Babysitting Ballards

The kids and I got to sleep over at the Ballard's for a few days while Angela and Mike went to a work thing. Quincy had a great time pestering Max and we enjoyed having a park nearby while the older kids were at school. On Friday Gracie went with her friends and the rest of us went to the new park in Ogden, walked around, temple square, and got ice cream. I was a good thing we had a fun night because the next day I made them work before their parents came home. 

My girls loved getting to play with Gracie's American Girl Doll almost as much as they enjoyed having their cousins around. 

Jake was so sweet to Trig the whole time, he is reading to him about animal predators. 

I love how much Quincy is starting to pretend and I can't get enough of her camera smile. 

Jake had Max giggling so hard in this swing for well over 10 minutes

Family Pictures 2014

a few random things

Dean took Trig to work with him and he fell asleep, Dean text me this picture. I just love him. 

I'm always bragging to Dean about how good I am at tether ball he plays me every chance we get and I win every time. So he tried playing my dad, JD, Cameron... maybe I'm not as good as I think, maybe I'm just better than him, turns out so is everybody else which is only funny because he is so dang competitive.

 Josie asked me to take her picture, she is so proud of the things she is learning to do!

The girls invited me in to come buy some animals at their "livestock auction" such funny ladies.

Cattle Drive

While Trig and Josie helped Dean move cows Quincy and I took the 4-wheeler to block holes. I snapped this picture of her crazy smile when she knows she is getting her picture taken. The kids did so good and rode right were Dean told them to. I love to hear them hoop and holler to the cows. Josie trotted almost the whole way, she had a side ache and her little body was so tired by the time they were done.

FHE rodeo

 We had a rodeo for FHE, free admission and such a great show!

Poor Girl

Trig has NO idea how this happened...

I simply told her to stop playing in the toilet

labor day

Sometimes I feel like because I live so far away from everything the rest of the world is having a great big party and I'm missing it especially on holidays. Dean was gone when I woke up so we went to find him, of course Dean thinks labor day is for actual labor so we went home and played for a while. It was exciting because the kids built their first big tower (they are finally figuring out how to make everything balance) and Quincy just started playing pretend which I love but I still felt like we should do something fun. Dean never came home so we settled for a trip to the grocery store for groceries and balloons.

But Dean totally redeemed himself when he let us ride a few rides the next day at the Idaho State Fair. When Dean was finished team branding we took the kids over to ride rides, I think I actually wanted to more than the kids but it was something we never did as kids and now I know why, this ferris wheel ride alone cost us $12. lesson learned we wont be doing that ever again.