July activities

 Swimming with Cousins!

Gloria, Hannah and Isaac Coon

 Hannah had a 1/2 Birthday!  She is now 6 1/2  year old.  Any reason to make a chocolate cake!

Annie and Lila were in AZ Broadway kids summer music camp!

 It was a super fun night of dancing and singing!

 Annie and Lila had a speaking part together.  They were both so great!

What a great night!  The girls had so much fun dancing and singing. We had so much fun watching them perform on stage!  We will for sure do Broadway kids again next year.  Hannah can't wait to do it too.

Next summer we will for sure do Broadway kids again.  Next year Hannah can do it too!

Annie's big day... she is getting her braces on!

Annie has always been such a smiley, happy girl.  Excited for her to have braces.

We went boating one last time before Katie left on her mission.  We bought a new awesome tube. Annie and Hannah tried it out first.  We didn't blow up the ski's on the bottom, not knowing they were so important! They sunk and took on quite a lot of water.

 My cute little girls!

 Then James took out the tube and we blew up the ski's on the bottom of the tube and did James fly across the water. This is an awesome tube!  FAST!

Annie is a great little wake boarder.  She pops right up and is now going outside the wake.

 Katie invited Emily Mills her longtime friend.

 I am posting these pictures and Katie has been on her mission for 2 weeks. Seeing her beautiful face makes me miss her.

Assortment of activities this summer.

The last Sunday before Katie left to Uruguay. I love these 2 pictures.

 Hannah's friend invited her to go feed their calf breakfast.  She had so much fun feeding it a bottle.

 We had the Dayley cousins over for Father's Day potluck. We are missing Greg's 4 kids, they are vacationing in Canada.

 Starting our family vacation in Oceanside, CA. Our family tradition is to stop at the Rite Aide at get the famous "Thrifty ice cream cone". I use to ride by bike to Thrifty Drug store and get a double scoop for .75 cents.  It was AWESOME!

 Swimming pools and hot tub are most awesome at hotels on vacation.

 I love my KIDS!

 We are celebrating our 22nd anniversary with our kids, eating at IHOP for breakfast.   I can't believe how fast time has gone.  I look at my kids and think, "I am getting older because my kids are getting older." Brilliant thought I know, but I don't realize I am older until I look at Katie and James.

 Katie and her creative eye.

 Grant and his large sombrerro hat.  Kept him from getting sun burned.

 Hannah loved collecting shells.

 We had a muscle competition on the beach. 

 Another morning we ate yogurt/granola, bananas, muffins, a few pastries, chocolate milk and chicken on the beach.

 Hannah's little legs get so tired of walking, luckily she has a big strong brother who is willing to carry her.  Lucky Hannah!

 The weather was delightful! We tried to soak it up and enjoy every moment of being cool!

 Of course we had to stop at my favorite yogurt shop, Yogurtland!  I love the EuroTart!

 The mustache family!

 We were eating lunch at this fish taco shop, Grant looked out the window and spotted his favorite motorcycle of his youth.  He was so excited! The man let me sit and take a picture.

 Eating our delicious fish tacos!

 Another day at the beach...

 A photo shoot that turned into a wrestling match.

Summer Vacation

This last week, we went to California! Here is the video Katie made!

The boys were hiking Havasupi for 5 days. So the girls had a fun week doing girl stuff!