Taylor {Kiddos}

I'm really trying to catch up on my blog. I'm trying to be dedicated since we now print it out at christmas time for the years journal of our family.... So I've made a few post's today of some events the last few weeks:)

The week after we watched my brother's kids, we watched my sister's four kids. She's a hard working single mama, so the kids have had to go to day care this summer. We really wanted to take them for a week and get them outside and have some fun.  I know my sister really wanted her kiddos to have some fun this summer so we tried to make that happen:)  We took them out to the McDonalds {Yucky!, but they love it}, had movie nights, went to story time at the library, went to a little carnival that was in town with the anderson cousins, pizza on the tramp, fishing & swimming at Burton Ponds, bb gun shooting in the backyard and rode on the FSA Float (families supporting adoption) on the 24th in the Spanish Fork Parade.  They were so much fun. I was definitely worn out at the end but I truly LOVE these kiddos. My nieces and nephews were like my own kids for a lot of years so they still mean the world to me. The kids played sooo well together. They all were so good with Aiden and love to play with Mase, so it worked out perfectly!

My in laws were so nice to let us borrow 'the burb' so we could fit all the kids in one car during the week and not have to drive two.

 

Our fishing trip just wouldn't have been 'Mason style' if he didn't fall into the water in the first TEN MINUTES....

 

..... and end up like THIS the rest of the day

 

Tae decided to join in with him:)

At the end they really wanted to go swim and not having suits didn't stop them:)

The Caldwell Clan

. We watched my brother's three kids and three dogs while him and his wife went to Texas for a few days!  Yes it was going to more than double the kids I'm used to not to mention three dogs but I was really excited. They live in southern utah so I don't get all the time I'd like with them, so them coming and staying was work but SO worth it. They are the cutest kids and have such good manners. And the dogs weren't too bad either, I had to be ghetto and jimmy rig my yard so buster the oldest dog wouldn't escape (however he still did and some nice man pick him up on the freeway ramp.... gave me a heart attack!)  We did so many fun things with them, we went to my niece and their cousin mya's birthday party, played at liberty park with cousins, had a sleepover in Salt Lake with their cousins, ate at Wendy's and had movie nights at our house! Faith was incredible, she LOVES babies, she took over my motherly duties to Aiden. I didn't feed him for literally three days. I'm seriously debating stealing her for the summers and having her live with me. no joke!  Anyway they were hiliarous and I could just kiss Jax all day and play with Ky-man! Thanks for coming and staying with us kids. We LOVE you and mason misses his buddies!

 

 

Oh and as you can see Jer's kids have an awsome hair do so we only thought it was fitting to blend Mason in with them while their were here:)  We've gotten people who seriously stop us and comment on how much they love it and we also get some crazy looks... haha. Oh well we love it and think it fits his personality... maybe a little to much:)

{D} Visit

{D} came to visit last month on her birthday! We took her out to Tucanos {YUMMY} to celebrate.  It was so good to see her and so appreciate her and her mom driving down to see the little man*