Fun with friends

A few of our neighbors and I went in on a water slide for a day.  The kids and adults had a lot of fun!

Here are some pictures of the kids.

Big thing!

This is a single one, next time we will do the double!

Dillon coming down!

Jennilyn coming down!

Irene coming down!

Ruth coming down!

Little bit of summer

Well this summer is going quickly.  Only 4 more weeks and school starts.

Here are some pictures of our summer so far!

Dan installing some lights.  Some of the rooms in our house had only lamps with light switches.  Now we have ceiling fans and lights.  makes a big difference in the 2 bedrooms like that!

We were driving home from Delta, UT and I saw this sign.  My Grandpa Dillon's name is Leo and I have a nephew named Leo.  I have always had a thing for names on signs! 

on July 11th it was Free Slurpee Day.  Here are the kids with their free treat!

We also got to go swimming at the local pool to celebrate a friends birthday.  We had a lot of fun!

Until next time!

Summer 2012 so far

Well the summer has been going by really fast!  We have gone to Seven Peaks Water Park a few times and played at the park, and we have been walking to the school for free lunch, but other then that it has been a quite summer.

On the 4th of July we just hung out at home and the kids could see the city fireworks from their bedroom window so we let them watch them and then go to bed.  It was nice no traffic to fight to get home!

We meet up with my sister Jaclyn and her family this last Saturday and had fun at the water park again.  Today is the 24th of July which is a State holiday in Utah to celebrate the day and year that the Pioneers came to Utah.  We watched a little bit of the parade online and then this afternoon I took the kids to a movie at the $1.50 theater, and they all did great!

We also got Dillon registered for 1st grade last week. We have a few fun things coming up in a few weeks before school starts.  I am starting to think it will be wired to have only two kids at home during the day once school starts.

Also I started a new job delivering newspapers.  So far it is going pretty well (but I have only been there a week) but it does have early hours.  We show up at the warehouse to pick up our papers at 2am and then deliver them by 6am.  I am usually home by 5am and go back to bed for a few more hours until the kids get up.  That will change a little bit once school starts as I will have to get two kids off to the bus in the morning as well.

So it has been a pretty boring summer, but that is all right, we are looking forward to seeing all of our cousins on the Dillon side of the family very soon !

Until next time!

Pictures from this summer 2009

I have seen many of my friends and family use this option so I thought I would give it a try, and I love it!  Enjoy!

Zoom, Zoom, Zoom

Yesturday we went to Wonderland and we went on the rode the little Merry-go-round, road go-carts, played miniture golf, had pizza and just had fun being with family from out of town. The one picture is of Jennilyn and her cousin Abby they were not happy that they were too young to go on the go-carts you had to be 3 years old to go. Some of the group even did bumper boats and leaser tag, while others of us just went around earning tickets to get a little prize for each of the little kids. I think we all had fun! The babies were great too.

Fun at the lake

Today we went to one of the lakes around Spokane, it was choosen because it has a nice sandy beach and swim area as well as the boating area. We got there and there was no parking what so ever so then Dan dropped the kids and I off and he had to drive 30 min away to the casino were his dad had to launch the boat and his Dad and brothers took the boat and went and got him and his sister who also had to go park there. We also celebrated Jennilyn's birthday today with everyone since Dan leaves out of town tomorrow and will be gone for her birthday so here are some pics from the event. The kids loved the the boat ride and such.

It has been awhile!

Well I haven't posted since I fell and broke my arm while I was in Utah visiting. My Mom came back to Washington with me and stayed until July 14th when they took off my hard cast and put me in a removable brace. It was good to have her here and I want to thank her, and a big thanks to my dad and all of my sisters for parting with her for the 6 weeks that she was with me. I still don't have 100% use of my arm, but I am getting stronger by the day. The only thing I haven't managed to do yet is give the twins baths, my mother-in-law has helped me with that as Dan has been out of town since June 30th. He comes home tomorrow and we are excited even though he will only be here for a few days and then he is gone again for another month. The Dr did say that we will be doing physical therapy in two weeks to get the full use of my arm.

The kids are all doing well, Dillon is trying to say more words, and wants to pick up his sisters all the time. Jennilyn is a chatter box and talks more then Dillon, she is my big girl and I get a laugh every time I tell her something and she says "OK" and then does it. Or she will get her shoes and say "found them". Ruth and Irene turned 6 months old this week, I can't believe it, they are crawling all over the place and try to get a hold of paper and eat it. Tonight they even attacked my dinner and wanted to eat it while I was eating, I had them in my lap at different times.

This last week Irene attacked my ice cream sandwich and was eating the ice cream and Jennilyn feed Ruth some of her PB&J sandwich that she gummed to death before I caught it.
This is Ruth and Irene today playing while their sibling took their naps.


This is 3 of the kids playing together, at one point I had all 4 playing together but I didn't get a picture of it.