Cabin with Brooke, Jason and Kids!

Brooke and Jason invited us to this amazing cabin a sweet friend of theirs was letting them use for the night to make a fun memory with Eli. And let me tell you, it was SO fun!

The weather was super erratic, but seemed to work out perfectly when we needed it to. There was a pool there and it was not what I would call "swimming weather". The kids HAD to swim though, luckily for me and Brooke- our husbands took one for the team and swam with the kids and made sure no one drowned, while me and Brooke watched, fully clothed...:) Everyone had a BLAST--including the husbands...!!:)

  

 

We were the only ones using the facility and that just worked out perfectly. We all ate pizza by the pool and everyone could splash and toggle back and forth from the hot tub to the pool as much as they liked. And me and Brooke worked hard pool side...!;)

 

Everyone went 4 wheeling a couple times while we were there, I hear it was pretty fun, I stayed back and read in the cabin. I know I had fun!! :)

 

We all got suckers at the little shop (a real highlight for the kids) and Katelyn let me practice my french braiding skills on her beautiful hair.

They had fish food at the shop that Brooke got the kids to feed the fish in the little pond/river behind the cabin, that was pretty darn fun for the kids.

  

 

The area we were at--northeast of Kamas--was GORGEOUS.  I wonder that I've ever seen anything so pretty as that whole area. Why have I not heard of it? We stopped at one of the MANY lakes and it was so much fun!

Here is Brooke and I with our precious little babies, Calvin and Eli, in tow.

 

    
 

It was so fun for the kids to explore here. We had to leave in a hurry because it started raining pretty heavily, it cleared up again pretty quickly and we were able to go on to our next stop. Provo River Falls. SO BEAUTIFUL!!

 

  

Thank you for the absolutely wonderful time Gause clan! We love you guys!!

Random August Pictures

My boys are just the best.

  

 

This was a Bridal Vail Falls, we went there a couple times, always a hit with the kids.:) Jax does this thing where he says, "take a picture of me mom!" and then he does a little pose--unprompted. It's really darling.

The boys LOVE to take pictures with my phone, I think Rod took this one of me--my hair is actually long enough to curl, so I thought would leave the picture for posterity...:)

And this is just happy boys day at Natasha's. They love to dress up at her house.

Jax is pretending to be Justin in the picture-he said "hey Mom, I'm Justin" in this "cool" voice.:)

   

Jax begged me to take him to the skate park with his 95lb bike and seat with NO cushion. I took him and he had an absolute blast. He was so happy and felt SUPER cool. He fell twice, and didn't even whimper--he was feeling too cool to cry.:) He loved it. I'm sure his crotch was aching by the end from all that jarring but he didn't complain at all. Just wanted to keep going. He was really fun to see him so happy.

   

Punching Isaac...always a favorite past-time of my boys...:)

Grama Gause was so nice and took me and the boys to the Ogden temple open house. That meant a 2 hour Trax ride each way--me and Debbie didn't realize it was going to be that long! And it was just that, LONG. The boys LOVED going on that train though! The ride there was a novelty--the 2 hours BACK with a 5 and 3 yr old in a crowded train going to the bathroom every 15 minutes (that never got old for my kids--but I was ready to catheterize them) and them bouncing off the walls because the novelty had worn off and they were tired of sitting and using indoor voices was what turned into torture...but the boys really seemed to like the whole thing.:)

    

The pictures are from the ride THERE--see how excited they are!

   

  

Another one of Jax's "take a picture of me mom!" poses.

  

Our garden this year has been the biggest and healthiest garden we have ever had to date. The boys love to help pick and plant and water and help me cook them but they do NOT like to eat anything from the garden. Rod and Jax will sometimes eat cucumbers. But it's torture trying to get them to eat anything else.

 

And this is just gross, but I thought it was funny because Jax wanted a picture of his red tongue; Rod didn't understand it but definitely wanted to get in on the action of having me take a picture of his mouth--that is his ice cream. Yum.

  

Jax filled up his "Jar" with fluff balls (an incentive thing we had going for the summer) so we took him to classic skating. He had a really good time with Rod and Justin. He was going sooo fast on his scooter and now he can do cool little hops on his scooter. He is such a big boy!