Garvan Gardens 2012

I know I am so behind on my blogging and I need to catch up, with Christmas and the past few months, but I don’t feel like blogging about that now, so I’m going to share what we have done this week for spring break and maybe I will get back in my blogging groove!

On Tuesday I took my kids and Adabelle and Oscar to Garvan Gardens with Grandma DeVaux. We go to GG every spring break with my mom. The kids always look forward to it. They were all excited to do the scavenger hunt.

 

We headed to the Koi pond first. They didn’t have any fish food for us so the kids just threw grass at the fish.

Three pretty girls

The tulips were in full bloom. They were gorgeous this year!

Me and my cute kids

The kids all love Grandma! Next we headed to the Kids area.

 

We had to check out the peacocks. This one was showing off for us.

Averi loves being with Grandma DeVaux

Adabelle & Oscar

Averi loved smelling the tulips

Everyone was worn out! We went back to Grandma’s for burgers and hot dogs. Then Thomas, Kaylee and Matthew got to spend the night there. Grandpa DeVaux took them to Mid America Museum the next morning. It was a nice break for me and the kids had a blast!

Family Time

Trish & Jenny came into town for Oscar & Tara’s sealing. We had to go get Sushi and do some shopping while they were in town. It is always nice to get out without the kids!

On Friday night everyone came over to our house for dinner. It is always fun when we are all together.  Lots of laughs

Jen was very excited about the Rice Krispy treats.

The kids had fun playing outside

 

Everyone loves Uncle Gabe!

just missing Oscar, he was already in Memphis…patiently awaiting his wedding day!

Tuesday we had to go to Mi Burrito for Lunch so Jen & Trish could get their Mexican food fix. It was a little crazy with all the kids, but we had a lot of fun! I wish Trish and Jen lived closer, it was fun having them here for  few days.

Lake DeGray

When Trish was in town the last week of July, we all went to lake DeGray. I haven’t been there in probably ten years. We went on a Wednesday and had the beach to ourselves. The kids had so much fun with all of their cousins. We brought picnic lunches so we stayed for a few hours. After the fun at the lake we all went back to Grandma’s house for a little while. It is always a fun day when we get to spend it with cousins and Grandma!  Here’s a few pictures from the day.

 

The Last of the Cabin Trip

I don’t know why I am in such a not blogging rut, I guess it is finishing up summer and getting back into the school routine-more on that later. Here is the rest of our cabin trip.

Sunday we went to church, it was a very full sacrament meeting! We didn’t go to the whole block, luckily they had sacrament meeting at the end of the block so we were all able to get ready with just 2 bathrooms, quite the feat for 41 people.

Cathy and I took some family pictures for the Burch’s after church-I always enjoy taking pictures of families. It always makes me want to improve my skills and upgrade my camera though! 

The rest of the day was spent napping

Playing games

Matthew is an Angry birds expert now!

Editing pictures and reading

We also did a BIG family picture with all 41 of us. As the grandkids get older and go on missions is it going to be a while till we are ALL together again. So we set up a tripod and got everyone together. Jake was in charge of taking pictures so I got the pictures from him and I haven't done any editing yet on them.

Here’s all the grandkids, 26 of them. Averi was not happy. I couldn’t find Thomas's socks and didn’t think it would matter…I was wrong. Jared is the oldest at 21 and Averi is the youngest, she was 19 months.

the silly picture is always my favorite

Here’s the whole family. Kaylee got in a snit so isn’t smiling in any of the pictures.

The kissing picture..

We broke a fence doing this location

 

I liked this location the best, with the Provo river in the background. Most of the kids were done at this point.

Taking picture of 41 people isn’t easy. I think someone was going to do some Photoshop and swap some heads, I’ll have to get some copies of those.

We started the 4th with a flag ceremony

 

We played lots of games-the dice game & Nertz (I used to be really good and fast, I am not so good and slow at Nertz now!)

Gabe, Trish & Gabby & the Torgerson’s came up. It was fun to spend the 4th with some of my family too.

Gabe looking creepy in the background

Jim & Mike-not really fair that Mike still has a full head of hair!

Jim and Gabe wanted to get in the Provo river. It was FREEZING and really high and had a very strong current. Luckily they made it out ok!

Our little crazy Averi had to dip her feet in the river too. She said, “Burr”.

We did lots of sparklers and fireworks that night and had more game playing. It was a fun 4th of July.

 

We brought fireworks from Arkansas because they are much better than the ones they sell in Utah, they actually go up in the air. Jim and the guys (and Trish) put on a great fireworks show.

Jim with his parents, do you think he looks like his dad?

It really was a great cabin trip. Our kids had so much fun and loved being with all their Anderson cousins. They keep asking when we can go back. We left the next morning and drove to Denver and stayed the night there. The drive home the next day took FOREVER! Kaylee had a bug and threw up a couple of times and we were all just tired and cranky and ready to get home!