Go Go Lagoon!

We love to go to Lagoon every summer with my family. The boys were so much fun this year and loved EVERY ride!
Wyatt and Hank holding hands while waiting for their favorite whale ride.

These two loved this ride!

The whole family on the scenic train.

Me and my seesters!

Sha, Chels, and boys

We even got Scotty to come to Lagoon for a few hours.

We had so much fun at Lagoon we decided to bounce back and do it all over again! Shannon and I met Chelsie there and had another great day at Lagoon!



Jack's favorite ride- he is a big dumbo fan!

Wyatt loved to ride on the boats, but only the orange boat. This ride is always the longest line and wait so we were here a lot of the day!

I thought the kid snake ride looked fun so I took Hank and after almost squishing him to death because it goes around and around in a circle a million miles an hour it turned out being not so fun...

Of course Hank's favorite ride of the day has to do with a horsey. He could have stayed on the carousel all day and been happy.


Hank's other favorite ride, and I kind of liked it too so we went on it about a million times.

I don't recommend the bumper cars for a one year old. Very confusing!

I now hate this ride. It was the last ride of the day, the boys were sleepy and apparently the ride attendant was sleepy also because he fell asleep during the ride while Hank was trying to climb out of the plane. It is quite a drop into water so I had to yell to the kid to turn it off while Hank was about hanging off the edge of the plane. Leave it to Hank...


Benny Boo on the horse.


Can't wait to go go to Lagoon again next year!

Zoo Family Fun

If you didn't already know we have a couple of animal lovers in our house. So we decided to take them to Willow Park Zoo before the summer is gone and I go back to teaching.
They loved looking at the animals and just "hanging out"

Their favorite part of the zoo was feeding the birds.

Baby Kitties

We thought we needed a few more animals to add to the Jones' Petting Zoo. Bobcat had NINE baby kitties! The boys were in heaven with them. They would spend hours outside playing with them and searching for them when the mom would move them.

One day I couldn't find Jack and Hank anywhere when I heard something down the window well. They had both climbed down the well because the kitties were down there.

And then when Cort got home from work he of course joined them.

Does anyone want a baby kitty- or eight or nine?

Murder Mystery Dinner

Cort's best friend from high school, Trevor, turned the big 30 this year. We have had some fun surprise 30th birthday parties with all his friends this year, but this was way fun! We dressed up and had a Hawaiian murder mystery dinner and had such a blast!
Surprise!

The birthday boy

Trevor and Hayden (The hosts)

I don't remember their names- friends of Trev and Hayden

Vic and Shelly (Vic ended up being the murderer, but that doesn't surprise us)

The game


Cort and I

Chief Wiki Wiki

Bear Lake

Every summer we love to go to Bear Lake with Ashley, Katie, and kids. We have so much fun hanging out on the beach talking while the kids play and play.
Jack loves to get all muddy in the sand.

I could take a million pictures of this beach baby. He melts my heart!

It amazes me how sand can keep a kid occupied for hours and hours.



Would a Bear Lake vacation be complete without Jack and Burk's white bums washing off to go home?

Groundhog day- I mean Preston Night Rodeo

Yes- three days and nights of the exact same thing. Sidewalk sales, carnival, parade, and rodeo. It is always a fun time of year and it keeps getting better with little kids to take to the festivities. This year there was a little shake up with the last day of the parade. Jack got to ride on the preschool float on Thursday and on his pony on Friday.



This year they had an all horse parade one night as part of the 75th Anniversary. We painted Jack's pony Maggie for the parade and he rode her with Cort leading them. I could be partial buy I thought that was the best part of the whole "all horse parade"

Painting hand prints on Maggie.
Jack the Big J's Monkey, Jack, and Cort

Sawyer getting her warmed up.

5 little cowboys - Jack, Sawyer, Wyatt, Ben, Hank

Getting ready to catch all that candy!

Nate, Scotty & my Dad chilling at the parade

Close up of Nate and his awesome hat. This year they even had karaoke. Nate sang Will Smith "Getting Jiggy With It"and took Sawyer & Jack up with him. They were suppose to be his back up dancers, but somehow they all got mics and talked and laughed through the whole song. It was hilarious. I will try and get the footage.

Cowgirling it up for the Rodeo

Watching That Famous Preston Night Rodeo

Then of course we can't leave Granny's without getting ice cream from Big J's when it is all closed up and Hank gets to choose whatever flavor he wants. We love rodeo and can't wait until next year!

Preston Biathlon

I just love that Cort will do races with me without even training. He always does awesome at them also. This year we did the Preston Biathlon which was a 17 mile road bike and 3 mile run. It was both our second time on a road bike and we did pretty good!
Nervous and getting ready for the big race.

Us at the starting line.

I ended up getting first place in my age group and second overall!

Cort did awesome!

Getting my award for winning- a free oil change and $25 at Al's. I'll take it!!

Friends camping get together

We love to get together with Cort's best friends from high school and their families. We always stay up way too late playing silly games and eat way too much. We call it camping- but it is in my mother in law's yard which has a kitchen, bathroom, green grass, and a river, to it isn't roughing it too bad.
Here are my boys on the vacation- they are all so dang cute!

We went kayaking down the ice cold river and it tipped on Cort and I- or Cort tipped it. It was FREEZING!


In case you didn't know Cort's friend Vic began playing for the other team...

Just kidding about Vic- we had to wonder sometimes though.

Jack has made such good friends with all the kids. Jack and Tayson. I am so mad I didn't get a picture of all the kids together this year- or a picture of all the families. What was I thinking???



The boys got up and went golfing one morning so the girls decided it was our turn for fun and went and got glitter toes.

Me and Shelly

Hayden, Tayzlee, and Katie

Hayden planned a really fun game called "Minute to win it" where you have a minute to complete a bunch of activities. We were in teams named by our first names combined. I am sad to say that Cort and I did not win. Team SHATIE took the gold medal- but wait until next year because Cort and I will be training for the victory...


Always a fun weekend with these guys. Can't wait until next year!