Emery's Room

We just re-did Emery's room and it turned out so girly and cute.

Projects

We did a few projects also. One thing I wanted to teach the kids was to build, it was a very small lesson. They helped Brad cut the wood.

 Then they had to sand the wood.

 They got to pic how they wanted the wood situated and hammer the nails in. We started them and they finished it.

 The finished products. They also painted if they wanted and picked picture to add to them.

Then we did dot painting. I'm not sure they got what I was thinking to do with them, but they still had fun and liked what they created.

More Pops

Pops have been such a big part of our summer. I am even thinking of doing a road trip with just me and the kids to go to Boise to look at pops this week, and I HATE driving to Boise.

We played poker with the boys for money and pops. See the smile, that didn't last long. Brad and I tried to lose, we really did. Beck just went all in all the time and we finally just let him lose. Cam wanted to win and I really tired, but the last hand he went all in and my hand just happened to be just better than his. It was a long night of Cam pouting.

A few weeks ago was San Diego Comic Con which brought lots of new pops and Funko Fundays. This year you could watch Fundays live, so we of course did. The kids were all really excited to watch it, well maybe not Emery, but all of the boys were.

The new pops that came out were pretty sweet, and to get some of them you have to go to the store early to get. This was our Black Friday. We were 4th in line at Hot Topic and got what we wanted.

 We were 3rd at Game Stop and our store only got 2 of the one Camden wanted, can you guess if they had it? That's right, it sold out before we got it. We later were able to get it online and his mood changed. Because of all of the pops the boys owed us money and weren't able to buy more pops or trade until it was paid off. It was a fun little lesson in debt. Maybe next time we'll charge interest.

Catch Up

Here are a few more picture from the reunion.

Before they went rafting.

 A small train at the Bar J Wranglers.

 Cute little family.

Emery had he special night and she was really excited for all of it. First we had to have Golden Corral, thankfully it was Brad's turn to go out to eat. She also waited for her second night to go and see her movie which was "Hotel Transylvania 3." She's too grown up, it needs to slow down.

Cam was mowing the lawn and ran inside to tell us there was a dead bird. Our lame dog Luna likes to chase things and somehow she caught a bird. I kind of wish I saw it, because I'm sure she didn't know what to do when she first caught it.

The other day the kids just didn't want to do anything, and I was trying to read. They came to bug me again and I said they can only be in the front room if they are reading or sleeping.... they all chose sleep. It was peaceful though.

Jackson Hole

We spent the first half of this week in Driggs/ Jackson Idaho for the Barnes reunion. Everyone had a good time and the kids were especially sad to leave cousins.

Jackson hiding before dinner. 

The kids loved the hot tub at our house. 

Jacks and Zahiya were best buddies. She followed Jacks all over and held his hand a lot. 

We went to Jackson Hole one of the days and while it was beautiful, I am not sure I'd ever want to drive over that mountain pass again. We didn't put our car into a lower gear then our breaks got hot and the car started to shake. I was freaked out and I know Brad had to really be scared since he was driving. On the way back we used our gear shift and put it in a lower gear so we were good. 

We road a tram to the top of the mountain and walked around a little bit. Again it was beautiful but I'm not a fan of high places so it was a little scary being so high.

The ride starting to go up. 

 

A tiny stream going down the middle of the hill.

We were 10450 feet high.

Beautiful

This makes it look like we are right near the edge,

But it wasn't. Although he did go by that rope, which also isn't an edge but I didn't know that and I may have freaked out a bit. My stomach couldn't handle all of the turns it was making from the vertigo that I kept feeling.

 

 

 

Cam and Beck did a trampoline thing once we got off the mountain. Cam went pretty high  and Beck was pretty stiff at first, but in the end they both really liked it. 

 

Camden found a necklace with his name on it. That doesn't happen often with our kids. 

For dinner that night we went to the Bar J Wranglers. It was some good food and a good show. 

Jacks was pretty tired from walking around all day in the heat. He only slept for a little bit. 

They sounded so good. One of the guys could go so low in you could feel the bass in your chest. 

More beauty on the way home. I love Idaho and the mountains. 

Emery is in love with her cousin Hayden. She's a chunk and so fun to watch the kids play with her. 

 

Only in Idaho....

A creepy mask Jacks got. It made him a T-Rex. 

The boys went rafting with their uncles. They went last year and loved it so they couldn't wait to go again. Can you see Cam in the pic... no one can. He didn't want to get wet so he hid behind Beck every time a rapid came up.

 

 While they were rafting Emery decided to stick her leg through the railing, which became stuck and she realized was a bad idea pretty fast. Thankfully Brad got it out.

We played BINGO and won prizes. The kids ran around, ate lots of good food and stayed up late, all of the fun things you do on a reunion.

When we got home the dogs flipped. They didn't want to be left again, so while we were unloading the car the dogs jumped in and wouldn't get out.