Crazy Summer Days!!!

The last little while has been a bit insane! Infortunately my camera failed to make an appearance through most of it. (But I stole a few pictures of Carrie's blog!!!) So to finish the basement saga...Monday was a hop jump with the builders. Finally they got someone out to work on the furnace/ac and clean the stench. We were supposed to have friends over for a barbeque, but canceled due to our predicament. I opened the house for the builders and went and hung out with Carrie, the heat and smell were more than I can handle. It was great, I got to hold cutie pie Cameron.

I soon had to grab Tanner from school and went back to check on the progress. Our basement had back up again and needed to have the roto guy come out again. He showed up at 5 and didn't leave until well past midnight!!!!! Lucky for me Davis stayed up with him. The next night Tuesday Davis and I went to clean the conference center from 9-midnight (another late night.) That was pretty fun, but I felt a bit useless...LOL! The lady told me I couldn't work the vaccum (due to my pregnancy) so I got to be the "cord holder" for Davis. It was pretty fun and we got it done quickly. Next we were asked to wipe down chairs and after the first 10 my back was killing me...the row had about 30 or so in it. Luck for me Amy Adams volunteered to do the bottoms and I did the tops. It was much easier, but I wore out fast. So I would do a row and rest. Pretty pathetic, but it was also way past my bedtime. We didn't get to sleep until 1:30 am and Ady and Matt woke at 3 refusing to go back to bed. It was a rough night, but lucky for me Davis got up and turned the tv on for them. We then checked on them around 4 and finally about 5 they fell back to sleep UGH!!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday night was "bishopric night" at girls camp, so we took chinese food up (Mulan theme) and had a wonderful night. The leaders made these adorable kimonos for the girls and the bishopric.

BISHOP Brennan

Davis and Sam.
We didn't get home from Girls Camp until much past midnight (another long night.) But it was fun. Thurday was a crazy day. With two late nights and neither of us home much, the kids didn't sleep well and they were ORNERY!!! It was a long and rotten day for me and Davis walked in the door from work at 8 and walked right back out for church stuff. YIKES!!!! The kids didn't nap and it was difficult getting them to bed. So Friday the 4th we took the kids to my parents house for a little while (nice break.) We then headed down to Davis grandparents house in Alpine for the annual barbeque @ 1. The highlight of that was seeing our new nephew that was born on July 1st. Baby Jones is so little and cute. I wish I had a picture. Also there is a wonderful tire swing that the kids love. There were 4 swings and about 20 grandkids. Andy's kids don't usually get ot ride it due to motion sickness, but they had two rides and on the second ride, poor Will nearly puked all over. When his Dad got him off, he looked like he was in shock...no color to his face or lips. We had a pretty good laugh over that one!!! Soon after we came home and tried to relax before we were headed down to Orem for another barbeque at my Aunt's house. This for me was the funnest part of the day, since all my cousins were there and I finally got to meet baby London. She's sooooo cute! My Aunt has an amazing yard and my kids were fascinated with the waterfall, ugh! I was a bundle of nerves. My camera died after a few pictures....I was so bummed!!! Here you have Davis and Ady...she was mad because he wouldn't let hr throw rocks into the waterfall.

My cousins son Zach with his cousin Kennedy.

Matthew trying to take his pants off so he can play in the water with Jax and Ady.There are three nakey babies in there....they sure had fun. We played lots of games. The first was with this kiddie pool. At the bottom of the pool are a bunch of letters (magnetic ones) you needed to as a family get all of them out with your feet and then use them to spell the word "AMERICA" We did pretty good since Ady used her hands. LOL The kids also painted #10 cans that had ropes roped at the top and then they used them as stilts and had a race (so much fun, but the cans would stick in the grass.) They had a few other games, but the adult game was a relay race. You had to put a golf ball into the hole (Davis got it on the first try...yay for us.) We then had this game, not sure what it's called, but you have throw these balls and get them on the top rung of a "game" made out of pvc pipe...we played it in California with Davis family and it was a ball. Well, once again Davis got it first try...wahoo!!! Then you had to shoot beebee guns at Sprite cans and hit two cans. This was much harder but once again Davis did it, giving us the best score. As they were getting ready to clean up, my Uncle John said, "My turn!" So he with my Aunt (hesitantly) played and beat us by about 10 seconds...it was hilarious!!!! We then went and watched fireworks. Matthew did sparklers for the first time and Ady wasn't going anywhere near them.

A while back our lawn was looking pretty long, so I took pictures of it. Not sure if you can see how bad it is!!!!

While Davis was mowing, the kids colored on the porch. They had fun and loved being outside. Showing off the masterpieces!

Saturday was just a crazy day and now today we are celebrating Tanner's birthday (since it's on Tuesday and he is going to Arizona with my parents for a week.) I am actually almost ready to go back to work on Monday...LOL!!!