Beach Week 2011

Beach Week 2011
Was once again Wonderful.
The weather was great, the company was awesome.

Ava Boogie boarded for the first time.
She did very good the first couple of waves. But then she got taken down— and then she was done. The salty water was a pinch much for her.

Flying Ryan's kite. The kids always love it!

The kids LOVED Baby Mac! They always wanted to play with him and hold him.
And it was a way to get out of the wind.

Love this picture of Ava and London! What the crap are they doing?

One night we went out to watch the Sunset— These are some of the Pictures we got.

This is Ava and London. Getting them to jump at the same time was a joke.

Our little family.

#getsome

So cute!

First Annual
Beach Week 5k
This year was the first annual beach week 5K. It was so much fun. Such a great idea. Everyone loved it, It was a perfect excuse to get everyone out together one morning to exercise. And not to mention the good Breakfast we had at the end.
And I have to give a shout out to Ryan for WINNING!

At the end we had all the kids do a little race... It was so cute.
They loved it— you can see it all over Ava's face!

Oh yes, and Brittany took First for the Girls!
Don't think anyone will be able to beat her. She is fast.

1st place—Ryan
2nd Place—Dan
3rd Place—John
11th place— Jamie
(11th out of 35 is not bad for not running since April)

Thanks again for everyone who made the First Annual Beach Week 5K so amazing!

Love the Poses!

Corn Hole— entertained all of us.

Ryan in his Winning Tank Top!

The awesome sand castle we made. Mostly I just loved Ava's pose!

On Sunday After Church we tried to go take some Family Photos on the beach.
Didn't really work with the Wind and the Sun.
Why is it that Sunday is always the best day on the beach?

Thanks to Rob and Cindy for a Wonderful Beach Week!

All Star—FanFest

MLB All Star
Fan Fest
Was the best we could do to Celebrate the All star game in Arizona. There was no way we were gonna spend $350 a ticket for nose bleeds to the game or home run derby. So we decided to just go to Fan Fest. It's where they have tons of different baseball booths, free stuff, lots of stuff for the kids, Autographs by past players. Anyway there was a lot to see and do.

In line to do the Baseball Combine—they time you to see how fast you run around the bases, how fast you throw the ball etc...

Of course Ava will pose for me, and Gavin was to busy preparing mentally.
He took it very Seriously!

Even Ryan got to play!

Everything Gavin did, the workers would say "wow that kid is amazing for only being 2"
"He has such a great Arm" everyone was asking how old he was.
Most kids his age couldn't throw a ball, hit a ball or was as serious as Gavin was!

Coolest thing for Gavin—combine baseball with cars... couldn't be better!

Stealing bases

The Commissioner's Trophy
They had a lot of different trophies like the home run derby trophy, most stolen bases trophy etc.. but they were all in glass cases. But they had this one out so you could take pictures with it. But it was surround by guards. Making sure you don't touch it, break it, steal it whatever. So of course Ava had to touch it, and boy did those workers gasp, and say "don't touch it" like she was trying to steel it. Now Ava can always say she touched The Commissioner's Trophy !


Lots of Fun...
Maybe someday we'll be able to go to the All Star Game!

4th of July

(Ava's cute FLAG poster she made!)

4th of JULY
Was filled with lots of Swimming, Tacos, Fruit Pizza! Homemade Root beer and very sad to say NO fireworks! I know... Lame!

the 2 crazy kids!

My yummy Fruit Pizza!
Looks so Good... I think i need to make another one very SOON!

Eric made
Homemade Root Beer
with the kids! The kids loved it of course!
And it was way good... and very Slushy! Just the way I like it!

Happy 4th of July!

underwater camera

We didn't use all the pictures from our awesome
water camera
we got for the river. So we used the rest of the pictures at the pool with the kids.
Here are the ones that turned out.
enjoy!

Pretty AWESOME!

tubing salt river

The 4th of July Weekend Mimi, Papa and Rachel, Braden came to AZ to visit...So we had to find activities to do to stay cool.
Tubing the Salt River
happened to be one of them.
I have to say we were a little nervous at first. But it actually was really fun. It was a mixture of exciting, scary and relaxing.
Not everyone got to come— or wanted to come. the little kids being the ones who didn't get to come and Mimi being the one who didn't want to come.

Here are some of the Pictures we took with the cheap water camera we bought for this special occasion—hence how terrible they look.

Eric with his Awesome cut off Jeans!

Ryan with the tube holding the cooler.

Me with my awesome cold sore. Rachel and Braden in the background doing work.

Eric and Olivia

Next time we do it, we definitely need to tie our tubes together, we kept getting separated. Amy was by herself for the most part and rob kept joining other groups. I think cause they had better drinks then us!