It's Been A While!!

I can't believe it's been two months since I updated this blog!!  I love going back and looking at the posts and I keep telling myself that I MUST keep up with it!!  : )  This is an attempt to catch up and hopefully continue posting on a regular basis.  

We had a SUPER FUN summer!!  At the beginning of the summer, it didn't seem like we had too much planned, but we were non-stop the whole summer.  We LOVED every minute of it!!!  I don't have a ton of pictures from our summer fun, but it included visiting family in Alaska, visiting family in Arkansas (three times), Vacation Bible School for Eli, Reed's 2nd birthday, gymnastics camp for Eli, visit from family from Arkansas, visit from Alaska family, trips to the zoo, many trips to the pool and many trips to the farm.  So fun!!!!

What is summer without watermelon?!?!?  These boys LOVE watermelon!!

We spent LOTS of time in the pool!  Eli is an awesome swimmer!!  He learned to do a front flip into the pool, a front flip while in the pool, and a back flip in the pool.  He's working on diving too.  : )

Chase is becoming a great swimmer too.  He had a little accident in the pool....jumped in and hit his face on the step.  He was a bloody mess, but bounced back quickly.  He was back in the water and swimming within 20 minutes of the crash.  : )  Chase is one tough kid!

 Eli diving

 We visited family in Arkansas in May and twice in August....we celebrated Madison's 5th birthday and Parker & Paisley's 2nd birthday.  I can't believe they are already 2!  I remember when I got a text that said "it's twins!"  : )  Wish I had more pictures from our visits, but I guess we were having too much fun....or we were too busy trying to manage 6 kids in the house!  : )

 We had tons of fun in Alaska.  Hunter went with us for part of the trip this year.

 Eli and Jack found a mud hole to play in : )

 And we can't go to Alaska without making a fire in the back yard and roasting hot dogs and marshmallows.  

 And we definitely can't go to Alaska without playing hockey....even if it's not snowing.  Sometimes hockey on the back porch if more fun than real hockey.

 We were there to celebrate Justin's 23rd birthday

Reed learned to hold his breath under water and is starting to swim too.