Trip To Bryce Canyon

This summer we went on a trip to Bryce Canyon with my parents. These are some of the pictures I got of the boys on our hike up to mossy caves. Both of the boys loved playing in the water and they scared me to death by almost falling into the water near the waterfall! So we found an area where some water had pooled up and let the boys splash away! They were covered in orange dirt and had a lot of fun. I remember doing this hike when I was young. It is so fun sharing these things with my kids now, and it was especially nice having mom and dad there.

Enjoying the last warm days of summer...

The weather got so cold so suddenly. I'm glad last week we played outside a lot and really squeezed the most out of the warm days. Ayden already has the first cold of the season. I am crossing my fingers and hoping that no one else catches it. Ayden never wants to admit that he is sick...he keeps trying to go about his daily business.

"I'm not sick!" cough cough cough hack hack.

Ayden turned 5!

Ayden decided that for his birthday he wanted to go to Idaho and have a birthday party with all of his cousins. And he wanted chocolate cupcakes with blue sprinkles. He is a kid who knows what he wants! =) He had a blast while we were there, and there was a lot of chaos and kids running around grandmas house. When we left, he was crying....and he woke us up the next morning at the crack of dawn telling us that he wanted to go back to grandmas house! Good times...

Friday Night at the Park

Last friday we went to the big park here in town and let the kids run around. It was nice being at the park with Jared there...almost relaxing! I got to take pictures and sit on the bench instead of running around after Chris. Chris is getting very brave and scares me all of the time. He tries to go on the "big kid" things, and has had several very close tumbles...luckily, it was Jared's turn to save him this time! There were a lot of kids there, so Ayden was having a blast trying to convince someone to play "star wars" with him. As far as I can tell, this game involves shooting their fingers at each other, running around and laughing a lot. Near the end of our outing, while Ayden was running around making friends, Chris kept coming up to Jared and I crying for something to drink. He hastn't quite figured out the whole cup thing yet, and made quite a mess trying to drink it. Fun times!!

Family Reunion at Six Flags

This summer we went to Six Flags for our family reunion. Jared and my mom watched all of the kids while I went with my dad and siblings on all of the rides. It was a lot of fun, but I did miss out on seeing the boys reactions to all of the kid rides and fun things.

Batboy!

At our family reunion in California this summer Jared won this cape for Ayden at Six Flags. He pretty much hasn't taken it off since then...It has been a batboy summer =)

Bikes...

This summer Christopher decided that Ayden's tricycle was now his and he would throw a HUGE FIT every time Ayden tried to ride on it. So of course it was time to get Ayden a new bike. Now, however, Chris thinks that he should also get Ayden's new bike, and he is very conflicted about which bike he should run towards first!

Ayden has been having a lot of fun riding it around everywhere, and he is even getting used to riding it down our steep driveway. We went on a bike ride around the neighborhood the other day and Ayden kept racing ahead of Chris and I. It was a lot of fun.