Fun friends, Gabe's bday and Mother's Day

Fun at the Dodge's house!

We just love our little triplet friends so much.  We've loved them for many years already and love spending time with them...and of course, the Foulger's as well.

*Jax, Austin, Logan, Hunter, Avery, Caden, Carson, Lia, Blake, Rio, Lucas and Reese*



In May, we celebrate Gabe's birthday.  He turned 14!  14?  Really?

Cannot believe it - he is such an incredible boy and so kind and smart.  Love him so much!

He's unwrapping my mom and dad's gift which is always the kids favorite drink and treats wrapped up in money :)

Blake and Logan joined in the pic

Spence, Sky with cute Brownie, Zak and Austin who absolutely adores his cousins.

Cute pic of my parents with Gabe I think.

We also celebrated Mother's Day and had to get this pic with my beautiful mom and sister.

Two of the best moms I know!

My mom is so loving, positive and bright in everyones life around her and Sky is so incredibly motivated, giving and she works hard at all she does!

Later that evening, we celebrated another of the most incredible moms - Bonnie.

So grateful for her and who she is to us and to our children.

Not an ounce of selfishness in her body!  Love her!

Of course, all the kids have to help her open her gifts.

They all love grandma too.

I had to throw this pic in here too because I didn't want to forget what Rio was reading in May of 2015 in her 2nd year of preschool!

She is such a great reader and is reading full sentence books.

Woo-hoo!



Stopping through Bryce on our way home

On our way home from our fun St. George trip, we decided that it would be fun to just be spontaneous and go through Bryce Canyon as well and check out all the fun stops.

It is honestly breathtaking there!

Beautiful as well - we're so lucky to live in this beautiful state.

Posing with my little girl.

Isn't that cool?  Love the formations of these amazing rocks.

Cutie family of ours.

Seriously one of THE BIGGEST crows we have ever seen!

Can't tell with the pic but we took video and it is HUGE - way cool.

Just takin' it easy at another stop.

It was pretty rainy that day and I think people thought we were nuts with our kids in shorts and T-shirts and flip flops - haha.

The "bummy" pic for Logan's sake - he insisted on doing his bummy dance :)

Honestly, just picturesque!

It looks like postcards there all over the place.

This pic is for the record books!

Logan NEVER falls asleep in the car even at night when it is super late so he must have been tired after a long weekend of fun, fun, fun!

And our other 4 sleeping beauties as well.

Fun trip - we loved every, single moment with these kids and our extended family!

Beautiful day but uh-oh...we lost a monkey

What a fun, fun afternoon we had in the pool with Jon and Erin.

Of course, the kids love it when the "daddy's" play because they are always way more fun than mommy's and today was no different.

However, as you'll see...although daddy's are always more fun, at times there may be more casualties because well...they are stronger!

What started out as a fun "passing kids back and forth" in the pool game, sadly turned out to be the loss of a dear little monkey floaty.

However, these pics are so awesome and fun to see - these kids are so lucky to have daddy and Uncle Jon.  You would have thought one of the adults, including myself would have thought, "maybe those floaties might pop if they are landing in the pool so hard."  But, we didn't and well, monkey paid the price.

Go Logan!

*Austin*

*Rio*

I love how she just lays out in the air.

*More Austin flying high*

Logan got so dang high in the air - so fun!



And here is Jax - he loves it so much and is such a little thrill seeker.

Here he goes again - back to Jon.

I was in the water holding Blake and enjoying their little, happy faces as they were in the air.

Rio

Austin

And watch closely now and Jax goes flying...um yah - pretty high right?  Spence got them up so high in the air but uh-oh...

...the landing from that high had a cost a little, trusty, floaty friend and Jax was super sad.

So were Jon and Spence, clearly :)



Bye-bye little monkey friend.  We'll find you someone in a Target or Walmart again.

Rio was super upset about it too right?

She was so cute, she thought it was so funny and couldn't wait to show Erin who was taking these awesome pics!

Fun adventures never end in our family!