Play Date with Friends

Here we all are at the new Splash Pad Sandy:  Lunch and Splashing fun!  Liv really had a good time watching all the kids, she is a people watcher just like her mom and my mom and her mom...it must be genetic! But she didn't seem to be excited about getting wet herself.  I had to pretty much drag her through the water and she wasn't too happy about it.  I think Tyson liked it better that she did. Thankfully out friends had some squirt guns so liv had fun squirting. 

 What cute girls!  I am so lucky to have had such great friendships for such a long time...since 7th grade to be exact!  Love these girls!~

Opening Weekend at Bear Lake

 Tyson with my mom's new Dog, Rosie.  She is such a good dog!  Perfectly trained, has the softest and sweetest temperament!  Meant for my mom!

 Our new waverunner.  Ben bought two waverunner's on KSL and kept one for himself and coby and us bought the other one from him, it's an older one, but I think it's going to be really fun!

 Zonked out after long days of work and play!

 Snack time, these two girls are going to be such good friends!

 Having fun on the swings!

 Coby and Lance building our shared swing set.

 The airplane teeter totter has been quite the success!  So much fun!

 Olivia loves this dog, here she is giving her lots and LOTS of hugs and love...maybe too much love!?

Memorial Weekend at the Hansen's Cabin

 Views from the Cabin up in Kamas.

 This is one of the views down on the trail that we went on the four wheelers, a little chilly but really beautiful!  We saw several deer and stopped to throw rocks in the river down the trail. 

 Just chilling, it was nice to have a weekend away where we didn't have to do anything but do what we wanted.  That included watching movies, shooting pool and arcades downstairs.  Playing games like racing horses (a betting game) and blokus and reading books, riding the four wheelers, playing in the hot tub with the kids and relaxing in the hot tub after they went to bed.  Eating...lots of eating filling the kitchen with bubbles, Dish soap was accidentally put in the dishwashers rather than actual dish detergent...Bubbles everywhere. and breaking a the glass on a light fixture...This was so weird...it literally just fell off.  Sorry Hansen's!

 Liv and Bree had a great time together, they had to eat and drink and play what the other one was eating, drinking and playing...this caused a few problems, but for the most part, they really played well together, just like their mommies~

 Cute Blake!  This kid is so chill, literally woke up, ate, played b-ball, napped for hours and repeated each step... Cass and Danny got a good one! 

I made sugar cookies thinking that would be a fun thing for the kids to do, Bree and Liv had a fun time rolling out the cookies...

 

And eating the frosting...I mean frosting the cookies.

 

 It was fun for us moms too!

 Pac Man!

 Tyson had a great time sitting and rolling the ball up and down the game, that and watching whoever was playing the double shot.

 Silly Girl! Cheering on the boys.!

 While Lance was running somewhere with Danny, Liv Tyson and I took a walk, it was really pretty and Liv was so funny and wanted me to take her picture on every big rock she could climb on.   She is pretty cute sometimes, when I asked her to get something for me, she gave me a big thumbs up and said, "You got it Mom!"  So Cute!  I love this girl!

 Cassie gave Ell, Bree and Liv haircuts while we were here. At first it was just the bangs and then we decide to cut it into a little bob, so cute!

 We thought we would go out together while Tyson was napping, probably the most comfortable four wheeler ride I have ever been on!

 Danny's dad, just like mine, are engineers so they both have similar machines that will shoot bottles by pressure.  They shot pretty high, Blake got scared and cried every time, poor boy.

 Here Tyson goes on his first four wheel ride. He liked it!  He actually got so relaxed that he almost fell asleep.  Liv did the same thing when she was his age, they must be related.

 Cute Buckway's family of 3 soon to be 4.  Ell is having a little boy in July!  Yay!

 Seriously so cute! You 3 make such a good looking little family, there is no mistaking Blake for your boy!

 We thought this picture would be fun to take, we took the exact same picture like this about 3 1/2 years ago when we were all up here last.  Fun to mark the times.  I love these girls!  So beautiful inside and out!

Tyson learned how to climb up the steps and he loved it, just kept coming back for more. I love that boy!!!!

 

 Look at how are little families are growing!  Friends forever!

 Thanks so much for having us Hansen's. We love you all, one of many trips and adventures together!

Happy Birthday Dad!

 So my dad would be 63 today...we decided it would be fitting to go see him and take him a few balloons to celebrate. Liv was so sweet and gave him kisses.

 Honey and Liv sent a balloon off to heaven. The first one got stuck in the tree right above him, we think he wanted to keep that one there. and the second one went straight up, I think we have our bases covered.

 What a beautiful day to send our love to heaven.  We pulled up to the cemetery and Liv asked, "Are we here at heaven with Poppy?"  What a sweetheart.

 This was a free coloring page at the checkout at Macey's where we picked up the balloons, we couldn't have planned it better! Liv colored it on the way to the cemetery.  She's getting better each time she colors.  I love seeing the progress and development in my kids, what joy!

 It wasn't easy to be there and even harder to talk out loud to my dad wishing him a happy birthday.  It's still quite surreal.

 Later we had a re-birthday party so celebrate my dads life, we had cake and told dreams or memories of him.  We also re-watched the video that us kids made for him for Christmas that we showed at the viewings.   Hard, but fun to hear stories or memories that I haven't heard before.

 I had a dream a few nights previous that my siblings and I were at a fancy mansion event where we met lots of famous people look a likes, we got the go around the room and meet them, and over in a smaller group I see a man who looks exactly like my dad, I knew in my dream that it wasn't him, but it looked just like him.  I started talking to him and after a few minutes I said, "I know that you will probably think this is weird but I wondered if you would dance with me?"  He agreed and held me just as my dad would and it was as if I was dancing with him, which is one of those things that I am going to miss terribly.  I think sometimes dreams have a way of letting us know everything is okay, or giving us some type of comfort of confirmation that there are angels among us.

 Instead of buying flowers at the funeral, the Rich family decided to buy our family these statues, one of my mom and dad biking and the other is of my dad crossing the finish line, just as he would in this life and symbolic of passing the test of this life and crossing the finish line onto the next life.  Very sweet! Thank you so much Rich family.