Vernal Fun with the Averett Side

Over the first weekend in August it was time to go down to Vernal for Jaron's baptism and spend some time with the Colton and Averett cousins. Kim and the kids came down the a couple days before and we spent the week with Kim, Andrew, and Josh. They kids had a blast getting to play with their cousins, meet up with Jackie and the kids and go to Seven Peaks all together. We kept the kids busy with going to Trafalga, water games on the trampoline, and just getting to hang out all day.

The weekend came and it was time to meet up with the rest of the family. We all got in late on friday night but that didn't stop all of us from staying up late talking. Saturday morning was Jaron's baptism and Tyson baptized him. It was a really neat experience. After the baptism and the lunch we all took off to Stienker Beach for some fun on the Lake. The older kids had so much fun getting to wakeboard, wake skate, surf and basically spend all day out together. The younger kids wanted to stay on the beach and play in the um I don't think I can say sand since they found a huge mud pit and spent most of their time over there. Didn't matter, all the kids were having a ball and the adults were getting in on the fun. Thank you Uncle Trent for letting us use your awesome boat.

Saturday night the Tyler got to go with the older cousins and sneak into his first Church Youth Dance. You are supposed to be 14 but the bad parents we are we told him to go and sneak in. He had fun and even danced with some girls along with his cousin Rachel.

Sunday was our last day before heading home but we all went over to the Quarry to see some dinasour bones. After our little tour is was time to leave and say goodbye to the Averett cousins until Christmas. This year we were lucky to have two family trips with the Averett side and get to spend time at both of their houses. Thank you guys for hosting us this year, it was a blast!

With the boys away the girls will play, and shop, and swim, and stay in St. George....

With the boys off to Esclante with the neighborhoood boys, Marla, Nan, and I took the girls down to St. George of a little weekend getaway. How did we ever travel without a DVD player and headphones. I don't think the girls talked the whole way there! We had a great weekend of eating, swimming, shopping, movies, and more swimming, eating, and shopping! And maybe some more shopping! The older girls aka mommies had a lot of fun talking and talking and talking. I don't think the girls went to bed before 12am since the mommies were having to much fun too!

Summer Days

Summer days are ending fast so we are trying to make the best of our summer! Treven had a fun summer being on the Springville Seals Swim Team and went to two meets this summer. The kids have been very creative this summer from spray painting bird houses (along with themselves and bikes), building mazes in their bedroom with these large floor mats we have, water balloon games on the trampoline, going to the Springville Splash Pad, building paper plates to float down the creek at Grandpa's canyon property with the cousins, sleeping out on the trampoline, and many other fun things the kids kept busy between all the trips in July!

With Brad and Lezlee moving into Grandma and Grandpa's house me and the kids took Cole and Luke for a couple hours to have some fun at Classic Skating so they could get some stuff done. The kids had a blast playing for 4 hours rollerskating, jumping on the bouncy houses, and climbing on the big jungle gym. The best part was watching Treven find some new friends so he could skate during the couples skate. I was wondering why he was holding hands with two boys I didn't know.

Treven and his "new" friends during the couples skate!