We love Summer!

This is the picture out my window whenever Shaun mows the lawn. Isaak grabs his mower and helps his Daddy. Won't be too long before this is his job..... I wonder if he'll like it so much then? :) A Couple weekends ago we went to the Dinosaur Musuem at Thanksgiving Point with Nick and Sarah. Great times, as always!

Wow, that's really BIG!

The bride and groom to be..

Seriously, isn't Shaun the cutest Dad ever!?

My favorite. I totally think this should be our calendar picture for next year!

Last Sunday we went over to Cody and Danielle's for a BBQ. Angie and her sister were there, along with Cody's sister and his parents. There were so many kids, it was great! I don't think I knew where Isaak was half the time, but all the older kids were so sweet with him. It was great to see everyone and the dinner was AWESOME!

Here's Shaun and Cody...

Angie and Shaun...

Seriously, I am in LOVE with their back yard. I am begging Shaun to dig a hole so we can have a trampoline, too. Their layout was beautiful and the sunset just made it perfect.

Cody, Danielle, Angie and Shaun. Old BFF's!

X ray

You can see the snap on her right side. So sad!

Independence Day celebrations and a broken collar bone

Most Summer afternoons you can catch us hanging out in the front yard while the kids ride their MONSTER TRUCK! Tana has a Jeep, so if Abbie's joining us everyone gets to ride. Lila especially likes the pink Jeep!

And here's how cute the kids look when they're sleeping!

We celebrated on the 2nd of July this year. We split the cost with Sarah and Nick and bought a HUGE collection of fireworks from Costco. The only problem; HUGE party next door and we were flocked by about 30 kids. NO PARENTS! So it turned into a little bit of a babysitting job. Dispite all the kids, the fireworks were great, and company was great. We had a really fun night!

Shaun was our designated lighter of the fireworks.... Thanks, Honey!

I think this may have been the only time I saw Isaak that night. He was so excited to have so many kids around!

Lila with her boyfriend, Connor

Sarah, Nick, and Connor

The boys playing with fire

Had to include this picture, bedtime isn't complete without a story from Dad!

Ok, this next part is really hard for me to write about. I feel HORRIBLE about this. Yesterday I took a trip to the Library. Only errand I had to run yesterday. It was one catastrophe after the next. To start with, both kids were yelling in the library, then they just wanted to run around. I hurried and checked out my book and neither of them wanted to leave. I picked up Lila and started walking out in the hopes that Isaak would hurry after me. (love and logic, right?) He didn't. I came back to find that he had wet his pants, even though he had literally gone 15 min before! I hurried him to the bathroom and did what I could with him. Then we hurried out to the car. I quickly put Lila in her car seat, but Isaak was walking around the car where I couldn't see him. I was afraid he'd get hit by a car, so instead of buckling Lila in, I placed her in her seat and closed the door. I got Isaak buckled, then walked back to Lila's side. We have tinted windows, so I had no idea, she had stood UP in her car seat and was leaning against the door! When I opened it she tumbled out onto the concrete. ( this was the Durango, so pretty high!) I about died. I held her for 10 min in the car and she never stopped crying. Finally I put her (still crying) in her seat and hurried home. I dropped Isaak off with my sweet neighbor and took her to instacare. She finally stopped crying after half and hour but would start again anytime she had to move. Poor girl snapped her collar bone! I started sobbing when the doctor told me and I am now officially the World's Worst Mom! I love you Lila, and I'm SO, SO SORRY!!!!

Daddy and Lila after the doctor

Cmon Mom, no photos please! I don't have a shirt on!

We have to go back in to have X rays done in about two weeks and she gets to wear her cute Snoopy arm thing for about 4 weeks.

Visitors!

This last week has been full of visitors! First we had Lauren and Logan for one night. They are so cute with our kids! We went to Herriman Days and all the kids went on a ton of rides and had dinner. Then we came home and put our kids to bed and left Lauren and Logan as babysitters while Shaun and I went to see the new Pirates of the Carribean movie.

The next day we had Christian and Grace come visit for three days. We played lots of games, stayed up late watching movies, visited the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point, visited the Zoo, had a fire one night .... it was so great to have them here and spend some time with them! I wish I would have gotten some more pictures, I totally forgot to bring the camera to the museum.

Here"s Tana and Arianna ......

lookin at the monkeys

there's half of an elephant behind us!

Lila loved the baby elephant

They had Zoorasic Park going on at the zoo. Lots of mechanical dinosaurs. Isaak loved them more than the animals. :)

I think that gorilla just gave birth to Isaak!

watch out, it's hot on your bare legs!

we love giraffes!

horsey, horsey

yes, we have fires when it's still light out. We're goofy

Christian and Grace built at least 50 sand castles in our sand pit. You can also see part of my garden, all my plants are getting really big! I've already had some strawberries, the tomotoes are green on the vine, and my peas are flowering. We've been eating chard and lettuce for at least a month now, and my squash is just coming in!

Then minutes after losing Christian and Grace to Kim, we had Angela, Brady, Miriam, Sam, Charlotta, and Tristan come to stay! I WISH I would have taken more pictures when they were here. We only got them for 24 hours, but we wasted no time playing in the sandbox, playing games, watching movies and laughing! I love having them here! Then we had Sam's baptism which was AMAZING, (of course I forgot to bring the camera AGAIN!) and a family party afterwards...... and then we were done. I came home, cleaned the house from top to bottom and fell into bed. The next morning I was so sad that it was just us again, we had so much fun having everyone over!

There's 5 months in between these two, but Lila kept calling Tristan "The Baby" and mothered him all day. So cute together!