What a goof

"helping" dad fix the cars

We love helping daddy at work!

Thursday Fun

Today I took Preston and the 3 girls I watch up Payson Canyon to the trail called the Grotto. It is an easy 1/4 mile hike to a beautiful waterfall. We hung out there and had lunch. Most of them loved to play in the ice cold water. Such a great time!

Bike Rides - Monday

So Monday I took Preston and the 3 girls I watch on a couple of bike rides. We went in the morning to main street and got ice cream at the local drug store.
Then home for nap time. Then we hopped back on our bikes with our neighbor friend and her son and husband and rode to a park to play.The oldest girl, Ashley...her tire popped so she got a free ride back and I had to haul her bike on the bike trailer I was pulling!

After the 3 girls went home we headed over to a friends house to swim for a bit. Preston had so much fun and I loved cooling off after a sweaty bike ride.

Shaving Cream

I was feeling like a bad mom/babysitter on Tuesday cause it was a beautiful day and I was depressed and wanted to sleep all day. So my friend gave me some motivation and a great idea that I HAD to try with the kids. We took shaving cream and food coloring and let them go nuts outside on newspaper. Here are the photos from that:

River Fun

I took the kids today to Kelly's Grove up Hobble Creek Canyon. It was a perfect place to splash around in the river where it's not flowing so dang fast. I made all of the kids wear life jackets. Preston wore his arm floaties. Especially after all of the river accidents so far this summer. Even though it wasn't strong enough to take anyone down river or more than a foot deep in most places. Gotta play it safe! :)
We had a great time. Took us all a while to be brave enough to get into the ice cold water. But we all had fun. Preston even got in to about waist high. Ashley and Lexi were nuts and jumped into the deeper part, which was around 5' deep. After we were numb we couldn't stay out.
It was a really great day in the water! Can't wait to go back.