Summer Lovin'

We had a very busy summer.  After I spent most of June in Europe, I was home for less than 2 weeks and nieces and nephews started hanging out with us.  So, here is the longest blog post ever. I do need to apologize to any of my kids or nieces or nephews if there is more photos of one person than another.  No reason, I just randomly chose photos.  They are not in any order or anything.  So, here is goes. 

 Twinner-rama

 Jetlag.  Yuck.

 Happy 8th Birthday Annie Bananie

 Love summer rain.

 Wishing they were old enough for running in the rain.

 More jetlag.  grandpa so tired, he couldn't stop Sarah from painting his nail.  ha ha

Crystal Hot springs.  Talk about nasty water.  I can't believe I got in that water. yuck. 

 Annie is scared of everything.  I can't believe she let her cousins throw her around.  Awesome!!!

 Too bad there are no cute girls to be impressed by pinky pull-ups.  This water is gross enough to scare anyone away!!

 A little cold there Brian? 

 Cold, yet he stays to save his nephew,  what a good uncle 

Learning to walk.  Why do kids grow up so darn fast. 

 We were sealed in the temple for eternity to our sweet little ones that we adopted.  Too bad 9 kids are not easy to photograph.  Oh well, I love my family. 

 Wow, these girls do not cooperate.  Should I be scared for the future?

 Sorry dudes, I don't know if they are going to let you in!!!!

 Here are the sweet ones I adopted. 

 Hooray for Grandparents. 

 Tour de France, here she comes!!!

 Very attractive Alli, I totally love the cruela look. 

 Nerf Wards, BooYah!!!

 Grandma and Grandpa coming home from Latvia.

 Making signs. 

 Even meeting 3 new grand kids.

 Here are some of the clan.  We are missing some.  But dang, we are a good looking bunch. 

I can't tell you how many batches of gorilla poop cookies we made.  Insanity.

 Nanny McAlli and Nanny McKylie

 We had our fair share of water fights also. 

 Nanny McAlli hard at work. 

Oh, I love this photo.  I heart cousins. 

 Lots and lots of trampoline fun.  woot woot

Sweet Jessie. She is so beautiful.  She looks more and more like her mom every single day. 

I miss her mom.  I miss you too, Jess.  I thought you were going to come and live with me?  h 

 Yes, I am an awesome mom.  The kids jumped off the roof on to the trampoline.  Don't you wish you came to my house?

 You have it backwards, Joshy.  You are supposed to be ON the trampoline, silly boy.

 They did this to catch annie if she fell off.  ha ha but it worked and annie jumped!!!

 Becca hates it.  Can you tell?

 no, she didn't jump off the roof, she is not that crazy.

No, she did'nt jump off, I maybe crazy, but I am not that off the train. 

Nice pointed toes Ky, love it.

 Have I ever told you I love summer rain?

 I tried to take the kids to the Timpanogos cave, but I didn't know I was supposed to get tickets, so instead I took them to the Salt Lake.  Everytime I go, I swear not to go back.  (Right Sarah?)  It is super disgusting. 

 Yep, those are dead birds.  gross.

Yeah, that is a layer of bugs before you get to the water.  We would even get near and we were attacked. 

 There were swarms by the water.  We got close and they were all over us.  It was nasty.  We ran away screaming.  I am shocked that there were people swimming in the water.  Gross.

 After a break at the hot and sticky gift shop, I made the kids brave the bugs and pose for a photo.  Thank heavens they did, now I don't ever have to go back.  Please don't make me.

 My crew.  Well, minus the 4 babies.

 Talk about static cling. 

 times 2

 We played a rousing game of slip and slide baseball.  Awesome, I rock at this game. 

 I am confusing you with water fight photos.  Come on, follow along. 

 no comment.

Gifts from Latvia.  Yeah Baby.

Our family 

Our friends left, but thank you to all who came and made it a fantastic day.

And thank you for making it to the end of all these photos.  There was too many and I was bored just writing things about each photo.  Good things a picture speaks a thousand words.  Ok, I guess I will rest here.  I still have baptism and sealing to do plus Mias bday, ugg. I will make it!!!!