Water sliding with friends

We got our friends one day and had a picnic and went water sliding. The kids all get slong great and we always have so much fun no matter what we are doing. Once again like a pool day and few days before, Dallin & Savanah loved the water. They both always do and I love it. Dallin is my kind of swimmer. He just lounges out and is just as relaxed as can be. Our little Vana can't get enough of the water. She is also so care free in the water and I love it! My kids go nuts on the slide. Hayden and Wyatt didn't want to go down much either. I helped Dallin adn Savanah up the slides and they loved them. Our sweet cousin Logan was for a while too. Like I sadi before, we havea blast with our frineds no matter what we are doing but water seem sto make it that much better!

Birthday Slide

Uncle Nick and gma & papa Karren gave the kids a Huge water slide for all of their birthdays. It is a blast! My kids were so excited. Connor and Hannah can't get down the slide fast enough to go back down. Wyatt wasn't sure what to think of it. His idea of fun is squirting people with the water guns on the bottom of the slide. I finally made him go down a few times with me and I'm still not sure if he liked it. We sure had a blast anyway!!

Meet Boomer

Boomer is the newest addition to our family! Well ,he has been gone for several months and just made his arrival again back in July! Wes makes sure the kids say "Good morning" and "Good Night" to him daily! Wes loves to tease them and the girls talk to Boomer sarcastically! Its hilarious to watch. The girls think Wes is serious, so they do it and Wes does it because he gets the best reaction from the girls.

Todd's elk in on the left. He doesn't have a name. Boomer is on the right! Make sure you say Hello to Boomer!

How did you spend your 4th of July?

We like to spread ours over several days and see how much we can possibly fit in. We had a great time year year for the 4th of July! We have a BBQ and fireworks with our family. We had a wonderful BBQ and fireworks with friends. And I didn't get a single picture to prove we were there. Thank goodness Christie has a few. We love our friends and had the best time! And we also did fireworks at our house one night. Crazy Crazy weekend!

Here is a few pictures from the kids on the slip and slide.

Hannah and Connor had a blast on it. Madi just kind of wanted

to watch and Wyatt wasn't sure what he wanted to do.

Fireworks at gma & papa Karrens' house.
Uncle Andrew and Connor
Uncle Luke and Wyatt
The ONLY way to enjoy the show.

Thanks for the Fireworks Uncle Nick!!
Wes and Nick did a great job at giving us a great show. The kids had a blast and they love spending time with Nick, Andrew, Luke and Damian.

NCAA Track Finals in Eugene OR

I took a short trip to Oregon the first of June. Todd, Kristin, Brenda, Glen and I went to Eugene,OR to watch Nick run at the NCAA Nationals. We are so proud of him for making it so far. We made it there but didn't make it to finals there. He placed, I believe, 16th in the Nation. What an amazing experience to watch him run. We had a great trip. It was short and sweet! In another post I will show you our AMAZING drive up the coast of Oregon.

Madi's 9th Birthday

Wow I can't believe that she has turned 9. Where has the time gone? It seems like yesterday that we had her. And now she is going into the 4th grade. We have our struggles but we love her so much! Our family would not be complete with out her. She keeps us going and adds so much joy. We are so proud of her! Happy Birthday Madi Roo!

She had 2 parties this year again. We had a family dinner on her birthday. We were suppose to go to the water slide on her birthday but we ended up laying sod instead. She was so good to understand why we couldn't go. I know it was so hard. We all wanted to go but things happen and change. We will have to make up for it later. Thanks so much to our family for celebrating this special day with her.


We had a friends party the next week! We had a ball! We Tye dyes shirts, ate cake and ice cream, decorated Tye dye cup cakes and played games. She loved every minute of it!

Sod

We finally got some sod ordered and put it in a few weeks ago. We are loving every minute of it. It only took us 3 days to lay 28,000 sq ft of sod. We were exhausted but it is so worth it! It came in huge rolls and required a roller to lay it out. Kristin and I are pretty proud of ourselves, we laid 5 rolls of it by our selves while the rest went to chase our cows that had gotten out.
It changes the look of the house so much! I can't wait to get all the flower beds and trees in.
Thanks you so much to our friends and family who came to help us out! We owe you all big time!

Wes's Tournament

Wes went to his fishing tournament in Idaho over Fathers day weekend. Travis and Wes took 5the place. They have placed in the top 5 in this tournament the last 5 years! I do'nt have any pictures to show since I think no girls are allowed on this weeklong trip but we are so proud that they had a great time and did so well.

Softball

This was Madi's first year playing softball. She loved every minute of it. She was picked at the end of season to be on the all star team. Now that is what is keeping us busy at the time. She had practice every night for 2 hours and has tournaments in SLC for 3 days, 3 weekends in a row. Wow that's alot of playing but she is loving it! We are so proud of her for sticking it out and loving it. She is already improving so much! I can't wait to see them at the first tournament! GO BASIN BRAWLERS!!

Helping out papa & first Harley ride

Connor had a busy fathers day weekend! Papa had a big tree that needed cut apart to haul away and he knew just the right helper for the job. Connor knew he was big enough to tackle the job! It was so fun to watch him, he thought he was so big and knew he was just like his papa. He even asked for some glasses to protect his eye. What a smart little kid!
The girls got in on the action as well. Madison liked it for a minute then was done helping. Hannah didn't like how the saw vibrated her hands. That is a little to much work for a princess. She helped a minute then was done as well. Good thing Connor stuck around until the very last piece.



Connor also took his first Harley ride. He has loved motorcycles for a very long time. He doesn't miss a single one that drives down the rode. Well he finally decided that is was OK to ride papa's bike. It wasn't' too loud any more. He was ready to go with his helmet, glasses and ear plugs. After the first time around the block, we couldn't get him off. He kept getting the helmet and glasses and telling pap he was ready to go again. He did that all weekend. I'm not sure who enjoyed the ride more though, Connor? or Papa?