Funniest Thing Ever...today at least

This is the latest of a series of videos made by some Utah brothers. They have a bunch of kids retell stories from the brothers' childhood and then the brothers act out the story using the audio from the kids. Funny. I giggled. You should too.

Rock Climbing

Once upon a time I was a decent rock climber but not so much any more.  While in Utah for one of our many adventures, we went rock climbing up Rock Canyon in Provo.  It was a lot of fun, but I am way out of shape.  I would like to blame having had three kids as my downfall, but I am guessing it has more to do with the bag of Cheetos I am eating currently.

This is the climb my younger brother thought we could do.   I don't know if I could have really made it up. The rain came so I didn't have to find out if I was a big failure.  

This is my cousin Emily. She came with us another day.   I didn't do any editing to this picture.  Yes she really is that tan and yes her teeth are that white.  

Michael climbing (actions pose).

Paul climbing (more action). 

Joseph climbing (epic action - sorry Jesse, used the word epic as an adjective this time).

Stephen climbing.  Sorry Stephen. I don't have good pictures of you climbing. It was either raining too hard or I was belaying you.  This is the best I have.

Less epic picture of Joseph. This might help Stephen feel less cheated about his picture.

Here I am rapelling down the crack climb. It's almost as scary going down.

I like this picture because you can see Paul peek over the cliff face making sure that his sister isn't messing up his rope or something. You can also see how Paul felt this was a good "beginner" climb.

This tough picture of Paul's arm shows exactly why he was the best climber out of all of us and why the crack climb should have been easy for us mere mortals.

But Stephen wins for prettiest baby blue eyes.

We also let the kids play up on a kid version of rock climbing while in Park City.  You were really supposed to pay to let the kids play on the playground but we thought that was stupid so we just walked in and played.  No one kicked us out. 

Ryan climbing up the wrong side,  just to show how tough he is. Yeah dear, you climbed like 5 feet. Real tough.

Jack was quite satisfied with his accomplishment.

Contemplating important things I am sure.

Thanks for the adventures!

First Day of School

It happened.  Somehow my baby girl grew up and left me for the big wide world of kindergarten!  While I haven't been looking forward for this day to come, Kaitlynn has been eagerly awaiting it for the past year.   

Classic first day of school picture, standing in front of our house.

The group of parents and kids waiting for the bus to come.

Kaitlynn with her best friend Makenzie.  These two ended up in the same kindergarten class.  

Ryan and Brandon (Makenzie's dad) teaching Alexis how to pound it.  Olivia is an expert of sorts and will pound it with anyone who can make a fist.

They just saw the bus!!!  I don't have any picture of Kaitlynn getting on the bus because I took video instead.  She was the first one on and didn't even look back to wave or say bye.  She was ready to go!

Jack watching the bus drive away.

Jack waiting for the bus to come back.

Eating her afternoon snack and telling me all about her very first day of school ever.

All the Grandchildren

While in Utah we had a chance to take pictures with all of the grandkids together.   

It is impossible to get seven kids and a play horse to look at the camera all at the same time.

 (Hylton Cousins)

We took pictures in three different spots.

 (Bartholomew Cousins)

I am not sure any of them worked out like we had hoped

But I still think they are pretty dang cute.

And I threw this one in there just because she is beautiful.