Cousins are the BEST!

Alexa was in heaven having some of her cousins and her Aunt Sara hanging out with her!

It was so cute finding them all downstairs watching Barbie and the Nutcracker :)

Our girls LOVE spending time with ALL of their cousins!

They are so much fun!

Gideon and Lucy

We met my Mom at "The Horses" (is what we like to say), which is only about five minutes from our house. She was spending some time with Lucy, a horse that she was thinking about buying...well, we had a great time!

The girls with their Grandma K and Lucy

Alexa had a little ride by herself...quite the little cowgirl!

Karli enjoyed her turn sitting on Gideon, my Mom's horse!
Both of our girls are going to be so comfortable and good with horses! They LOVE it!

My Mom decided to buy Lucy! What is really neat about it is that Gideon and Lucy are brother and sister! They are both beautiful and so much fun to ride! I am so excited for my mom!

Pioneer Day

We spent the 24th of July in Spanish Fork with Tyler's family!

The night before, we had a BBQ, went Swimming, and camped out in their backyard!

We went to the Fiesta Day's Parade and Carnival in the morning!

Sunny St. George

We went to St. George for the weekend
with some of our favorite people--The Johnson's!
We had a great time

...even though it was about 115 degrees

...it was SO HOT!
We enjoyed the pool, and we spent a day at Sand Hollow Reservoir (first time trying it out, we LOVED it).

It was a fun weekend, spent with fun people, in one FUN city :)

Summer Fun

Boating...We LOVE it!

My sister Sara and her friend dressed up Karli...earring and everything!
My Mom and I went to the temple one day together while my Mother-in-Law was hanging out with my girls! They had a blast, and my Mom and I had a blast! We went to lunch afterwards. I love spending time with my Mom!

We do this pretty much everyday. Our girls have there own

VERY MINI Water park :)

They don't mind how little, it just feels good to get wet on these hot days!

Alexa had her good friend Merry over in these pictures!

Gotta Love Saturdays

How many kids can you fit into a hot tub?

We were over at a neighbor's house playing on two giant, blowup water slides...so FUN! But the weather was crazy! One minute it was deathly HOT and then the next minute is was windy and pretty cold...good thing they had a hot tub for everyone to SQUEEZE INTO!

We also did some work around the yard. The girls were playing so cute on our driveway! Karli would push Alexa up the driveway, and then ride with her down.

I tried to capture the moment, but didn't quite get it. You get to see what I did end up capturing...enjoy!

Utah Lake Adventure

The three girls went boating the other day with some of my family--my parents, Kaci, and Sara!

Utah Lake was pretty wavy, BIG fishy, grasshoppery...and wonderful! :) We had a good time, despite all that...riding in the boat, swimming, and tubing. The sun was shining, and we got to enjoy the good ol' outdoors!

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!

We celebrated The Fourth

in Mount Pleasant

at the Shelley family reunion!

We had a great time

Camping,

Swimming,

Visiting with family,

Golfing,

watching AND participating in the Parade!

Nathan was hanging out with Grandma and Grandpa since his parents just had baby boy #2 JARED MARK the day before.

Our girls really enjoyed the parade!

Alexa was so cute...

she thought that if she WAVED then they'd give her candy, so she would wave and run after each thing that passed--collecting CANDY like CRAZY! I have never seen so much candy thrown as I did this year in Mount Pleasant! She did great at the candy collecting until she slid and scraped up her knees and elbows...but the parade wasn't over there!...

Alexa, along with Ashley, Nathan, and a couple of other cousins,

got to ride through the parade with GRANDPA SHELLEY

in his AWESOME RED CAR!

Cute picture of Alexa and her Grandpa Shelley
Alexa and her cousin Nathan exploring Great Grandma's little clubhouse!

We got home late that afternoon hoping to do some neighborhood fireworks, but our girls were so worn out from the reunion...so we got them to bed early and watched a little fireworks on TV and a movie...and called it a night :)

Luckily there is still the 24th to see some live fireworks!