Burrows Reunion

July 15-16th we went up north for the Burrows reunion. It was at Deer Springs National Park. We had so much fun. It was good to see and get to know Jareds family better. Jareds Aunt Laniece and Uncle Al have two boats they brought and pulled everyone on tubes all day. They had an inflatable raft too that was fun to paddle around in. We had so much fun and can't wait to go next year. It was also mine and Jared's anniversary so it was nice to get out of town for that. Eleven years!!!

Zac and Keira having fun throwing rocks in the lake.

Grandpa John was a great sport and paddled the kids around in the raft. At one point he had three granddaughters in with him. I wished him good luck;)

Jared and Uncle Cash. Jared's looking sexy in his mis- matched swim wear. He was a good sport getting in and swimming with the kids. I think he had a really good time.

You can tell how much fun Keira had by how dirty her shirt is! Thank goodness for Tide!

Zachary, Jared and Caitlyn ready for their adventure on the tube.



Zachary swimming and having fun.

Now that's an armful!

Getting deeper.

And a little bit colder:) This lake was awesome because it didn't get deep really fast so you could walk out really far and still touch. Plus it was really a good temperature. Not hot but not cold. Perfect!

Fourth of July

We had a nice relaxing Fourth of July this year.We watched the parade and the kids had fun gathering up the candy.

Keira liked the tootsie rolls:)

Zoe would just sit and patiently unwrap her candy.

Then later in the afternoon Grandpa and Grandma Burrows and Aunt Amanda came to our house for a BBQ. It was really yummy and so fun to be able to have them over. We don't get to see them very often so we really appreciated them coming and spending the time with our family. We turned on the sprinklers and let the kids run in the water.

Sometimes Keira co-operates and I get a cute picture. And Zachary lately won't let me take any pictures of him, so there isn't any of him.

Then that night we drove out to Ruby's Inn and watched the fireworks. Which were awesome as always and for some dumb reason I didn't get any pictures.

Dad's Headstone.

Dad's headstone came last month and it's perfect. It is in the wrong spot so they need to come fix that, but the headstone is beautiful. The engraved pictures are perfect. It's so nice to have his resting place properly marked. Bitter sweet.

It is a little weird to have my name on a headstone in the grave yard!

We sure do miss him.... love you daddy.

Highlights!!!

We've been having lots of fun this summer. And I haven't been the best blogger. I got a new camera and the pictures take forever to download and I can only do one or two at a time. So I'm really behind. So I'm gonna try and play catch up the next couple day. While the girls are napping (my favorite time of the day) I'll put some of our highlights up.

We've enjoyed lots of slush parties!



Played in the sprinklers!



Spent tons of time at the pool. This is actually from Zac's swimming lessons. He has done amazing this year. I'm so proud of him. All of the kids have been little fish, except Zoe and she has informed me she is a mermaid!!



We went to Grandma Vickies for a cookout and the girls found the chickens. Zoe said "holy hell they got huge mama!"

Anyway hope everyone is having a fun summer. More to come tomorrow hopefully:)

Coach Pitch Baseball!

This year Zachary got to play coach pitch baseball. In all honesty I was really worried about this, but he did so good. He's throwing the ball better and he did really well hitting! This year he hit right handed and threw left handed. I think this worked out a lot better for him. Crazy ambidextrous kid :) He also got to travel to Fredonia and Kanab to play which he thought was pretty cool.



He was not co-operating for a good picture. I guess I get what I get.



Hitting the ball.



He never ran very fast even though I know he can. I kept telling him to pretend he was running from me!



All the kids loved to play catch. I think it gave them a little bit of a rest. Little do they know when they get older the catcher doesn't get to rest, it's actually a very physical position to play.
Zac had fun and I'm glad it only lasts a month ;)

Memorial Weekend

Usually for the Memorial Day holiday we plan a camping trip or something like that. But this year we stayed home and focused more on what this day means. It was a little weird having it so close to when dad passed so it was a learning experience for us. We now know what to do next year. Like how to get the darned flowers to stay put when it's so windy. We also took flowers to Jared's grandparents that have passed away. It was good for the kids to hear about some great grandparents. Every time we go to the cemetery we're there forever because we have a tendency to just wander and look at all the headstones.

Grandpa loved mums so we took some to his grave. It will be so nice next month to have his headstone here. I'm very anxious to see it. It's time to have his resting place properly marked.

This was my attempt at a silhouette. I think the flag was to transparent to block the light. However not perfect I really love this picture:)

On Sunday we had a cook out in our backyard. It was FREEZING!!!! But that didn't stop us and we had a very good time. The girls had a blast as always. They're people persons.

And once again Jared cooked us a very yummy dinner. Navajo taco's this time :P

Everyone was getting mad at the camera taker so I got some real good photo's ;) Morgan did this on purpose and I think Kenz is just trying to eat! Ha, Ha love it!

And of course there was some wiggle car racing. Keira's not crying she's laughing hysterically!

I'm not sure about these two. I think Mannie was just kindly helping Mom to adjust her hood!

Uncle Darren was trying to help me get a good picture of Jared.

And of course Yoda with her prisoner! I sure do love my family:) All of them and there crazy personalities.

Catching Up!

EASTER

Easter was a little crazy this year. Jared's family came out and went camping so we spent a little time with them. And on Saturday I took my mom to Vegas to pick up Morgan and four other kids from the airport. They had been back east on the American Heritage tour. Then on Sunday after church we went back out and had lunch with Jared's family. The kids had lots of fun playing and of course the bunny found them.

Zachary and Zoe had to bounce Keira's new ball on her to get her to wake up. I guess she just had to much fun the day before.



Zachary was so excited to get his picture taken. Goof Ball!!!



The girls played in the dirt with their buckets for hours.

DAFFODILS FOR GRANDPA

We had some really pretty daffodils growing in the front flower beds this spring so we decided one day to clip a few and take them to Grandpa's grave. It was the first time the girls had been and I thought it would help them understand a little better. They are so confused right now and are very sad because they miss him so much. It's so hard to deal with your own grief and even harder to see your children suffer. Life just doesn't make sense sometimes.

Grandma shows them the way




Grandma helps tuck the flowers in so they don't blow away.



So this is the funniest picture. After they put their flowers down they both bunny hopped right over the top of Grandpa's dirt. Some may say this is disrespectful but Grandpa used to let them jump on him. And I don't mean jump up and down on him, he used to let them stand on the arm of his chair and jump into his arms and kind of land on his belly. Well after he got sick we told them they couldn't do that anymore because they would hurt him. A couple days later Keira told everyone "Grandpa's not a trampoline!" So we think this is their friendly hello to their Grandpa:)

CHASING THE FAIRIES

We've tried to enjoy the nice weather every chance we get. One day the fairies even came out to play!

Zac enjoyed chasing the girls around the backyard.




Keira kept having problems with her antenna's!




Zoe was in heaven playing with her wings:)

DADDY'S HELPER'S

Last winter Jared built a shed out back. And this spring he piped electricity to it. He had a lot of really good helpers.

Zoe knew exactly what to do to put the pipe together. We thought this was a little odd for our princess. But she loved it.




Keira has to do what Zoe does!