Seven Falls

The drive to Seven Falls was so beautiful!  It's so fun to be back in the mountains again.  We had a nice day as a family.  We picnicked and played in a stream after seeing the falls...  that was our favorite part of the day.

This made me smile...

Easton's watercolor painting of he and I.  Pretty sure this one if gonna be on the fridge for a while.  I love it!!!

trip to mammy's and pappy's house...

We lucked out and found 5 plane tickets for our family to fly to Mammy and Pappy's house for a summer visit for $438.  They were like $80 something a piece...  rountrip / non-stop flights right into Dallas.  We were so excited to get a deal like that!!!  So we booked the tickets and went to see our family.  We were there for 6 days, and just returned a few days ago.  The kids had so much fun they really didn't want to come home...  they would have stayed all summer if we'd let them.  The trip was spent playing alot in water - floaties on the river, fishing, water fighting, jumping on the tramp with the sprinkler, going to the pool, and playing at the beach of Granbury lake.  Dallon and Dawson spent 3 full days of their trip doing the basketball camp at Tarelton University.  Everyone came to watch them each day at the camp when the 5 on 5 games were played...  the boys loved having Mammy and Pappy, Banner and Stetson at their games and it was so nice of them to take off work to be there.  We took the kids to the drive in movie where Mammy made homemade rootbeer and the kids loved it all.  It was so fun to see them and I am so glad we were able to make the trip!

Random pictures from June...

I had the chance to volunteer at scout camp and spend the day there with Dawson.  The day I volunteered was the day for horse back riding.  Dawson was so excited to get to ride.  And I even got to go on the trail ride with him.  I was right behind him on my horse and it was fun to be a part of it!

Dawson loves ice skating!  He has been begging me to take him.  I told him he could invite a friend.  We took his friend Kade along with us.  Good thing too, because Easton was not a fan of ice skating and I had to help him so much that it was nice for Dawson to have a friend.  Easton did about 2 laps around the ice rink the whole time...  and both of those were done with Dawson and I holding his arms and basically keeping him up.  Really hard for a 4 year old.  He spent most of his time watching from the bench.  I spent some time skating, and some time hanging out with Easton.

Dallon went away for 6 days to Scout Camp.  It was the longest he's ever been away.  We missed him lots.  On the 5th day they invited families up to camp to eat dinner with the scouts and spend the evening at their camp.  It was so fun.  That was the first time in all his years of scouts that we've been invited up and I loved it.  It was fun to see their tents and campsite.  See who Dallon was tenting with.  And it was so fun for me to see him having fun with new friends in the ward here.  I am so happy Dallon went this year. He wasn't all that excited for it since he is new and isn't great friends with the boys yet.  But when I watched him there friday night, after 5 days at camp it was so fun to see the new friendships he'd made that week.

We found a fun new pool to go to.  It was a 30 minute drive.  But the drive was on a beautiful country road and the pool had lots of waterslides and was really affordable.  We went with new friends and ate a picnic lunch there.

Dawson got to go to the Palmer Ridge Basketball Camp this summer.  It's a camp that the high school puts on each year.  He just loved it - the high school players who put the camp on make it so much fun for these young boys.  He was so pumped about his new shirt and ball that he got on the last day!

Curious George is his very best friend!

Flight on a B-17 Bomber!

Aaron won a flight on a B-17 Bomber at a work dinner.  His name was drawn out of a hat.  He was so excited to come home and tell me about it.  Tickets to have a flight in a B-17 Bomber cost $500. The day of the flight the boys and I went along to watch and take pictures.  Right before the flight a friend of Aaron's from work who had also won a flight in the drawing told Aaron that he wasn't going to use his ticket and said Dallon could go in his spot.  So, Dallon and Aaron got to go up in the B-17 Bomber together.  It was a once in a lifetime opportunity and they had a blast experiencing it together!

picnics, hiking, and playing in the stream...

We have had so much fun getting out and finding fun new things to do as a family here in Colorado.