It's summer...need water

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It's summer time and the heat is on. It has been so hot. This has been a great purchase for the boys, for our family. Danny and I have even gotten in this little pool on the hot sweltering nights of Misery, I mean Missouri. Audrey has taken a dip a time or two but I haven't got a picture of her in it yet.

Big boy-little slide.

I took a picture of Audrey and myself while we were watching the boys on the slippin slide. This is the best one I could get of us. Just check out those cheeks!

Check out those thighs! What can I say, she's gettng some good cream!

Look at this beauty! I Love this close up one of her!

My Cole-Man and princess. She didn't so much like his cold, wet body next to her.

Look at the happiness on Nate's face!

Can you tell that Josh is having a blast!

Colton is getting a helping hand from Daddy. But after that first push, he didn't need any more help, he figured it out pretty quickly. He loved it!

Thanks to grandma for all the fun of the slippin slide!

Deanna Rose Farmstead

We had a free Monday morning so we decided on visiting the Deanna Rose Farmstead. After 2 years of being here and being told we should visit it-we made it. This is a farmstead and has a variety of farm animals for us city folks to view. It's free to the public because the founder, Deanna Rose, had a love of animals and wanted to share that love with everyone else. The boys had a blast. We would have stayed longer but our bellies were aching for some food cause we made a dumb mistake and went shortly before lunch. That's why we'll just have to go back.

Nate and Josh had to get up there and get a picture. As you can see Josh could barely reach.



Nate had to have his photo at the mining exhibit.

Colton is pointing out the little calf to us.

Josh is milking the cow, Nate did it too, but we couldn't get Colton to touch it.

3 of my 4 little calves.

Nate in front of a tepee
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Josh outside his own tepee.

Audrey and mommy had their own tepee. Colton was being weird and refused to get near them.

We splurged and let them enjoy a small ride on a horse. Josh got to enjoy it a little longer cause the horse took a good long potty break while he was on him.

Nate takes his turn and loves it!

While the boys rode the horse, Danny bought some duck food and let Colton feed the ducks. He absolutely loved that. His brothers however, wanted to steal all his duck food. They didn't like that we wouldn't give them any-kind of ticked them off. Hehehe!

And finally a good close shot of our princess. She's just the sweetest baby girl we could ask for. She was so good the entire time, she even fell asleep in her front carrier. We had a great time, just crazy how long it took us to get here. So, also sorry about all the text being different and underlined. I can't figure out what I did to make it underlined and so I don't know what I need to do to undo it and it's super late. I'm just going to publish it this way cause it's midnight and I'm ready to get in bed so sorry.

Mommies Dress

Oh, how I love this little girl!

When I was in Utah, my mom found a bag of baby clothes from when I was growing up. We went through everything and there were some cute things, allbeit 30 years old. So, I put her in this dress, my dress that I wore 30 years ago. I really wish I had a picture of myself in it to totally compare. I know we have one cause I looked at it while I was there. So if you remember me as a baby you'll have to tell me if Audrey looks like me or not.

4th of July

For the 4th we went to Kearny's celebrations. It was actually held on the 3rd, that Saturday instead of Sunday. We really wanted to go to last year's site, Leavenworth Base but they were doing it on Sunday so we had to make other arrangements. Danny found this one and it couldn't have been funner if we'd tried. Right before we were going to leave it started pouring so we didn't know if we were going to go but it did let up so we packed us a sack lunch and went. So, this is of us having our dinner.

Who doesn't love a rice crispy treat!

The boys were playing catch with each other very nicely-it was a nice site.


We headed off to the park. Fireworks were held at the Jesse James park and it was an awesome park. We've actually went back again already because it was such a fun place. I couldn't believe how big the slides were and the cool spider web climber was. The boys loved it, even with tons of people there it wasn't too bad because it was such a big place to play.

Look at how high those slides are!

A good view of some of the park, I didn't get the merry go round, teeter-totter or the swings in this shot.

Nate on the spider web.

Colton on one little slide.

Momma and her best girl.

our little climber Josh

Colton is seriously the best hanger. He can so hang on for so long. We have contests with the boys to see who can hang the longest and hands down Colton wins everytime. He absolutely loves to hang!

Danny really isn't holding his hand. He was just getting him up there.

The boys coming down the slides.

They had a few big bouncy toys there that the kids could all enjoy and the best thing it was FREE! I love free things! Plus they also gave out free pieces of some yummy watermelon!

I love the surprised look on Audrey!

Finally getting dark so they can play with their glow sticks.

One last shot before the fireworks began.

The "Mustache"

So, Danny likes to go weeks without shaving and would love a full on beard. But because of the Guard he has to shave on a monthly basis. Which thank goodness because I frankly don't like it. I actually don't mind the day 3-4 of no shaving look-that would be my first choice but my 2nd choice is clean shaven. Anyways the other day I was asking him if it wasn't time to shave cause I was tired of the scruff. He started joking that he'd shave it all but keep a mustache. Well, I didn't think he'd do it and really didn't want him to. Well, Sunday morning he dissappeared for a while downstairs then asked if I noticed anything different. He had went down to my salon and shaved everything but his mustache. I busted up laughing! He said he did it to prove me wrong. He kept saying that he looked like Tom Sellick, not really, but he thought so. Secretly I think he really liked the look but Tuesday morning he shaved it off for work. So, no more 'stache' on Danny. But here's the evidence that he had one!

S'mores and more

I think this is really the last post from Utah. The first few are from our marshmallow roast with the GIANT marshmallows. I know the boys really enjoyed sitting around the firepit. We should have done that more. And one of my favorite treats is S'mores, I love them!

Nate sure can give us some crazy faces!

Trying to get a shot of the whole gang.

Half of the family.

The other half of the family.

Colton was snuggling with Uncle Aaron. He actually had the stomach bug this day and really didn't feel good at all. He had been throwing up all that day-my poor boy.

Aunt Janae watching Sofie and Josh play in the dirt. S'mores + dirt + kids = one big mess!!!

Uncle Jason, Aunt Tilisa, Audrey & Grandma enjoying the fire but bugged with all my picture taking.

Yummy!!! Mallows! I don't know if you can tell but these were ginormous mallows.

And the results are in. Nate says: "They're delicious!"


Now these next few pictures are just miscelanous pics of my Audrey girl! Oh, how I love her! She has been such an amazing baby! I waited so long for a little girl and she was worth every single minute of that wait!

Just ignore the arm coming from behind. We just wanted a picture of the girls in their almost matching outfits and bows. I call it my "pretty in pink" picture.

Grandma had Audrey just a smiling and almost giggling this day. I didn't get very good shots of her "HUGE" smiles but I had a few cute ones that I wanted to post. I just love how she just smiles with her entire face. Well, not just her face but with her entire body too, she just lights up with the most beautiful smiles that just makes you smile too.

This is just a small smile but still cute.

Just thinking about what grandma is telling her.

Uh-oh! She just found her mother taking pictures of her.