Playing with cousins

We got to play with cousins the other day!  Fun!  We went to the LDS Church History Museum and played at the kids play area while my mind was frantically trying to find excuses to walk through the rest of the art with 6 kids in tow.  We had a blast... Anya and Ada were fast "parrot" friends, Joey and Evelyn were dinner companions and Kate made an easy chair out of building blocks meant to build Benjamin's tower. 

Mother of all sneezes

Honestly, you haven't heard a sneeze unless you've heard one from my mom.  Sometimes sounds more like a loud yell.  She is garaunteed to scare any children in the area.  In fact, Evelyn was standing next to her last night when she happened to sneeze... she looked at Grandma with big eyes, turned around and walked straight over to me and sat on my lap.  When she figured out that Grandma was okay and that she was just sneezing she started to fake sneeze... she practiced over and over... It was very cute.  She had a little "Achoo!" Then we'd hear her flubbing her hand.  It took me at least a day to figure out that she was imitating someone blowing their nose after they'd sneezed.  Haha... gotta love a cute 14 month old.

Jordan

Baby Jordan... what a cute baby... he's well loved by everyone around him and especially by his mom, dad, brother and sister.  These twins were especially excited to have a new baby in the family.

McKay and Sophie Family

Sammy and Uncle Seth

Evelyn and Grandpa Wilcox

Parkinson Reunion

This sweet niece has been my bud pretty much any time I've been over to Grandma's.

So, story about this one... Judy and her cousins that attended the reunion wanted a cousins picture before everyone headed out.  It just goes to show you how fun they are... they climbed in here whether they were 72 or 52...

And I caught Clifton (1 of the surving 2 out of the 9 children from the Parkinson family) pushing Evelyn on the trike... Too cute.  I think he's in his upper 70s.

Swimming and Irrigation

Ada and Mariah actually got along really well.

Jonathan and Sam got to be good friends as well.

And Evelyn and Amelia did too.  Evelyn was sitting in one high chair, saw Amelia and started patting the high chair next to her... They loved to go anywhere together.

Ada won this blanket at the reunion in a drawing for the little kids blanket... and immediately it got some use.

Judy's birthday

Weekend

Yay!  What a weekend.  Busy, like always... but like always, busy with good things.  We've spent our time getting projects done with my sister, Sharon, going to a Princess party with our friends Lizzie, James, Nate, Charolotte, Emma, Holly, and Jessica that was hosted by our lovely friends down the street... Marjorie and Sarah.  Grandma Robertson had a birthday (Happy Birthday!).  We finger painted, went to the Relay for Life (Jer ran for an hour at 4 am... glad I wasn't there that early but I would have gone if he didn't want to), went to play in the irrigation at our Gma and Gpa's house, had the Parkinson reunion... which was very fun this year... (Parkinsons are Judy's grandparents... so Jer's Great-Grandparents), visited with Emily (new sister in law) and her family while kids swam in the pool, and went to my brother McKay's new baby's baby blessing.  Fun all in all.

But since I keep posting too many pictures... I'll just post a couple and do a new post for the next couple pictures... that way they might load easier and you don't have to look at all of them all at once!

Ever had this moment?

I heard Sam start crying because of something Ada was doing to try to get him to play with her.  I told her to tell him sorry.  She walked behind him and gave him a big hug... at which he cried even louder.  "I don't like that!", he said.

Recovery

After all the fun/craziness had gone, we tried getting back into normal life but kids keep doing things like falling asleep during dinner, getting up late, etc... But here are some of our activities in the last week.

Heaven on earth

My heaven on earth is Bear Lake.  No ifs, ands, or buts.  I've been going with my family since I was 3 weeks old.  And I've been taking my kids with me for the last 4 years and it has made it both harder and funner.  It is harder camping with kids than without, but there is nothing like watching these little kids loving where they're at.  This year we got to go with my parents, sister Sharon, sister Janelle, and sister-in-law Sophie with her 3 kids.  It was so fun.  We went to Minotankah (spelling?) caves, spent our time on the beach, had a hail storm (which Ada just loved), Ada loved jumping waves when the wind really picked up, and they all loved digging in the sand.  I loved spending time with all my family, and especially that I got to see Sophie and new baby Jordan... even though we were both really tired.  Jer didn't get to come with us this time, but we had fun anyways.  The most ironic thing that happened out there was that I had my mom watch baby as I set up my tent, the kids beds, the air mattress, etc... and then a wind storm blew through and blew over all 4 of our tents that had just been set up.  Since I didn't want to deal with three crying kids if another wind storm blew through in the night I just moved all our stuff into Aunt Imogene's trailer...  It was a good place for us.  And I didn't have to deal with any emergencies over the night (besides Sammy falling off the mattress a couple of times and having to put back to sleep every time he started crying...).  Heaven on earth is letting your kids get dirty, laying and watching the beach, visiting with family, and just loving it.