Boating

For Brookann's birthday my family went boating. Luckily Nathan found the sumo tube. He was so excited to try it. It was so funny!! My pictures just loaded in backwards order and I'm too lazy to fix them.... Here are the videos and pics from that day.
Scott and Nathan heading back into the wake.Nixon loving our kisses!! Ok so maybe he isn't loving them. but we love him!

There is his sweet smile!
Parker would switch between being very nervous and having fun. At that moment he was loving it!
My dad-we call him skipper when we go to Bear Lake because he drives the boat the whole time. Well he was the full time driver on this day as well.
Brook, Parker and Scott enjoying the front of the boat. Its my personal favorite spot as well. When I'm not trying to keep the wind out of babies faces.
Nathan and I. Poor Nathan, I like him to come with me but I always make the boat driver give us a fun/not crazy ride. And then I talk his ear off. But I always tell him the conditions and he still wants to be with me. I LOVE him!!
Me, steph Brook, Not a great picture but I'm going to be honest, I have no desire to be with the both of them on the tsunami at the same time ever again so this picture is history. Why am I being so rude? Well they were like wrestling pigs taking up 2/3 of the tube and inching closer and closer to me and everytime we hit a wave I fell off. I don't care about falling off I care about falling off because My sisters-who are 19 and 22 end up edging me off while they are fighting each other.

My mom was there too. She held babies the whole time and was in Heaven! And now for the sumo suit portion you have all been waiting for...
Me
Steph, Brook in the sumo suit and scotty

Scotty, Steph in sumo suit me
Scotty, Nathan
And Nathan was the lucky one to try it first. I tried it last. It was more fun watching the other people than actually being out on the water.

Sunday

I read in a book that children who read the comics are smarter than children who don't. So I started reading the comics to Parker on Sunday. It has become a fun tradition that Parker loves.For some reason that day I felt like documenting our life on Sunday so later in the morning when we all ended back in our bed I grabbed the camera to document our family time! Church at 1 is not my favorite but it has been fun to spend some lazy time together in the morning.

Where have I been??

I know you all have missed my blogging over the past 2 months. In fact I bet you just stopped checking my blog to see if I had posted. Well I just got done posting 3 very long posts chuck full of pictures. Honestly you have to love us very much be this interested in our family because it will take you awhile to get through all of my new posts.Today Parker went out to play in our garage. After a few min of playing I couldn't hear him anymore so I went to see where he was. I started laughing and ran for my camera.

Usually for about a half hour each afternoon Nixon wakes up before Parker and he gets some one on one time. So I took advantage of a great day. I think its a pretty fun picture.

Please enjoy the rest of the updates-we've been busy and we've had tons of fun!!

Kings Canyon and Bear Lake

In Backwards order here are our July Vacations. At the end of our Bear Lake adventure with my family our friends Dave and Aubree and Felipe and Andrea came up to spend a day on the Lake with us. We had so much fun it was a perfect day. Parker was so tired from our week festivities he fell asleep on Aubree. Isn't Will so adorable??
Nathan and Nixon.
Parker driving the boat for us!
Nixon loved being on the boat as long as it wasn't moving. Other wise he wasn't all too thrilled with it.
Gracie, Parker and Olivia helping make breakfast.
Nixon did a lot of sleeping at the beach.
My 3 boys!
The kids are wiped out after 3 long days at the beach and swimming all night, but it sure is fun fun fun!!!
From left to right Steph, Nicole, Mindi Brook, Jamie. Fun times!!
Parker loved the boat!
Nixon, Tate and Curt

Kings Canyon....
This is me trying to rock Nixon asleep in the hammock. He wasn't falling for it and it was just making me sleepy. I love the hammock!
This was part of our camping compound
From left to right Leif, Jace Zach Nathan and Brad finally making an appearance after being invited to come 20 min earlier. The boys were tired of waiting...
Blake and Parker playing with a truck
Me and Nixon on the river. It was hot there so we made a trip to the river twice a day this year.
Parker and Nathan.

Our little family.
Nixon loved the rocks. It was hard to keep him from putting them in his mouth.
Gabriel and Parker. They loved going around in the wagon.


This was how we got Parker to take a nap most days. It was good exercise riding around the camp ground.

4th of July and In the Garden

My inlaws have a great garden and the grandkids love to play it in. With only a few days left of the pea tunnels I had to snap a few pictures. Emma
Parker and Grace
Cecelia
Parker and Cecelia
Chloe
Jane
Sophie


Shannon Jane and Chloe. I'm missing Oliver but he wasn't in the garden at the time.

Also my cousins came down to see the Jonas brothers so for a few min before we had to head to our other family bbq we hung out with them. Parker LOVES having kids closer to his age to hang out with around my family. And he LOVES Gracie and Olivia
Here is Gracie!!
Parker, Olivia and Scottie. Olivia has a little crush on Scottie and Parker thinks he's pretty funny.
Parker played with the big boys during our bbq. He loved it.
Nothing says summer like parades and doughnuts.
I brought cookies to our BBQ's and this was Parker waiting for he dough to be ready to eat. We love our cookie dough at our house. I feel ya parker...