4th of July

We had a fun 4th of July this year. A couple days before, we went to the Doty's house and did some fireworks.

Morgan got to lick a spoon of whip cream and she loved it.

That night we went down to the river and watched the big fireworks show there. It was a pretty amazing show. Mason even enjoyed it, he just covered his ears for most of it :)

Fish Lake 2012

In July, we went to Fish Lake for the Robison family reunion. Like always, it was a ton of fun and nice to get away for a few days. 

The kids loved the boat ride.

Kelli brought walkie-talkies and the kids definitely had fun playing with them.

Notice Mason's boots? We had to bribe him with rain boots to wear this summer because he was insisting on wearing his snow boots every day.

The kids made marshmallow guns for one of their activities

Morgan spent a lot of time playing in the cabin but she was really good the whole trip. 

Some of the older boys caught a snake and Mason was immediately in love with it. At one point, Mason was holding the snake and was trying to feed it his ring pop. The poor snake.

Spring Garden

We wanted to try a garden this year. Our backyard is huge and has the perfect corner to be used for a garden. We got Uncle Corey and MaryAnn to help us, cuz we kinda didn't know what we were doing. 

Brad rented a rototiller one day and got the plot ready.

Mason was right out there with the big boys working in the yard.

After the yard was ready we took a trip to buy seeds and fertilizer and stuff. We also had to get a lawn mower. Mason picked out the perfect one...Brad would have loved it but it was only about 8x more expensive than a regular old lawn mower :)

Easter

We had a good Easter morning. I worked the night before so I got home around 8:00 Easter morning. The kids played in the basement so the Easter bunny could come :)

Morgan was pretty intrigued with her basket.

Mason needed a little help to cheer up and take some pictures.

Grandma and Grandpa came over and brought the kids each a present. Morgan got a little tea set.

Mason got some Hotwheels.

 The we went outside for the egg hunt. The Easter Bunny may have gone a little overboard on how many eggs he left :)

New Easter outfits for church.

It is pretty impossible to get a picture of both kids looking and smiling at the same time :)

Spring Break Visit

Over spring break we were lucky to have Dave, Leesa, Kelli, Dylan, Jacob, and Madi come visit us for the week. The kids had way too much fun and I think they were all exhausted by the end of the week.

We went to the museum that had Sue the T-rex exhibit in town.

 The kids played in the discovery room and went through tunnels, played in an old cabin, and played some games on the computer.

We went to Leo's place one night and had pizza. All the kids got tokens and got to go on rides or play games.

We spent one morning at Bowl-ero for a couple rounds of bowling.

 One day  we went to Reed's Dairy and watched the cows get milked and had some fresh ice cream.

Of course we spent some time at the park too. Jacob was nice to give Morgan a ride on the swing. 

i jump

We went to ijump (a big indoor trampoline place) with the Doty's.

There were big foam pits you could jump into from the trampolines. There was even a little toddler area for the kids.

 A blurry action shot...

 playing some dodgeball