Pioneer Days

 Happy Pioneer Day!

 This year I finally got to do the Temple to Temple 5K. With like 10,000 other people. Kristi was there too and we never even got to see her.

Got Kyle to come with us to a race this time though!

He and Corby walked the kids in their strollers while the rest of us ran ahead.

 I was even able to keep up with Becca and we finished in 25:48! Crazy right! But it was only 2.8 miles and not 3.1... Still I think we would have finished the 5K in under 30 minutes. Yay!

After we finished we walked back and met the kids to walk to the finish again with them.

 When we found them Tai was asleep in the back and Kasen hopped out and RAN the last couple blocks with Lyndsey. He loved it, but he was so excited he wasn't running in a straight line and kept cutting people off- sorry!

We got to skip getting shuttled in the buses because Kyle dropped his truck off at the bottom so we got to ride in the back of the truck up to the Eason's car.

It was so much fun!
This was the 9th race I've done, the 5th one this year and might be the last one of this season. I already did one more than I "budgeted" for this year, but there are a few I already know I want to do next year!

 When we got home we went swimming in the pool.

It was also a milestone for this kid because he will now run THROUGH the sprinkler, instead of dodging to the side at the last second. Now we just need to get him to jump into the pool or off of the boat and dare get his head wet!

 Later we went to a BBQ at Cooper and Beckett's house for Jon's birthday and got to do more sparklers and poppers and watch more fireworks!

Last night we went on our traditional birthday dinner date for Jon and Sydney!

All you can eat sushi for the pregnant woman who is allergic to shellfish. Haha

What a good sport to come with the rest of us :)

Super Potamus, the Rodeo and Everything Imbetween

Meet Super Potamus!

Ashley and I ALMOST went to Build-a-Bears pay your age day, but then changed our minds that morning and went to the splash pad instead. Greatest idea ever too!

We did go back with Jon and Sydney to use their super lame vouchers they gave away to make up for their massive pay your age day failure though.

 

Kasen picked out a dinosaur, even though I thought the cheaper monkey was super cute. All he wanted was his dino. And every time we asked what he wanted to name it he replied, "Super Potamus!"

No idea where that came from, but it's stuck. And he even Roars too!

Kasen was so shy at first, but was adorable rubbing the heart between his hands, on his heart and tummy, shaking it then giving it a wish and a kiss. He also got to step on the pedal to stuff him.

They gave their animals baths and we made birth certificates then let him color his house when we got home. He LOVES Super Potamus.

 We also walked to the shaved ice shack this week, and learned that 5pm is still too early to walk over there! It was so hot! I feel like I have not stopped dripping sweat once this summer.
Kasen loves the Spiderman snowcone though and when Cooper asked Kasen if he had a brain freeze Kasen replied, "No, it's Spiderman!"

I saw a picture of mango sticky rice from a food truck on Instagram (suzythaifood)

and that day I looked up where it would be so that I could go get some!

We found it in Orem on the way to the temple and I want to eat it every day now.
Except without my kids because all Tai does from the back seat of the car is scream, "bite, Bite, BITE!!"

"Pray He is there, speak He is listening. You are His child, His love now surrounds you."

 Tai always has her feet up, enjoying the ride.

And Kasen has started this new thing where he wants to always be wearing every pair of underwear that he owns. Which happens to be 13 (plus his pajama pants makes 14 layers!)

"Could I BE wearing anymore clothes?!"

The new Cory Wride Memorial Park opened on June 30th and we went there 4 times in one week! And ate some watermelon :)

We also had a Summer Salad Social for Relief Society and it was the best thing ever!

Just eating all the summer salads?! Deliciously genius. YUM

Megan, Megan, Carrie, Me

Then since Megan was visiting from Alabama I hosted another "high school reunion"!

I invited 11 friends, but only 3 were able to make it. Megan even drove 2 hours to come, but it was so great to visit with them and say "Remember when?!"

We graduated 12 years ago and have 12 kids, but I love that we still get together.
I am so super grateful that I had good friends in high school. It makes such a difference for you life. Right after 8th grade I switched friend groups because of the path some of my other friends were taking and even though I stayed friends with people that weren't LDS, they were the ones that still respected my standards and didn't ask me to lower them.

Kasen loved having so many friends over to feed Popsicles to.

Thanks for coming guys!

Then Saturday night (after Naomi's Christmas in July 1/2 birthday party) we went with my mom and fam to the Ogden Pioneer Days Rodeo for the 2nd year in a row. Kasen got to wear his cowboy boots and cowboy hat like Woody too!

After the mutton bustin Kasen told me that it was his turn to ride a sheep.

The motorcycles at the end are always a favorite too!
Yay for the Rodeo.

The Gorge 2018

 -Flaming Gorge- 2018- Deer Run Campground-

 We drove up to Flaming Gorge to meet Kyle's family on Saturday.

And on Sunday I didn't even get Tai dressed! She was so dirty from playing in the dirt and sand with her cousins. I did't even care as long as she was happy. Vacation means I'm not spending my ENTIRE day cleaning up kids. Kyle forgot his church clothes so he stayed at the trailer with her while the rest of us went to sacrament meeting on Sunday, where Kasen collected the hymn books from 2 benches of people and passed them back out again after he stacked and counted them. Somewhere in the middle though he decided to SPIT over the bench and got taken out. He threw a good 15-20 minute tantrum outside before we went back in.

 When we got back from church though he was almost done making the famous Mountain Man breakfast. Kyle's family makes it every time we go camping, it's a favorite. It's pretty much like the inside of a Beto's breakfast burrito, but better.

 This years game that we played every day was Cover Your Assets and I won once, the time that Kyle wasn't playing...

Then Monday morning we went out on the boat!

Kyle slalom skied again and can I tell you how much he is just the best!

He always makes me a plate of food and also brings me Oreos WITH milk whenever he sneaks some for himself.

 He's so good that he can touch his elbow to the water ;)

 Tai loves the boat too! Kyle and Kasen left Tuesday morning to go fishing on the boat and while they were gone Tai kept saying, "hand" to take me over to the "boat".

 They both LOVE Kyle and were fighting over a spot on him to fall asleep.

 Kasen had to pee so bad, but it took some convincing for him to stand up and pee off the back of the boat. Kyle also taught him to pee on a tree back at camp, which he decided to do a second time right in the middle of dinner.

He thought it was hilarious anytime someone fell behind the boat, but then was always telling grandpa to go faster when we had to slow down to turn around and get them.

 We went out again later that night and swam. Kasen was swimming all over the lake! I raced him back to the boat and he beat me!

 We went out on the boat one more time Tuesday before driving home. We came in early too cause a huge rain storm hit us! Luckily the tent was dry enough by the time we packed it up to go.

Sleeping was rough cause our air mattress has a hole so it was flat after a couple hours each night. And Kasen was in the middle of us.

 It was also Peeka's first time camping. She didn't bark nearly as much as I thought she would!

The second night she slept in the porch area of our tent, but sneaked out in the morning and got a good shock to her collar and hurried back. Mostly she stayed chained up, but all the kids loved going over to pet her.