festivites

The month of July is full of fun in the state of Utah.  We started off with the 4th of July.  My mom grew up going to the Riverdale parade and then to the park to play games and eat food.  So she was super excited to take her grandkids to it!  Keagan and Makinsey had a blast!

The fireworks show was awesome!  Keagan kept laughing and saying, "The fireworks are funny!", "I wanna touch them!"

Keagan loves to see himself on the camera!  

The next week was Farmington Days, which is a week long celebration.  On that Saturday, there is a parade and fireworks show.  I was at a girls weekend so Brent took the kids with my family.  Once again, they loved the parade!  We went to the fireworks and live music when I got home that night.  It was so funny watching Makinsey.  She is the most social girl I have ever seen.  She went and introduced herself to everyone within a 25 ft radius.  Let's just say that we were exhausted when we got home from chasing her everywhere!

Here are some pictures from the two parades!

Love this "intense" face of Keagan's.  Usually when the lower jaw starts sticking out it means he is going to punch, shove, kick, push, run into, tackle.... basically something that is ALL boy!  We like to call this his "Kobe" face!

This is one of my favorite pictures for a couple of reasons....

1. Kins is punching the Bee.  Atleast I know that she will always defend herself from scary things!

2. The look of pure panic on her face.

3. And the best of all... the fact that Brent is laughing SO hard at her!  Apparently, he isn't going to save her from the big, bad bee!!!

swimming...

The favorite past time this summer has been going swimming.  Both of the kiddos LOVE the water!  Keagan has always loved the water, but had a healthy fear of it.  He would never jump in or go too deep without an adult near.  Makinsey on the other hand is CRAZY!  She has NO FEAR!  She will walk to the edge and then continue over the edge into the deep end, without thinking about it!  She will go under the water and come out laughing!  She keeps me on my toes!

Both of the uncles are SO cute with the kids!  They love love love playing with them at the pool!

 (and the answer is YES if you were asking yourself if Dustin is checking his chest out instead of watching Keagan!!! :)

We signed up for swimming lessons for Keagan for two weeks.  It was close enough that we were able to walk there on some of the day!  The kids love being in their stroller!

 Keagan wasn't old enough to be in the beginner class and so we were in the mom and tot class.  He did SO SO SO SOOOOOO good!

Here is a video of Keagan on the last day!  He is a little swimmer!  The teacher said that he is totally ready for the next level!  Any time I would touch him, he would tell me.... "Mom, let go!"  So independent!

Recent Happenings

This summer has been very busy!  Here are a few photos from the month of June....

We traveled to California for Brent's little sister, Brandice's wedding.  It was a fast and busy trip, but we had tons of fun.  Since it was so busy, I naturally forgot to take photos.... here are the only ones I took!

They had sparkling cider for the toast and Keagan was in LOVE!  I think that he had atleast 5.

Love these two boys!!!  So handsome in their tuxes.  We were worried that Keagan was going to hate the tux and not be good during the ceremony.  Once he saw his daddy in a matching tux, he loved it.  He didn't want to take it off.  He walked down the aisle so good!  I was the maid of honor, so he was able to walk right after me... the cute flower girl was a little bit older than Keagan so she was going to hold his hand while they walked down the aisle.  Once I started walking, Keagan couldn't wait to follow and practically dragged the flower girl with him down the aisle.  It was super cute.  And then during the ceremony Brent held Keagan and had a stash of gummy bears hidden in his coat.  So any time that Keagan started to talk, Brent would stuff a gummy in his mouth.  Keagan, being the smart boy that he is, figured out where Brent hid the gummies and during one of the prayers he reached in Brent's pocket and pulled out the whole bag.  Let's just say that Keagan didn't make another noise!!

My cute big girl!

Who needs clothes to sleep?!  Not this boy!