S.L.A.M. Family: Summer fun...Part 1

Even though we have been out of school for almost a month and a half(yeah, we get out early here) I better re-cap things before it gets any later.
Seems like everything has been sneaking up on me lately, including the end of the school year. With the baby here everything seems to just move in fast forward. The kids finished up the school year with perfect grades(they really are great students), end of the year parties, picnics and field days. It sure kept us busy.

The kids at their field day, they both got a few ribbons and had a ton of fun, although it was almost impossible for me to watch them both at two different ends of the field with 2 kids in tow.

On the last day of school we sat down and made a list of summer to do's, here is just a few....
Swimming
monopoly
park
visit cousins
bowling
rollar skating
zoo
drive-ins
baseball game
stay in a hotel
camp in the backyard
go to a rodeo

There are a lot more on the "list", we'll see what we can actually get to this year.

Here's the little man, I think this is him at about 2 months, such a fun little guy!

Mason finished out the soccer season, he had a ton of fun and has improved a lot. The girls also finished up their tumbling year..and why don't I have any pictures of them is beyond me, ugh!

Hard to see him here, but at least I have a picture.

I forgot my friend, Linsey, sent me this picture of Taylor in her tumbling recital outfit, she loved being on stage, it was so cute.

Remember when Jackson was born and he weighed 10.7 and was 22 inches long...yeah, huge baby right?! Well, at his 2 month check up he weighed almost 14 pounds and was already 24 inches, seriously, where did this giant baby come from?

Here he is with my friends baby, she was born almost 3 weeks later but look how tiny she is next to him, hilarious!

Mason started taking piano when he was in second grade and they have 2 recitals a year. We love his teacher and she does such a great job with him.

The end of the year recital.

After school got out we sat around and didn't do much for a couple weeks. Then swim lessons came and company rolled in. My sister and her family came to visit, they wanted to come when I first had the baby but it didn't work out. I'm so glad they came to visit. Catherine and I are super close, we talk like 5 times a day, no joke...I was so glad to have her here and visit for an entire week, it was great!

I think she took all the pictures because I couldn't find any, but then again I am really bad lately at pictures. Catherine is way fun, I was talking to her when she was here and I was telling her that she is such a fun mom. I feel like she is so good at playing with the kids and just enjoying them...I on the other-hand, I'm sooo boring. When she comes to visit, she always makes my kids giggle, she loves playing the wii with them and board games...the last time she came we jumped on the trampoline for hours....I love when she visits!

We were able to get a sitter and go out on a double date, it was so much fun

I love Wes in this picture.

Catherine and her hubby.

The day Catherine and her family left we had just enough time to wash some clothes, and grab some groceries just in time for my brother and his family to come visit for a few days. Catherine left in the morning and Shad and his family arrived that evening. They were on their way to a reunion and took a little detour to visit us. I was so excited, in the almost 12 years that we have been married I think this was the first time that my brother has been to one of our homes and could see how we live.

We pulled the fire-pit out and enjoyed s'mores that evening, it was a perfect night.

Abby and her cousin Bethany were attached at the hip, and I don't know how many times they changed their clothes

That evening was our towns Rose Festival and we are lucky enough to have a perfect view from our front yard

We took a little trip to our mall, if you can even call it that, I think there are maybe 5 stores inside..its funny. We did try and see how many of us could fit in a photo booth, we got 8, it was fun!

The first day my brother was here he was going on and on about the weather, how its nice that it isn't so dry like Utah and how he kinda misses the humidity...well, 2 days later, we couldn't take the heat any longer, so we headed to a nearby pool.

Jackson spent his time in the shade but I had to snap a picture of him in his little swim shorts(which, once I put them on, I realized they were too small) Such a chunk!

It was so nice to have family come visit, I do wish we could have spread it out a little though, just to give us something to look forward to. But any visitors is better than none at all and even if it means they come all at once, I'll take it.

Thanks guys for coming!

We tried to get our company to come with us to the drive-ins but it didn't work out. So once they all left we headed out and took the kids to see Brave and Avengers. It was so much fun, I love the drive-ins. The kids enjoyed Brave and then they slept while Sam and I watched the Avengers.