2012 Summer Olympics

It was my turn for playdate today. Since the Olympics are starting in 3 days, I thought it would be fun for the kids to have our own Olympic Games. We started by making an Olympic flag. Then we went outside for the games. First, though, we had to take the athletes oath! (Basically saying that they would be fair, good sports, and have FUN!) We did the shot put, javlin, long jump, and hammer throw. I think the kids really liked it. We came in for lunch and then watched a few quick clips on YouTube of actual Olympians doing the events we did. After that we made some medals. Making their flags:

Taking the oath:

The Hammer throw:

The Javlin:

The Shotput. I laugh at this picture SO hard! I explained to them to put the "shotput" right next to their ear and then push the ball as far as they could. Collin really tried hard as you can see!

The awards ceremony:

Adisyn 8 months

Just some cute pictures of our Adisyn!

Pine Valley

My mom and brother have been here all week visiting us. Today we went up to Pine Valley for a picnic and play in the stream. We had a lot of fun and got some cute pictures. Collin dropped his sandwich in the dirt:

Camden fell in the stream and was FREEZING! He didn't mind though!

Dad's Graduation!

My dad graduated from UTI,so we went down to Phoenix for his graduation. We are just SO SO proud of him (and my mom and Kaden) for all his hard work. He got straight A's in all his classes. We did a bunch of swimming, eating, graduation, shopping, hanging out, and went to the Arizona Science Center. Candice and I even tried running 4 miles in the Phoenix heat. It was ROUGH to say the least! I was glad we did it though.(We had originally planned to run 11 miles, early Saturday morning, but decided against that! ha,ha!) We all had a blast!

Our kids have been quite the fishy's this year. Ashtyn can swim anywhere, anytime. She swims all the length of our Coral Canyon Pool, she loves to dive for things, and floating on her floatie. Camden has really started to love the pool. While we were in Phoenix, he tried SO hard to swim withOUT floaties! That is huge for him! Collin also has decided that swimming is SO fun. He loves to just float around the pool! Adisyn LOVES her floatie too! As long as noone touches her, she loves it!

Here we are at the Arizona Science Center:

Camden "moving" the ball with his brain:

Camden and Collin coming out of the "stomach." It made farting and burping noises as you went through that exhibit.

The nose blew boogers out at you:

Wheelchair racing:

Ashtyn lifting herself up on the pulleys:

Camden laying on a bed of nails!

Tug of War:

4th of July

We had a very low key 4th of July this year. Since we were leaving early in the morning for Phoenix, we didn't want to go into town and watch the fireworks like we usually do. We bought a small box of fireworks at Walmart and made our own show!