Utah With My Sisters

We had some issues we had to check out in our Layton house we are renting out but while we were there we visited our old friends the Baileys!  We also visited with some old neighbors as well, it was fun to catch up!

 

We went to Provo to stay with my sister Margaret, her youngest two are the same age as Maddy and Ian so they had a blast!  Rylan had fun playing with Erica who is Margaret's step daughter, her mom was so nice to let her come visit us for the whole week!  We had a picnic at a fun park close to my other sisters new house in Saratoga Springs.

Maddy showing Ben the ropes on ABCmouse.

Ian wrestling with Uncle Kevin

Bubbles and water fights.
                                     

I love the look on James' face!  He is the same age as Ben and Maddy too.

Rylan "trying" to arm wrestle Uncle Jeff

Ian loved Tyler!

                                                                    Looking at ants    
                                    

 While there the Andersons joined our Verizon account to save a little money each month on our cell phone bill and we got new IPhones! We all had never had a smart phone before so we were a little mesmerized!  Anna snuck this picture of us!

 

Lizzy is such a sweetie, I love her little voice. She is making her animals kiss, she thought this was really funny!

                                                                    Best Cousins!

 

 

 

For Father's day my sister Margaret and I thought it would be fun to play a game of
 "How Well Do You Know Your Father."  We asked the dad's questions prior to the game starting and the kids had to answer the same questions about their dad and they got a point if they matched.  Scott played via FaceTime since he was back in Chicago.

   One evening we had a house warming party for Anna and Kevin's new home and invited some family from my dad's side. It was so fun to see cousins we don't get to see that often.

More arm wrestling, this time with Michelle

Maddy and Ben loved to wrestle, we caught them giggling a lot and rolling around.

Margaret took us to a fun splash pad

and we went to Seven Peaks water park! We all went together, 3 sisters and 11 kids between us!  Whew!

 

The older kids stayed together and had free reign on the whole park.  Rylan was quite adventurous and went down some pretty scary slides, one in particular called Free Fall.  Erica was amazed that he was brave enough to go on some of them (and he was barely tall enough!)

Anna had bought us season passes on a great deal that was cheaper than one days admission, so after this day at the water park, I went back and took Rylan and Erica, while Margie watched these angels.

 

Maddy is always begging me to play barbies with her and Lizzy does the same thing to her mommy, so the girls were delighted to be able to play barbies together!

                                     
One day we drove into Salt Lake to visit our aunt Sherrie, she had a craft already for our kids to make!  The kids were thrilled!  We met up with the Baileys again and Rylan went home with them so he could spend that night with them.

 

Rylan and his buddy Remington having a sleepover.

 

Margaret and I just sat back and watched these goofballs play and play and play! Here they made grasshopper nests to protect their eggs, which were really little pebbles. They were so cute together, and we really didn't have that many fights!

 

I love Ben's face in this one!

After Utah it was back to Rexburg for another week!