Ward Campout

August 28-29, 2009

This weekend we went to our wards camp out here are some of the fun pictures of our good times! We always have such a great time up here!

Madeline and Megan playing. Notice how dirty Megan is and we had only been there 10 min. or less.

Madeline and Megan sitting in chairs by the fire. They are so cute together.

Justin with his friend Kelsie.

Megan Eating marshmallows! Yum hugh! Sticky too!

Justin looks like he is in the army. He was soooo dirty but he sure did have fun!

Nicole and Ryan. I am making Brats for all of us for dinner. There is nothing like a brat on a campfire. Yum.

Katie roasting marshmallow's. I think I caught her with her mouth full.

A bunch of the kids by the fire. Kate, Megan, and Madeline. They were having so much fun. The little trio!

Breakfast! What a cute bunch of kids. They are all such good friends and it is so fun watching all of them together.

Katie and Brooklynn I think they are showing me the dirt on their elbows.

Nicole and Megan on the zip line. This was so much fun. She wanted to go on this so bad but was a little to scared to go by herself. So we went together. It wasn't until after the fact that they told us we couldn't do this. Sorry. It was fun though.

Katie and Brooklynn waiting to go on the zip line. They were so excited to do this again!!

Katie just before going on the zip line.

Here she goes... when Katie got on the platform she was a little scared we had to have Brother Shipley running the zip line push her off. Once he did that she had fun.

Rob on the zip line. Good times!


Justin just before going up on the platform. He is so excited can you tell!

Still smiling! I think he's ready!

Off he goes.

Weeeeeee! He wished he could go again. But there are still a lot of people that need to go. Next year!

Ryan in the tent. He had a good time too.

The 2 silly girls, Katie and Brooklynn. They were such good helpers, they went around and cleaned up all the garbage around camp for us.

Run Justin run!

August 2009

Each year at Justin's school they have a run for funds fundraiser. Here is Justin running for this activity. He ran 20 laps and did a great job!

A walk in the woods...

August 2009

Today we decided to take a drive up to my parents cabin and say hi! Here are some of the shots that Rob took on a little walk they went on and Ryan at home asleep before we left.

so peaceful.

Megan laughing

Megan in front and the other kids in back

katie and Justin on a little walk

Good times in preschool!

August 2009

The kids have been having such a fun time in preschool. I took some fun pictures of them while at my house. Here they are.

Ok so this week we were being really silly. You never would have thought that a popcorn popper would be SO exciting! Megan was the best to watch she was so excited to see those kernels start coming out. The kids were screaming as they watched them pop out!

Here the kids are painting on colored paper using bleach. It's really cool it changes colors.

Painting with tempera paints and shaving creams. They loved to feel the squishy mess in their hands and to see all the colors blend together. It was a mess but it was FUN so we didn't care!

Katie and her messy hands!

Here are all the kids blowing bubbles they could have done this for hours. They had so much fun and I loved watching all the bubbles spill over and grow and grow!

This is the place....

August 21, 2009

Every year my mom takes all her grandchildren to the zoo. But this year she decided to try This is the Place monument instead. The kids being in school made us get there a little late but we still had a great time! This is such a cute little place and they really do have some fun activities and crafts for all the kids to do! We started on the pony rides since they closed first. Here are some of the pictures of our fun day!

Justin riding

the pony!

Katie on

the pony!

Megan was so excited to ride this horse she just thought it was the neatest thing ever!

Here are some of the kids watching the blacksmith work and tell them how to build things.

In school all day and then they sit right down again. They have a teacher in the school who teaches them a new language the saints used when they were in school it was really creative and kind of cool. Here they are practicing what they learned.

Here are Katie, Megan and my sister riding the Big train. It was hot so this was a nice treat!

Justin with some of his cousins on the big train. So much fun.

Me with my kids on the little train. Great picture op!

Me and Ryan on the train! Also my sister in law and her daughter.

Justin on the little train. He thought this was so cool!

A bunch of us on the little train. So much fun!

One of the little crafts the have there is the leather shop. Here a guy showed them how to use a whip which was really cool. Then they all got their own pieces of leather and got to pound them with different designs. They were really neat and the kids had a lot of fun pounding their leather! Above is Justin and his cousin Ashlyn.

Katie and Megan pounding the leather.

Grandma with all the grandchildren in front of this cute house! Brinley, Ashlyn, Payton, Justin, Grandma, Megan, Ryker, Jackson, Ryan, Breckin, and Katie!

While walking around to see all the houses the kids spotted some geese and some ducks, well they immediately started to chase them and had a great time!

I saw this cute house with the steps and lined up the grandchildren for a fun picture. I guess it's only some of them.

Three of my four cuties!

Smile Megan!!

Some of the grandchildren in front of this eagle! Katie, Jackson, Brinley, Ryker, Megan, Ashlyn, and Justin

Justin with the eagle gate behind him.

Megan with her cousin Ryker. They were being so cute with this statue, talking to the pioneer, giving her hugs etc. It was really cute!

Justin thought this was such a cook statue he practically begged me to take this picture of him with it. I think he liked the big gun. Very cool!