~Mckell's New Braces~

You know your kids are growing up when it is time for them to get braces.  Mckell got braces today   :(  I'm not sure I'm ready for her to grow up, but she does look adorable in her new braces.

Before and After picture.

~Family Night. Minus 2~

Since Dave and Hunter re away to scout camp, we decided that we'd go play too.  So for family night we went and got a quick bite to eat and headed bowling.  It was so much fun!  Garrett really enjoyed it, and kept saying that he wanted to do it himself :)

Lexi was on fire tonight!  She killed all of us.  Her score was 97, the rest of ours were in the 60s and 70s.  So she won a treat.  We had a fun night bowling and dancing to the music.

~Park City Getaway~

We really haven't done a getaway with just our little family, so we planned one for the weekend up to Park City.  Dave doesn't really have much time off with all the Youth Camps he is doing this summer, so we made due and went somewhere close, where he could still go into work and just meet up with us later.  It was a fun little trip to Park City.  We all wished we could have stayed longer.

We headed up Thursday evening and drove around, ate dinner, and played at the pool.  Friday, while Dave was at work, we hit the outlet malls.  We shopped the entire day, lol.  I was surprised how much fun the kids had doing this.  I was really surprised at how good Garrett and Lexi were.  We literally walked the entire day, and there were no complaints from any of them.  I think Dave was glad he missed our day of shopping though.

We got silly taking pictures as we waited for Hunter to try on clothes.  He was in heaven at the Under Armor, Nike, and Adidas outlets.  It was funny because he was the one we waited on the most.

After a full day of shopping, we met up with Dave to eat at The Rodizio Grill.  Our family loves that place and we haven't been there forever.

Hunter checking out all that he'd boughten.  It's so funny cause last year he could have cared less about this stuff.  I guess that means he's growing up :(

This is where the kids started the night at.

This is where they ended up, lol.  I have no idea how Garrett ended up in the bed between Mckell and Lexi.  Hunter must pushed him out of bed, lol.

Saturday morning we headed to the Olympic Park to watch the Olympic ski show.  It was fun to watch them do tricks into the water.

We then headed to try out the Alpine Slides and Zip Lining.  It was a lot of fun!

Hunter and Mckell are the 2 little dots in the sky.

Mckell was a little slow going down the slides, lol, but she was nothing compared to Lexi. As Hunter, Mckell, and Dave went down the big zip line, Lexi, Garrett, and I decided we'd go down the Alpine slide.  Lexi was tall enough to ride alone.  She insisted to go down behind me, so I could be there when she got off.  I agreed (but shouldn't have).  She got scared going down alone, so she completely stopped.  The boy behind her ended up running into her which scared her to death, and she started screaming.  But still kept her break on so she didn't move.  Then the boys brother came and hit into him, which hit into Lexi again.  She cried harder.  Then their sister came down and Lexi ended up climbing on with her.  She cried the whole way down.  I was a little freaked out when it took forever for her to come down and then to see that her sled was empty.  The worker was a little freaked out too.  But here came Lexi 3 sleds behind.   She said she is not doing that alone again, lol.  Maybe in a year or 2.

Dave going down.

We had such a fun little get away.  It went way too fast!  I love this family of mine!!!

~The Fourth~

It has been a tradition, since the kids were little, for them to ride in the Children's Cherry Days parade.  I was a little sad this year that both Mckell and Lexi were going to be in the big parade with their dance group, therefore wouldn't be able to be in the kids parade.  But I was glad that Hunter still rode in it with Garrett. Garrett rode his Razor with Paisley.

These were the candy collectors this year :) Zoee, Brinkley, Paislee, and Garrett

The girls were exhausted by the time they got back to our spot, lol

After the parade, we headed to see a movie.  Hunter decided to go to North Shore with friends instead of going to see Inside Out with us. :(

It was a pretty eventful evening.  We had my parents, Richard and Cassie, and Marc and Randee over for a BBQ and fireworks.  After the North Ogden City Fireworks, we headed back to our house for fireworks of our own.  Dave bought a ton of fireworks.  The 2nd firework we lit off tipped over and shot a firework at our neighbors house, spun and shot another firework at an empty lot by us, then spun and shot another in our direction.  We all jumped up and ran.  When the explosions stopped we saw that the empty lot had started on fire.  Everyone scrambled to put it out.  Dave and Marc ran to one fire and tried stomping it out.  It was pretty big.  Richard ran to the other fire and tried getting that out.  Luckily we had 2 neighbors that just happened to be at the right place at the right time.  Our neighbor Kevin had just walked out to watch the firework show and saw the fire.  He immediately ran to his hose on the side of his yard and put one of the fires out.  Another neighbor, Brandt just had gotten home from the cities fireworks and was walking past his garage when he saw the fire.  He also had a hose to the back of his yard and was able to put out the 2nd fire.  We were so lucky.  Randee had the phone ready to call 911, because the fire just kept getting bigger and bigger.  Luckily we didn't have to end up doing that.  But that didn't end our fun.   A little later a crazy neighbor, that lives behind us down the street, I guess didn't like all the fireworks going off.  They were everywhere all around us.  I guess he started yelling at the top of his lungs, in our direction all sorts of obscenities about us Mormons and all our kids?  He wasn't all there (high/drunk we weren't really sure which but he was on something).  We didn't hear him, luckily, we were having too much fun.  Our next door neighbor did and told him to be quiet, this riled him up even more and he started yelling obscenities at her.  A little bit later he came walking down the middle of the street waving an American flag and proceeded to swear at us about keeping him awake.  Apparently he had to get up at 5:00am.  I understand that he wanted to go to sleep, but it is the 4th of July and we aren't the only ones doing fireworks.  They were exploding all around us.  He got very belligerent, so Dave told him if he didn't leave, Dave would call the cops.  Our other neighbor did call the cops and they visited Lyle (aka crazy neighbor), which sent them to our house after.  Luckily we had already stopped, cleaned up, and everyone was gone before the cops arrived.  But they did arrive,  3 of them.  What a way to end the night.  The cops were very nice.  They told us that it was the 4th of July so they were ok with us lighting fireworks, but glad to see that we had already stopped so this crazy neighbor could go to sleep.  As they talked to us, fireworks continued to go off around town.  Fun haters really upset me.  Really?  It's a holiday.  Lighten up.  Needless to say, it was quite the eventful night, and we still have TONS of fireworks to light off.  I'm sure when we do, it will really upset this neighbor of ours, lol.  Oh well!  He'll have to get over it.

Zoee was nice and comfy for the firework show.  Mckell, not so much, lol.  Even though it was a little crazy at the end.  We had a really fun 4th of July.

~Young Women Mother/Daughter Temple Trip~

I really enjoy being in the Young Womens.  For an activity, we went to the Salt Lake Temple to do Baptisms for the Dead with the mothers.  It was really a neat activity.  We first got pictures in front of the temple, had a picnic lunch, and then did baptisms.  It was a really neat experience and I love that I, as a mom, can go to the temple with Hunter to do baptisms.