Summer fun!

Just thought I would share some of the super cute pictures my friend Kelli took of the kids while we were swimming!  I take the kids several times a week in our Apt pool.  Its fun for the summer and Free!  :)  The kids have had a lot of fun!  Railynn has officially learned how to swim too...I am so proud of her! I am pretty sure Jocylain could swim with our her floaties, but she is not quite ready to give them up yet. :)  Amaia doesnt really like the water surprisingly.  She does more yelling at me because she wants to run around the pool deck, or becuase she wants to eat someones water noodle, but I don't let her! haha.  Luckily she looks happy in the pictures!  Logan is a great swimmer and has been all summer.  Thank goodness I didnt have 4 kids that couldnt swim all at the same time!

The girls and their dancing....

Just thought I would post another video of the girls!  I realize I need to put my girls in dance classes ( for a lot of reasons) ;)  And Amaia is another stage older as she is joining in on the dancing too!

Also, Zach and I were able to go to the Albuquerque Temple yessterday, and it was awesome!  We had the best babysitter ever, that took our kids outside to play, and didnt even charge us for the time we were at the temple.  :)  

We can't wait til Daddy comes home......

I love this video...just thought I would share!

Amaia's Birthday!

Baby Sway turned one today! I can't believe it has been a year since Amaia was born! I bought her the toy in the picture for...wait for it....3 dollars!  Woohoo!  I went garage sale-ing a few months ago, and found this.  Luckily I was lazy and left it in the car this whole time, so I actually had a fun new gift to give Amaia on her birthday! haha  As you can tell in the pictures, she really likes it!  ( and so do the other girls, for an added bonus!) 

This birthday is bitter sweet to me.  So happy that she is growing up and doing new things everyday, but at the same time I am so sad!  She won't be a baby very much longer!  Love you Amaia!

4th of July!

We had such a fun Fourth of July!  It could only have been any better if we had family with us.  It was especially great because Zach got to spend the day with us...which is a very rare occurance.  We went swimming, lounged around, ate great food, and spent time with friends.  Great day.

Logan has not been into toys for a while now, but he recently found out that beyblades are fun to play with!  This is Zach and Logan having a beyblade battle in the stadium.

                                                      The fam watching a movie...

                                             Amaia ate this entire piece of pizza for dinner!

                                               Zach reading to the kids before the fireworks.

                    I LOVE this picture.  The girls were obviously really excited about the fireworks!

                                                      Amaia pointing at the fireworks. :)

I hope you all had a great fourth od July!

Maia walking...

Here is the video of Amaia walking as promised!  I can't believe she is growing up so fast.  She will be a year old next week!  

A Day at the Zoo!

I took the kids to the zoo this week because I coupons to get all of us in FREE!  How cool is that!?  So we woke up early and headed out.  It was kind of weird not being able to walk in and know exactly where every animal was like I could at the Phoenix Zoo.  I didnt like that I kept getting turned around, or how I couldnt figure out how to get out of the seal exhibit...The  Luckily it was really fun to make up for all of that! :) 

Can you tell that Logan wasnt very excited to be here?  I am trying to make this summer fun for my kids, and I think this may have been a bust for Logan. When we were driving there, I got a little turned around and couldnt find the parking lot.  He turned to me and said, "If you cant find the zoo, it will be ok if we just have to go home."  Nice. When did he grow up so much that the zoo wasn't fun anymore? 

 Amaia has started pointing at things and jabbering..that is what she is doing here.. :)

 This was the sea lion, seal exhibit.  It had a spot underground that you could look in under the water and see them swimming. It was really cool!

 Logan looking bored,  again.  At least he was really helpful with the stroller!

 This tiger paced back and forth when it wasnt looking in the window.  There was another one that was scratching its nails on a tree.  It was fun to see them in motion!

 Not a great picture, but the kangaroos were really fun to see.  I even got a video of one jumping around!

All in all it was a really fun day!  We only lasted a few hours, so I guess it was good it was free!  That way I didnt feel bad that we didnt spend the entire day there!