Rocky Mountain High...

I had the chance to spend the weekend with the Lecheminants in Parker, Colorado.
It was fun to see where they are living and have a chance to play. We went to see Toy Story 3 on the first day I was there.

Then we had a picnic in the park and went to a fun farm close by.

Avrey would not let me take a picture of her so I got some funny ones instead.

She is a beautiful girl.

Trey and Kaden were great tour guides through the farm, even though Kaden did not feel very well.

They had an olden days school house on at the farm. Trey was the perfect teacher.

Julie and I saw this sign and thought it was funny. There were similar signs throughout the farm but most said please do not feed the animals or pet the animals. We liked this one because it just said please do not. We felt all kids could take a place under that sign.

Jeff decided to show Avrey the cow...

The cow was more than happy to say hello! Thanks Lecheminants for an awesome weekend! I love you guys!

Free Floats Please!

As many of you know I'm all about free stuff. In fact I am in love with the Salt Lake Library much to my sisters Stephanie and Julie's chagrin. So when I found out all the Days of 47 Parade Floats would be on display at the South Towne Expo Center for free I invited family and went to check it out.
Kris and Michelle came up on Monday night for family night and we had a ball! I am sure you can tell by the look on Josh's face.

Leave it to Kris and Cole to find the only cow pie on any of the the floats and then...

Put it on their head.

My stake made a float which I voted for. The entire float was made of blankets that will be donated to humanitarian aid. The stake made 1,700 blankets total.

On June 20th Kerri came up with her girls and we had a girls night out viewing the floats.

The girls had balloons made for them.

Alyssa got a flower hat and Kaitlyn got, you guessed it, a kitty.

After the floats we continued our girls night at the Mayan. The divers came to our table and wished Kaitlyn a happy birthday. It was great fun! Have I mentioned that I have a great family.

Red Rover and a Whole Lot More

We had a picnic in the park on July 9th before Andersons headed back to Washington. Kelly got all the kids to play red rover and they had a ball!
Saige is growing up so fast and had fun at the picnic. What a pretty girl!

Grandma Gillespie had fun with the kids on the playground and even went down the slide.

After the park we went to the Horton's for a movie night. It started to rain so we came in and I played with Ali and Quincey in the playroom. Good thing no pictures were taken of me in the dress ups!

I slept over at the Horton's and when we woke up we did some old journal reading and then Marcus came upstairs in a very interesting outfit.

Then Jacob made two...

Cory and Caleb made four boys in the boxers.

The End

Fourth of July

The Fourth of July Weekend was once again filled with Gillespie Family fun, starting with the sleepover in the backyard.

We roasted marshmallows in the backyard and slept in tents. As always Spencer and Kris were both spazes.
Grandpa made snow cones and Cole loved the tiger's blood.

The kids became pretty sleepy but they were going like crazy all night.

Anderson's drove down for the week and we enjoyed having them at the sleepover. At 6:00am we headed to the balloon festival on the Fox Field.

The wind was bad so very few balloons inflated, but as always we had fun together.

In the evening we had a fun picnic and then went to the park to play kickball before the fireworks!

As you can see, two full days of fun with very little sleep fills the kids with so much feeling. I love my family!