Where has the time gone??

WARNING!!!! Picture overload! Where has the summer gone? It is going by so fast and I can't quite seem to keep up. I have been terrible at taking my camera with me to take pictures. It's so big that I just don't like to pack it around . But, Mackenzie has been packing hers EVERYWHERE so I have been stealing it from her to snap some pictures. Love the glasses!Last weekend Dallas and Gavin went camping so me and the girls took some friends and went to Ogden for the day- we went to the dinosaur park. My kids love that place.
It was a good day to go. They had a carnival going on that day with train rides, games, snow cones, ferris wheels, and fun houses.

Mackenzie has to dig for gemstones every time we go there.
Avery enjoying her snow coneas part of the carnival, they had a bunch of snakes, turtles, little alligators, and lizzards for the kids to look at. I was trying to convince Kenzie to hold this big snake and I couldn't expect her to do it if I wouldn't I think she would have done it too but when she went to touch it on the head, the guy said, "here, you can touch the tail in case your afraid it will bite you." After he said that, she changed her mind about holding it.

After the dinosaur park, we went to arby's and got some food then went to the duck park by our old house in layton and let the kids eat and feed the ducks. Avery LOVED it!
Both of the Kenzie's did too!Avery just kept running up and down this hill- I was so afraid she was going to trip and face plant it into the cement!Here's another picture of our "little" friend. Seriously, snakes creep me out. I couldn't get it off me fast enough!

4th of July Weekend!!!

We had our nephews Trey and Tage for 6 days and it happened to be over the 4th of July weekend. One night I took them all swimming. Avery HATED the water at first and cried and cried but then she decided that she loves it! All of the kids in the pool

Then just for fun, the day before the 4th we went to some friends house and let the kids do their own parade. They got pulled around by the 4 wheeler and threw candy off the side. Then they got off and hd to run and find all of the candy.
Tage looks miserable but they all thought it was funrunning to pick up the candy

Mackenzie and her best friend Jaydee

Then, later that night we went to some other friends house for a bbq, then we lit a whole bunch of fireworks!! It was a lot of fun!
This is the face Avery made every time a firework went off.

The kids had a blast doing sparklers and roman candles

Dallas getting ready to lite a "few" fireworks!

Trey lighting roman candles

Gavin
Kenzie

Avery

me and AveryOn the 4th of July we we went to the parade

Avery saw smokey the bear and was so excited she kept pointing and saying "Gook (look)!! Horse!!"
She thought she was in heaven picking up all of that candy- she kept trying to run across the road to pick it up on the other side too. Tage and Kenzie

Gavin and Trey were in the parade. They rode in the fire truck with Dallas

Mackenzie, Avery, and Tage with all of their candy from the parade- they had to share with Gavin and Trey, of course!Later we went to the park where they had some games, bouncy house, and super slides for the kids.
Mackenzie and Trey did some relay races. Here they are trying to run with oranges between their knees!

playing on the fun house

When it got dark, the fireworks started! They were pretty good but the kids were all happy when they were over because they were all freezing!! ...and they all needed a bath because they were covered in nacho cheese and cotton candy!!

Dallas and Trey