Seven Peaks

We hit up Seven Peaks while on vacay... Good times. Won't mention losing Lindsey for 15 minutes or any children getting sick or... Ok.

Someone stole my hat!

"Bunka" is the best Grampa! or one of 2 of them! :)

Sometimes the funnest things end up being ones you'd never expect: Like sitting on a tube under an umbrella.

Zizzy and Lindsey had a good time riding the slides

Cute girls

Too bad I didn't get a shot of Mom riding the slide with Haley! They had some fun riding down the slides together. "Slide Partners"

Playing in Provo Canyon

On Sunday afternoon, we ate Dutch oven dinner (courtesy of Clint Payne) and did our annual family photos in our Old Navy Flag tees! Here's the grandparents and 12 grandkids...

Here's us
Provo Canyon was beautiful and green and cool and... So we just played and hung around the rest of the evening.
Love this next shot:

I was telling Jane that our black hair makes our heads very hot in the sun... So she got smart and put the frisbee on her head and walked around with it balanced on there!

So, the entire time we were up in the canyon, I saw that Squeaky's eye was all goobed up. I figured it was allergies since it was so green and beautiful in the canyon... Oh yeah. But it turned out to be pink eye - eeek! We hit the Instacare the next morning...

It's always nice when there's 12 kids staying under one roof, and one of them pops up with pink eye or strep or... Sorry! We thought we'd made it thru the week, but Benji caught it when Shera got home on Saturday... Whoops!

The "actual" 4th of July

The 4th of July is filled with traditions for the Jensons, as it's the favorite family holiday. First, there's always a crazy group that runs the 10k. Kris was one of the "crazies" again this year. Then we all hit the parade. We have a place to sit where the Krispy Kreme donuts are always flowing...

Benji and Layne giving loves
This year, it sprinkled on us for the first few minutes of the parade. Being from Vegas, we welcomed it as a rare treat.

After the parade, we headed back to Gramma's house and played water games in the backyard all afternoon.

The water balloon toss

That evening, we did fireworks.

This year, we had an abundance of curiously-busy, 2-year olds. Oh wow! But it was so fun.

Emma offered Layne some of her cake!

Oquirrh Mountain Temple

We just got back from a fun-filled week in Utah, so I have a ton of pictures to post! The entire Jenson family came into town, and the first thing we did was go to the new temple open house.

It was PACKED with people. The lines were long, but the wait was definitely worth it.

We paired each kid up with a partner to walk through with. Haley called Rondi her "partner" for the rest of the week!

Lindsey and her cousin, Alex.

Afterwards, we hit Chick-fil-a, my FAVORITE!

Tennis play-offs

The last 2 weeks of June were PACKED with tennis! Our team, Pink Ladies, made it to district play-offs. We were scheduled to play 5 teams in 6 days. So the week preceeding the play-offs, I played like a mad-woman, just trying to condition for the big week ahead.

The team (pictured above), L to R: Stacey, Alyssa, Me, Janelle (back), Shigemi, Donna, Kristen, and Eva.
My partner for the 1st match, on Tuesday.

A little ominous: As we were waiting to get on court, the paramedics walked through with this stretcher, on their way to get someone who suffered heat exhaustion... It was HOT out there.

Here we are on Day 3 - a victory for the team. I played singles at 5 p.m., and it's all but a miracle that I am standing in this picture below.

Overall, we lost. But it was amazing and fun. I'm proud of us for getting to play-offs.

Goofin' off with Gram

My Mom was in town a few weeks ago. Here are some funny pictures of her and Haley being silly!

Saving the best for last

On the very last day of swim lessons, the kids get to ride the water slides!

Poor Squeaks just had to watch... She got soaked sitting on the top stair watching them slide down.

Haley and her swim teacher, Miss Jordyn

Lindsey, her friend Toby, and their teacher, Mr. Kyle

Squeaky-weaky was a champ. She had to sit and watch her sisters for 2 weeks straight!