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Horrible plane ride!

Dinner at mom’s with the entire Vanchiere family.

Backyard water fun at Ashley’s house.

 An overnighter at Richard and Candice’s cabin with some of Dan’s family

 A trip to Lake Powell with my family.

 A Cafe Rio feast with Ashley!

 Hanging out at Rachel’s House

 A much needed quiet Sunday

 A BBQ in “the hollow” at Mom & Vaughn’s house

Playing at Discovery Park and visiting with my bestest friend from High School Amy.

Going to my brothers softball games.

A shopping trip to Park City with my mom and sisters followed by dinner at the Zermatt.

Dinner at Wingers and a movie “Get Smart” with Jeff and Chelsey, Amy and Matt.

Building a retaining wall for my parents new pool (Dan)

Lunch with Grandpa Gary, Hana, Andrew and Matt at The Seville.

A night at Candice and Richards Cabin with some of my family (Thanks Candice and Richard!)

A trip to Sun Valley Idaho, including, vomit, swimming, bingo, an ice show and fireworks.

Swimming in my parents new pool

Some golf for Dan

 Dinner and hanging with Blake and Jocile and their kiddos

Dinner up at Rich and Candice’s

 Chilled with Jeff and Chels

Played “Ticket to Ride” with John and Amanda

Lagoon with Ashley, Ben, Rach, Tanner, Amy and Matt

A Bees game and picnic with my dad’s work.  

Pictures taken at kiddie kandids with all the cousins

Multiple trips to the Snowcone shack.

Four Day Family Reunion at Cascade Lake, Idaho

Birthday BBQ at the Park (for Dad and Rach)

Guitar Hero with Matt and Amy

Kangaroo Zoo with Honey and the cousins  

Hit the Old Navy Sale with my sister Rachel  

Dinner at Cafe Rio with Andrew and Sara  

Long plane ride home!

The kids having fun with our prize from Chuck E Cheese

Today we went to a fair on the peninsula. The weather was perfect and the peninsula was gorgeous. It almost makes you forget that Erie is such a dreadful place in the winter.

The kids favorite part of the fair was this trampoline thing.

Gabe wanted to go really high. I was proud of him for being so brave

Zoe cried a little bit at first but by the end she didn't want to get out of it.

Gabe and his friends.

For those of you not from Erie, if you notice the frog in the water, there are many of those all over Erie  (and a few fish too?) and we always play a game in the car of who can spot the frogs first. We yell “FROG” as loud as we can. My kids are getting familiar enough with Erie that they know where some of them are before we get to them.

It is Summer clearance at Target people! Run down and get your pools and lawn chairs. We picked this up the other day and our kids love it. They stand at the top and do a huge jump and land at the very bottom of the slide. If you know my kids at all…that is pretty brave for them. If you live in Erie and need something to do with your kids one day, come on over and swim!

These are all of my parents grandkids. 

My Dad and my sister Rachel both have July birthdays so we got together at the park to hang out and celebrate. The Hatch’s and Easley’s came too.

Jeff and Mike

Brandon, Rachel and Gabe

zoe

Bryce, Katelyn and Ally

Amy, Matt, Tanner

The Birthday Boy and Girl

my latest cake

Dan’s brother John was born on the 4th of July so his wife Amanada threw a big party for him and invited all the Elton Clan as well as her family. It was held at this AMAZING pool in her parents neighborhood. We swam, ate, visited and watched fireworks. It was really fun.

Richard and Candice, Grandma Barbara and Grandpa Vaughn with Noah.

Cousin Matt.

My grandparents have 8 kids, seventy something grandkids and eighty something great grandkids. That makes for a really fun family reunion. Since there are so many of us and we are kind of spread out, we have a family reunion every other year. This year we had it at Cascade Lake in Idaho. We camped in tents and boated on the lake. My kids ran wild and couldn’t believe that they were related to every person there!

cousin tanner

my adorable parents

grandpa and grandma rupp

mason and gabe

I don’t know what possessed me but on the day of our ward talent show I got this brilliant idea that it would be hilarious if Ashley and I learned the Napoleon Dynamite dance. We practiced for about two hours slapped on some sweat bands and moon boots and here you go…

The quality is not so good because it was recorced from a cell phone. Anyway… I am not sure that everyone in my ward understood that this was meant to be funny which is kind of embarrassing but Ashley and I sure laughed a lot. Here is the real Napoleon Dance…