Floating down the Provo River.....

On the 24th we decided it would be fun to go floating down the Provo River with the kids. So my sister (Trinnie),her husband (Brett), and their five kids (soon to be 6), my mom, step dad and our family got all of our stuff together to down the river. We have never done that before and couldn't believe how much fun it was. The kids had such a great time! Kaitlyn had fun jumping back and forth between my tube and Tim's. It took us about 45min to float down, but it was so much fun that we decided to go again. On the second ride down my mom took Kaitlyn with her and so I ended up floating down by myself. When we got to the bottom my mom asked me if Kaitlyn has ever said the word "boob" before. I told her that I have never heard her say it. I guess she was saying it most of the way down (and pointing at where they are.) I'm sure you're thinking what are you teaching your kids? But, honestly I have no idea where she heard that word. At least my mom got some good entertainment out of it!

Well, after floating the river we decided to go to the Pizza Factory for dinner. It was really good and fun to spend the day with family. Although that night my sister, nephew and I were all sick when we got home. I think my sister got it the worst, which is really sucky for her being pregnant and all. We all felt good the next day though, so who knows what made us sick?

We saved the fireworks for the next night considering we were all tired and some of us weren't feeling well. Tim and Brett had so much fun lighting off all of the fireworks! They are the ones from Wyoming...... so they put on quite a show! Kaitlyn wasn't so fond of them she made me plug her ears and she closed her eyes.... she did watch a few of them though. Makayla on the other hand absolutely loved them! She went right down to the end of the driveway to get a closer look. What a fun night!

A Walk down Memory Lane...

I've seen this game on so many peoples blogs since I left and decided to join in on all of the fun!
1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I have had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.

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!!