catch up....

So it was exchange student time again....
So guess where we went? Hill Air Force Base!!! YAY!! PG really enjoyed it this time.
PD not so much, those darn ropes were so restrictive! But Lucas was a good sport and dressed up in the learning center, and PG joined him. :o)


Here is PG and KJ in the F-16 simulator! I love that the learning center is bigger and better now...they have fun dress up stuff!
They had the little planes out that day too.. PG didn't want to get out!

PR didn't like being put in...and PD wouldn't even attempt it! (PR didn't really have a choice!) :o)
We went to the zoo!!! I love the zoo, that is why we got a membership, we have now been 3 times since Memorial Day. The kids love it too. It is nice cuz we just go for a few hours and then go home. We see different things each time and we don't feel like we have to be there all day to make it "worth" it and the kids love the outing and when PD starts to break down at nap time...we go home!
This is a chicken eagle or a turkey eagle...something like that...he walks funny! :o)
Gotta sit on the elephant!
And play at the play ground!
Another outing of ours was camping. We went up Provo Canyon and camped with some friends of ours. We were the only ones in our camp site so we invited the Stanfield clan to join us...:o) It was LOADS of fun!
It amazes me how many kinds of marshmallows there are these days! HUGE, caramel, and chocolate flavored...if only I would have thought to bring the strawberries ones too...:( (LOL)
Sleeping in the tent! PG was SO excited he could hardly contain himself!!! and the "forest fairy" left him a toy under his pillow! He went to bed great! (Thanks Denise!)
PD did great too, her only problem was the outhouse freaked her out! so she wouldn't use it, so she walked around WET for 24 hours.
PR slept like a dream! It was a fabulous night for everyone!!
But it came with an EARLY morning! The sun came up and so did the kids, so they took an early nap on the way home!! (notice how DIRTY they are...their bath water was BLACK! But they were HAPPY!!!)

a little more...

Here is your randomness for the day....
PG with the camera while Mommy is nursing PR
My friend Camilla is staying with us for a little while and the kids LOVE to play with her...
Renni LOVES the attention! :o)
and PG playing hide and seek with her...
and this is just a cute one of the girls outside!
and PD tickling her own face with grass!

Miss Reni-Roo at 3 months....

We went to IKEA and she sat up in the cart for the first time! but we had to be creative to make sure she didn't hurt herself, so we stuffed things in around her...she was HAPPY! :o)
It was really cute!
She is definitely getting bigger!
and more smiley!
I also decided to take some blessing dress pictures...
I think they turned out pretty good! :o)

fourth and exchange students....

We got new students....
Gabriel, Bruno, and Lucas
They came on the 3rd of July, so they got to celebrate the 4th with us...
PD and KJ happy as can be.
we went to the neighbors house to do fireworks with them, then we went home and went to bed. :o)
PG doing his happy dance to fireworks!
our grand finale....
that spontaneously burst into flames about 5 minutes after it was over....
KJ jumping over the fire...brilliance! :o)
this is the bean bag I made, I had some fur that KJ's mom gave me and some beans left over from another project...it is HUGE! and not nearly full enough...but it will be! all for FREE!!!
This is her "princess"...she is so cute! (notice the pouty face because she didn't want me to take a pic!
my surfer cake...
that I made for Gabriel, he had a birthday while he was at our house! :o)

new addition...

Because of this little bundle of Joy
Raimey Grace Alger....

Our house got these bundles of energy!!! :o)
the boys getting ready for another foot race...
The girls holding hands, "mowing" the lawn.
these will seem tame...it was nap time! Miss Tahlia is so cute zonked on the couch!
The boys were happy watching a movie...
and we even played with a little goop! :o)
They are all such good friends...it was great to have the alger's come and play...we were sad when they went home....we really would have kept them longer...maybe when our house empties out a little we can have them over again for a little sleep over! :o)

Visit from the Dan Squared Family!

Dan and Danna and the kids came for a visit! It was so AWESOME to see them...it seems like forever since the last time. We had a ton of fun and the kids LOVED being together. At one point we had 11 kids at Mand's house playing and they did VERY little fighting! :o) PG walked around saying "I love Riley and Jake"!!! Thanks for coming guys, it was Great!!!
This is PD once she fell asleep while/after eating a huge marshmallow. it was EVERYWHERE! She had to get a bath! (not that she minded that part!)

KJ doing what KJ does best...playing on the computer...actually he was helping Dan with his computer. and PD and Leili were playing too. Cute girls!
This is what the celestial room of the temple looks like in miniture. At Temple Square they have a huge model of the temple. it was SO cool!
Here are the 2 ya-hoo's in the visitor's center. they are cute, but crazy!!

Lagoon '10

Here is our annual summer Lagoon fun with KJ's Work....
we left PR with a friend so she wouldn't be out in the sun all day...
PD went this year, there was still plenty for her to ride even though she was 2" too short for some of the rides.
She wasn't too sure about the whole ride thing....but we got her on a few...
like Bulgy the Grey Whale! Look how happy PG is! He wanted to ride EVERYTHING, over and over an over again!
She did ok on the swings but then she was about done!
She just wanted to walk US around, while PG was on rides.
It's like "Driving Miss Daisy"
They are too cute!
PG and I at the beginning of the Log water ride.
us at the end....
See, this was her idea of a good time...
She about freaked out when she thought this coaster car was going to move...but it wasn't
PD did care for this on at ALL! But PG put one arm in the air and had a great time with Daddy!
I wish we would have found her niche earlier! Bumper cars...she complained the whole time they were on but she sure didn't want to get off! (She cried all the way to the car! - but fell asleep about 3 seconds after we started for home!)