creepy) if it was me I would check everyday to make sure he was in the cage (remember arachnophobia NA?)

I think this will be a fun year for them and full of exciting things!

Addi has to wait another year for kindergarden, he is really wanting to go to school, but for now he will just have to play with Tucker a bunch!

Pioneer day Celebrations!

So here in Utah Pioneer Day is bigger than the Fourth of July. I know weird right? Well they have all kinds of actives and fun stuff to do. One of those activities is the kids parade, last year our wards kids float made it into the big 24th parade. This years theme was "surround Yourself..." and they did surround yourself with happiness. Our ward won best use of the theme. We only have 3 kids left in primary, they had fun but it was already hot and it was only 9am!

Can you see Aleah?

I didn't know Addi rode here in the corner "with no hands Mom!" I was a little freaked out till one of the leaders said that he was holding onto the chair...whew!

Notice Annika's runway stance again?

I turned these pictures, sorry. This one was facing away from the sun.

This was the end of that day and the sunset was just so pretty.

More randon pics from July

Here are just a few more pictures that I have from the Nunnellys visit and the Fourth of July. We got this trampoline at the beginning of summer and boy have we ever gotten our moneys worth! Even my neighbor said so and the Stake president commented on it (more on that later). We are so happy to have a trampoline, I have always wanted one!

The kids are all taking turns at Trampoline dodge ball, 4 on at a time and when one gets hit with the ball they get off and another from line gets on. We had some bad throws by the dads, kids were getting hit Above the waist..not good!

Georgie is telling her dad how to throw the ball.

Uncle Warren throws pretty hard!

We lost the ball in the street a couple of times and the kids were relaxing and taken unaware when the dads would throw it super fast.

After baths and and Jammie's we got to go outside at light our fireworks. In Utah you can light 3 days before and 3 days after, the kids have a lot of fun watching and lighting those.

Georgie would get sooooooo excited that she would hug you and just about pop your head off!

All the kids were scared to light the fireworks, that's good because it shows that they don't play with fire that often.

The colors were super cool!

Notice that Kamy is covering her ears? She didn't really like the loud ones. We had tons of fun with all the kids, we hope that the Nunnellys can come again, only this time with the whole family and under less stressful circumstances. We are all so happy that our little Nephew is doing well. We love you Kimble!

I learned to Swim today!

The kids could hardly stand here for this picture, they wanted to swim so bad. I like Anni in this picture, she looks like she is getting ready to walk down a runway or something and see the wind blowing her hair back. I think its funny.

It was a HOT day but also cold cause the wind was blowing. If you got out of the pool you were cold, but if you stayed in it was just right.

George was ready to swim! Although I had her change her suit cause the top on the other one protected her arms and shoulders and that is what we like.

In this pic Keaton is telling me that he taught himself to swim and I was to watch what he did.

This is what he did, I tried to get him to not hold his nose but he said he was still learning. I told him good job and he would be a pro in no time!

Eating fruit snacks, cheezits and drinking ice cold juice boxes. They do a pool check every hour and so we would lay on the cement to get warm and dry off a little before they let us go back in.

Kami at first didn't want to go on the slide, but after about an hour she decided she was gonna go for it.

You really don't go very fast unless your name is KIM.. I cant seem to slow myself down enough and I always hit the water doing 60!

Lexi went with her.

Cousins having fun! Emma got to come with us while her mom was having a baby, yea Aunt Autumn!

Can you see Keaton?

He went down the slide like 10 times.

We had fun! I wish we could go again tomorrow, but its supposed to be only in the 80's. It will also be super crowded cause of the fourth of July holiday, so we are gonna go have a picnic in the park!