Saturday, July 17, 2010

Like father like son....

Dallin is going bald!!!!!  Ha ha ha, just kidding.  It sure looks like it though.  All the boy cousins had a sleepover at Papa Steve's house the other night and when they came home the next morning Dallin hadd a big chunk of hair missing from the back of his head.  I asked him what happened and he said he had tangles in his hair and pulled them out.  Well I have been giving him a really hard time and laughing and showing everyone so hopefully he has learned his lesson and will not actually pull out the hair next time.  It was fun teasing him telling him he was going bald like daddy though. Poor kid.

Camping at Woods Canyon Lake

Last weekend we went camping with the Kimble's near Woods Canyon Lake.  It was nice and cool, although really humid, and a lot of fun.  It rained, which normally we love but when you are camping it just gets mud everywhere and is really a mess.   
Lila had a good time.  She was really funny though, she didn't like the way the pine needles felt or something so she refused to put her hands on the ground.  She still ended up as filthy as could be.  She loved exploring though and picking up sticks copying her brothers.
Alden trying out his new pocket knife and Brig with a soda pop like always.  Every camping picture we have of that boy he is guzzling down a pop.  
The boys.  We need to invest in a camping chair for Lila, she loved them and was always kicking one of her brothers out of theirs so she could sit in it.
Took a trip down to the Tonto Creek Fish Hatchery.  Fish totally gross me out. I couldn't believe the way the fish went crazy over the food we would throw into them.  They were literally jumping out of the water.  Crazy! Very entertaining though.
We took a nice hike down by Tonto Creek too.  It was a lot of fun.
The boys had so much fun playing in the water and Champ just had a blast the whole trip running all around.  He chased those boys everywhere.
My monkey kids who think they can climb anything.  They sure make me nervous watching some of the things they do.
Dallin, Hyrum, and Tara on our hike.
Lila sticking her toes in the water.  We had a really good time.  Dallin and Tara made a yummy dutch oven dinner (which was rather entertaining trying to dutch oven in the rain).  Scott made a yummy breakfast.  The boys went fishing and we just relaxed and had a good time.  It is sooo nice to go home and take a shower after camping though!!!  Thanks to mom for letting us take her Tahoe and for the Wilsons for lending us their camper.  It was much nicer to have that with Lila than trying to stay in a tent with her.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

We have a monkey in the house!

Black Eye

Dallin's head and Alden's eye got in a fight...Dallin's head won!  The pictures don't even show how bad it really looked. 

4th of July

We had a pretty quiet fourth since it was on a Sunday this year.  We did take the kids to go see fireworks at AJ Highschool.  We have been going there for the past couple years since the church by my parents house stopped doing them over there.  We are still disappointed about that though, they had a good set up over there, sit inside until it was time and stay out of the heat!!! This year wasn't too bad though it was actually pretty nice out.  We hung out with Larry &Sandee and Kim & Glen's families.  The kids had so much fun running around and playing with glow sticks.  Lila loved the fireworks and was not scared at all although she was cranky and ready for bed before they were over!

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Lila got her pool!

The same day Lila posted her letter to daddy, he came home from work with a pool for her.  I would say someone has their daddy wrapped around her finger.
Lila loves her pool and "swims" (crawls) around and around in circles it is pretty funny.  She bangs her hands on the back door and hollers to go outside and swim. 
The boys thought it was fun for about 2 seconds.  Alden wanted to know why she wasn't more specific and didn't ask for a bigger pool like the one we had last summer that was above ground and about 3 1/2 ft deep.

The boys decided it was more fun to spray the hose on the tramp than to try to fit into Lila's little pool.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Dearest Daddy,

Daddy,
I really NEED a pool.  Would you please buy me one...
Pretty pretty please with sugar on top?
I reallydo need one,cuz as you can see I have resorted to swimming in Champs water dish.
It is kind of a tight squeeze in here.
And mom says yucky. Although I am not sure why, it doesn't seem yucky to me.  Just crowded. 
Please Daddy?  Love, Princess Lila :)