Floyd Lamb State Park - perfect for bike riding!

Brinley loves to ride her bike, but I feel like it is pretty dangerous by our house with all the cars. I love riding bikes at Floyd Lamb, she can just have fun riding around and not worry about cars! Ryan took us all to ride bikes before he left the next morning for Ukraine.




Posing on her bike, not quite sure what this one is?


Case was pretty excited about the peacock, I can't believe how close it let him get.


The whole fam :)




CHEEEEESE!

A Few Random Photos

One of Brinley's awesome dance moves :) She LOVES to dance!


Casen loves to sing the "clean up" song, it is pretty stinking cute :) The other day I asked him to clean up his toys, and I heard him singing so I knew he must be cleaning up. I turned around and found this on our coffee table.... close enough right? At least they weren't on the floor anymore.

It never rains in Vegas! We finally had a good (but short) rain storm the beginning of August. The kids had a great time playing in it.


Casen was a little scared at first. He isn't used to good rain. I sure miss the evening showers in Mississippi and the monsoons in AZ.


Every once in a while I have "recipe exchanges" -- really just a chance to eat yummy food and chat with friends while our little ones run around.


I really need to get Casen some sweet super hero dress-ups, poor kid wants to dress up everytime Brinley does and princesses dresses are all we have! I thought playing basketball in this dress-up was pretty cute... he is still all boy.


Brinley has always loved trying on my shoes, I thought they looked pretty cute. Really she was just stalling for bed time, yeah she is pretty good at that.


Casen had to get in on the action!


The other day I took Brinley to the store to buy a toy with her birthday money, but Casen just couldn't leave the store with out this spider man quad. Normally I don't let him just get toys, but I gave in this time. I am glad I did cause he has LOVED it and hasn't let it out of his sight since!


After 1.5 years Casen finally discovered our entry table as a play hideout.

Lake Powell canceled - Sand Hallow to the rescue!

Well our long awaited Lake Powell trip got canceled, so decided to head up to St. George instead. Our friends Clay, Kara, and Nixon (who were supposed to go to Powell with us) joined us for a trip to Sand Hallow. It wasn't quite the same as Powell, we had a great time!


Our Designated Driver


Case jumpin' off the back of the boat.


Brinley and Kara taking a dive. We took several swimming breaks to survive the heat.


Kara looking adorable with her cute pregnant belly! She is 6.5 months pregnant with twin girls :)


Casen and Nixon had a blast splashing around in the shallow water.



Brinley and Ryan getting ready to knee board. She did pretty good, until Ryan decided to let go :)


Casen's first time kneeboarding. He may look a little scared, but he was SO excited. Go Case!


Clay, Nixon, and Casen... these little boys were hard to get on the tube, but then they had so much fun they didn't want to get off!



Brinley took this picture of me as proof I was there the first day. Not bad for holding that big camera 3 feet away from my face.




The next day we headed to the lake again with one of Ryan's friend from work and his two daughters.

I had fun getting to ride the tube with these two cuties, they wanted to just keep going... and going... and going...


The two "big girls" rode the tube for a while and then when one was done Brinley wanted back on. She rode like crazy and loved being one of the "big girls."

Beautiful Idaho!

Idaho is just beautiful during the summer, and this July was no different! We went to visit Grandma Q and the rest of the gang for the 24th of July weekend. We had a wonderful time!


Brinley and Casen had fun playing with uncle Andy, he was a good sport :)



Dipping her toes in the pond... with shoes on!


Casen being extra careful. The water was pretty cold.


Brinley helping Grandma water the plants. She had fun helping get the yard ready for the family party.



Casen found one of Andy's old skate boards and wanted to ride it so bad! Poor kid, one day he'll be big enough for all that fun stuff.


Casen got to ride in the tractor with Daddy and loved it! I think he was a little bugged I made him stop for a picture :)


Quenalee set up a fishing booth for all the kids, and Brinley won this cute little tea set.



The older cousins and uncles had a little bit of a water fit. This is Casen trying to get in on the action :)



Casen didn't dare go down the big water slide, but he sure had fun jumping off.


The kids all went on a peanut hunt, Brinley was pretty proud of her spoils.



Quentin, Andy, Greg, Ryan, Travis, and Jeff playing the oreo game. Quentin was pretty good!


Me, Becky, Lacey, and Becca doing "bobble heads" for Minute to Win it games. Thanks for all the fun games Becky!



Brinley and Rachel had a lot of fun running around with these things on their heads. These two little girls sure enjoyed getting to play all weekend!


Casen loves riding the 4-wheeler with Uncle Jeff!


Quenalee bought rubber ducks for each member of the family and wrote our names on them. Then we had several duck races down the little stream. The kids loved it, and so did some of the uncles!



Rescuing her duck


Cheering for his duck, his was a pirate.

Casen felt pretty special sitting by the "big girls" :)


Mack gave Casen a ride on this cute retro trike. Yeah they looked pretty tough on their pink ride.



The Blue Angels came to Idaho Falls that weekend and we got spend a little while watching the air show. Travis, Kylie, Brinley, Andy, Ryan, Casen, and Quenalee.