Father's and Son's Anyone?

NOPE!

Our ward had that in May.

In June, our ward had Father's and Daughter's.

I assured hubby that there would be a total of 10 girls there,

2 of which were mine.

NOT!!!

The F&D was better attended than the F&S was.

(This pic was before most of them got there.)

Funny thing is...

Kinzie came home from church and announced that it was at our ranch.

Well, the Gardner Ranch.

What's funny about that?

Neither my hubby nor I even knew it was going to be there.

They forgot to ask us.

Luckily for them, it was available.

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The bishopric told me I couldn't come.

I went anyways and had Hubby set up the trailer

on his mom's property 2 blocks north of the ranch

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I took all my boys plus one friend.

At 9:30 pm, when the

homemade ice cream machines shut off, (we could totally hear them)

we all put on hoodies and snuck down there.

We hid behind tents, trucks, trees,

and a few of the boys even army crawled across the grass.

When we got to the bushes next to the ice cream tables,

we took turns sneaking up to the table to get ourselves

a bowl of ice cream.

Only a few of them were noticed. (and only by their sisters)

The dad (DaveBurr)of the extra boy we brought told him and Koby

that they were the ugliest girls he had ever seen.

The ice cream was totally worth it.

We only got caught by the bishopric

on our way out, AFTER we had eaten the ice cream.
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A funny thing happened when Kyson got up to the table.

Kauri noticed him and said, "Moooom?"

(He had borrowed my jacket since his didn't have a hood.)

Then she twisted to see the face.

"Kyson????? No, that's mom."

She couldn't decide if it was Kyson or me.

Kys thought that was sooooo funny.

Get ready to laugh!!

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Who knew a compression shirt could make someone so happy?








































Clearance at W, and he has a 50-miler coming up, so I thought it would come in handy.

Yeah, I know, it's such a huge "haul", but he's got us, what more does a guy need?

The National Parks had another "free" day,

so I made everyone get me out of the house.

He loved his compression shirt so much, he wore it to the Park.

We told him he was crazy, cause it was supposed to hit 100 degrees,

but he couldn't say enough about the shirt

when we pulled in to the Park and it was pouring rain.

Kort's favorite place to be.

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Trying to decide which rocks to skip.

It was PACKED! Standing room only on every shuttle bus.

I only had a 3 second window to get pics of my kids without the rest of

the crowds being in them.

Snack time!

Kauri was so pleased with herself: "I did so good! I didn't even drip on

my shirt, mom did though."

Okay, in my own defense,

might I say a few words....... ?

What have we been doing to stay busy?

A taste of last month....

Koby's team took 1st place in their league.

Kinzie's birthday...

After school, the boys left for Fathers n Sons.

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What more could a girl ask for on her birthday?

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Then us girls went here...

and watched Kinzie do this.

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She got two good hits and earned a snow cone.

It was very hot.

She couldn't wait to get home and make one.

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When we got home, this is what we found.....

The boys had taken all the ice with them on their camp out!!!

We were all very mad until Grandma Mona called and said she'd bring this....

So we used these...

To get these smiles....

The next day, Kinzie had a party with her girl friends.

Water balloon basketball was a HIT!!!

(Girls against brothers, of course.)

It went along great with her theme which was...

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But the most important thing of all was this happy girl....

YAY!! I made it through another birthday season.

SUPER KAURI

I have heard countless times since January

that she wants a super hero cake for her birthday.

Probably at least every other day:

"When are you going to make my super hero cake?"

The day finally arrived!!!

She loved her cake: "It's so BEAUTIFUL, mom!"