A Sea of Sunflowers...

About every other year the field across from our neighborhood looks like this at the end of the summer...

It seems like a sea of sunflowers, they go on forever.  I just love it...

Name That Movie...

King Kong........Obviously:)

Going Home Means...

Feeding frenzies at every meal...

Cousins conspiring all sorts of events...

 

Pink Ice Cream (and every other kind of treat) with Grandpa... 

 

Crazy fun trips to the Monument ...

 (Bringing all the kids home alive is quite the task.  

Notice the crazies above, not the girls, the boys on the cliff...)

  (When one sibling goes home... more are sure to follow :)

A world record number of blonde kids in one family...

Fun at the lake...

Hometown Festivals...

Best-friend cousins with funny clubs and crazy experiments...

 

Dance parties on the tramp every day...

More fun times than could ever be recorded...

Blue Angels in the Heat...

My sister Ana and I took the kids to see the Blue Angels air show in Sioux Falls over the summer.  It was over 100 degrees that day - Holy Cow!  I thought we were going to roast!  But we didn't, and it was definitely worth baking in the sun to see the show.  If you have never seen a fighter jet show, put it on your bucket list.  It was AWESOME...

 They flew so close to each other, I could not believe they didn't knock each other out of the
sky.  And they were so fast that I only caught them on film 3 times out of about 30 shots!

I think that Ana and I enjoyed the show way more than all the kids,
they couldn't get past the heat...

Swim, Bike, Run...

 The kids thought it was pretty awesome to cheer on MiMi and Uncle Rob in their triathlon this summer.  They even got to cross the finish line with them...

 Way to go MiMi!!  She placed 2nd overall for the women.  Woohoo!!

4th of July at Aunt MiMi's Lake...

What a treat it was for us to actually have family around to celebrate the 4th of July with!  We had so much fun lighting fireworks off with the family pyros, namely Kindra, Garrett and Uncle Rob...

 Then we went out on the lake to watch the local town fireworks from the water.  What a cool experience!

And back to the house for more pyromania... good thing Grandpa wasn't there for this part, he probably would have had an anxiety attack...

 Holidays are just so much fun, Sophie could hardly take all the excitement...

Thanks for letting us hang out at the lake you guys!  What a blast...

Microwaveable Puffy Paint...

We tried it and....  we liked it!!  One of those projects that looked cool, but you wondered if it actually did what it claimed it did.  Well this one was worth the effort, the kids loved it...

Ana and Sophie even made a puffy garden for Nana since she 

wasn't able to be in her garden after her back surgery...

Camping Extravaganza...

It's not summer in Colorado unless there is CAMPING!  We kicked off our summer this year with an awesome camping trip to Pickle Gulch with a few families that we just love.  

There is nothing like fresh mountain air, marshmallows roasted over an open fire, and 23 crazy kids running in every direction for 3 days!  Nope, nothing like it...

(Notice the whistles in the picture above... we really wanted to go home with 23 kids, too :)

Fort building...

 Hayden can't get enough of the great outdoors.  He is in his element in the mountains...

Family flags...

 Ana can't get enough of her friends.  She's still our social butterfly...

 Nature crafts...

 Great girl friends...

 Sophie can't seem to get into enough trouble.  Yes, this one is always into something...

 The ultimate "Bags" tournament...

More nature crafts... 

 And Family Olympics...

 

Thanks camping clan for such a fun trip, let's do it again soon!