Lots of Summer Fun!

We have been having lots of fun this summer. While camping up in Beaver Shan shot the boys first squirrel! They thought their dad was so cool!

Then Carson got to build his first fire. Blake got to touch his first fish. He could not get enough and tried to grab every fish we caught!
We harvested our first watermelon out of the garden! We were so excited and it tasted so good! We have since had a bunch of watermelon and cantelope. So fun!

The boys got their first real video game. Lego Starwars. Totally a mistake. They want to play it all the time. Hopefully the excitement of the game will wear off soon!

The boys have spent lots of time outside on the slide. Good place for them to be.

We finished our first round of swimming lessons. The boys are doing so good. Carson can now jump in and swim to the edge on his own! So proud.

And Michael was doing so good he almost passed off two levels at once! Yesterday we started the second round of swimming lessons. Hopefully they will go just as good!

We went up to Beaver for the 24th of July. It was great like always. We went to the parade and then over to the park where they have foot races for the kids. Our kids were so excited to race and had a tons of fun. Only bad part was that we lost our little Michael for a minute. He is never one to wander, he always wants to be right by us. But, about halfway through the parade we noticed he was missing. He had just been sitting right by me, so he couldn't have been gone long. But we couldn't find him anywhere. We had everyone up and looking and then all of a sudden he just showed up, walking over a hill we had looked by a couple times. He said he was looking for a drink! Definately one of the scarest moments of my life. Now I am super worried about taking three kids to Disneyland next month.

Then we headed up to the mountain to camp with Makayla and Cory's family and Uncle Chad. The kids had so much fun hanging out with their cousins.

Shan took us all on our first rock chuck hunt. Too sad and gross for me. Michael is so cute and calls them rock chunks. It was nice to be in the cooler weather!

Blake has started waving bye-bye all the time now and all four eye-teeth came in this month. Lots of drool and runny noses, but overall he did pretty good! Carson gave his second talk on Sunday, and besides getting a little silly he did great. Michael earned his first toy. A lego firetruck. He was so excited to go and buy it. He earned it by doing chores and sleeping in his bed. But since he got the toy he will come down in the middle of the night and stand by my bed and say "I don't want a dollar." in the cutest little voice. He is so fun right now! Anyway, if you read that whole thing, way to go! Sorry it was so long, but they were all things I wanted to remember!