Grace Fair

On August 9th, I rode up to the Grace fair with the kiddos & Justin's parents {they had Shae & Dylan} We kind of just hung out all day, ate yummy lunch & pie, checked out all the fair animals, looked at the many booths, we even watched some teams try & pen numbered cows --then ended up letting the kids {and grandma} go on a few rides :) before we called it a day!

Shae, Cub, Ten, Dyl

lookin' at the lambs

Dylan & Tenley were so cute holding hands, waiting their turn for the ride!

Cub

Ten, Gram, Dyl on the ride, I didn't know how Tenley & Dylan would like this ride, but once they were on it & going they loved it! & wanted to go again!

Shae & Carter all grown up on the ride by themselves!

Carter trying to climb up the rope

Running thru the water!

It was such a fun day, the 4 grand kids all play so cute together & love spending time together every chance they get! Tenley fell on the gravel right as we were leaving & got a pretty good road rash on her knee, so she cried the whole way home about her "owee" hurting! Everyone was tired & worn out by the time we got back home!!

1st Day of Dance!

This little sassy pants has been waiting months for dance to start, she has been dying to have something {for her} to do... So on August 7th, she went to dance for the very first time!! She was beyond excited. She had been wearing her {dance} clothes & shoes around the house for months! She's been a dancer since about 9 months & loves to dance & be dressed up!

poser!

brotherly love

mom a bit sad my baby girl is all grown up!

moochies

ready to go, dance bag & all!

She has been going to dance for a few weeks now, & she has good weeks & bad weeks. She LOVES it once she is there & I am gone, its the dropping her off part that she isn't use to. {shes been at home with me for 3 years so I don't blame her} so we are working on it. But her teacher {Kim Hobbs} helps out tons & gives her more attention if needed. She said she knows all the taps & moves, & does fine once I am gone. So that's reassuring!!  It's so cute telling her the night before that she has dance, because she loves to set her bag out, make sure her dance shoes are in it & get her outfit & bow all ready :)! Dancing is cute for while she is little, but she's gonna be molded into a soccer player here in about a year ;)   Love you little drama dancing queen!

Fun Park!

It seems like no matter how many times our kiddos have been to the Fun Park, they are still begging grandma Buppy to go every time we go out there or are with her!

Deal or No Deal

Ten driving the car

Dac & Ten shooting baskets

4 spoiled grand kiddos!

Playing Deal or No Deal

I must say I think Deal or No Deal is the top favorite. Sometimes you win 200 tickets, sometimes you win 5 tickets but its the most exciting game there! :) Thanks for spoiling the kiddos, we enjoy every day we get to spend with you!

Camping up the Narrows!

August 3rd we went camping up the Narrows with a couple of our friends! The kids had so much fun, there was a little sand box, horse shoe area they sat & played in...We tented it once again, the kids are getting use to the tent & slept great at night. Tenley got a little moody in the day, but napping while camping is nearly impossible with her, so we just dealt with her :)

Hanging out by the fire with dad

The 3 girls sittin by the fire. Tay, Ten, Sasha

Cub & Jarrett playing.

Saturday day we all went up to the dam & let the kids swim & catch crawdads, none of them had caught crawdads before so the kids were really excited to see what they were like

Dixon & Justin with all the kiddos {Nate was being a party pooper & wouldn't get in & swim with all the kids}

the kids took turns jumping to them

Jarett & Carter

3 girls having a snack break

the boys catching craw dads

me & Cub floatin!

Saturday we decided to give floating the river a try. It was quite the adventure, we tied all of our tubes together. The guys had went into town & bought the cheap black {kid type tubes} so it was pretty comedy watching Nate & Justin try & float on those :) When we tried to stop & get out by our camp, it was a little crazy, the water was so shallow but it was like the fastest part. So it took a lot of work getting all of us to shore! We had a great time, we sure love getting together with our friends.
 {Jake & Christina made the trip over from Wyoming but only stayed Friday night, til Saturday morning, glad they could make it up though, our kids love Taylee & Tayson}

Rodeo Days {Carnival}

Of course we did the parade all 3 nights! Nothing better than a long parade with lots of treats! We found a shady spot to sit , that wasn't crowded...

Ten, Cub, Dylan, Shae & Hudson

Cowboy Cub!

Getting some candy!

Tenley catching candy with her hat!

Ricky gave us free tickets to Thursdays rodeo, so we went & sat in there for a few events then once the lines to the rides had died down a little bit, we went & did a few more rides...

kid roller coaster

carousel

Cub sliding!

We sent Tenley down the slide by herself, she came off her gunny sack & almost ended up in the other slides lane! They both liked the little rides & wanted to go on them all night~When we first got to the carnival Justin asked Carter if he wanted to go on the Zipper, & showed him which ride it was...I looked at Justin like "seriously". Well Carter ended up saying yes, & never chickening out {after waiting in line for like 35 minutes, I thought he might get a little nervous & change his mind} He was barely tall enough, but since Justin was going with the guy let him go.

Giving the guy their tickets

off they go

I could hear Carter squealing a little bit at first, but when they got off, he said it was a little scary at first but he liked it, I was so shocked! This little stud we use to have to talk into going on rides & throwing darts at balloons because it was too loud is on the zipper! Man they grow up so fast!!!
Saturday we went to the rodeo. Its a must every year! The kids were really good & watched the whole rodeo. We passed Tenley back & forth between my parents {in a different section} & us. They did ask for a caramel apple part way thru. :)

enjoying their caramel apples

Love these kiddos!!!

 This weekend is always so sad when its over because its like the last little fun hoo-raw before summer is over!!

July 24th Ward Party

Our ward had a party the night of the 24th of July out at the Bishops property {such a perfect location, & so pretty}. The kids were supposed to dress up like pioneers, I think our kids were the slim few that actually dressed up in their "pioneer attire" but that's alright because they looked cute & had a blast! The primary kids marched around & sang some songs, played games, went on MANY train rides {behind the 4wheeler} & played on play ground.

There was a ride similar to this one, & right when we got there Carter said he wanted to go on it with Rhett. I couldn't believe he was brave enough to get in & do it!

Tenley even ended up getting in & riding it {didn't make her go upside down}. The ward cooked a pig & it was delicious. The Bishop spent half the night driving the kids around behind the 4wheeler in the train-the kids couldn't get enough... We have such a fun ward & everyone is so nice & easy to get along with!!!

Twin Lakes

The next weekend over the 19th we went to Twin Lakes with my family. We've tried to make it a tradition to go every year over the 24th, this year it finally worked out! My parents took their boat & trailer, & us kids tented it. The grand kids of course slept in the trailer with grandma & grandpa!

Watermelon smiles!

eating cheeseburger

Tay trying out the rope swing

Tenley being her crazy self :)

Bup & Ten on the boat!

notice the bandaid on Carter's chin, he totally ate it down this big hill that him & Dac were riding their bikes down. He is lucky alls he got was a few scrapes because he hit hard, it even scrapped up his bike a little bit!!!

grandma enjoying the grand kids on the boat

Justin got the privilege of going with the kids on the tube this time around. As you can see Carter was doing thumbs up 90% of the time.

Justin jumping the wake, he actually landed this one. In all the other pictures I either missed him all together in the picture or hes crashing :)

Brandon & Dac. Dac got up on the wake board so easily.

Daddy & Ten being the flag girl

At night we all sat down on the shore & watched the Clifton fireworks. The fireworks were so spread out, that we started a game of guessing what coloring the next firework would be, the kids thought that was a pretty entertaining game!

Fireworks on the shore

Gram & Ten

Grandma & pa with all the grandkids, but Dani {they came for the day & spent a few hours visiting}

Brandon & his kiddos! {trying to keep their eyes open :)}

It's so much fun boating especially now that all the kids are getting old enough to kind of do their own things. Dac & Tay love to knee board. They are pros at 3-60's & going over the wake...Its nice because my dad has it set up so that 2 people can knee board or whatever at the same time, that way everyone gets turns faster {kids tend to be impatient sometimes}. Me & Tenley knee boarded quite a few times,we even kind of crashed one time & she still wasn't afraid to go again- We finally talked Carter into knee boarding {he didn't want to try it this year, even though he had done it in the years past} so literally as we were loading the boat, he got on the knee board with me & of course, loved it!!! I think we would boat all day long, every day! I look forward to next year :) !