Summer...Had Me a Blast

Today was much like the Beach Boys song chorus "We'll have fun, fun, fun!"  It started with a surprise visit from this guy!

Which was awesome!  The kids loved seeing their elf in the middle of summer.  Plus, he brought a treat that I just don't buy.
After the shock value of having Jack here, we worked on making some Lego creations.  It was a lot of fun to get down and play with the kids.  Since we had the Lego event today, we wanted to make sure to enter the contest too.  The event it self was not fabulous, but the kids had fun.  They made Lego masks, Lego heads, and played with friends.  The one thing they did not love was the HEAT!

SO on the way home, we cooled down for a second at Great Harvest with a free slice of bread.  They walked back home.  On the way home Grandma Debby met up with us.  She suggested playing in the water in the backyard to cool down and it was a hit with all the kids!

After, it was off to track and more heat, but for a few moments it was a cool time in the summer heat!

My Elly

It seems impossible that my Elyse is 9 months old.  But she is.  She has been sort of scoot-crawling for the past several weeks, but got it down last week.  This week she has pulled herself up.  She is proving to be a little mover and shaker.

Learning a Skill

Yesterday, we went up to see the property that Grandpa Garry and Neeners are renting for the year.  It needed a little TLC, so that we can camping on the property.  So, we went to help.  There were some fallen trees on the property that would make good firewood, so Grandpa thought he would teach Coli a new skill.

Yep!  He was teaching him how to use a saw.  I am all for this skill as long as it is supervised.  Audra was happy to watch for a few minutes.

But, those that know little missy, know that it was just a few minutes until this little spitfire jumped into the mix.  She was not going to miss out on learning this skill.

Movie in the Park

The kids have been wanting to go to a drive in movie.  However, my hubby feels like the Redwood Drive In, is not a safe place to take our family.  So we have not gone.  He said if we found a movie outside at a park or something that would be closer enough.  Well, one of our friends told us that Cottonwood Height Rec Center was playing Frozen in the Park.
Once she committed to going, I was game.  I got Elly tucked into bed and Bri stayed with her.  Carter was having a planned sleepover, so I grabbed the big kids and we went to the park to see Frozen.  It was so fun, they even had a Scales and Tales event before the movie started.  Plus, Cami was a rockstar mom and brought glow in the dark bracelet/necklace kits.  The kids had a blast.  Carter and Lynnie both fell asleep, but it really was a fun night with the bigs!

Queen Audra Turns 5

This past Saturday, we celebrated my Audra.  She wanted a Frozen party oh so bad.  I worked hard to live up to her big expectations.  We had her friends come, which was the first year she could have friends, and her family attended too.  The list of people was quite long.  The party was held at G.G.'s clubhouse so we had plenty of room to spread out.  We started by giving all the kids Prince or Princess sashes, because it was coronation day.  Audra was of course the queen for the day.  They then colored, threw snowballs at the snow monster, pinned the nose on Olaf, and made bracelets.

 Pictured left to right Elsie Hubrich, Sadie Knott, Coli, Ellie Anderson, Audra, Shelby Andrews, Taylor Knott, Griffin Beeton, and Diem Bergstrom.  Not pictured Lorenzo Smith, Graham Beeton and Elyse

These beauties have grown up together since they were babies.  The 2 girls on the left moved to Pennsylvania just a few days after the party.  So this was the goodbye.  :(

What did you say...

Instead of meditating the kids say hemitating and then say om!om!

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A month or so ago, the big kids and Bri and I were watching BYU volleyball.  Bri and I were cheering for BYU and the kids the opposing team.  BYU was a head most of the match, but then lost a serve, so they were then down one.  Colin started to talk smack.  I then stated "Colin, it's not over til the fat lady sings."
He then turned to me in all seriousness and said "You just called me a fat woman."

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