The kids played so good together all week. I came upstairs thursday morning and they had put baby Tabitha to bed and were taking such good care of her. Every once in a while she would let out a cry and they would run in to see what she needed. I wanted to take a picture and Tabitha did not but Gabrielle said, "Will you take a picture if Mama joins you? You can sit on my lap", so cute!
Wednesday we drove down the canyon to Bridal Veil Falls, we were joined by Gracie Huff today who stayed with us while her Mom was at youth conference. Tabitha fell asleep in the car so my Mom stayed with her while we took the trail to the water fall and then joined us a little bit later. After dinner we celebrated Clay's 7th birthday! 
right before
right after
We are excited to spend the whole week with Cassidy and Clay while their Mom attends BYU's choral academy.
All the kids for a fun ride, but then we realized that it wasn't allowed so only one person at a time could ride after that, but they did have fun!
After we pulled Tabitha for a bit we circled back to see if she was OK and she said, "go faster!", both she and Gabrielle had fun on the tube.
the kids had fun just floating around on the tube and "paddling" back to shore.
our drive home, they were both so exhausted!
full car, good thing the campground was only about 1/2 hour away!
Gabrielle is getting so comfortable swimming around all by herself!
building a "sand castle"
Being pulled my Simba. The boys thought it would be fun to bring the dogs, Gus didn't like the water and was a lot more work then we wanted. He will probably be staying home on other camping adventures.
"this is the way you bounce the stick", my grandpa always played this with us growing up, Tabitha was the first one to catch on how to play!
Every morning around 8:00 you can look up in the sky and see several hot air balloons. Gabrielle and I sat out on the porch Thursday morning and enjoyed watching them, while Emily and Tabitha were still sleeping. Gabrielle thinks it would be fun to go up in one.
our cheering section trying to stay cool!
Truman
Noah, Gabrielle and Miles
Our elementary school is offering free lunch for the kids this summer. We have heard about it but never gone over until my friend Ali called me to go tuesday with her. We joined up with a few other friends and enjoyed a yummy lunch and playing on the playground. Gabrielle loves that she get to go where she will start school in the fall even though she won't be doing lunch as a kindergartner. (again thanks to Camille for the photos today)
We got together with some friends for a FHE and dinner. Our plan was to go up to the mts., but the weather didn't cooperate so we ended up in our friends backyard. It was a fun night and always fun to get together and enjoy summer. Thanks to Camille for the photos, I forgot my camera.
Gabrielle wants to pick every flower she sees in our yard. We don't let her pick most of them but we do have some wild flowers in our backyard that she can pick and she loves it!
Saturday we set up the pool in the backyard and the girls had so much fun. Tabitha kept saying, "this is fabuous, this is fabuous!!" I had to work so I just watched them and Brandon for about an hour before I left and then after nap and quiet time they were out there again for over an hour. 
Emily organized the girls closets so that they could reach everything and dress themselves and put their clothes away. They love it!
