Birthdays and Holidays

Dad and Mike having a good camp trip! Rest and relaxation is what it is all about.

We spent the weekend of Mike's 63rd birthday in Salt Lake. We all met at Marc and Gretchen's before beginning the "Party".

When Mike was asked where he wanted to go to eat for his birthday, his reply was:

"In N Out Burger, of course!"

Everyone seemed to be ok with that since it was a "cheap" meal where we could take all of the kids. Everyone seemed to enjoy their meal.

The kids in their "birthday hats"!

Carter (in front), Hiram (behind Cart), Brigham (front), Kaden and Noah

Before eating we had spent time at the park playing kickball, Kube, resting and visiting.

Some of the group played games, others napped (Mike S. and Matt), read or visited.

Playing Kube

Jenicca rests. She always smiles and is so fun to have around. She is my beautiful "Sweet Baby Girl". (Not so much a "baby" any more! But she will always be "Sweet Baby Girl" to me!)

Mike and Christina with family and Matt & Amanda stayed the weekend with Marc and Gretchen. Mike, Grandad and I went to stay at Nicci's, while Kristen & kids stayed at the Pugsley's. Phil flew back from Costa Rica late Saturday night and they had to be back in Logan for church on Sunday. Mike also went back to teach his Sunday School and came back afterwards to join in the Labor Day celebrating on Monday. This family knows how to keep a party going!!!

Monday we joined together to go to Hogle Zoo. The weather was great! It was fun to be there with the kids since we hadn't visited the zoo for quite a few years.

We spent quite a bit of time watching the elephants.

The baby was so cute!

Stopping for a short rest

Getting all of the kids in one place to take a group photo was somewhat of a challenge. What a great looking bunch of grandkids!! Poor Caitlin is just a bit out-numbered at our family outings.

Coop and Dad (Marc) stop long enough for Grandma to exercise her camera. Cooper didn't seem too thrilled about posing.

The little ones had to drag Grandma along.

(Jake, Cooper, & Kaden)

Faces like these make life worthwhile!!

(Jacob & Kaden)

Thanks everyone for the great weekend together, for making Grandpa's birthday a happy one (and for his stiffness from kickball ~~ that part helped him feel his age)!

We had a fun time! Family is great!

Summer Stays are Coming to a Close

I feel badly that summer is nearly over. It has been fun to have several of the grandkids come to stay or at least come to visit during their summer school break. We have had a chance to get many of the "southern" kids together with the "Logan" kids for a few fun hours and days. We have managed to do things that this Grandma doesn't often do ... like going to:

The Park

"Baby J" (Juliana) and "Baboo" (Jake) had fun on the slides.

Juliana

Josh and Jenicca were good to come along to help the little ones up and down the slides.

Jake takes a ride in the car in the mall! (Thanks to Aunt Starla!)

Jake and Brad fed the ducks at First Dam

At the County Fair

What a busy week! We tried to pack in all of the activities that we could. Jake had a lot of fun playing with his Logan cousins. We were glad that Chris and Niccole decided to go on an Oregon vacation and Jake decided he would rather stay with Grandma.

Wouldn't some of the rest of the group like to take a trip and leave one behind? A great time for Grandma and Grandpa to get some good one-on-one time!! There were still quite a few that we didn't get to get that time with this summer. There are some we are still looking forward to; however, before the year is through. Ivan .... we are looking forward to some time in September while you are out of school. Time for you and Cait!! And hopefully we will get some "day dates" with some of the younger ones!

Thanks to all for giving us fun times this summer!