4th of July BBQ!

We had such a fun family party on the 3rd of July! We were all together to celebrate the 4th, and we started off the morning by going to see Toy Story 3! What a fantastic movie! Definitely one that we want to see again! I loved Scooter's "commentary" during the movie - "Mom look, it's Woody and Buzz!" ..."Oh no, that's not good!" and other cute little things! And luckily the people we were sitting by were patient and didn't tell us to "shoosh" or anything...Of course, I guess when you sit by family they don't have much choice but to be patient with you! haha!

Then we went to Nanny & Papa's house (Scooter has been calling my dad "Pops" lately, which I think is so cute!) and had a BBQ and a swimming party!

Erica and Aubrey were so nice to work as lifeguards at the pool! (Derek & Mauri called them that! They were good sports too, considering that they didn't walk away from the pool dry...) Here is Erica catching Derek as he goes down the slide!
Having fun!
Mauri sliding through Erica's legs!
Splash!


Drying off for a few minutes on his new Buzz Lightyear towel from Nanny & Papa.
Taking a small break to sit at the kids picnic table & drink his kid sized Shasta!
What a fun, fun day! The times we get to spend with family are some of my absolute favorite! And we were oh so happy that this bbq did not end like our one last year... No injuries or trips to the hospital! Phew! Made it even better!!

Our New Favorite Camping Spot!

We went camping with Lins, Glendon, Mauri, Aubrey & Tyler last weekend, and this camping trip was much better than our camping trip last year! (even though that trip was pretty funny!). We went to Wasatch Mountain State Park. We had never been there, but Lins and Glendon had, and they told us great things about it! And we loved it! The campsites were awesome, there was plenty of room for the kiddos to run around and play, and they had actual bathrooms - not scary, hold your breath and run out "bathrooms!" Yay!

Here is Scooter in the car on the way there!
Digging in the dirt! He and Mauri were both covered in dirt, but they had so much fun - and we were just happy that they didn't have to play in mud this time!!
Mauri playing the drums! The firewood we brought up was from a woodworking store that was closing down, and the kids had a lot of fun playing with it before we tossed it in the fire!
They had this big open field and a pond just down the road from where we were camping, so we had a fun afternoon playing frisbee, catch and feeding the ducks!

The Kiddos, having fun!

Feeding the ducks!
On the playground with Daddy!
One of the few times the kiddos were sitting still! We were all helping get dinner ready, so Lins put in a movie for Derek & Mauri, and they had a great time hanging out in their camp chairs & eating some pre-dinner snacks!
We had such a great time camping, and we can't wait to go again! There were two fun things I didn't get a picture of that I wish I did! One was our cute camp host, Mr. Tunney. We saw him & talked to him several times, and every time we saw him he tried to convince Mar that girls shouldn't have dirt on their faces. He told her that girls weren't supposed to like dirt, and Mauri said "Well I do!" He also gave the kids a ride in his golf cart, which made their day! He was so nice!

The other thing I wish I would have taken a picture of was when we were at the pond playing, and the kids were on the playground. There was a time when only Mauri & Derek were using the playground, and then some other kids walked over to play. Lins said: "Is she (Mauri) being threatening?" and we turned to see Mar standing at the top of the stairs holding a stick almost as big as she was, and the other kids just looking up at her!! It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen, and is still making me chuckle! We love that girl! She is always cracking us up!! (Oh, and Glendon went over to her & she said she was just asking the other kids if they wanted to play what she & Derek were playing! But Glendon took the stick away- since it might have been a bit threatening!)