Family Reunion

We had such a wonderful time at Brad's family camping reunion. We celebrated the marriage and life of Wilford and Shirley. They have been married for the past 60 years and have lived such amazing lives. We loved the nature/treasure hike, family activities, fishing, rhino rides, quad rides, motorcycle rides, nightly family games, card games, catching butterflies, wild turkeys, horned toads, cows, elk, filling our tent with balloons for Brad's birthday, making necklace rock friends, family meals, many dogs, smores, our trip to the cave, sleeping under the stars, climbing trees, etc. It was such a fun weekend! We feel so blessed to be a part of such a wonderful family.

hAPpy bIRtHdaY to Brad!

Brad just turned the BIG 32 on July 22nd. We knew we'd be camping on his birthday so the kids and I decided to throw a surprise party for him the Tuesday before we left. Marley and Miles planned all of the details...BBQ, water balloon fight, ice cream with many yummy toppings, etc. The kids made a birthday sign and blew up balloons, and filled water balloons with their friends. The neighborhood kids were so excited and wanted to come so they all came back around 7:30pm for the surprise. When Brad got home he went to the backyard first and found many kids in the chicken coop...Tallen was wearing a birthday hat and so Brad asked him who's birthday it was...Tallen smiled big and suddenly Brad knew the party was for him. My favorite part of the night was having Brad in the center of a big circle of the kids that each had a water balloon in hand...They got Brad good!

OVERBOARD!

Ship mates are overboard!! Marley and Miles enjoy swimming at Matix and Emeri's grandparent's pool. They have such an amazing pool!

Legos

Miles loves to play Legos with neighborhood friends. Grant and Matix especially like to build Legos with Miles for hours. Miles and Matix made a ship and wanted me to take a picture of it to send into the Lego Magazine. They are hoping to win a prize or have their picture in the magazine.

Chicks

We decided to get 4 chickens. Brad made such a cute home for our little chicks. Marley named her chick Ning Ning. Miles named his Nimrod. Brad named his Copy Tawn, and I named my chick Yellow. It has been so fun for all of the neighbor kids to come and play with them with Marley and Miles. M and M run outside to see them every morning when they wake up.

Friends

Mars and Faith about to go for a night swim.

Book Worm

Miles is our little book worm. He has a book in his hand most of the time. On the way to school each morning he reads from his latest chapter book. Currently he especially loves Geronimo Stilton books. He likes to read with Libby. When I snuck in to take a picture, I later realized that I caught Miles picking his nose.....Miles is still learning to use a tissue. I am not sure why he likes to pick his nose, but we have been working on helping him understand that it is yucky for quite some time now! Oh Miles!