Summer so far...

Pioneer Village at Lagoon This is the parking lot at Lagoon. Kody always looks so dang happy on our family vacations. This is shortly after he told McKoy he couldn't ride any rides in flip flops because I forgot to pack other shoes. Thanks dad! Nothing like making your son cry before we even get there. And for the record you can ride anything you want in flip flops.

More parking lot fun! Kody and Koy on the bumper cars. Some ride that involves water. I prefer dry rides myself.

Koy and I waiting in line for a ride.

I love McKoy's face! He isn't sure. After this ride he LOVED every one!

They don't let little princesses on the big rides so she did a lot of waiting, but she didn't mind.

After Lagoon we went and visited Grandma Smith. This is Kary's mother and she lives in Salt Lake. We love you Grandma!

2 babes at Seven Peaks

Koy isn't afraid of anything. Ok he is afraid of spiders but not any rides.

A little T-Ball action

More t-ball action

The lake on the hill. We had never been there before to swim. We only went fishing once there last year. Thanks Rachel for inviting us. We probably still wouldn't have gone if you hadn't called us. The walk to the car really sucks but otherwise is was a fun time. Yes, I am complaining about that walk. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to carry ALL of our stuff by myself. When will these kids get bigger muscles? I seriously had this hicky looking mark on my arm from carrying all the bags.

McKoy and Mataya playing with the kids.

Auntie Jeanette and Mataya on the fourth of July. Mataya has an obsession with sunglasses and shoes. We have to hide both because she always wants to wear them. If the sunglasses fall off she gets super ticked and she can't put them back on herself. That is where the hiding part comes in.

Just another day at the park.

This is us sweating to death waiting in line for McKoy to climb the rock climbing wall.

And it's finally our turn.

Kody took this picture to show how embarrassing it is to show up at the park in the same shirt that your sister is wearing nine months pregnant. Yes we did that and NO we didn't plan it. I went home and changed before the BBQ because she has a limited wardrobe at this point.

Kim's annual 4th of July barbecue.

More barbecue pictures

Getting ready for the fireworks to start.

Kim has her baby, Lainee Lindsey Hardin.

Beautiful girl

This is a picture I took at girls camp. That is my name I carved in that tree 15 years earlier.

This summer is so busy! I can't quite keep up with anything. We went on a little family vacation in June to Lagoon. I used my -teacher's get in cheap coupon- and we had a blast! McKoy rode pretty much every ride there. He is 5 (except today is his birthday and so he is now 6, but I am talking about stuff that happened a few weeks ago and it sounds more dramatic if I say he is 5) so anyway he is 5 and he rode Wicked! If you don't know what ride that is let me just say it is fast and scary and he had to sit in a booster seat just to ride it! Yes,they put booster seats on roller coasters. I didn't know either and it sounded weird but we got to cut in line because the booster seat line was shorter than the regular seat line, so I accepted that it is weird. I grabbed his little wrist and held on for dear life because I was afraid he was going to fall out. Kody stayed with Mataya so McKoy and I rode it alone. Anyway, he rode everything and was NOT afraid of anything. It was a blast. The next day we went to Seven Peaks. Same thing happened there. He rode everything and was fine with all of the slides. We had so much fun! I had never been there before and loved its guts. I didn't take very many pics of Seven Peaks because we rented a locker and the camera was in there most of the time.

Then we came home from vacation just in time for the 4th of July. We did our usual. Parade, park, sit on Maye's porch, bbq at Kim's and watch fireworks. It was the same as every year and one of my favorite holidays. I love doing the same things over and over. Oh Oh, I almost forgot something so funny. We let off fireworks on Kim's driveway for the 4th. We had 47 people there including our kids. That was just family. So Tamra (Kim's sister in law) bought fireworks and we let them off. Well there was this big huge firework that we decided to save for the grand finale. It said $29.99 on the side and was really big. So Mikey lit it and it sparked for a really long time and that was it. Well everyone was preparing to go when Talia remembered a package of fireworks she had purchased. It looked like a package of bottled water. So we are all yawning and most of the kids had fallen asleep when Mike lit that thing. It shot in the air, 3 huge fireworks that exploded right over our heads! It scared the #$%& out of all of us so bad. Then 3 more shot in the air, and then 3 more. It scared everyone so bad that all the kids were crying and the adults needed to change their underwear. It was so dang funny. I was laughing so hard I was crying. We were not expecting that thing to be so awesome. Talia said they were out of fireworks at Smith's but they had that one package for $60. She thought it was a package but it was just one single firework! I love that girl. She is hilarious. The cops didn't come because we lit all legal stuff this year but that last one was truly crazy.

The next thing to happen was Kim had baby number 3! Lainee Lindsey Hardin was born at 9:58am on July 11th. She was 8 pounds 3 ounces and 21 inches long. I filmed her debut like I did her other kids' births. It was perfect. Seriously she came out on the second contraction of pushing. It was so fast. Her hair is light almost blond! She looks just like a Hardin baby.

So after the birth of Lainee, I had to go to girls camp. That's right... me... camping... in a tent...with my ward...for 4 days 3 nights. It really turned out to be fun and I learned a lot. There is such a strong spirit at camp with all those girls. The speakers were great and it was a great experience for me. The girls in my ward are so amazing. Much better girls than I was at that age. At least their attitudes and willingness to help were probably better than I was. I had a great time...and then cried in my driveway when I got home. I missed my kids and it was just too long to be gone. Next time I think one or two nights will be good. Kody thought it was long too. He has never stayed with the kids by himself for that long. I've never been away for more than one night at a time. And wait til you hear this. Kody cleaned the whole house for me to come home to! Really! It was really sweet of him. I'm telling you people he can be a good one when he wants to be.

So that brings us to today. McKoy's birthday. I will do a birthday post when I get the pics put on this thing. So until then...