Baby Bouquet for Colt

My friend Pam had a new baby boy named Colt. This is the baby bouquet I made for him.
I painted the kabob sticks white to match and filled in the extra spaces with suckers, (making sure not to put any pink ones in.) Inside of the vase there are some starbursts and more suckers. (No pink in there either.) I like to add candy to these because that gives the older siblings and mom something too!

Rolled up on this side are a couple of blue onesie shirts and a striped pair of pants to match.

Rolled up on this side are two bibs that I made.

6 kids, 5 days, 4 nights = FUN!

We had so much fun having Reagan, Gavin and Payton out for a few days. Here are a whole bunch of pictures of some of the things that we did while they were visiting. Corden and Reagan were best pals the entire time! Which was a bit strange because these two can really butt heads. Of course we played in the water! (Every day except Sunday!)

We went four wheelin on Saturday. I had Payton on my back in the pack and Gavin in front of me.

And Stan had everyone else with him!

The kids sure loved to play with the marble run toy. We made it really tall so the kids had to go up the stairs to drop the marbles in.

We made smoothies on Saturday. Even Jett enjoyed some!

Payton would have eaten 10 popsicles if I would have let him! Oh wait, Payton would just keep eating forever if you let him!

Gavin enjoying a nice cold one!

Kyler, Reagan and Corden slurpin' it up!

We roasted hot dogs and marshmallows Saturday evening. Ryker was the most patient 2 and a half year old I've ever seen. His hot dog was perfect!

Everyone else... not quite as patient. But hot dogs roasted over a fire taste good no matter what they look like, right!

And of course, the marshmallows!

Reagan sure can eat a lot of smores!

And Kyler was a close tie for second!

Last but not least, we finally got the kite up Sunday afternoon. WoO HoO! We had tried before, but the wind was never windy enough to keep them up for long. So it was pretty exciting! What a fun week!

We Have Visitors!

So here's the situation... My awesome cuz Brandi watched my boys while I was at girls camp. So I am watching her three kids while her and her hubby Ryan are in Salt Lake. They got here yesterday, (Wed.) and will be staying with us until Sunday. It's gonna be some crazy fun around here!

Visitor #1: Payton

Visitor #2: Gavin

Visitor #3: Reagan

And Visitor #4: Jett

Have fun in SLC Brandi and Ryan and we'll see you on Sunday!

Fun with Friends

We had a fun day today with some friends! The kids love to play together and I love having the moms there to have some adult conversation too! :o) Thanks Moms!This was the "talking tree"!

Trixie was having so much fun pouring water on the other kids. So funny!

Go Madelyn- Go Mack!!!

Two babies came to the party. Mason....

and Landon.

Pam and Brittney were the designated "swing pushers"! Annette and I watched from our comfy chairs in the shade!

Towards the end of the party we all had fudge bars.

Oh no, he's not crying because he has a brain freeze- he's crying because Annette wanted a bite too! No worries, he was fine once the fudge bar was put back in his mouth! What a great party!

Water Day Fun!

Finally the weather is warm enough to play in the water! So the boys invited Trace, Shaylee, Bellamy, Jaya and Rawley over to enjoy it with them! Kyler rippin it up!

Bellamy heading down the slip-n-slide!

Corden seeing if his Wal-mart bag would make him slide faster!

Trace tearing it up!

We always end up sticking the slide over the edge of the pool, (makes it so much more fun)!

Check out that line for the slide! It's just like a water park!

WoOo HoOo! Ryker couldn't get enough!

Kyler always has to have his projects. This was his "sun tanning" spot. The kids thought it was the greatest thing! What a perfect day for Water Fun! Hopefully we will keep getting more days like this for a while!

A SunBEAN!

GIRLS CAMP

This week was girls camp and it was so much fun! The girls learned how to make emergency shelters with a tarp, some twine and trees. I can't believe these two got in there- that tarp smelled really bad!
Brianna was one of our ward camp directors. She introduced us to "Hiney Writing"! Something I will never forget! SO funny!

This is Mary. SHe was our other camp director. She introduced us to " The Snorts"! Also something that I will never forget!

This was one of the best water fights that I have ever had!

We made magnet boards for our stake craft.

Our "Matchmaker, matchmaker make me a match" skit was INCREDIBLE! (Of course)

The girls are trying to see how many of them can cram on one little carpet mat here. It was really fun to watch!

Jenny and Brittney came up Thursday and brought up ice cream, root beer and doughnuts. We used some of the dry ice that was keeping the ice cream frozen to make a couple of bombs. This big one was SUPER LOUD!

Here we are waiting for it to explode. It took a few minutes before it went boom!

These are the pieces that were left after it went boom! What a great week at girls camp! It really was a "BLAST"!

Rapelling With My Fellow Leaders!

We always go rapelling the day after hikes up at girls camp. I'm so happy that they let the leaders do it too! I love it!
Mary, Brittney, Brianna, Jenny and Me are the leaders from our ward that came down the rock. We're pretty much "ROCK"STARS now!
Does this harness make my butt look big?-- Don't answer that!

Mary was hillarious coming down the rock! The screams started at the top and didn't stop until she touched down at the bottom. It was great!

Brianna coming down the rock!

Brittney coming down the rock!

Jenny coming down the rock- Woo Hoo!

WHAT A RUSH!!!!