Lagoon

We haven't taken a "family" vacation together this summer so we opted instead to spend a day at Lagoon.

Each of the kids got to bring a friend. Alisha brought Brianne Baugh and Austin brought his cousin, Jace Torrens.

Rocket Blast Off! Just to the left of the pole is Austin with Jace in the middle on the left.Matt and Alisha are seating to the right of the pole.

Everyone but me and Austin LOVED the Wicked rollercoaster.

You can see Matt, Alisha, Brianne & Jace standing in line between the two trees. Austin cooling off in the fountain at the main entrance. It was a really hot day (about 98 degrees) so this was a good idea!

MY FAVORITE RIDE! The Tilt-a-Whirl! I rode six times (four in a row).

I just love to make it go as fast as I can. I found that riding with just Austin and I in the car was the perfect amount of weight to really get it spinning!

It was a great day and we had a lot of fun. We got there just after 11 am and by the time we left at 8:15 we were all wiped out!

EFY Continues.

Pizza Night. Front to back: Baylie, Brook, Erin, Lindsey,

Allie, Sydnee, Angie, Kristine and Alisha

Alisha really enjoyed her counsler Allie and

had lots of fun and learned a lot from her.

During Alisha and Kristine's Free Time they wrote a poem for their counsler and the guy she likes who is also a counsler at EFY. Just in case you cant read it, it says:

If only Allie was able to ask Gabel if he was availible and if he was date-able because he's so irreplaceable. They would eat at a table and watch some cable near a stable and would talk about how they're so relatable. They would attach themselves with a staple so that they would be unescapeable but that might just make them inflateable. After, they would go to lable a cradle but thats just a fable, haha! But that could be debateable, because when they are together they are just so unhateable. Allie and Gable's pants are good.

Alisha and her group doing their 'Allie' faces.

Especially For Youth

Alisha went to EFY July 7-12 at BYU with our neighbor Kristine Webb (2nd one over from the right and Alisha 4th from the right)

Alisha's Company 'In The Midst'
Alisha and Kristine in their dorm room.
Alisha decided it would be fun to climb the wall because she was the only one in her group with long enough legs to even try.

On the last day the girls counsler decided it would be fun to put all the mattresses in the appartment in the hall and have some fun jumping and rolling around down the hall. They put a mattress up aginst one of the doors and ran down the hall and into the mattress, one of the girls ended up breaking the door knob but there wasn't any major damage, and they had lots of fun doing it.

4th of July

On the afternoon of the 4th we went up to Matt's sister's (Ann Marie) pool to cool off.

She lives about two blocks from Lavell Edward's stadium where they have the Stadium of Fire every year. This year the main performer was Miley Cyrus and we could hear her doing a practice run for the evening performance.

Debbie and Ann with Josh and Summer
Alisha, Austin and their cousins
Matt and his mother Jennie Garner Kallunki hanging out in the shade.

It was a really hot day but I guess the 4th of July is supposed to be hot!

The feast continues....

My good friend Tara came and brought her boys Kelton & Cooper.

Tara and Andrea are two of my best friends!

Logan is really enjoying the watermelon!
Part of the Crawdad Feast tradition is a jello toss where Matt tries to get jello into the mouth of anyone who wants to try and catch it. This photo is Austin trying to get the jello with Alisha and Kelton watching in the background.
Austin loves to smear the jello in his hair and hopes the red color stays for a day or so! I made ten boxes of jello for tossing purposes this time. That's a lot of jello!

Annual Crawdad Feast

Matt and Austin and Matt's dive buddy Luke spent the morning at Strawberry Reservoir gathering crawdads for one of our fun summer traditions - A Crawdad Feast & Jello Toss!

As usual, they brought back about two coolers full.

After washing the crawdads thoroughly several times, it's time to get them ready for the pot.Alisha and her friends Brianne and Shaila Hill help Matt and Austin (ok...they just watch!)

The food is ready and it's time to dig in. Our friends Andrea and Trent Smith came with their baby, Logan. They've eaten at our Crawdad Feast before and know how good it is!

In the pot with the crawdads we also have onions, garlic, spicy sausage, polish sausage, corn on the cob, red pototes and lots of special "crab boil" seasoning.
Austin displays some of the bodies of the crawdads on his fingers!

New Appliances

We've needed to replace our appliances for quite a while. We got the dishwasher for Christmas because it really wasn't functioning at all. We've been waiting for the rest of them to go on sale and finally they are here! We are switching to gas for the stove and it isn't hooked up yet but it's still much nicer to look at than the old $ 100 used stove we've been using for about 12 years!

The fridge is awesome - I'm really enjoying the freezer on the bottom and the double doors for the fridge portion. We moved the old fridge downstairs so now we have ample storage to keep our soda cold!