Friday, July 11, 2008

Family Fun

I think I have said a million times... I LOVE COMPANY! This week both JessieBob and Kandis were visiting. One of (just ONE of) the great things about when the Aunts visit.... they spend LOTS of time entertaining the kids, so its almost like a vacation for me... although I do cook the meals... they even clean up!!! Yep... vacation!!!
The first night there were here we decided to go for home cooked goodness... a barbecue and the first corn on the cob of the year.... how much fun do you think one could have with corn on the cob?.... well, I'll tell you...

(ok, not actually corn... but since she's the one that started the whole thing I had to put in a picture of her eating something!)
On Monday, one of the first things that was done was a car wash!

After all Kandis' car did sit for months, so it was in need... although there was actually some other ideas for the "car wash" namely.... WATER FIGHT!!!


I decided to just be around long enough to take a few pictures... then I was off... grocery shopping without the kids.... I think I said it before.... vacation!!!


Then, on Tuesday, we actually got to have a girls night. We ate a ton of popcorn and watched one of my favorite movies (Griffin & Phoenix) that I have been wanting to watch with them for like a year... and BALLED OUR EYES OUT! What better for a girls night than balling your eyes out, right?!?!

That was obviously the before picture!

On Thursday we all loaded up and headed up to the canyon. This has turned into one of our favorite things to do. We went up to a lake called Silver Lake... I am sure it is the coldest spot in the Wasatch front!!! Seriously! When we got there Jessie jumped right in and played with the kids




then after an hour or so Kandis decided to join in... although.... her jaw hurt... or something... so there was a big fight trying to get her into the water... but her jaw hurt (?!?!?)


so after enough squealing and screaming the girls gave up trying to get her in any further and she played some Frisbee with Canyon (oh yes... his bliss)


then daddy decided he needed to learn to swim... or look at fish... or something. Anyway... it was very cute



Our skinny minny Ashlyn, with 0% body fat, could only stay in the water for a few minutes at a time. I tried to take a picture of her purple lips, but it didn't come out too clearly




THEN I decided I would make my grand entrance... Oh holy night!!! THAT WATER IS COLD!!!! Come to find out it wasn't so much that Kandis' jaw hurt (whatever!), as the water was just physically painful to be in (we still cant figure out why she didn't just say something like that)! I don't know how the kids played for so long!

Nope, no pictures of me in the water.... this was one of the only pictures giving proof that I was actually there... I sure love my husband.
After a few hours in the sun we decided it was time to load up. We had a really fun day, and thankfully up in the mountains it is about 10 degrees cooler than it was at home, so with the water and the breeze and the cooler temperatures it was... as Canyon would say.... awesome!

2 comments:

dippyrooroo said...

Wow! That looks like so much fun! I loved the picture of you and CJ together. It's written all over both of your faces that you are still so much in love! It's beautiful! And I know what you mean about not having photographic evidence that you're at any of these great family activities! It's ridiculous isn't it?! It's just another one of those things that makes us moms 'saintly'. ;)

The Pyper Fam said...

Oh how I miss you guys! You always know how to have a good time! You are lucky to live so close to such a beautiful place! (so are we) :) I can't believe how big your kiddos are getting!