Cowabunga Bay & Airborne!

I love having these amazing passes at Cowabunga Bay - we have such a great time every time we go and the kids just love it.  It has things for every age and we can't wait to go back each time.

My kids have gotten so brave too because of their swimming lessons this year - they are getting to be such great swimmers!

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Love this boy!  He absolutely loves water just like the triplets and I love to watch him play.  He has been SO good about keeping this little floaty on as well - THANK GOODNESS!

Love you kids and love spending time with you.

I have left Blake most days when we go with either my parents or my mother in law and I'm so so so grateful for them and their help so I can play with my other cuties!

Rio is my little jumper - she just loves doing tricks and jumps - I love it!

We are so lucky to have so many friends have passes to Cowabunga with us so we get to play all the time with our friends.  We went this time with my friend Roxy and her cuties and Rio and her daughters, Avery and Reese had a ball jumping in and out of the water making "cannonballs!"

AIRBORNE!

We've never been before but we attempted it this summer and the kids loved it - I knew they would but now we've got to keep going back.

Jumping in the pit!

Even my Logan joined in the pit fun and had a blast!

Logan is on the left and was trying his hardest to get out before his buddy Jett (on the right) did.

Jax going across the zip line...

...and again

My blurry Austin testing out the zip line too

Gymnastics time for Rio - she loved showing off her balancing skills - she's so cute!

We mostly played in the "smaller kid" area but once my triplets saw the "bigger pit," it was over! They just kept jumping and jumping and loved it so much.

*That little blur is Rio*

*Austin*

The day we went was on July 11th so 7-11 had a free Slurpee day that day so we headed there after we jumped our brains out at Airborne with Melissa and her boys (and friend)

Say Slurpee!

Don't you love their mustache straws?  Such cute boys!  Rio was not having it - she looked at me like I was crazy thinking she'd have a mustache.  Love her!  All girl that one!

*Austin, Logan, Crew, (Jackson ,friend of Cash's), Jett, Cash, Jaxon and Rio*

We're back at the Beach! (Utah's beach, that is)

I was so excited to take the kids back to Blackridge Reservoir this summer.

We loved it so much last year and I knew they would love it again.

So... we got together with a bunch of my friends and their little cuties and had so much fun once again.

I was a little nervous to take Blake because I hate leaving him in the sun but he was awesome and I brought this umbrella to shade him.  I've got to get a shade tent!!!

Jenny with her cute Jamison and Carlie with her cute Gwen with my little ones in the middle of them.

They had a blast!

*Rio, Jax, Logan & Austin*

Jenny and Jamison

Carlie & Gwen

Logan was thrilled that Melissa brought her trucks to play with.  He played with that FOREVER!

Sandcastle time!

*Madi, Jax, Logan, Austin, Cade & Rio*

They were all so invested in the castle.  It was so so cute!

Meliss, Jamison, Jenny, Gwen, Carlie, Cole and Alicia

Chuga, Chuga...

Chuga, Chuga

Choo-Choo!

Madi was so cute to two these 3 around.  They always have so much fun with her.

I love that Logan just is hanging out with the big kids, as always

4 times a charm right?

Um..nope!  Still not everyone looking.  O-well - in these 4 pics, the kids all look adorable in one of them!

*Cade, Cole, Crew, Cash and Jett, Jax, Gwen, Madi, Austin, Rio and Logan*

Fun walk by the lake & a few other pics

These three are all so cute with Blake and are great siblings to him.

I love this pic because they were all so cute about Blake "hanging out" with them.

This Sunday afternoon, we all headed out to one of the mini-lakes at Daybreak and walked along this cute boardwalk.

We had a blast rolling down hills as well...

Up & down, up & down...

(love our shadows at the top with Blake's stroller)

This little cutie!  Can't believe he is already 4 months old here!

And his smile is amazing! and it never stops!  He is so cute :)

I love this look - he is so funny!

One night when Spence was gone at scout camp, Meliss and I got together for dinner at Chick-Fil-A with our kiddos.  We had a blast together as always.  Rio just loves Melissa's Jett :)

4th of July Fun 2014

Happy 4th of July!

I absolutely LOVE this holiday and am so grateful to live in this amazing country and to enjoy all the freedoms that we have.  I feel blessed every day to have been born in America and I am so grateful for our founding fathers and mothers that made it happen!

I saw the cutest hairstyle for the 4th of July and just HAD to try it.  Rio loved it!

I know, I am not the best hairstylist by any means but I gave it a shot and it was pretty cute.

She looks so cute!

Her poor little cheek though :(  After our hike to Rocky Mouth a few days prior, as we were coming down the mountain for went end over end and completely tore up her cheek and the left side of her body.  She is so strong though, she cried for just a minute and then got right up and was okay.

Love you Ri!

So great minds think alike apparently :)

My good friend Roxy and I both picked out the same shirt and did our little girls hair the same way!

So funny!

She sent me a text of her cute Reese and I laughed and laughed and just sent back the same pic to her.

That afternoon, we went over to Grandma and Grandpa Morris' for a BBQ and fireworks!

Rio is my little tree climber.  So she went climbing up the tree with her Popsicle and I thought she was so funny so I took a pic.  You can tell by her expression that she didn't think it was necessary :)

Jax, Logan & Cole enjoying their Popsicles together

Blake is SO GOOD!

This is usually him when we go out places.  He is just fine to relax and sleep.

Kisty with her little cutie Preston

Erin and Jon - who are moving to Idaho soon.  BOO!  We will miss them so much!

Root Beer Float time!

*Rio, Logan, Jax and Austin*

Swinging their little hearts away

*Logan Cole, Rio, Ethan and Austin*

He loves himself some ice cream...

...looks like he is crying ice cream :)

Such a cutie!

Andrew getting ready for the firework festivities to begin - we have to start off with the "flying can."

This is there reaction - they loved it!

Let the party begin!  Do we have enough?

SMOKE BOMBS!

Sure kids...run through that burning hot smoke!

Here it goes...

YAH!

Grandma, Logan (who would run to her every time the boys would light the next one - ha-ha)

Masterminds at work...Andrew and Spence working out the serious nature of fireworks :)

They're brothers that is certain!

Grandma, Ethan, Jax, Logan, Austin, Rio and Kisty and Preston

Throwing the snaps

Pulling the confetti poppers

My cutie fam :)

Love all of you so much!

Oh Blake...he is so cute and such a good boy!

Spence was showing off his sparkler skills

Rio and Ethan sharing their snaps

Rio was SUPER nervous about doing sparklers this year because the last two years, she has gotten burned :(  Poor thing but I found this awesome trick on FB or Pintrest and it worked like a champ!

However...Logan did not like the idea one bit!  He threw his on the ground

Austin was calm as a cucumber and loved it of course

Getting ready for the big finale...

While we were waiting, Rio and I took some selfies :)

Logan and daddy ready for bed!

What a great day - we all had so much fun