Randomness

Another months worth of random photos. Of course another sleeping shot of the girls. Love how they sleep so close and cuddle.

The girls tried gymnastics this summer and really enjoyed it.

Audrey on the uneven bars
Olivia landing and sticking her jump
The neighborhood kids came over to swim one day. It was a full pool but they had fun. Angel, Adolfo, and Addie have grown up with my girls and Ava has been hanging out with us this past year and loves playing with my kids.
Oh my goodness, I love this picture. These 3 love to sit by each other and we have been teaching Owen to fold his hands and close his eyes when we pray. It is so adorable and whoever is praying he mimics them and prays right along with them and even says "Amen." Love it.
Olivia with her "Rapunzel" hair

Owen loves helping Steve do yard work. I hope this continues for a LONG time!

Taking a break

This cracked me up. One day Olivia and Owen were playing with babies and Olivia put a baby in a backpack carrier and put it on Owen...

...and off they went. It was so funny!

More Pics From Wyoming

My grandma Thompson has a beautiful backyard and loves to be in her garden where she plants and maintains beautiful flowers and fruits and veggies. My girls always ask when I talk about her, "Is that the grandma with the nice backyard?" So here are some pics of the girls in her yard.

One night at my parents' house the girls came out and had found my mom's powder and were making noises like ghosts.

Then they took their brother away and he came back as a ghost too.
My kids got to play with my cousin's kids one day and swim in their very cool blow up pool. They had SOOOO much fun and I'm glad they got some time to get to know their cousins better.

Audrey and Dalton, the Superheroes!

Traci and her sweet twin babies.

4th of July!

We spent the fourth in Wyoming with family! We had a BBQ at my cousin's house and then went and watched fireworks.

Owen spent most of his time on their little motor jeep and had the best time. Here he is with Audrey...

...and Chloe...

...and Gregory.

My cousin and his wife just had twins and my other cousin Liz and Heather are here with one of the sweet girls.

One cool dude!

My poser posing again.

Sweet Addison, love this girl's hair.

Some of the cousins together.

Gettin' muggins from Grandpa.

Owen and Uncle Mikey

Awwwww!

Owen's first sparkler

This picture was from earlier that day when we got to see my nephew Jason for a few hours. Owen and Jason are about 1 year and 4 months apart and are starting to become buddies. I love it that at least one of my brother's kids is close in age to one of my kids.

Pine Mountain

While we were in Wyoming we went one day to my Uncle Craig's cabin on Pine Mountain. It is very remote with no other cabins on the mountain and it is hard to get to. My van wouldn't make it on the roads so we got as close as we could and then got a ride in my dad's truck and my uncle's jeep. Steve and I have been married for almost 9 years and this was his first trip to the cabin. The kids and I went a few years back but he was working and last year we tried but we got rained out. I have so many fond memories of the cabin and used to go there a lot when I was little. So glad we got to spend the day there.

So when you go to the cabin you HAVE to go on a hike. It's the rules. Not really but come on, you are in the beautiful mountains, why not! What I forgot to do was tell Steve this rule and he only brought flip-flops and no tennis shoes. Oops. My cousin Chaney and her husband and two boys are in this picture with my girls.

It was fun for my kids to play with their cousins. We don't get to see them that much. The oldest boy who just turned 4 remembers my girls and my cousin said he prays every night that God will bring his girl cousins back to him. Awww, so sweet.

Here is Chay (2) and brother Bjorn (4) on the hike. Audrey and Owen are close by.

We hiked to a spring of water that comes out of the mountain that my uncle has the rights to so we all stopped and had a drink of the most refreshing, cold water I've ever tasted.
Below Owen gets his first taste of the water.

My little hiker. In my family growing up I was the lead hiker. I was always in the front leading the way and loving every minute of it. Olivia was like that this time and it reminded me of myself when I was her age.

Sharing a kiss with my second main squeeze.

Back at the cabin, little Chay and Owen hung out. They were so cute together. They are about 7 months apart and will hopefully be good buddies.

Bjorn and Owen enjoying the swing.

My granny on a walk with three of her great grandkids.

So Steve, the girls, my brother, my uncle, and my cousin's husband went on a hike up to red hill. That is the hill through the trees. I was taking the pictures from the lawn out in the front of the cabin. If you click on the picture to make it bigger you can see them standing on the hill.

And a zoomed in shot.

And a little closer.

And here is Steve after the hike. A lot of exercise for him for one day.

Love this tire swing!

Kinda of a blurry picture but I wanted a picture of the side of the cabin.

I have sat on this porch many times through the years and it was fun having my girls and husband enjoy it too.