The 24th

We celebrated the 24th this year by going to Butlerville days with the Hansen side of the family. We saw the parade, where the kids got bags full of candy, then we went back to Ric and Jo's for dinner and fireworks. We had a great time and Isaak loved all the fireworks, he's so bummed that they are all done. The above picture is cousin Mac with Lila, these two will be great friends someday. Here's Shaun and Isaak during the parade.All the cousins waiting for the parade.

Fireworks at the house!

Isaak and Mac hanging in their step

Grandma Jones, Jo, and Ric

Jaden, Lisa, and Ty

and Kim!

Isaak and Mac

Goofball and Josh

Awww, isn't he cute!

The cousins. Jaden, Jaxson, Bentley, Isaak and Mac

Thanks Ric and Jo for having us over, it was lots of fun!

And of course I had to throw this in here, LILA HAS PIGGYTAILS!!!!

Happy Summer!!!

The Woodfords!

This last weekend we had a long overdue family campout! My Aunt Elaine has been reserving a private campground by Bryce Canyon every summer for two weeks for the last FIFTY years! They only do their family reunion every other year and she's been offering to let us use it every off year for a while now. She finally contacted me to see if I wanted to plan something, so this has been in the works since last November! I'm so glad we did this and it ended up being bigger than I initially thought. My brother Todd and his family were able to come from Australia and my brother Jon and his two kids were able to come from Texas. (Poor Laura had to work and we really missed her!) Even Melissa and Levi were able to come. The campsite was AWESOME! It was private, so we had our own gate and no one but us was allowed in. There was a huge table and fire pit area for our group gatherings. We were right by a beautiful lake that we took several four wheeler and motorcycle trips around. My cousin Kristin and her family were also up there, so some of us went fishing with them. My brother Jon brought some crafty stuff to do. He had PVC pipe that the kids made into bows and then they made arrows to go with them complete with feathers on the ends! He definitely won Uncle of the Week for most of the kids with his cool crafts. On Thursday afternoon most of us went horseback riding down into Bryce Canyon. (Thanks so much Todd for watching my kids so I could go!) We had several campfires and even had a movie night with the projector on the side of our camper. Lots of games, junk food, and catching up with my family. It was such a great week I think I'll definitely plan something again for next year!

Here's Lila in the Pack n Play, poor girl kept eating rocks if I let her on the ground.

Levi and Beth making their bows and arrows

Melissa doing her boondogle (I'm so glad they were able to come, too! They only found out a few days before that they'd be able to make it!)

Makayla doing her boondogle

Grace and Beth

Isaak on my dirt bike. This is ALL that he wanted to do everyday, ALL day! So many rides down the road!

Jon making fun of Rusty, on their way down to the lake

Beth (Thanks Dad for planning the horseback riding!)

Grace

It was so beautiful down in the canyon, and we only got rained on for a few minutes!

I was impressed with how well the little ones did

This is the last day of our trip. We hiked a tiny bit in the canyon.

Alisa, Jessie, and Ryan. She left right from this trip to Disneyland, lucky stinkers. So nice that she was able to leave the two little ones home and have some time with these two cuties.

I definitely embarassed myself a little by getting after all the kids for standing too close to the edge. I couldn't stop myself! I'm way too nervous!

Jon, Christian, and Grace

Me and my boy!

I just LOVE this gorgeous girl!

AND..... it wouldn't be a Patrea blog if I didn't throw in some pictures of the kids from the last month, so here you go!

We got to babysit Lincoln a couple days at the beginning of this month. It was so fun to have him around! Here are the two boys eating their lunch outside. ( Moments after them getting into the kiddie pool when I ran inside for a sec, clothes, shoes, and all!)

I wish that I'd gotten pictures of the Fourth of July! We went with our friends, Darin and Rachelle to a lake by our home. Then we did a GARGANTUAN pack of fireworks in the circle. My brother, Chris, and his family came with their fireworks and we put on a show! Lots of neighbors showed up to watch, good times!

Events in June

Here are some photos of what we've been doing this month. Here's some of hanging around the house...

One Sunday we went to the cabin and spent the afternoon there. So relaxing!

Our friendly moose that we saw right around the corner as we were driving away. (Makes me feel like such a great Mom for letting Isaak run around outside!)

This last weekend we left the kids with my sister and saw Tarzan at Tuacahn in St George. It was fun to spend some time with Shaun's Mom and Jay and the brothers.

She's crawling!

This just started last Thur, June 3rd. Within 30 minutes of her startin to crawl, she pulled herself up to stand. Clever girl!

7 things I love about Isaak

1. Once when I was changing his diaper, he went limp, closed his eyes and started snoring. Then he opened his eyes and said "sleeping!"
2. He went into the bathroom, pulled off a sheet of toilet paper, brought it to me, and tried to stick it in my pants. At least he's paying attention to what you use it for!
3. He'll go up to Lila, put his head on her shoulder, then say "Oh, I love you!"
4. When he's having a drink and it's only half gone, he'll say "all gone!" then laugh like crazy because he told a joke.
5. Whenever Lila is babbling he'll go "huh?"..... then look away, then look back at her dramatically and go "huh?" over and over.
6. Whenever I'm stressed I'll go " agggghhhhhh". Isaak is so good at picking up on my moods, that now whenever I'm getting stressed, he'll go "agggghhhh" before I even do it!
7. The nursery leaders at church complain that he kisses all the girls in the class. Better kissing that biting, right?

He's so funny now that he's getting his own little personality! I'm so lucky to have my little family, I love you guys!