What were we thinking?

You know that country song "What were we thinking?" Well that's what I think of when I think of our experience at the fair this year. Myself and Robyn wanted to take her kids and the twins to the fair this passed monday. Strike #1...Memorial Day & last day of the fair. Greg is in UT with Hunter and Austin and Kent wants to go 4-wheeling with our neighbor, who's wife is also out of town. Strike #2...no spouses, and three extra kids. So between Robyn and myself we had 8 kids under the age of 6!!! Strike #3...two stroller+a million people+fair=disaster!!

When we left our homes it was cloudy, even raining. By the time we made it through the fair traffic it was beautiful and actually hot out. But we dressed for it to be cold, so we were dying and trying to find shade every second. We saw all the animals and then we bribed the kids into buying a toy instead of riding rides because it was too crazy. After one child's major break down we knew it was time to go. Then we left. But not without first trying the most yummiest cream puffs ever...and they were huge! Fun times.

Melinda with almost all the kids we brought...missing baby Paxson
Robyn with almost all the kids, again...missing baby Paxson
Ryder, Peyton and Mason helping Robyn box up her house. They've sold their house, moved in with us until their new house is finished. It's been lot's of fun!
Kaiden, Mason, Abbi, Ryder, Peyton all watching something interesting. You can see that Ryder wants to smile for the picture, but doesn't want to stop watching the show.

Also, if anybody knows any secrets of keeping soap scum off of your glass shower door...please clue me in! I hate having glass doors on my shower!!! Is there any special miracle cleaning agent that gets the crap off, besides lime-a-way?

Summer Updates

In July we got to spend a few weeks in UT, which was really nice because it rained here all summer! Infact it's still raining. This summer has been the coldest on record for AK since the 1950's. It rained 33 straight days and then we had some nice weather for a day or two. Maybe this means winter won't be so long?

Splash pad in Highland, UT. It was fun to be able to spend some time in the sun.

We spent a lot of time in the water since it was so hot.

I got to meet up with some awesome girls while in Utah. Holly Sanders, Me, Deb Cannon & Stacey Mitchell. We all shared a short period of our lives together in Philly.

No wonder I never see the boys at the ranch (fish lake)...they have so many boy cousins to play with!

Austy and Lucky. Austy was never without this dog!

Hunter, Austy & G-pa on G-pa Harr's horse

Ryder & Peyton trying to decide if they like bareback or not.

I thought this was so cute!

At the beginning of August six of us went on a girls trip to Denali. It was a lot of fun! We had fun just being girls...not mom's for a few nights. We went river-running, pictures are somewhere. We hiked, ate, talked all night, slept-in, and ate more!
We all got the same sweathshirts...except Heather's, but it's mostly the same, just ran out of that color. Bobbi, Robyn, Heather, Cathie & Me. Marsha didn't want to get a sweatshirt cuz she said she had too many. I think she got a scarf instead. I really think she just didn't want to match, j/k!

The hot tub over looked the river that we ran. I think that it was past time for the hot tub to be open, but we had just had icecream and so we wanted to warm up a bit. Cathie, me, Robyn

All of us at hot tub.

Eating icecream, and doing as much shopping as you can in Denali at their one row of shops.

On a small hike. Cathie, Marsha, Bobbi, Robyn, me, and Heather. (By the way, Heather had just broken her tow, but she was such a trooper and still kept up with us.)

Now summer is over. The boys have been in school for two weeks. We started JoySchool yesturday with a total of eight kids, flagfootball has taken up a few of our nights. Basketball season soon to start...it's never going to end with four boys! Busy, busy, busy!