Loving the Summertime

I love summers in Cache Valley.  I love tinkering in my flower beds and garden.  I the kids riding their bikes and love hearing people out mowing their lawns.  Even though we haven't been doing a lot of big things this summer I feel like it's been a really fun one.  

 We had "darth Maul" come and fight my jedi's the other night.  Stockton got really into it.  I love that Bryan does stuff like that every once in awhile.

 My flower beds look a lot better now even then this.  I need to take a updated picture.  I really do love my flower beds.  I'm still trying to get Bryan to let me put a bunch more in.  I don't even mind weeding I almost hate to admit.  I don't let it get bad enough that it turns into a chore.  If my yard looks really nice and put together it gives the illusion that the inside of my house is that nice.  (which with 4 boys is for me next to impossible to keep up) One of my fav things of summer is snaps.  What a cheep fun activity for the kids to do.  They love them! Even Brett.

 24th of July Pioneer year day North Logan Parade.  We ended up being there with ALL of the cousins.  Pretty sure that will never happen again! It was really fun and VERY HOT.

 After 6 years of work we FINALLY got a little bit of raspberries from my garden.  For how many plants I have it was pathetic of many we got but enough the boys got to go pick a cup every couple of days and eat them.  I wish I had enough for Jam but oh well.

 I had some zucanni grow from last year- and they grew really weird!  But I'm the only one who will eat it so we just make boats and float them down the ditch.

 24th of July fireworks.  We always go to my in laws because we can see them from her house.

 Stockton helping daddy mow the lawn.  He is dads helping with this for sure!

 Brett walks up to the swing and scrams until I put him in and push him forever.  He is dang funny. He does this really bad with my garage freezer because he knows their are otter pops in it.

 My lack of pictures of Blake is totally due to the fact he hates getting his picture taken.  He is really proud of how he can ride the two wheeler now!  So proud of my Blake! He rides his bike all the time now.  Which made Tyson start riding his again.

 I can't tell you how much I love this picture.  He was chasing the kids in his shark costume.

My sweet baby eating a popsicle with dad.  I love little baby teeth.  

Annual Tony Grove Hike

We were told how beautiful Tony Grove was with all the flowers in bloom so we loaded up the boys and went for a hike. 

 And of course I had to ruin the fun as Ty always tells me and bring my camera.  Funny thing is they start saying "mom mom take my picture here!"

 No Ty is NOT looking at anything- he just zones out when I try to take his picture the little stinker.

 The flowers were beautiful and as tall as me! There were a lot of people up there but not really hiking around the lake.  Mostly at the parking lot.

 I was so proud of Stockton!  He hiked around the whole lake! 

 I love being up in the mountains.  I grew up going to scout camp where my dad was the director as a kid. I spent 11 summers of my life up there and I just love the smell of the mountains.  The pine and the breeze through the trees.  It brings back so many happy memories.

Man do I love summer!

Tyson came home from church the other day with a "missionary tag" that he wrote Elder Palmer on.  I HAD to get a picture of it. So this is the future Elder Palmer:

 We had our annual swim party my dentist puts on.  We have been to the pool a lot this summer though I'm not going to lie.  Brett finally FINALLY doesn't cry the whole time we are there and sort of enjoys himself.  A switch flipped finally one day when Ty was playing with him and he realized it wasn't so bad.  Thank goodness!  Dr. Boston handed out these sweet sunglasses to us while we were there.

 While my dad was at the National Boy Scout jamboree back east my mom came up a couple of times to see us and my grandparents.  We went to aggie ice cream with them one day.  My grandpa is turning 88 in about a week.  He has had a ruff time with his health for years so I was excited he felt well enough to get some ice cream.  Stockton really loves him.  Maybe it's because he was named Stockton Lowell after him.

 Ok so I'm no professional and I didnt' edit this photo at all but I thought it was cool.  At least you get the idea of what I was trying to do.  My kids just go crazy over the fireworks!  We bought our own arial fireworks this year and invited the neighbor kids over to watch.  One was really cool the other two we got were ok.

 We went to Wyoming for my niece Abby's baptism. Tyson is the next one in the family to be baptized can you believe it? I was laughing at my father in law who fall asleep to my niece Sannette singing to him on the couch. All the Palmers went up for it.  I'm glad we have such a supportive family.  My Pack family is the same way.

 We have been flooding our yard again this year and Brett and Stockton love it like the other boys do.  The one picture is Bretty on the tramp.  He LOVES IT but can't stand up with Stockton is on because Stock won't stop jumping.

 We showed Stock a place where he could stick a old water bottle in a hole in the pipe and have it come out the end.  He did that for at least a half  a hour.

We had a cook out with a few friends and Bryan thought it would be fun to do the donut on the string game for them.  It was a huge hit.  We have fun neighbors. 

Speaking of our water turn and neighbors- 

 We had a mega water fight a couple of weeks ago.  We had kids everywhere!

 Later that same day we drove to Ogden to the Kangaroo zoo jump place with Bryan's sister Becca and her kids for my nieces birthday.

 Brett didn't really get into it but my other kids had a ball.

And last but not least FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY my 7 1/2 year old lost a tooth!  It's about flipping time!! He was opening up a wrapper to throw it in the garbage bucket in my garage (that is also full of diapers) and his tooth flipped off.  He grabbed his mouth and I couldn't figure out what his problem was.  He was like "I think I lost my tooth" really calmly. Sure enough he did! Of course it took me awhile of searching around and in (gross) the diaper bucket and I still couldn't find it.  He was really upset we couldn't find it so we said a prayer and just then Bryan came home.  He looked for all of 10 seconds and picked it up.  Ty made a sign for the tooth fairy that his tooth was in the little pillow we made special for his teeth. He got a two dollar bill covered in fairy dust (glitter).  He was pretty excited about it.