July Summer Vacation

Chris had his annual fishing trip to Canada so I took the kids (and Mickey) up to Salt Lake to visit my family. We did a ton of fun things! I left Friday morning around 8:00 a.m. We got there, ate lunch, and then went to the park. I challenged Candice, my mom, and Shelli to run a 10K when I was coming up and they all accepted! We only had 4 weeks to train but I knew we could do it. We got to bed early that night so we could be rested for the big race. It was a hard race with lots of "up hills", but we all finished with in minutes of each other. My time was about 1 hr. 16 minutes. Here we all are at the finish line! I am so proud of us ALL!


Later that day we drove up the canyon with Beau and Megan to play around. We packed some snacks and card games and headed up the mountain. The kids had fun playing in the creek, throwing rocks and sticks, and just running around. The adults had fun relaxing and playing a game of Phase 10. (Oh, and Mickey and Charly, Beau's new puppy had fun wrestling in the dirt:) I wish you could really see just how dirty Adisyn was! Dirty kids means they had FUN, right?























My kids are super "cooperative" for pictures, eh?

Sunday we went to church with my family. Shelli made us homemade cafe rio which was AMAZING! Then we roasted smores out in their backyard fire pit.The kids LOVE doing this every time we come. Ashtyn likes to play with the little girl, Marin, that lives behind Shelli. So if you see a random little girl in the pics that's who it is :) Marin brought over tattoos and Ashtyn and Camden put them all over their faces!


Monday we went swimming at the Benson's, the neighbor. They have a cute little pool with a diving board, slide, AND a basket ball hoop. The kids were in Heaven!! I think we swam close to 4 hours there! Even Adisyn went down the slide and diving board. She was a brave maniac!








Ashtyn and Camden were trying their hardest to dive. It was more like a belly flop, but good trying!










Tuesday the main thing we did was go to Jumpin' around Utah. I found a groupon for it which made it really cheap:) The kids played there for about 2 hours and jumped their little hearts out. They had bounce houses, air pillow thingy, and a giant playground like McDonalds,(but better).


Wednesday was our big day at Seven Peaks! It used to be called Raging Waters and we went every summer growing up. I found an awesome groupon for us and I just couldn't resist! It was crazy busy for about 2 hrs, but still a blast!!! I LOVE water slides! Camden was a wild boy and rode everything he could, and cried when he was too short! I was so proud of him for how brave he was. Ashtyn liked most of the slides, too. She didn't like the fast scary ones, though. Collin and Adisyn loved the kiddie areas and went down the "red" slide a MILLION times. It's kinda hard to keep a camera with you at all times and not get wet so I didn't take as many pics as I wanted, but that's ok, we had FUN!!!



Thursday we were still exhausted from Seven Peaks so we took our time getting ready for the day :) We decided to drive up to the Hill Aerospace Museum. It was actually really cool and well worth the trip. The airplanes and helicopters were huge and so cool! On our way home we HAD to go to Winder Dairy for a giant yummy ice cream cone. We made homemade pizza for dinner, too!

Friday my parents were so nice and let me and Candice go shopping at Jordan Landing (and to lunch at Johnny Carino's) while they watched the kids! I really enjoyed the break! We came back, packed up our stuff and got to our house at 7:00 p.m. It was such a fun trip! Thanks to everyone for helping me out so much with my kids (and doggy:) I would have been crazy without them!