A fun new boating toy.... Surfing!!!

On Friday night we left the girls with Grandma and Grandpa and went boating with some friends of ours ( Dan & Shannon) who own a boat. There were 4 couples all together who went and we had a blast!! Tim and I tried out the surf board for our first time ever and it was so much fun. I don't have any pictures of me, but I thought I better get some of Tim his second time up so we had at least a few. Tim did much better than I did, but I still had a blast out there!! It's always fun to try new things every now and then. We are looking forward to going back to Lake Powell this weekend and trying out some new wakeboards we just bought. Hope everyone else is having a great summer and doing lots of fun stuff!!!

What did you stick up your nose???

Earlier this week, I had told the girls they could go outside and play on their playset and I would be out in a few minutes.......... BIG MISTAKE. So a couple minutes later Makayla comes walking inside and tells me that Kaitlyn had stuck a rubber pellet up her nose ( they are underneath the playset to give you some cusion from the ground) Anyway Kaitlyn comes into the house right after with a bloody nose on both sides. So I try and get her to blow into a kleenex to get it out, but she didn't want me even touching her nose. To make a long story short I ended up taking her to the doctors office and she had stuck 2 rubber pellets up her nose ( one up each nostril) It took the doctors assistant and myself to hold her down so the doctor could get them out. These are pictures I took of her coming home from the doctor's office. She was perfectly fine once we left...... we are hoping it will only take that one time for her to realize not to stick those up your nose.

Gettin' some sun & havin' some fun in Lake Powell.....

What a cute family! We decided to all get on the tube together. The girls just love this thing!!

This is Tim's dad trying to waterski (He's 61 and still gets out there, how cool is that?) Anyway, he would have gotten up on his first try but Tim thought he had fallen and stopped the boat. I'm sure he will get out there again next month when we go back to Powell.

Kaitlyn and Makayla just trying to be like daddy, it was so cute! Just having a good time playing with dad on the boat. They do awesome on the boat & both of them get on the tube. Kaitlyn even fell asleep riding the tube with me (guess it just wore her out!)

Here I am having some fun on the wakeskate! Too bad I don't have any wipe out shots of me, because I had some good ones.

Tim getting some awesome air on the wakeboard! His face expressions in these photos are so funny.

Brown Family reunion in St. George.....

I have to give complete credit to my dad for this photo. I was doing a back dive off of the diving board and he snapped the picture at the perfect moment. Great photography! This is our Makayla jumping off of the diving board. She had a blast hanging out with her cousins at the pool!

Here is Tim and Kaitlyn hanging out in the pool, because it was over 100* we pretty much went to the pool on a daily basis. Besides it was a great activity for all of the kids.

Here is Tim at the Park running and seeing how far he can jump. He is the shortest out of all of the boys in the family, but he can jump the farthest. That's my honey!!

Saying goodbye to Buddy

After a few weeks of serious thought, we decided to sell our dog. We are just gone so much on trips and through the week. We felt like he deserved more attention than we could give him, but we will really miss him! Last night before his new owners came to get him the girls said goodbye to him, and it was so cute to watch Makayla say, "Goodbye Budster." That is what she and I would call him. I know his new owners will take great care of him. He was a great little puppy!!

Summertime Fun.....

We decided to buy the girls a playset and trampoline this summer. They love going over to the grandparents houses and playing on their trampolines..... but they really needed one of their own. The playset and trampoline were delivered and set up last week and the girls have been out there ever since. It's still a work in progress..... the ground cover will be here this week. It's been a great purchase so far! Last night we came home to find the neighbors grandkids playing on it...... good to know that they are being used even when we're not here!