CRAZY CREATIVE KIDS

So after the girls trip and guys trip the kids were so happy to see each other and talk about the fun they had. While Justin and I were cleaning up the kids got a little creative. It's so fun to see what they will come up with. They buckled Logan and everything, "so he would be safe." They have heard that said a million times to them!

It was a good thing they did because on one turn Logan did roll out of the wagon but was safe cause he was buckled in his car seat. They all just had the best evening playing together and visiting about their fun weekends apart!

Girls Trip with Grammie

My mom, Kiersten and I took a long weekend and went to Mesa for our first ever "Girl's Trip." We gave my mom tickets to see WICKED for Mother's Day and we all have been looking forward to it ever since. Kiersten was so excited to have a girls only get-a-way and the boys got to have their own fun guys trip the same weekend so everyone was excited.

This is Kiersten and Grammie having a little piece of heaven called Bingsoo! This picture doesn't come close to doing Bingsoo justice. It is shaved ice with frozen yogurt (or soft serve your choice), the you get to pick the fresh fruit you want to have chopped up and it gets topped with a fruit syrup of your choice. I had frozen yogurt with kiwi, strawberries, pineapples, and bananas topped with strawberry syrup. It is so delicious I would seriously make a trip to Chandler just to get some and that's not an exaggeration! You stir it all together and dig in!! My mom LOVED it and Kiersten had already been exposed and is a Bingsoo lover as well! This is a delicious and refreshing dessert worth traveling to Chandler for. If anyone wants the location just let me know. I would recommend it to everyone. I took Justin there on our trip and he even like it and he's not too fond of fruit so that says a lot about how truly good it is. We had a great time shopping!!! Kiersten was especially happy with the adorable pink phone that her Grammie bought for her from Pottery Barn. It is a real working phone and Kiersten couldn't wait to get it home to her room and start calling people!!! She is ALL GIRL and I just love it!! Kiersten and Grammie outside our hotel right before going to see WICKED!!! They both were so excited to go see the broadway show and I was excited to be with them to see it for a third time! I just loved having a weekend with my two favorite girls. KIERSTEN I love Kiersten more than life itself. She is such a wonderful daughter! I love that she tries hard at everything she does. She gives 110% to everything she does and has so much determination to be her best. She is thoughful beyond words. She lately tells me quite often that I should go lay down and rest and she'll watch the boys for me. She loves girly things! She has a testimony of Jesus Christ already and wants to make good choices so she will be able to return to live with him someday. She is a GREAT example to her family and is a wonderful big sister!! MY MOTHER I Love my Mom so much! She has a strong testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ and worked hard engraving that feeling into her children. She made us breakfast in bed most of my high school years and read us scriptures every morning all on her own. She took her five small children to church by herself. She is the most selfless person I know. She is an amazing example of service and is constantly doing something for someone else. She is so much fun to talk and laugh with. She loves people and everyone loves her! She loves my children like her own (probably more than her own). There are a million more reasons I love her that's for sure! Here we are at Gammage after the show. It was even great the third time!

We had such a fun trip and enjoyed even minute of our "grown up girl bonding time"!

One evening while in Mesa we took some pictures of Kiersten in her white baptism dress outside the temple. It was really windy but we were able to capture some good shots. Isn't she BEAUTIFUL!!

Kiersten is so excited to be getting baptized on her birthday August 17th! She asks me questions about baptism a lot and wants to know all about what it means and will be like. I am so grateful she is making the choice to be baptized!

After her pictures Kiersten enjoyed some fun in the pool, as my Mom and I visited. Kiersten was sad to see her curls wash away with the water but it was worth cooling off. She just asked that I take this picture so she could remember how pretty her curls were. She's so girly and I love it!!! If I only get to have one girl Kiersten is the perfect one to get!

It was a wonderful girls trip and we hope to make it an annual thing. Hopefully we can include all the "Boswell side" girls next time!!!

WICKED FUN!!!

The one picture we took inside the theatre before getting our heads ripped off by a old lady who worked there. It was pretty funny...........man that lady takes her job seriously! So Justin and I went down to Mesa for the weekend and watched WICKED!! It was phenomenal!!! I loved it just as much this time as I did in Chicago. Justin was way impressed with it! We also took Melissa and Chris's wedding pictures, which was super fun even though I am 7 months prego and it was record temperatures 115 that day!

We stayed at the Royal Palms Spa and Resort in Phoenix. It is right up against Camel back Mt and just beautiful!

Look at my prego belly..............pretty cute huh?

The resort was just gorgeous and we loved staying at a new place as this will probably be our last trip away without kids before baby #4 is here.

This resort was rated #1 in 2008 for romantic get-a-ways and honeymoons! It was fun to go some place nice instead of our usual Dobson Ranch Inn! We had a fun time spending a long weekend together. We did some shopping of course, relaxed a bit, picked up stuff for the company of course (this happens EVERY trip without fail but that's just life), ate good food, slept in and survived the HEAT!!!

4th of July

We had a fun 4th of July! We celebrated with the Harmon's and Cluff's by enjoying the Savannah Jack concert and fireworks show. Love Hunter's expression! What a fun bunch of kids we had. Justin and I both comment on how we think our kids got in the personality line in heaven twice. They are all so full of personality and such characters!

You guys are so cute!

HOTDOG!!!

Oh Logan!!! There is a story behind the word "Hotdog" at our house. Logan got on this kick of saying, "Poopy" to everyone for every reason. We would be at Walmart and he would tell anyone that talked to him that they were "poopy." As you could imagine it wasn't the cutest thing to hear him say. So "poopy" became a bad word at our house, so we told Logan to say "Hotdog" instead. We thought it would help him have something else to remember to say but never thought it would stick or we might have thought longer about our word choice. However, it has stuck! He calls everyone a "HOTDOG!" He thinks it is the funniest thing in the world and just laughs when he says it! He even called Dr. Christensen a "Hotdog" at our last appointment. Drew got quite the kick out of it and said it was the first time he had been called that but it was better then what he usually gets called. Grandma with the dogs (Christi) got this shirt for Logan. What a wonderful, thoughtful Grandma. Logan was in heaven! He wore it all day and begged to wear it to bed cause he loves it so much.

What a character!

Swimming Fun

After the parade we had promised the kids swimming at Aunt Susan's which they were all excited about. This is Logan going to jump off the diving board or so I thought............. Logan had something else in mind and away he went.......... .........that's right a front flip! I could hardly believe it when I saw him. He is such a dare devil who LOVES, LOVES, LOVES the water!!! He pulled it off with great skill. We all gave him a 10!

And splash he went............he was so happy with himself.

All the cousins had a fun time cooling off. Logan in the back ground doing a crazy jump off the board. What a guy!

This is Kiersten going down head first and backwards.

She got brave the previous week when I had my Activity Day girls over to Susan's for a swimming party/ swimming lesson. She felt confident this time and I enjoyed watching her enjoy herself.

There she goes shooting right off the slide like a bullet out of the barrel.

BOOM........... and there she lands!

Ker plunk!

Now it's Logan's turn. He lacks fear of water in any way shape or form.

His eyes are getting bigger and bigger as he goes down.

WaHoO!

There he goes........... or as Logan would say, "Fire In The Hole!!!" That's his new saying.

Now there is the Big Kahuna! Richard stole the show with his belly slide.

There he goes...........

.....catching speed.........

Richard is so dang tall it was funny to see him slide. His hands pretty much hit the water and his feet are still at the top of the slide. All the kids love Richard because he is crazy!

See half of his body is in the water and his knees are still on the slide.

Hunter didn't want to be showed up by his big sister so he tried all the tricks she did.

There he goes nice and tucked!

"Boom, Boom, Fire Power" as Hunter would say.

Now that is a straight shot!

And there's the splash!!! It was a fun time for sure.