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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Meeting Parker Gray Cline

We have been so excited to meet our 13th grandbaby, Parker Gray Cline.  As soon as Jamie's parents headed home, we packed up our van and headed to Arizona.  He is absolutely darling!  


 We had such a great time getting acquainted with him and playing with Logan.


Logan is an early bird like me, so we went for a walk before anyone else was up.  


He took me to his fun playground.


Hopefully, no one minded us playing at 7:00 in the morning.


We had a lot of fun with Logan!  We went to an awesome water park.


He LOVED soaking us!


Opi was the Life Guard.


He made a painting that turned out awesome.


While we were there, we took him to see The Secret Life of Pets.  He loved it! 


He is such a great big brother!


He loves to help feed Parker


And lay down by him.


He lined up a bunch of his cars and wanted a picture with them.


He is getting so big, he made his own peanut butter sandwich.


Add a little honey.


Here's Parker trying out his new bouncer.


And Logan at the Bounce House we took him to.  It's so HOT in AZ that he doesn't get to go outside much and play.  He sure had fun running!!!


and bouncing


and running,  


 and sliding


He is so friendly, he makes friends wherever we go. 


One of his favorite things is to play tag. This little girl was darling and he had so much fun playing tag with her.


He just went up to her and said, "tag, you're it"  and off they went!


We went swimming at their pool several times too,  They have a soda machine there and we bought him a soda.  On our way home he burped really loud and said, "I did NOT see that coming"  He is such a funny kid!


Parker is such a sweet little baby, we loved spending time with him too.


Logan loves to change the music on his swing for him.


He likes to sneak in and check on Parker while he is sleeping.


We are sure going to miss this cute family, but are excited that they are coming for one of Jamie's cousins wedding in Aug, so we will see them in a couple of weeks.


We go through Page Arizona and past the beautiful Glen Canyon 




We stopped in Beaver at the Cache Valley cheese store to get ice cream cones and needed to stop for gas there too.  We got the ice cream and TOTALLY forgot to get the gas before we got back on the freeway.  The next place that had gas, was Cove Fort, so we figured as long as we were stopping for gas, we may as well take the tour.


There were some sweet missionaries that showed us a movie about President Hinkley's grandparents who were called to build Cove Fort.


They have restored the rooms to how they used to be.


It was a fun diversion from our long drive!


After a long day in the car, we were sure glad to see this sign and know we were almost home!






A trip to the canyons for Mike's birthday

I just realized that summer is flying by really fast.  I think because I am retired, I haven't really noticed, but Josh's girls start back to school July 26th and we hadn't made it to the canyons yet.  We didn't have time to do a campout, but decided to do a day trip and hang out there to celebrate 
Mike's 60th birthday. 


We headed to Millcreek canyon, and found our favorite spot, and placed our camp chairs where we could watch the kids play in the creek.


They had so much fun playing in the 3 inches of water.


Krista brought some birthday decorations and here are the Littles


The Bigs playing a card game



and the Middles eating sommores 


 Here's Mike with most of our grandkids, (we are missing Jordan's cute boys) 


Me and the Littles


We roasted hot dogs and marshmallows. 


Little Oliver had a great time!


Sophie helped me take Jack for a walk and get him to go to sleep.


And then she fell asleep!  I think all the kids probably slept great after playing so hard!


Sunday, July 17, 2016

Sleepover with the "Bigs and Middles"

Summer is flying by, Josh's girls are on year round, and will be back in school pretty soon, and we are heading to AZ to see our tiny Parker and his family next week, so we are trying to pack a lot of fun into a short time.  We took these 6 adorable girls to Classic fun center water park, and they did have fun!



                                                        




They had a really great time! I couldn't believe they lasted 3 1/2 hours.

                                      

We stopped and got dinner on our way home and then made these fun watermelon pops for dessert.


They turned out AWESOME!!!


Nice job girls!!


Saturday morning Mike gave them a water color painting lesson.  It was a cool technique where you sprinkle sea salt on after you have painted your picture.


They first did some sample ones to get the technique down.


 The finished product, everyone did such a great job!


After the painting we HURRIED and got packed up and headed to the Herriman Rec Center to watch Katie play in a basketball game. 


They had a fun climbing wall while they waited for the game to start.