Megan turned 30 on the 30th

We celebrated Christy, Joel, Megan and Kelsey all being born in July.

our fantasy football draft!

the final board

Josh brought everything for us to do a live draft!

Explaining the compass treasure hunt that Dad made.

Ryan was in charge of the kids treasure hunt.

And these pictures are at the beginning of the treasure hunt. They don’t do justice to the hopping and skipping, backward walking, slow motion that was going on but thats what you get when the photographer has a nursing baby.

One of our other main activities was to drive to Mehrtzen Creek. We went on Tuesday and Friday. It is a creek with a great swimming hole and a rock that we could slide down or jump from and a rope swing. We had a lot of fun just hanging out and watching each other swim and watching the kids explore.

Down at the River…

Maddy, Ella, Cali, Scar, and Lilly

Mike, Jaydn, Packer, Payton, Carter, and Benji

The Older Generation 🙂

Rose and Ray and Cedar and Kinley and Bubs all played in this part of the creek for hours!

My mom and Dad always get in! I hope I’m still that fun when I’m older. They don’t just jump in because we make them – they are sometimes the first ones in and they enjoy it.

Sean and Brady showing off

Jaydn and Benji doing a train

The 2nd time there we diverted the water so that we had a longer faster slide…

The kids loved these huge leaves… Cali and Brinlee 🙂

Ray and Thomas were down at the swimming hole exploring and playing and just having a blast together:

The big boys stuck together. Braden, Bryce, and Camden took turns entertaining them.

Really I don’t remember what this was called but … Kelsey’s activity was to spit some sticky bitter tasting balls at each other through big smoothie straws. Luckily Tiago was hungry right at war time so I sat and watched everyone get attacked and injured and messy. They had a blast 🙂

Mal taught us all how to tie dye! It was fun. The kids each made their own shirt. I failed at my attempt but it was fun to see all the different patterns and colors.

On this day we had a full carnival going. We were racing between Face Paint and Tie Dye and Waiting our turn to get a pedicure… good times 🙂

babies, babies, everywhere… the next set of cousin friends:

Me and Gus

posing with the babies

Laynie Girl!

the monkey chairs reenactment pirture

We had lots of baby helpers 🙂

2, 4, and 6 months!

and MIllie 23 months

Sean’s activity was Spike Ball. We were all beginners so it was fun to learn together.

My mom wrote a play for all of the girls to perform. It was an Annette Robertson original. Each princess had a special power and all of the princesses had to come out and dance the dragon back to sleep. When the Camden Dragon came out Millie freaked and stood in the corner the rest of the time 🙂 The girls had so much personality and Grandma wrote it to fit their personalities. They had face paint and crowns and wands! The only bad part was that we waited too long to start the show and the lighting was really bad 🙁

the dancing princesses

The Cast

The boys performed the “worms in the mouth” and the “guys doing several retakes while making a movie” They also had lots of personality!

the boys performed to scout skits for us!

My dad was talked into doing his Fiddler on the Roof dance and teaching the kids.

grandpa taught the If I were a Rich man dance