Monday, July 25, 2016

Rebecca's Bachelorette Weekend!

I left Utah early to go to Austin for Rebecca's bachelorette weekend.

As soon as we got there, we got to put on these awesome tattoos. 

Here was the star of the weekend! 

We had a lot of fun out on Friday night. 

Saturday we went to a pole dancing class. 

 Here I am after the class. It was actually a lot more fun than I thought it would be. 

 Here I am with Rebecca at lunch. 

Then we spent the afternoon at Barton Springs. 

It was a super fun weekend, and I am so glad I got a chance to celebrate with one of my best friends. I can't wait for her wedding in September! 

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Summer Trip to Park City

 We took our annual summer trip to Park City, Utah to stay with Karen and Gregg last week.  The boys were so excited to spend time with their grandparents, aunts, uncles, and especially their cousins. 

 The kids loved playing together.

 They had so much fun going down this slide together. 

 They figured out how to go down together (against the rules...) and they were so proud of themselves. 


 I love seeing all the kids play together. 

Here are the biggest seven sitting on the couch watching a movie together. 

Tahl decided that maybe Ellie should be his girlfriend.  He kept telling me that she was cute. 

The kids had a lot of fun on the play ground together.  They were playing family where Tahl was the dad, Ellie was the baby, Ava was the big sister, and Harper was the mom.  Zev told them that he would be the family's pet Pokemon.

This year Brad got me my own "pizzookie."  I ate almost all of it until I felt sick.  I'm really not sorry though because it was worth it. 

Here are eight of the kids before tennis lessons.  

Zev decided that he actually really likes tennis. Tahl was not as much of a fan.

Here is Tahl hanging out with Harper and Ellie at the pool.  Tahl loved swimming and going to camp there.  He made lots of new friends. 

We celebrated Ava's sixth birthday early with some bowling and apple pie.

It was quite the celebration. 

I thought this picture of Karen and Noah was too cute. It is hard to believe that Noah is so big now.

Here is the only picture we got of all nine kids.  They had so much fun scooting around in the shopping center while waiting for their pizza. 

Thanks so much Karen and Gregg for always making sure that the kids can see their family and spend so much quality time together.  We love you guys! 




Sunday, July 10, 2016

We can never get enough of the zoo...

We went to the zoo again, of course. The boys had fun with their friends Maddie and Ella. We got some good elephant statue pictures.



The boys had fun feeding the birds. 


Tahl got a bird on his arm. 

It was scratching him, so he switched it to Zev.

Then it thought my head might be a better spot.

... or Isaac's...


Maybe Zev's?

Then we got some pony rides.

Isaac said he was going to do it, but when he got up there, the pony was just too big.  Maybe some day he will decide to try it. 

When we went to play in the water, Zev was obsessed with this butterfly. He made me take its picture. 

He got it to land on him two or three times.  

We rode the carousel on the way out as usual. 


Isaac didn't even make it the highway before he fell asleep. 

When we got home, we had to have another wedding.  As you can tell from Zev in his undies, it was a much smaller event than our last wedding. 

Isaac did get to come this time, and he really enjoyed it. 

Friday, July 8, 2016

Doughnut picnic

While Ari was out of town on a business trip, I took the boys to the park in the morning for a doughnut picnic. It was a win/win because I didn't have to make breakfast, and they got to play at the park before it was too hot.



These were some chocolate covered boys.

 This was a dragon's nest on this day.

Love this guy.

This is truly my son reading up in play structure.  That is something I would have done... (and did do on the monkey bars...) 

Isaac and I were going down the huge slide. He was so excited.

He also did some swinging. 

When we got home, we put in some quality pool time. We have spent lots of time in our pool this summer. 

 Isaac had on an outfit later that was too good not to take pictures of. 


I kept trying to get him to take more pictures, but he just wanted to take a selfie... 


I think Isaac may be a little sad when his big brothers go back to camp in a few weeks...