My niece Haven turned 4 and Shavonne hosted the most amazing little princess house warming party! I failed to take a picture of he adoreable and very LEGIT play house! It is so cute:) The desserts were absolutely amazing!
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| The details were soo cute! |
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| Berlin hanging out with random friends... |
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| Poor Madison's Allergies were Kickin' |
This year, Sim's Company picnic was held at the Phoenix Zoo. Our kids were super excited that it meant another trip to the ZOO:) After our fun party the night before, Phil and I were just looking forward to a relaxing lunch. They raffled off a BUNCH of prizes, when I mean a bunch, I mean a bunch! There were over 300 people there and when they drew your name to win a prize, you would still be eligible to be in the GRAND PRIZE drawing for a 42" Plasma TV. Phil knew what the prize would be, so he wanted to stick around until the end. Our little ones had kind of had it, and I was just hoping they'd hurry up and call the winner so we could go check out the animals! Long story short...Phil was called to win the TV!
Totally exciting! We never win anything... 
We hadn't gotten a chance to see Chad and Sara's amazing new house yet in Eagle Mountain, so we took a trip there so we could see their amazing 4000+sq house! The kids LOVED it...I have to say a basement like theirs would be a dream come true! The kids actually had a sweet game of "Red Rover" going on!
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Some history about this photo...we told the kids to race up to the top and see how far it goes...right after the kids began running back, we see the other half of our group looking down at us from the top too. The kids were kind of bummed...I guess the path eventually takes you there:) |
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| This plant name was funny...it was all very contradictory. The name was Summer Snow, then the thing was all over the place and it said it was an "obedient plant"...are they just making stuff up? So who comes up with plant names anyway? |
This summer has been great so far with the kids out of school, we've been swimming, swimming, and did I mention swimming? I'm all about easy activities with the kids, so swimming fits of course:) Lately however, I've been trying to think of a long term goal we could complete as a family, especially since they're home right now, and maybe get a sweet reward to look forward to also!
I came up with the idea of reading the Book Of Mormon...I know, I know, not an original idea, but it's a new one to our family as a WHOLE. So, since the kids are very visual...and, come on, I am too...I found an idea for a Book Of Mormon chart online...the only problem was that it was too small to get the details...so I stumbled and sketched until I created my own chart of sorts:)
This was as good as it ever got! Someone was either covering their faces, crying, or not looking in EVERY single picture! And just think...this was only with half of the kids here!
I have no idea what's going on in this picture...that's why I included it! Grandma and Fred are leaving...Haven is wearing her HOTT wig and heading in the opposite direction while Seattle appears to be sending them some "Huggie" love while sporting Cinderella shoes! I wish I could see what was going on in their little heads! 
Seattle and Berlin posing:)
The guys were going to go "racing"...but when my dad started calling us girls, "hazards"...we couldn't just allow that to happen! (I'm sure he did it on purpose!) Sarah of course couldn't go being pregnant, but the rest of us decided to go and show our stuff!
We first decided that the winner of the girls race could then race against the guys...which we all thought would be a cinch, BTW!
Here's us in our "cute" get up! Ha! We first try to look tough...then decide that we don't really look that tough...so we'll look sweet instead:) 
Helmets are so clastrophic! Ugh! Don't we look hotttt?! Ha!
As soon as the race starts, my "high performance kart" dies...classic! So the guy starts it up, but it starts to jam by itself and being the considerate girl I am...I stop so the guy doesn't think I'm being a jerk! Well the kart dies again, and then I get told you can't ever take your foot off the gas or it will die again:( Rudy!!! They did this whole speech about how you can't press the gas and brake at the same time...so I decided I just wouldn't use the brake and Shavonne apparently decided to use the statement as a suggestion and ignore it all together! 
I think she got called into the "Sin Bin" first...which is like a time out for the drivers so they can tell you what you did wrong. Then I get pulled in and the guy is like super mad at me, telling me if I hit the side one more time I'll get ejected:( I decided it wasn't very fun anymore...because it's like impossible to get around turns without people bumping into you! (Later I find out that I evidently ignored the first "flag" into the "sin bin" so the guy was EXTRA happy to see me when I came around again:) Ooops! Anyhoo, I was 2nd on the board and Shavonne was 1st before we got called in...then I dropped to second to last because I afraid to touch anything. Sky played it smart! She kept it nice and slow the entire time and somehow Adrienne (even with a million spin outs) pulled off being the fastest! Oh well...I say "Pass" from now on! Shavonne and I are just going to say, we were SOOO good, they didn't want to be shown up...so they put us on time out:P
The guys had fun, Phil still beat my time by like 2 seconds...maybe we'll have a rematch some day:) Tyler and my dad practice like all the time...so they of course had the fastest time...whoo hoo! 
The other kids had fun "pretending to race"!
Steele, Sarah's son, is obsessed with "Cars" and Lightning McQueen right now, so it was super cute to see his reaction. Shavonne has a picture of him sitting in one of the cars! Super Cute!
