Cousins and More Cousins

One of the best parts of the summer is all the cousin time.  Andrew and Emily went to McCall with the Wilford's and Andrew learned to water ski!

Bernard's came for a week and the kids loved the time with them.  Grandpa and Aaron took the big kids water skiing.  Their late night arrival led to a lot of pizza and ice cream.  Well, let's be honest, every trip to Grandma's ends with ice cream.

Lily and Phoebe really hit it off this time.  They had a blast together swimming, playing with toys and doing crafts.

There were lots of sleep overs and the girls loved the time at Grandma's becuase she always makes it a party.  My girls all tackled multiple sewing projects with Grandma over the summer and did a lot of baking.  With Phoebe they made bread dough and created shapes out of it before they baked it.  

A pizza

Lily loved her cat, and 'L' and Phoebe made a toilet - they may have been singing a lot of "Parry Gripp" songs (think "There's a cat, flushing a toliet...).

Then the Castleton's came and Kate and Sophie couldn't get enough of each other.  Reed spent most of his time at grandma's house catching tadpoles and when he realized what specimen where available at our place he had to come spend the night.  We spend a lot of time fishing all of the neighborhood lakes.  Like a lot of time.  I was going for best aunt ever and fished in the heat for hours but it finally payed off and we caught a blue gill.  

Andrew worked for a man in our ward who runs a fireworks stand.  He used his employee discount to hook Mark up with a ton of fireworks.  Let's just say the 4th was memorable and no people or buildings caught fire.

The twins celebrated their birthday with all of us at Grandma's. We had a blast playing silly games and eating two delicious birthday cakes.

Castleton time also included a lot of make overs, yoga with Sharee and Holly, baking, crafts, and lots of swiming. We love summer time with cousins.