Summer cont 2

One post isn't quite enough when you have such a big family!  If you are thinking....well where's the photos of Scott's family?  Well this is MY blog (JK)!  We did spend time with them (I just don't have the photo evidence).  Well ok maybe a few pics...

On Sunday we spent all day with Jeppersons.  We went to church Sacrament meeting at our previous Ward.  We had the privilege of attending a baby blessing that evening.  Scott's niece, Jami & her husband Tim blessed their daughter, precious, little Emi at his parent's home (picture above)

One of the joys of having a big gap in the age of our kids (almost 10 yrs) is that your nieces & nephews have kids closer to yours.  Who would've thought we would have a kid about the same time as them!  I remember when they were babies themselves (ok not the 4 older ones) but they were close enough!

Shalyse & Addison

The 3 Musketeers

Shalyse (2), Emi (3 mo), Addi (1)

I have a similar picture of 3 other babies on that exact same couch (maybe a different color then).  Those babies were Kayla (16), Nick (15) & Ariana (15).  They were all born within 3 months of each other & now in high school.  My how time flies!

The last day we were in UT, we tried to think of something fun to do (that we already hadn't done) with the Dunfords & Snyders (that didn't involve being outside. Remember 100 degree weather? After several failed attempts...or not being creative enough we decided just to meet at Scott's parents house around 4 & spend some time just hanging out before going out to dinner.  Scott had wanted to go to his favorite Chinese restaurant, the Mandarin.  Of course with a big family, it's difficult to get everyone together but we were happy to have those who could make it join us!  Lisa, Nick, Greg, & Greg's 's mom Maggie, Addi (without her parents) came with Lisa & Greg, Julie & Chuck(without any kids), Scott's parents, & of course our family.  Julie took the pictures above after we got home.  What a great looking family if I do say so myself!  I'm glad we got to spend some a little time with those we love!

Summer cont

In July we made our annual summer trek to Utah.  I guess you could say it was a family reunion for both sides of the family.  My sister's family (minus her oldest, Ariana) were there.  We hadn't seen the whole family in about 6-7 years.  Most of Scott's family were there as well.  One day we might get Heather & her family to join us.  It's always a little bit tricky to juggle spending equal time with all of our family when we go to UT.  We try our best to split up who we stay with.  This time just happen to be the Jeppersons, which worked out because my sister & her family were staying at my Dad's.  My Mom has a 2 bedroom townhouse, which makes it a little too squishy for our family of 6 to stay with her.  We stayed for a week & as most vacations go we crammed in as much as we could.


Here's the photo recap:

                                                   
                                                Standing in line for the Park City alpine slide

Swimming at Grandma's pool

 Couldn't resist putting this picture here

Three towel head girls (reminds me of how my 2 sisters & I use to do this same thing after we got out of the shower)

                              We had a great time EXTREMLY HOT day at Lagoon Amusement Park

   I wished I would have taken a picture of all of us, but we were rarely all together.  That's the joy of having mostly teenagers & 3 younger ones.  You spend most of your day riding the kiddie rides (waiting in line for them)!  Some of the fun rides of the day were Cliff Hanger, Wicked, Bombara, & getting SOAKING wet on Rattlesnake Rapids.

               
                                                  My squishable, adorable, nephew Sawyer

His sister (also adorable) Bailey

                                                        Another day spent swimming.
                                                       

 We went to a water park in Draper (in hind site we should have paid the extra money & gone to Seven Peaks).  It wasn't a great water park for older kids & I think I mentioned before that we mostly have teenagers in our family.  Oh well, it was a great day to spend with family!  What else can you do in UT in July on a 100 degree day!


We were so excited to be able go to Utah over the 24th of July.  It's a state wide celebration of when the Pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley.  We haven't been there for the 24th the whole 4 years we've lived in CO.  We were most excited to see fireworks because we didn't get to again this year on the 4th.  
What's a picnic without ants...we picked up pizza on the way to the Liberty Park & found the perfect spot to watch the fireworks.  We set our pizza down on the ground & within 5 minutes we had 3 or more pizzas that were infested with ants.  Needless to say we kind of lost our appetite!  As always the fireworks were amazing, but spending time with family=PRICELESS!!

The whole gang (without Ariana, Bailey, & Sawyer)

She poses like this ALOT!

                                                   Playing cards waiting for the fireworks

7 days just isn't enough time when you are spending time with family.  Although we were ready to come home, we weren't ready to say goodbye!  It made it a little easier to come home because we were picking up a puppy to bring home.  Watch for another post.  Thanks for the AMAZING 7 days Azimi, Jepperson, Snyder, Dunford, Hodges, Abram, & Clegg families!  WE LOVE YOU ALL!!!  Till next time!