Max is 11

For Max's birthday he wanted to do iworlds for his party. Uncle Lincoln also loves space camp so he got to be our designated adult to watch all the kids for two hours. It's not a hard job because they're pretty busy trying to survive and save the world, or something like that.

Then we came back to the house to do cake and presents. Max was pretending to be 2 since I put two candles in the cake but it's actually an "11".

Then the next night we got to do fireworks. I'm not sure how to take pictures in the dark with my new camera, maybe it doesn't have that function. I read the instructions but it still takes me a while to figure things out. Max loves fireworks.
Then on Sunday (his actual birthday) we had a family party at Grandma's.
He always needs some legos to keep him busy. He's a little too fast at putting them together. He's going to take the cash and gift card from his other grandmas to buy the lego monorail train next. That should keep him pretty busy. Jon put shelves in his room just for legos that are helping them to stay together longer.

Trip to Denver

This weekend Jon had a conference in Denver 4 miles from my sister's house. I texted Lyssa to see if we could come visit and she said, "YES!" She loves visitors and is a great host.

On the first day we hung out at Tattered Cover. Love that place.

Lyssa told Max and Seth there was a statue somewhere in the store that they had to find. It is so realistic, that it creeps the kids out a tiny bit.

On Friday night Max and Seth got to join Peter and Thomas at gymnastics. They are doing dive rolls over each other. Seth asked if we could stay until Tuesday so he could go again.

Going to Pei Wei after all that gymnastics.

Elitch Gardens (Thanks Teri, for the passes!) It was the busiest day we have ever seen. The parking lot was so full, they were making people park at the Pepsi Center. And it was the hottest day of the summer so far. But the kids still had a great time.

Thomas does not love the Ferris Wheel. He doesn't love heights. But he loves being with his cousins so he did it.

Seth wasn't too sure about the swings. He ended up loving them after trying them.

Max had no hesitations about this ride!

The kids call this the Sandlot ride because of the movie Sandlot. It is the throw up scene. Happily, no one threw up in our group. Everyone rode this ride four times because it didn't have a long line.

And here is everyone in the wave pool. Hopefully this picture was taken before someone pooped in the pool and it was closed for the rest of the day.

Good times.

4th of July

For the 4th of July weekend we went to Idaho for my nephew's baptism. Yay, Mack! It was a great meeting and always so fun to all be together.

Saturday night we did a few fireworks in Idaho at Grandma's. The boys got way into it, of course.

Then we drove home on the 4th since Jon needed to be back for work on Tuesday. We did some more fireworks at the other Grandma's. We did have one firework fall over and shoot at us which was quite exciting (since nobody got hurt.)

Duck Tape

This blog is brought to you by Maddie! :) This weekend I was kind of bored, so we bought some duck tape at Target and started creating.I made this lovely beach bag. Ya, that's right, I made it. I got it off the Family Fun website. It looked fun (Guess that's why it's called family fun) and easy, so I tried it. It turned out GREAT! My YW leader couldn't stop obsessing about it. It was pretty awesome.

Seth saw a neighborhood boy once wearing these duck tape shoes. He was very impressed and asked him how he made them. He said that he just put duck tape around some old socks. Of course Seth went into the mud room and grabbed a pair of MY socks. He had already worn them a lot (despite they were pink) and they were stained black on the bottom. I agreed he could use them and this is how they turned out. I have to admit, they were pretty cool. B) We've also made some wallets, but we couldn't fine them at the moment. Just try to picture the coolest wallet you've ever seen and multiply it by 100. That is basically how they looked.

Max took all my pictures. (I'd like to give him credit for that) They turned out pretty good. Thanks for reading!!! Ta Ta For Now! (as tigger would say:)

Pool Time

I got a new camera yesterday. I just couldn't live without my camera and my birthday is just two months away, so Happy Birthday to me. I wanted to try it out so I took it to the pool. I think I like it! It's a Canon powerShoot that fits in my front pocket.

Tanner's Long Board

This is the reason Tanner liked his manufacturing class so much. They got to make long boards. He had to buy his own wheels once it was done which was pretty spendy but it's nice to see enthusiasm for a class.

I wanted to take another picture of the finished product but my camera got soaked in Sobe and doesn't work any longer. I guess I do have some 4th of July pictures on Jon's phone if I can figure out how to transfer them. Hmmmm.