Panguitch and a Party

As soon as we got home from Ella's pool party we drove up to Panguitch to stay with some friends.  We roasted marshmallows, played games, went fishing, and attempted to see the parade. I discovered that I love Panguitch, it is such a cute little town.

Heidi, Brynlee, Kelton

 Ava and Ella roasting their marshmallows.  Ava is in Kash's preschool class and he calls her "Ava G" because there are two Ava's.

 

Evie found her own little seat.

 

 Matt and Shane

 

 Playing on the four wheeler.

 

We went to watch the parade but by the time we got there it was over! It is such a small town it only lasted about 10 minutes.

 

The next day we went over to Bob and Bo's house to have Sunday dinner and a little family party for Ella. She opened presents and we had cake and ice cream.  She was really excited to get an alarm clock.  Kash has one in his room so he doesn't come downstairs too early:)  She complained that it was SO annoying to have to go in Kash's room to see what time it was! So now she no longer has that burden.

 

Pink sparkly Tom's from Aunt Mandy!

 

Ella literally attacked Kash after she opened his gift to her.  She always begs him to let her wear his Mario shirt to bed and of course he always says yes.  So he got her her very own Luigi shirt to sleep in.  She was pretty excited about it, as you can see. 

 

Here is Dobo showing them how to work the castle pop up book she got Ella.

 

Singing Happy Birthday.

 

Ella is so happy to finally be 6! All of her friends have already turned 6 so it was tough to be the last one.  And now she can't wait to be 7...

Ella turns 6!

Our little girl turned 6 on June 8th.  The night before her birthday I was tucking her in and she said, "Mom, for some reason I feel like a grown up now." She says the cutest things and really does sound so grown up a lot of the time! She really wanted to go to Sand Hollow for her birthday this year so that's what we did.  She got to invite all of her friends and they had a great time.  She is such a little leader and most of the time I would see a group of her friends following her around in the water.  

She awoke to the traditional balloon-covered room.

 

 Blowing out her birthday doughnut.

 

 Kash, Halle, and Ella about to jump in the pool.

 

 Halle, Ella, Ava, Kenlee, Lexie

 

 Megan, Halle, and Kenlee waiting to get on the lily pads.

 

 Ava and Ella

 Gina, Emily, Adam

Kash was going down the slide almost the entire time.  Frontwards, backwards, upside down, you name it.  He never got sick of it!

 The lifeguard finally had to help him once because every time he came off the slide he would try to cut across the current. By the end of the day he was getting too tired to make it! The lifeguard explained to him that he needed to swim straight ahead, and after that he was fine.

Matt got the best workout of his life the last hour we were there.  All of the girls would jump on his back and hang on to him while he went around and around the whirlpool.  The jets weren't working so he didn't have any help!

Every time he went around another kid or two would jump on!

His legs were sore the next day.

Taking a break in the middle.

We got out of the pool and all the kids got a snack and a drink.

Opening up presents.

Ella and Megan

Ella and Kenlee

About to blow out her candles.

The whole group! From top: Ava, Kenlee, Halle H, Emily, Halle L, Ella, Addison, Megan, Ella Kate, Ellie, Adam, Lexie, Kash. 13 kids at the pool is a little crazy but it was really a lot of fun.

When we got home she had a package from Nana waiting for her!

And the celebration continued all through the weekend...

Peek a Boo

I was sitting at the computer and Evie started playing peek a boo with me from the next room.  It was pretty cute!

 

 Ella wanted to join in.

 What cute girls!

Tadpoles for frogs

After family night we promised the kids we would go catch some frogs.  We went to our usual pond near our house and found that they had chlorinated it! The kids were devastated so we walked a little further to the creek.  We could not find a single frog but there were hundreds of tadpoles.  At first the kids were disappointed but now that they are in our fish tank they are in love.  They feed them and check on them everyday to see if they have changed into frogs.  Most of them now have little legs.  This is probably the closest they are going to get to a pet so I think its a pretty good deal.

Here they are staring at the pond in disbelief!

Matt took the older two down to catch the tadpoles and Corinne and I had the difficult task of keeping Evie on the bridge.

As you can see she was doing most of the work, pregnant and all.

This girl is such a trouble maker!

Checking out their new pets!

Bike Rides

Our fun friends Cody, Makay, and Leah stopped by one Sunday afternoon to give us all a ride on there super fun bikes. They got quite the workout pulling us around the neighborhood!

Evie all dressed up

I wouldn't exactly call Evie a "girly" girl but she does love to dress up.  She is constantly putting on anyone's shoes she can find, necklaces, scarves, etc.  She especially likes to get into Kash's closet and get his easy-to-reach underwear that is on the bottom shelf.  Maybe she will start a new trend?