American Fork Camping Trip

We decided to head out and take the kids camping.  We went two years ago, it's taken us that long to decide we were willing to do it again.  The kids LOVE it but it is SOO much work!

 Tara and Ben came with us.

It wasn't supposed to rain. This is right when we were starting to get set up.  I was not amused! :O)

Our campsite. It was a site we could drive to but still really rustic....like we got to teach the kids how to dig holes to go to the bathroom in the woods.

 Getting ready for marshmallows

Campfire fun!

Getting ready for bed in the tent

So cute!  Remember...he's 2...she's 4

Paul made everyone a yummy breakfast

Enjoying pancakes

The dogs barely fit in the back of the car on the way home

We went hiking at Cascade Springs

Father's Day and Lagoon

 

We had a lot of fun on Father's day at the park. We all went on a family bike ride and then flew kites.  We had a picnic, played frisbee, and just played on the playground and swings.

In June, we also went to Lagoon for a Promise Family Day.  The kids loved it!

The bumper cars were a hit

That night we headed up to the Snowbird Cool Air Concert with Tara and Ben

Trying to take a silly family selfie

Boating, Triathlon, Delicate Arch

 Paul really wants me to be better about keeping up on the blog so I'm trying....again....to catch up a little bit.  I'll be having a bunch of posts coming up that are old, stuff we want to document.  In June, we went boating with Breck and Preston.  We all had a ton of fun. The kids, especially Audrey, LOVED tubing.  

Audrey tubing with Skye

Audrey tubing with Colin

Audrey tubing with Mimi

Paul trying out surfing

Audrey was really excited when Preston let her drive the boat

The following weekend, we headed to Green River so Breck and I could do a triathlon.  However, the river was too high and we couldn't do the swim.  We just did the bike and run.  

 Breck came in first place, I got second

After the race we headed to Moab to take them to Delicate Arch

Happy 4th Birthday Audrey

We decided this year to do a party at a "play place" and not take on as much work on our own as we did for Colin's birthday.  There are a ton of places around here that do parties but some of them can be really expensive, or you could only have a small number of kids.  We decided we really liked Classic Fun Center and how they did their parties.  On Saturday mornings they are only open for birthday parties for kids under 8 years old.  Audrey decided she wanted a "Frozen" party(of course!) and invited all the kids in her class.  We ended up having 18 kids!  They were able to skate, play arcade games, do the bouncy houses, the jungle gym and also the blast zone(shooting nerf balls through rockets at each other).  The kids all seemed to have a great time, a lot of the adults did too!

Olaf!

Trying to decide if she's going to jump....she never did. She decided to do the slide down instead

 Jungle Gym

                         

 Arcade games

The adults had fun too

Colin and Ben shooting at Paul in the blast zone

Blast zone

Cake and presents!

Ice cream

Audrey loved skating with her new roller blades

Fun on a scooter too!

 At night, Uncle Billy and Courtney came down and we went out for sushi

Trying a new roll

We opened presents from family after  dinner

We ended the night watching Frozen.....again