Labor Day and the Beginning of School

The Rowleys came down for some Labor Day fun...well really Nick came to help Rob start framing our basement but that doesn't make for exciting pictures.  Chase and Jordan played dress-ups and loved every moment of it. (The dads were in the basement working away.)  Tiffany told Chance that he looked very nice, calling him Snow White.  He replied, "Mom, I not Snow White, I am a Princess!!"  

They even explored the yard in their dresses!

A storm interrupted the slip-and-sliding time and so everyone decided that they should get in my tub with their swim suits on!  

A picture of the progress on the basement!  I am so excited!!

There was an annoying wall in the middle of the girls bathroom with a door and so we decided to take the wall out and use the door in the basement.  I love how it opens up the girls' bathroom.

I can't believe that my little baby is already 4 years old!  I decided to do a joy school with some women in our Stake.  Taylor was a little disappointed to not be going to a "school," but quickly forgot that after the 1st day! 

Had to include this one!  

Oh and I should mention.  Rob started his MBA at the University of Louisville.  I should have gotten a picture of his first day!  

August

We left Utah and headed for Wyoming for another week and a half.  Uncle Bill, Aunt Paige, and Cousin Aspen were already at Grandpa and Grandma Smathers' house.  Taylor and Jordan were soooo excited to see her.  They wanted to do everything together...even bath time.

Paige and I went to get our hair cut and while we were gone we got text messages with some of these pictures. Grandma Smathers decided painting would be fun!!

I think Grandma got the brunt of it!!

 Sunday night, the Rowleys arrived and it was a packed house and the kids were in 7th heaven.  I love this picture.  It reminds me of playing with my cousins when I was younger!

Monday afternoon, we headed up the mountain for the Comin Family Reunion.  This is my Mom's side of the family.  My Grandparents, their children (including my mom), and all of my cousins and their families.  There were almost 100 of us total.

The highlight of the reunion, besides just being together, for most of the younger kids is the zip-line.  Taylor was brave this year and went with her cousin Brynli.

I am still a child at heart and had to convince her to take a turn with me so that I could feel better about taking a ride!!

Chilling at the zip-line with Gramps.

Tay and Brynie

Here is my Uncle and m 86 year old Grandpa taking a ride on the zip-line!!  I love this!  I will always remember my Grandpa repelling with us, playing softball, and every other crazy thing that we did!!  I hope I am just like him!

Uncle Ben kept the kids entertained!

Here are our 3 almost twin cousins!  From left to right, Matthew, Pierce, and Sawyer.  Matthew and Pierce were actually born on the same day and Sawyer came almost exactly 1 month later.

Moms and babies!

The family just keeps growing!!  Here are almost all of us...we were just missing Uncle Tyler who was serving on his mission.

 After a fun packed 3 weeks...this is how we all felt as we got back in the car for a 2 day drive....2 LONG days!!  But we enjoyed our trip and will cherish the memories made!

July

We started July off with a bang!  Rob found a nice little state park in Indiana for camping on the 4th of July.  We invited the Rowleys (my sister and her family) down to camp with us.  We took a few pictures while we waited for them to get to camp.

Rob worked really hard at getting a fire going...but the wood wasn't really cooperating.  It was a sign of things to come... The Rowleys got to camp and we enjoyed a nice evening around the fire and then wrestled kids ALL night long.  Unfortunately, we woke up to pounding rain!  It was a fourth of July to remember...camping with breakfast at McDonalds!!

The main event of July was our trip to Utah.  It took us a couple of days to drive out but then we had a week and a half in Utah.  We spent time at Grandpa and Grandma Jorgensen's house and spent a couple of days camping at Flaming Gorge reservoir.  Here are some pictures from our camping trip.

Taylor loves watching people wake board and ski off the back of the boat!

We took a Dam Tour and the girls had fun posing for the camera.

Can you tell how much Jordan enjoyed the tour?

Love that he has his hands in the pockets of the front pack!

Loves driving!

We have a picture of each kid taking a snooze under the dashboard of the boat!  We had to continue the tradition.

July came and went in a whirlwind...one that dropped us off in Wyoming at the beginning of August...

June

We had a packed summer and I'm finally getting around to writing a little about it.  I decided that it would take me forever to do everything justice and so I decided that I would sum up each month in a post.  We started June with a trip to the cemetery in Lexington.  Come to find out, both Rob and I have relatives that are buried there and we had a fun day searching the cemetery for our relatives.  The girls had fun eating lunch in the car and running around looking for headstones.

The highlight of June was a visit from Grandpa and Grandma Jorgensen and Uncle Brad.  While Grandpa was here, he got some great shots of the kids.  Here's my favorite one of the girls.

We stopped at a park in Lexington to eat some lunch with everyone and Taylor found a swing for her Daddy!!  I about died laughing.

Grandpa and Grandma took us out for a good dinner in downtown Louisville.  It's a restaurant under the freeway called the Troll Pub.  We had to have everyone try the local must-eat...the Hot Brown.  

We enjoyed a lot of time just laying around enjoying the nice weather.  T

Jordan enjoyed herself so much that she tuckered right out...this is almost unheard of for this little girl.

We took a little road trip to Mammoth Caves National Park.  We had to take a bus from the visitors center to the part of the cave that we were touring.  Taylor and Jordan loved riding the school bus!

Jordan wasn't feeling too hot...and insisted on Rob carrying her through the whole cave tour with her favorite blanky.  Good thing is was a shorter tour...only about a mile holding 28 lbs!

Taylor was a trooper and walked a lot of the way, but Uncle Brad was there to carry her when she needed it.

Here are a couple more pictures of the kids that Karl got.  I love this one of Taylor and Matthew.

I love when this little girl smiles.

Had to include this one...she is clueless that the dress is on backwards!  I think she'll love this picture when she is 16.

Our neighborhood had a neighborhood fishing contest at one of our neighbor's ponds.  Taylor caught a little blue gill and won the under 10 year old category.  She won $10.

 I love this picture.  His cousin Apsen loved to put her binky in like this.  He actually puts it in like this all the time.