Yellowstone

We headed to Yellowstone for one last weekend of summer fun before school started. We went with my sister and Grandparents. Unfortunately Quinton couldn't go with us. The last time we went to Yellowstone Kale was a baby , so that was about 6-7 years ago. Both boys were very excited to go. They had heard alot about it . I tried to tell them that it would be alot of driving. We made it to about Rigby before we stared to hear " Are we there yet?". Once we got there it changed to "Can we go back to the car yet?" They ended up having alot of fun and can't wait to go again!



The whole gang.....minus me!



Me & my boys.....








Kale....




Logan....

Kale & Logan playing at the FireHole....They were wishing we had taken our swimming suits. Its such a good place to swim.

Logan...

Kale....

Old Faithful.....which we decided isn't so faithful anymore. It was 20 minutes late!

Logan at West Yellowstone....

Kale ......

Now Back to School!

Girls Camp!

Last week I left behind my boys ...all three of them...and headed to girls camp for the 4th year in a row. Our stake took us up to West Piney Lodge. When we arrived we went in to find our sleeping quarters.....just to find out that we shared a room with 3 other wards...that ended up being upwards of about 70 or so people! We ended up making the best of our situation and had a great time.


Soaking our poor feet after our hikes....

Believe it or not , our girls don't mind hanging out with their leaders....

This was the slide.....it ended up being quite dangerous if you didn't go down it just right....Our Stake President found out the hard way...it was a good thing we had a first aid station there!

We all had a great time hanging out and goofing around...

And what would camp be without a little porta-potty tipping!?!

After our trip to the Ranch we hurried home to change and headed to American Falls for a day at the beach.It was HOT HOT HOT but also ALOT of fun!

Me ,My Aunt , my sis and my Mom..

Logan...

Quinton on the wakeboard...

me...

Quinton....

Kale on the kneeboard...

Logan...

We tried to get logan to jump out of the boat....no such luck...

Me wakeboarding.....






Quinton...

Simplot Ranch

Last week we had the oportunity to go with my family to the Simplot Ranch near Afton Wyoming. We had a great time. It was nice to have so many things to do all in one place. We; rode ATVs ,bikes and horses, tried our hand at archery , went fishing (and actually caught some fish) and of course we ate.....alot! It was worth the 6 or so hours of packing and the close to 3 hour drive!

Quinton & Olivia...

Olivia helped Kale ride..

Kale was very proud of the trout he caught...

Quinton...

The kids enjoyed wading in the creek....

Kale...

Quinton and I took a bike ride and we saw several deer along the way.



There was a Bald Eagle that hung around the Ranch. Quinton did a good job at getting some pics of it :)

Kale...

We had a wonderful time.The boys are already asking when we can do it again!

Happy Birthday Kale!

Today was Kales Birthday. I can't believe he is 7 years old. Time passes by way to fast. He is getting so grown up and he makes a point to remind us of that everyday. We tried to convince him to skip his birthday this year and stay 6 .....he didn't go for that . He is such a sweet boy (most of the time) and we are so glad to have him in our family!




Kale and the scooter he wanted so badly.



Just like any kid the presents & cake were the highlight of the party!

Last week we had our annual Kraus Campapalooza. It was great fun. We crammed as much as we could into a couple of days. First we went to Rexburg to the Klim company picnic. They had all sorts of things for the kids to do . The big hit was the kids water park. the coolest thing about this water park is that it is free! its in the middle of a city park.

Then we loaded up and went to find a camping spot up Kelly Canyon area.


Quinton and Ashlyn

All of the cousins!

Ella , Logan , & Kale

Kale was absolutely filthy!


Kale & Quinton playing in the fire.

After a late night of camping we made the drive to Mesa Falls.

Quinton and Kale in front of upper mesa Falls.

Kendra & Logan

We had alot of fun and look forward to next year!

Happy 4th of July!

After Our nasty storm it cleared up enough for us
to do some fireworks. It turned out to be a fun 4th.
Logan wasn't too sure about the sparklers at first but he warmed
up to them.....then I couldn't keep him away from the fireworks!

The boys decided that the sscreamers were a little too loud!

We hope that everyone had a good 4th of July!