Hanging out at Steph's

 Lauren and John

 Caroline and Lyla

 Elsie and Lauren

 Leah

 Leah and Lauren

 Emery

 Lyla and Tom

 James and Annie

We also spent a lot of time just hanging out at Steph's house. Lauren had to mow the lawn and was kind enough to give all the little kids a ride for a turn around the yard. James and Annie are pretty good friends and enjoyed running through the sprinkler. Steph has three cats that I don't trust as all, but man did they put up with a ton of kids grabbing and holding them. All my kids were sure we needed a cat when we got home.

Pool Time

 All the kids really loved lessons this year.

 Lyla was excited to have the same suit as Ruby...Ruby was not as excited.

 Bailee doing a swimming lesson with Ruby. Grace working with Annie.

 This is the best picture of dad. He loves to soak in the hot tube after golf to help his elbow.

 Almost every person in the pools was family. Even all the dads had come for a swim after their round of golf.

We spent our fair share of time in Victor at the pool during our vacation. It is so beautiful there up against the hills with the blue sky and the green grass of the golf course.

Boys

I don't have a ton of pictures of Cannon from the trip to Driggs because the boys were happy to be doing their own thing. I don't even have a picture with Oliver.  They were found out in the field by Steph's house playing laser tag, bouncing on the trampoline, sneaking in games on the computer or with bags of oreos in the basement. He did love going white-water rafting for his birthday over in Jackson and melting the plastic soldiers with the fireworks on the 4th of July. You can see the little mischievous smiles on the boys faces. We didn't do the traditional birthday BBQ with water balloon launching at Uncle Micheal or the pinata. I was surprised that the older kids were the once disappointed with the change. We did however have the ice cream cake and Uncle Phil's famous brats on Friday for a BBQ with Uncle Jeff and all his family.

Trampoline Girls

 I love how happy my crazy Lyla is most of the time, but this picture really captured her personality.

Lyla has so many girls cousins her age and they spent hours on the trampoline. Sometimes with the sprinkler underneath to beat the heat. They would bounce each other so high it was hard to watch, but they were in heaven. Lyla fits right in the middle of all this group of girls. She can be the leader of the younger girls or fight her way in to the older girls group. It went both ways, but she loved hanging out with all of them. This was one of the first days and she was happy to be with Marian and Emery.

Bouncing with Caroline and Elsie.

Dance Festival 2015

Miya was able to participate in the Shine Bright Dance Festival 2015 in May. They had dance practice for months during mutual and she was able to make so many new friends from the Stake. It was amazing to see over 800 kids perform and the spiritual message in between each dance was so amazing and strong. I cry throughout and it was so great to see how much it helped Miya grow and to see her learn something new. I am always so proud of Miya and so glad happy with the amazing young women she is and continues to become in so many ways. What a blessing and a gift she is to our family. She is a beauty both inside and out and a joy to have around...most of the time! A lot of Phil's family came to see a performance because two of her cousins were in it as well.