The Kolvig's are in Town!

At the end of July Toby's sister Holly and her family were able to come out from Georgia and visit us for about a week and we had such a blast with them.  Holly's kids haven't been camping in the mountains so that was the first thing we did.  The kids got dirty right away and Cameron even fell in the stream.  Hence the underwear.

I asked the boys to make a dam so that we could put the milk in it.  Notice Cameron's undies!! What great sport!

Here is Holly and Dale setting up the tent.

Buff boys!!

Russell loves this Bumbo chair that a friend of ours is letting us borrow.  It really makes camping easier.

Here are the inventive water barriers that Holly made so Cameron's feet don't get bothered by his wet shoes.

Russell already loves his Uncle Dale.  This is Holly and Dale's first nephew.  I don't think anyone could deny that the Kolvig's LOVE Russell.  I don't think that the kids bottom touched a seat the whole time they were here.

Someone was always holding him and he loved it, as you can see.

Holly got really good at getting smiles from him.  Camping was great even though it rained on us and it got a bit cold.  We still had a great time.

Here is Audrey.  She was such a character.

Annalise had her Uncle Toby wrapped around her little finger.  She is so stinking cute!! She wants to come and live with Toby and me.  She also loves baby Russell and will hold him all day long...as long as Toby is near by.

While we were camping we brought up our 4 wheeler and my dad was so kind as to lend us his.  That was so much fun.  I don't think one adult went out without a kid.  We really had a great time.  The only thing I could complain about was maybe the rain and the flies.  I love camping and I really loved having Holly and Dale up in the mountains with us.

Several days later Toby's brother Patrick, who lives in West Jordan, came down and we spent the day with them.  At the end of the day we were in the basement playing games and when we came up we found Audrey and Kelsey (Patrick's little girl who is only a couple of weeks apart in age) COVERED in chocolate. 

Patrick found them first and started to scold his daughter.  Holly said, "HAHA it's not my kid this time"

Well she was wrong.  It was both of them.  Oh it was hilarious.

Oh so funny!

What? It's just chocolate!

With all that chocolate you have to have some milk!

Here are Toby's dad's only grandson's.  How awesome that we got to spend some time with them and get all of these pictures and memories.

Annalise and Russell watching the fireworks for Pioneer day.  Yes gasoline was added again!! Toby Toby Toby.  Cars were nervous to pass the flames that Toby had created!

Holly, Audrey and Russell

Here is the whole gang!

The cousins.

I love Cameron's face in this one.  And I love Annalise's in the one before.

Toby and the gang.  The kids really love their Uncle Toby...well maybe Audrey is not quite convinced yet.

The boys.

Oh I love this.

Annalise is such a pretty girl.

Look at that face...haha I love it.

Grandpa Doug this is for you!! "Grandpa's little allstar"

Sometimes I have to just post a ton of pictures of Russell because I just can't decide which one to use.

Love this face.

Holly, Dale and their only nephew!! Oh how they spoil him!! I love it.

Toby and Annalise 

Smoochie, Smoochie!!

THIS IS THE BEST PICTURE OF THE TRIP!!!!

Grandpa Doug, here are most of your boys!!! I wish we got some of Patrick and his family while Holly was in town.  We could have gotten most of the family in one picture.

Over all successful trip!  Thanks for coming, Kolvig's...come again soon!

Friends Visit

We had a great visit from my friend Kari and her family this summer.  Kari dated my older brother Jesse in High School and we adopted her and decided that we would keep her even though they didn't stay together.  Now she is married to a great guy, Glen, and they have 2 beautiful girls with one more on the way!  So here are a couple of pictures of her youngest Riley  (at least for the next couple of weeks) and Alaina playing.

The girls were looking at the dogs.

This what you get when you ask Alaina to smile.

Riley how does that ball taste?

Check out how the girls clothes match the chairs they are sitting in PERFECTLY!!

Then a couple of days later a mission buddy of Toby's came over with his wife and their little girl.  

I was cracking up when we found her IN the cupboard!!

Oh Rachel you are just so funny.

Fireworks

The day after the 4th we went and got a whole bunch of fireworks.  It is very hard to take pictures of fireworks so I didn't even try.  But we did get some day time one that were really cool.

They went up really high then it would pop at the top and an army man attached to a parachute would come down nice and slow.  So Raelin and Ryker loved chasing their army men.  It was Toby's favorite part.

Landon it so long.  Look at this boy.  Oh but he is getting cutier everyday.  

So we played with fireworks until about 11 or so.  We had a nice big show.  And when things didn't work what do you think Brice did to fix it...lighter fluid!! Yep.  We had a firework show and a fire show.  Good memories though.  I really hope the kids had a good time.  It was all for them (ahem yeah like the boys didn't enjoy blowing things up).

4th of July

For the 4th we went down to Morgan's house...It all started when Toby and I got matching shirts for the boys so we had to do something so they could wear them.  So BBQ at Morgan's house where we had left overs from Saturday.  It was so yummy.  The weird part was that for the past 2 days the weather was WONDERFUL.  It was in the 70's and I was loving it.  So we spend about 3 days outside.

Oh man Russell looks so big next to Landon.  And man his head is HUGE.

Cute little cousins

Russell kept grabbing Landon's face.  I just can't believe that this is only a 3 month difference.  It's so funny how big the differences are between them.

Sweet little boy.  He is looking more human every time I see him.  Oh I love that red baby.

Daddy and son celebrating the 4th

I LOVE this.  So them huh?

What a beautiful place we live in to have the mountains in the background.  I have always lived in beautiful places.  Thanks mom and dad I an so grateful that you have chosen such great places to raise me.

Again a pose that is so Brice.

Ok so here is my super baby WALKING.  Yeah I know he should get a metal or something for being the best baby in the world for walk at 3 months old.  He is just so amazing.  Go Russell.  Hehehe!!