Present Time

Here are some photos of the kids giving their gifts to each other. The boys with their mighty beans!

Kaylie gave Kyler some more Cars2 Cars..he is a matchbox crazed boy!

Keeping with the Cars 2 theme, Mom gave Kyler Cars Duplos! The boys have had so much fun playing with them.

Kyler and Dallyn eager to play with more CARS!

Swimming!!

We were lucky enough to be able to go swimming at the Wangsgard's home last week. The kids sure loved it and they could have swam all day every day!! They had so much fun!! Here's some photos of all the fun!

Friends Fun!

Here's some photos of the kids having a great time together!! How blessed we are to have such great friends!

Donner Lake

A few years ago Scott did a race across Donner Lake in CA. This past week we were visiting there and our family got in the water this time instead of Scott. Don't you love the sign on the beach?? Hmm....I don't know about you but I had NO desire to get in that freezing water!!

Kids will be kids though and they were willing to brave the cold temperatures and they did! We got a photo to prove how brave (or crazy) they all were!!

The two K's before they decided to brave the cold water! Then after getting their clothes mostly wet we decided to change them into suits!

Hat girls....come on, we were camping...what else can you expect??

Donner Lake is a beautiful place!! We were grateful to be able to visit even for a short while....it's just beautiful up by Lake Tahoe!

Donner Lake Part 2

So we also visited the memorial at Donner Lake. Here's the family photo....

This memorial was astonishing how tall it was! I couldn't even fathom what it would be like to have snow piled up that high! Wow! The monument was built as tall as the snow was that the Donner Party were trapped in. Wow!

Just the kids...

The Two K's together....

Cameron at the museum by the Jedediah Smith display. He learned about Jedediah in his 4th grade class when he learned about Mountain Men.

Homemade Teeter Totter!

Relaxing!!

Can you see these two boys being sleepyheads the other morning? Cam and Brad shared a tent and they thought that was pretty fun!

Who are these sleeping beauties....??

Dad and Dallyn playing Othello together enjoying our time in the mountains!!

Sitting around the campfire in our jammies...just enjoying the morning!!

Yep...continuing in the relaxing mode...here we are playing games together in our jammies!! Dallyn taught me to play othello and he totally beat me!

More game playing fun...Angee gave me Disney Apples to Apples and we had a great time playing that too! Apples to Apples is a family favorite so getting the Disney version was just awesome!!

The two 7 year old buddies....our first camping trip together was when Julia was 3 months old and I was pregnant with Dallyn!! Wow...look how much they have grown!! We are so blessed to have such great friends!

Cam trying out his archery skills!

Camping Memories

We had a great time camping with our dear friends..we had a tradition of going camping together and we just had to keep it up even though we live in Utah now!! So here are some photos from our trip together...

The little boys...K and K...

Cam just chilling....

Angee and I were pretty proud of our great tin foil dinners!! They turned out great even though we really weren't sure what we were doing!!

Look at these twinner BFF's...such darling girls!! They have been friends since they were in Sunbeams!! Wow...how time flies! They will both be turning twelve in a few months!!

Scott takes over with the tin foil dinners when he and Brian got back from taking the kids on a hike.

All the kids eating dinnner together...

We sure love camping....and silly photos!