Our Rainy Day of Camping

We had all kinds of weather on our lil' campin' trip this last weekend. Here are a few pictures of the day it rained off and on (0ur last day):

We all spent most of the morning in the tent-trailer playing games (and utilizing M's ipod and DS to their fullest).

Every once in awhile the rain would clear up - and we would migrate outside for a bit. Here are the kids with their finished puzzle. James, of course, cannot resist putting a puzzle together and joined them. :)

After lunch the rain was just a tiny drizzle - so the kids and dads packed up to go fishing.

These are my makeshift rain coats ... :)

The kids were SO excited to go fishing .... and really didn't care WHAT the weather was like. They were determined to go. Luckily, the skies cleared up for just a couple of hours for them to enjoy the experience.

Krystal caught her first fish!!!!!!!!!! (And ... the only catch of the day. :( )

She's pretty sure she's done fishing for life. She refused to touch her prized catch ... and would barely even look at it. She wasn't too thrilled with the slimy, bloody fish that came off of her pole ...

We spent the rainy afternoon in town. We got to see the movie "Up" - which we all LOVED - and then we ate at a YUMMY pizza place for dinner. So fun.

When we got back to the campsite - the weather gradually cleared up (due to the Manti pageant starting time approaching, I am sure). The kids enjoyed a little splashing - and then an awesome night of s'mores around the fire.

The next day it was time to pack up ... and, of course, it was broiling hot. The kids all jumped up to help when it was time to load up the 4-wheelers - hahahaha!

What a fabulous trip!! Thanks Miller fam - it's always a good time to get together! This trip was especially fun for us. :) More pics to come of our first day and a half ...

The Trail

We are so lucky to live right by a trail that winds all through the neighborhoods and along the river and up to the park. It is gorgeous. And we take advantage often. Here are the girls on our girl's night (during the Father and Son's campout) - taking a walk along the trail - and stopping to throw rocks into the river.

Cute cousins ... Best buds ...

Gettin' a little fancy with the walk-y-walk. :) We just had Chinese for dinner, so they decided to give their walk a little more umph to work off those calories! (I probably shoulda joined 'em - but, I HAD to have burned a few extra calories with how hard I laughed at them, right?)


Krystal is quite the speedster/trickster on her bike. She had endless amounts of energy this night.

Krystal's famous pose ... and Marissa giving it a shot as well :D

I love my girlies. We have good times together.

Curly Girlies

Marissee and Annie-Pie had many girl nights together. I wish I would have gotten pics of their game night. They laughed and giggled for HOURS. I loved it. :)

But - here's the night they watched a movie, put curlers in their hair, and painted toenails. So fun.

Beautiful, eh?

The girls weren't ALL play ALL week. They both worked hard at the kitchen counter and the computer writing/typing their own stories with pictures and everything. They did a fabulous job.

We miss you, Annie!

The Football Flamenco

I have so many pictures to post and events to blog - but I have just been running 90 miles an hour lately. I had to quickly stick this one in, though. It makes me laugh so hard. :) We have had a lot of fun family time together lately ... both my side of the fam and Ty's. Here's just a little preview:

Jumpin' Jacks

Having Annie at our house for a week ... well, honestly - it's just NOT ENOUGH!! haha. We love (and when I say love - I mean, LOOOOOOVE) having her over! We always seem to have a good time.

Here is an afternoon at Jumpin' Jacks. We pretty much had the place to ourselves - which makes it that much more fun. My camera just insists on taking blurry pics - so these are the best I could get:

There is nothing better than laughter coming from kids ... no matter how big they get. :)

Believe it or not - this is just a quick picture of Krystal AS she got to the bottom of the slide. And Aaron ... coming around the corner to see me with camera in hand. Hahahahaha. These two are just a photographer's dream ... they canNOT be stopped from posing.


Cute.


The girls had so much fun on these "surfer" ends. And the power of my Krystal ... I tell ya ... if looks could kill. ;)

Good times!

A Little Rain Please?

Our first week-and-a-half of Summer was pretty much a party (I have yet to post the few pics I got ... but I will ... eventually :)). Since then ... it has been rainy and overcast with a few hints of Summer here and there. If you ask my kids what they've been up to ... pretty much they say, "Doin' chores." haha.

But - we DO sneak in a few fun moments here and there.

Here are Q and Aaron enjoying yet another Summer downpour. Who needs swimming and sprinklers this Summer? (Said VERY sarcastically)

Rain - Rain - Go Away! We need to get our yard in ... like ... YESTERDAY!! :D

Memorial Day Traditions

Every Memorial Day - for as long as I can remember - Tyler's side of the family goes all over Utah (lil' towns like Peoa and Oakley ) to put flowers on the graves - and eat at the Spring Chicken Inn. The kids absolutely LOVE switching around in cars to be with their cousins - and just thoroughly enjoy being together.

I have opted out of this day of driving for several years now ... due to my extreme motion sickness tendency ... and kind of do my own thing. Really - all mom's out there - a day all to yourself ain't so bad AT ALL!! :) This year I got to spend the day with my favorite M. We went to the movie (Wolverine - X Men Beginnings - and it was dang good) ... ate lunch at a place called Stan's (and HOLY COW - I crave it every day now :)) ... did a little shopping ... played a little ping pong ... and got absolutely ZERO pictures - DUH!! We may have to try that all again next year, M!! :D

Anyway - I'm so happy that my kids get this special day with the family. Here are a few random pics from their day ... I think it will be noticeable that the kiddos took a few of these themselves. :)

The shutter on our camera stinks (our whole camera stinks, actually) - so the shutter wasn't quite open all the way on this one ... but, I thought it looked cool - and who can resist a Krystal pose? Seriously.

Is this an angry look? Ohhhhh - I think it's an "I'm so cool and you know it" look. Yeah. I think that's it. LOVE my man ...

Long drives in the car ... no need to explain ...

We are so grateful to have good ol' Grove in our lives. I encourage my hubby to be JUST LIKE HIM every day!!

Fun stop along the way ...

A quick detour to Memorial Hill (Krystal told me ALL about this place when she got home. She was thrilled that she got to climb to the top of "Oreo" hill.) hahahaha. Yeah. I would be too! We love Oreos here at the Jenson home.

Anyway - thanks Grover and DeAnn - for this great tradition.