Hanging out in the Canyon Part 2

So, this is the grandma post section. If you don't feel the urge to peruse our children's pictures, we won't begrudge you, but they really are good pictures.

Hanging out in the Canyon Part 1

So, this will be a 2 part post this evening. We hung out with some friends from our ward this evening and had a good time. The weather was gorgeous. It almost felt like the beginning of September is supposed to. We took this opportunity to update our kids pictures. This first post will be a few fun pictures from tonight, and part 2 will be what I term the "grandma" post, where we show off the kids pics.

Our group of kids. Notice that Chase is already following in his dad's footsteps...

 We took a little hike on the gorgeous evening.



We didn't bring a backpack though, so Sabrina got to carry Parker, because I carried the camera.

Chase had a good time hiking through the rocks.

And an even better time...

hanging out with his friend...

 Parker didn't want to be left out either...

Brief interruption

I wanted to make a brief interruption of our summer trip blogging to bring you this update on Parker. It was recently his birthday, and I thought Sabrina did a great job with the cake. Parker loves (you might even call it an obsession) Mickey Mouse. We had my sister and her kids out visiting and one night had Parker's birthday cake. Great fun was had by all.

Catching up

So, blog, it's been a while again. Sabrina at least wrote you again. I was beginning to think she never would again.

We've been off adventuring once again. This time, our travels took us to Utah. We traveled up there towards the end of June and were able to catch up with our friends the Blockburgers. After a couple of days in Utah, Sabrina and I flew back to Arizona (leaving our children in the competent hands of Grandma and Grandpa) and spent a week at our house by ourselves. Unfortunately, it was all work for us here. I went to work and ripped out our front office, while Sabrina stained and sealed our grout as well as cleaned the house. Any and all pictures from this time are on the other camera, and I don't know where it's at tonight. After a week, Sabrina flew back to Utah and I stayed and worked for another week and a half before joining the family in Utah. After a quick family reunion for Sabrina's fam, we headed up to Idaho. Today's pictures are from my first few days there. We were able to have Sabrina's family up at my family's cabin for a couple days

We stopped at Grandma M's house on our way up. Adie decided while on our trip that she liked baseball. She tried to hit the ball. A lot. 

 Chase loved being at the family cabin with grandparents.

 I got some neutral density filters for my camera. It lets me use a much longer exposure and so you get a cool, soft look on the waterfall.

 Notice how the men didn't manage to get into the picture here. We were all disappointed, I'm sure. As is, it's a multi-generational with Sabrina's mom and grandma.

 Chase was never far from Grandpa on this trip. He really having him around

 When boys have mud, who needs anything else?

 

  

 Yup, these are the boys. They played together a lot. It makes us happy to have them get along well.

  We made a trip over to the Johnny Sack cabin in Island Park, ID. The kids had a good time, and I think the adults might have enjoyed themselves even.

 Sabrina bought a cowboy hat when we were in Puerto Rico. Parker seems to have claimed it for his own.

 As I said, Adie really made an effort to learn to hit the ball on this trip. I'm secretly hoping she gives up on it and focuses on basketball.

 Bubbles!

 London bridges, they still fall down.

 Our kids love all their grandparents.

 Apparently no one in my family likes horseflies. It's really too bad this isn't a video clip. It totally would have gone viral as Sabrina screamed and ran around in circles.

 If anyone has any ideas on how I can get a job somewhere with this sort of view, let me know, k?

This is only the first couple days, I have another whole week of pictures to go through. And if Sabrina ever gets around to it, she can blog about everything she did while I wasn't there.