The first half of the week

After the 24th celebration Jay went home and the kids and I stayed to spend sometime with their cousin and my sisters.  One of the days we were there Erika called and wanted all the girls to come to her house for a tutu party.  The girls would dance and the boys could watch them.  Tyler decided to stay and Grandpa's and play horseopoly with the older boys, but Mason wanted to go play with Devin.  The girls had to practice first and then they came outside to show us the dance.  Erika didn't wear a tutu because she was the leader.

Here are the girls that were at the tutu party.  Reagan was there but she didn't want to dance so she was playing somewhere.

Mason and Devin played on the swings while the girls had their party.  When the girls were done Mason had to show me this bull he was ridding that was trying to buck him off.

Tuesday we went to the lake.  It was a perfect day.  We ended up being there longer then we thought we would because the kids were have such a good time. None of them were ready to go when we left.

The little chubby girls.

The men in the hot tub.

Mason

Gracie, Rylee, Brooklyn, Devin, Reagan and Erika.

Lochlyn was such a nice brother to Killian.

Tyler, Ammon and Lochlyn hanging out in the hot tub.

Elly loved the water and all the sand.  She had it everywhere.

Gracie

Rylee, Brocklyn and Elly

Mason warming up after being in the water.

Hudson

Ainslie

Ammon, Erika and Gracie.
The kids had a lot of fun together and they played so nice so us moms actually got to visit with each other and have a good time too.
That was the first of the week.  The last half of the week we all went down to my house.

24th

Every year we go to the 24th celebration.  The kids love going to the parade and getting candy, but this year they got to ride on a float instead so we didn't come home with tons of gross parade candy.

Elly didn't ride the float so she was my only kid getting candy and she was wanting to eat it as fast as she picked it up, she didn't even mind eating the wrapper to get what was inside.

This was the float the grandkids got to ride on.  One of my brothers did it and put all the things that he has made this summer on it.  The kids had fun throwing candy, but they were out by the time they got to the post office, so they didn't make it very far.

Elly and her cousin Leah were a few of the kids we had catching the candy.

Tenor giving Elly a ride after the parade was over.

All the kids that road the float and my brother, Brock, that built the things.

After the parade the we went back to Grandma and Grandpa's and ate some lunch.  Then we had a baseball game, boys against girls for the most part.  After the ball game we went down to the rodeo to watch my brother, Tenor, ride the saddle bronc.  I believe that he took second but maybe third since it has been over a month since this happened.

That night we did sparklers with the little kids.  I think the kids had a great time.  I thought that we had a lot of sparklers but I think next year we are going to need even more.  The kids weren't ready to be done when the sparklers were all gone.

Here is most of the group that we had doing sparklers.

After sparklers some went to bed and some went out back and roasted marshmellows.  It was a fun weekend and the kids had a great time.

She loves her babies

It is funny how girls just know how to be girls and boys boys.  She has gotten so into babies the last few months.  She always wants to take one with her if we go somewhere, she has to have them in her bed and when we get up in the morning she wants all of them to come to breakfast with her.  She takes my towels from the stove to cover them up and carry them around.  It is pretty funny to watch how they just know what to do.

A day with Dad

This summer we took the kids up to watch their dad jump off the rocks into the water.  Jay has been telling them all summer he was going to do it so when it got warm enough we took them up to watch him jump in.

 

Elly did not like it when he jumped in.  She started screaming as loud as she could.  It was pretty funny.  She was finally okay with it after he had done it a few times and then she was only mad because she wanted to be in the water too.

The boys wanted to see how cold the water was so they got in, but there wasn't a very good place for them to play where we were.

Jay let each of the boys take a turn and swim out to him or jump of the rock to him.

The boys didn't like the cold water as much as Elly did.  She wanted to stay out there with Jay and just splash around.  She loved it.  I thought she would get cold but she never cried about it.

I didn't bring her a swimsuit so she just had to play in her diaper.  That thing was so big when we were done.

All of us.

We took the kids to the other side so they could play in the water, but since the weather was getting bad we didn't stay to long.

The boys had fun chasing sticks in the water.  Elly loves to try on sunglasses.  She looked so funny.  Her nose isn't dirty she cut it when she tried to get out of her crib on her own.  She hasn't tried it again, thank goodness.

Baseball

This summer it has been fun watching the kids play baseball in the yard.  Tyler is starting to want to try and pitch to Mason, which is a nice break for me since I use to be the one that got yo spend the day pitching. 

Elly loves to sit and watch the boys just hoping that she will get a chance to hit the ball.

Tyler is pretty good to help her hit the ball.  We do get some fights when it is Mason's turn to pitch because he only wants to hit.