Time for an update...

We have had a busy start to our summer, unfortunately I don't have any pictures to prove just how much fun we have had. I am still working on getting them from my mom's camera. My brother and his family came for a short visit from Texas. They arrived on Friday the 3rd and Lexie became a permanent resident of my mom's house while they were here, so she could "spend as much time with her cousins as possible." He has a son that just turned 11 and a daughter that is 8 almost 9 so Lexie is in heaven when they get to see each other, she finally gets to play with cousins her own age instead of 5 or more years younger than she is. Saturday found us at Boondocks for miniature golf, go-cart rides, and as many arcade games as they could talk the adults into paying for. We had a great time. I think we BBQ ed every night and the kids had a great time playing together. Wednesday started early (we were on the road before 8) on our way to Vernal for visits with family and of course as many horse rides as you can fit in 5 hours. It was a great day and my dad got to show my kids the house he lived in as a little boy and the house he lived in after that before they moved to the Vernal area. All my kids love to ride horses, but right now I am amazed at how much Abbie loves it. She is excited to get on and she has a great time while riding the horse, bouncing up and down even more than what is naturally part of riding a horse and then she cries and cries when you take her off. She is not scared of them at all, which is scary at times when she thinks she can walk right up to them if she is not being held. Ashton got to have fun throwing sticks into the irrigation canal and watching them float through the pipe and down the stream. Lexie had a good time showing off her increasingly good horsemanship skills, and she got to hold my cousins new baby girl, she was in heaven. We had a great day and it was worth it even though we got back really late and everyone was tired. Thursday all the girls got together for a "gel toes" party and got our toenails done. All the older grand kids went to an afternoon movie with Grandma and Grandpa on Friday. Then sadly for my kids, their cousins headed back for Texas Sunday morning. I'm glad that my kids got to have such a fun week, but I am glad that they are home now, my house seemed so empty and quiet without them here. Now we are anxiously awaiting the arrival of our next set of cousins to arrive from Texas sometime this week.