Gabe and Anna's bdays 2016

Happiest 15th birthday to this awesome young man.  Gabe is so smart, motivated, hard working, talented and just plain fun!

Grandma and Papa with Gabe

Zak decided to bench press my boys.  So funny.  They loved it!

 We all love this kid so much.  He is so awesome with our kids and they love to hang out with him.

And yes, that is Logan acting grumpy again...he's seriously going to think he was always a grump...I guess these notes will remind him that he was joking - ugh!

 May birthday cuties

We sure love this Fankhauser family.  It's crazy that they are all getting so big!  Where does the time go?  I'm so grateful that I am their aunt and they know my kids and are such great examples.

Anna was beyond thrilled to get this mermaid tail for the pool!

Happy Birthday to you!  Happy birthday to you!

Cake time chatter and then...

...on to the fun with Spence and Uncle Matt.

All these kiddos are so lucky to have each other and their uncles.  They always are the best playmates and climbing walls too :)

New "purple" bed, fun with Gilbert crew while they are still here

Spence has been drying to get a new bed and he claims (haha) to have found the perfect one.  It is called a "purple" bed and is made of these crazy siliconish type tubes.  Anyway, he loves it and it seems to help him sleep better so that is great!

While we were putting it together and getting it set up, we decided to take a few crazy pics with our little Blake.  He thought we were being so crazy :)

Now...on to the fun.  While the Gilberts were here for Bonnie's 70th birthday, we got together quite a bit to play and hang out.  One of those times, we did a yummy dinner and then headed out in the backyard to play & make s'mores too.

Before the s'mores however, we got an amazing show by these 3.  They were so cute and totally prepared  an entire routine on the swings.  Love them!

S'more time!

Just the boys!

*Ethan, Tyler, Grandpa Ranger, Jax, Andrew, Preston, Marc, Austin, Logan, Spence and Blake*

Spence and Blake.  Such cuties, both of them!

Just the girls

*Kari, Brinlee, Kristin, Rio, Grandma, Hayden, Kisty and I*

Uncle Marc, Blake and Austin - he is a very loved Uncle around here.

These girls...such cuties!  They sure love each other and love spending time together.

Cutie cousins.

*Marc, Kari, Kristin, Andrew, Kisty, me and Spence*

Sure love this group a lot!

So grateful for our time with the Gilbert crew- it's not enough but we love it when we can see them.

Zoo in the Spring! Love it!

Oh how I love the Spring!  The warm weather just makes me smile!

Melissa and I decided to take a trip to the zoo one day when we were off track.

First it was the train ride - clearly, Logan's favorite part.

I swear, that kid!  He was actually thrilled but of course makes silly faces for the picture...

We were lucky enough to run into Jesse and her cute kids too.  She is in my ward and is Logan's primary teacher AND her oldest is good friends with Melissa's son too so it was perfect to see her.

Rio and MaKenna - they had fun playing together this day.  So fun to get to her better.

My boys!

Love them all so much!

We moved onto the play area and honestly could have stayed there all day, they were all having so much fun.

*Crew, Jax, Austin, MaKenna and Rio* (love her pose)

*Crew, Jax, Austin, Blake, Logan and Jagger*

Next to the play area is the splash pad and well...there was no way they weren't going to play and get TOTALLY SOAKED!

Love this Logan - he had so much fun dancing around in the water.

Look at these two!

They were loving every minute.

Even my Blake decided he couldn't resist playing in the water.

Little sun beauties trying to dry off a little on the warm concrete.

Jagger and Blake

Logan and Jett playing together.  Those two are a little crazy but so fun and cute!

They were so funny just standing around and waiting for this hole to totally blast them!

So fun!

Beautiful day at the zoo - oh I love this weather and watching these kids play in the sun and water.