We had more company this past week. My sister Christy and Rob and all 5 of their kids came late Monday night. We went to the Timpanogos Temple with them the next morning and then they spent the rest of Tuesday getting Shae ready to enter the MTC and having some last family time. Tuesday night we got together at Wines Park in Lehi with lots of extended family. We got to see my moms sisters and my dads brother and lots of their kids. Shae had a few close friends come and lots of my siblings came. We ate and visited and let the kids run and play.

I didn’t take any pictures at the park 🙁

On Wednesday we said goodbye to Shae and her family took her to the MTC! She will be a great missionary. She seemed prepared in every way. That night we got together with Grandma and Grandpa Johnson and had dinner with them and the Eggers and Sean. and we capped off the night and their visit with a midnight game of Euchre and one more cousin sleep over.

SHAELYN is going to be a great missionary. She entered the MTC on August 13, 2014. She is going to the Czech Slovak Mission, speaking Slovak. She was already teaching herself some of the language and seemed prepared in every way. I am proud of her and her life choices and we look forward to receiving her mission emails.

On Saturday August 2nd we had Ryan’s kids here and Josh and Mal and their kids. We opened the hot tub and got out the Slip n slide. The kids had a good time. Our hill made it so the kids went real fast. Ray and Kinley learned and mimicked the others.

COMPANY. We’ve had lots of visitors this summer. Mostly family. I love that our family likes to be together and that we enjoy each others company and we are always anxious to see each other. We had my mom come baby sit so that we could go to Arizona and hike Havasupai. If Mom is here then the 12 children start showing up 🙂 Tracie and her family came from Alaska that same week and my brother Josh called to see if his family could come for a few days on August 2nd which is the day we got back from our trip. Michael decided to come on our hike so he was also at the house. With so much family here it meant Ryan and Joel and Brady and Sean who all live in the area were also over to enjoy the company!!

The Sunday dinner crew

Joel and Cali racing

settlers or rook

birthday kids

grammie time

Ben cooks on Sundays – even if we have a zillion people over!

That was before our trip. Then while we were gone Tracie and John came and spent a day with mom and our kids. Then Ryan and Tara came down Thursday night and left the kids the next night. And Josh and Mal came sometime in the wee Saturday morning hours. We played and shopped. The kids pretty much disappear except for the babies. We went to a new park and we went to the new Provo Rec Center for the first time. Mom spent most of the time with her parents and sisters but we did get her for a few of the activities.

Ray and Cedar playing a little copy cat! Super Cute. My last 2 kids are the same age as my Sister Tracie’s kids – they are weeks apart.

josh

john

Bren

wrestling (scar and cali)

Payton!

McKinley and her daddy

Uncle Brady “Jumping Over” all of our children

GIRL party

Bunk Bed Party

the Sunday Crew

cute babies

that won’t look at the same time

a little candy land

cute cousins – I think they look alike in this picture

We went to a fun  little park. The equipment was neat and the little stream had handles that stopped or released the water flow – very cool. We really liked it there. Until we got rained out anyway 🙂

the big girls

the youngest

these girlies had to “Pee Super Bad”

Kins and Ray

the big boys

run for it!

double rainbow on our drive home

My cousin got married on Wednesday so we all got together again for that. Jer and Kali got married in the Manti Temple and we went to the luncheon here in PG and then the reception that night.

Everybody left on Wednesday before or after the wedding except for Michael. We got to hang out with him one more evening and into Thursday while he waited for his ride to Canada 🙂