playing with cousins!!!

we have been super busy and enjoying our summer!   

lots of cousins coming and going all the time.  swimming,  waterparks, ice cream trucks,

night games, tan lines, popsicles, butt scooters, bike rides, etc, etc, etc...

we love it!

we had the arizona cousins come to visit & johnson cousins from california and idaho!

tyler came and entertained all of us every night with fireworks.  

he is the best entertainment! haha

i absolutley love cousins! my kids have so many on both sides of the family

 and also with the hansen family {extended cousins} we have so many and

 they are all so close.  it's pure 'heaven on earth!'

 

cousins getting ready to head off to EFY.

 witters and ally fully enjoyed each other  the whole week!  

savvy and livi

one night our neighbors were throwing the kids so high in the air with a blanket!! 

all the little cousins had turns except hayes, he was NOT interested at all! 

 it was kinda freaky! ha

the older kids loved it, but the little ones were the ones who got big air!

Boston

olivia

  'Jump on it'

swimming at the burr's house.

Our favorite pool!

hanging with our cousins...

My sister rachel and her girls came to visit for their spring break. 

one of her daughters{lauren} is at BYU and one is at Utah State 

{jackie, she has the twin babies}and then of course us SISTERS!

 they came and we played with them all week. 

and to top the week off.  My mom and Joe came to play as well. 

kids were in heaven with all their cousins and crazy papa joe joe.

we ate out ALOT! went to see this movie, shopped, played with the twin babies,

 night swimming, jump on it, watched plenty of basketball with "Jimmer", and provo beach resort. 

good times! 

*******

Provo Beach Resort.

always a blast!

 We love boy/girl twins in our family.~wink

***Malawi's pizza***

{my absolute fav!!}

*****Jump on it****

{st. patricks day}

night swimming at aunt rachel's hotel.

awesome!  

we pretty much dominated the pool everytime we went swimming!

'BINGO' ...

with grandma marlene is what my kids will always remember. 

 I love that my mom plays this with the kids everytime she's with them. 

 I remember playing it when i was little. 

my kids Love this!

 my kids with Grandma marlene and Papa Joe

St. Patty's day.

we filled up our "st. patrick's day" with plenty of festivities!

my kids were excited to wear green, eat leprechaun cereal, and drink green milk!

~those sneaky leprechauns. ;)

 my kids have this silly obsession of making a trap to catch the leprechauns!  boston was totally helping them to make some sweet traps.
i love that Boston gets super into it and made his own homemade note to the little kids from the Leprechauns.  Is that not the cutest older brother or what??

I surprised my kids and made them all green lunches!

livi and hayes only get a snack, so when i picked them up from school i asked "did you love your green surprise snack?"  and livi said "well i gave my green jello to evelyn because it looks yucky, but i ate the chips"

~stinker children! ha

off to school...

  then after olivia & camry finished up at dance we headed straight over to "jump on it"

 with our cousins, grandma & papa joe .

we had the whole place to ourselves!! 

So. much. fun

shae/sav/sarah

Ivy and her bff aunt Rachel

"jump on it" now has their 'foam pit' area open and it is incredible!!   

such a cool part of going there now.  Boston is such a trickster, i could watch him

 all day long on that thing.  

He pulls out tricks and flips and makes it look easy!

  

he did a double front flip, double lincoln? and a gainer and a half. 

 into the foam pit!  looks sooooo fun!

Sundance...

we've had a fun filled busy weekend with Lots of boys...and my 2 girls!

my friend Cynthia and her hubby Michael went to california for a much needed
"birthday getaway!" 

 So her 4 boys came to play with us  these last few days.  oh yah, 8 kids!  Cory loved going
 to church with all of them on sunday, It felt like old times for him.  He is one of 8 kids!  

whomever has more than 4 children is pretty much my HERO!

Remember this post?  

 We love having these boys come and hang out with us.  they rock!  These guys were 

our neighbors in our last neighborhood and we still hang out as much as possible. 

Boston and my kids were in heaven!  playing xbox daily, dsi's, jump on it,
Tepanyaki and the Emergency Room!  

yep, apparently when you have all boys playing tackle football at jump on it then

 someone usually breaks something!  In our case it was Jacob! He broke his nose.  

He's 8 and SO SO tough.  He didn't even cry.

x-rays showed just a slight crack and everything will heal on its own, just fine. 

 ahhhhh... nothing like someone getting hurt while your babysitting them!

needless to say, this did not stop them from playing, wrestling and skiing!

we all took the day off on Monday since it was Incredibly, beautiful weather here in utah...

the two little boys had a ski day for their school on monday so they were in a 

lesson while i skied with Boston, Luke and Zach!

i pretty much just followed them everywhere and video'ed them at the "Terrain Park"  these boys seriously tried everything!  I love how awesome at skiing they are. 

Boston was catching some sweet air and criss-crossing his ski's while jumping!  

I love this!!

the pictures are lame because i only had my flip video... these pics are from my phone.

Proof that I took 5 boys skiing!

jump on it...

Fathers Day Weekend...

Consisted of a Primary activity on Saturday morning with Breakfast with the Dads, then we went to "Jump On it" with the Carsons, and Curry's. We all left there ate lunch at Cafe Rio, and Swam at the AF Rec center (Super cute kids area). Boston had his Indoor Soccer game , then we headed to Happy Sumo for some Dinner. It was Busy but so fun!

Camry, Olivia & Witney

Baby Camden, who is sooooo Dang cute

Hayes jumping around in his Daddy's hat...He wanted to wear a hat like his buddy KJ!

Cory jumping with his Trick board

Witney doing a backflip

Boston backflipping

Carson & Hayes

Hayes & Olivia loving having their own trampoline to jump on.

We know we are spoiled rotten because we have the Best Daddy in the whole wide world! These kids WORSHIP their daddy. Ever since we have had Hayes & Olivia, you can see Cory's heart soften big time,(could be because he has a baby girl) he is such a Succor now and they just all MELT his heart! We love you Cory.... Happy Fathers Day!

Olivia: "daddy your muscles sure are big"! ;)