New toy for Adam and cement carvings....

This is Adam's new toy! He got it last weekend and he's been tinkering around with it all week in hopes of it running well soon. I will post pictures of when that happens and I'm sure it will--Adam is very handy and I'm excited for him. He has promised me to always wear a helmet!! And Doug reminded me that I need to post a cement carving picture and yes I do. I know it's not the best picture, but if you look hard you can see an "A", (there's actually 2 A's and a bunch of lines, and some faint footprints)
My darling boys and their friends got into some freshly poured cement at the stake center (our church building) while we were playing softball and obviously keeping a very close eye on them....oops. In my defense I would not have let them near if I'd known they'd poured or if it had been marked at all, but it wasn't--

Luckily the Stake President has a sense of humor and just told us,"Which one of us when we were 5 and 6 years old wouldn't have done the same thing." And he said, "When your boys get married and have their reception here, I want you to take a picture of them by this sidewalk!" hahaha. We will do that.

Rock climbing!

We had fun this weekend rock climbing/ jumping/ enjoying being outside! It was a great place for the kids to run around and have fun. And I love watching them have fun, and climbing too.
This is Livia with her best friend Marshall. They are way to cute together! Here's a bunch of fun climbing pics.....

Liv always pulls on her hair when she's unsure about something. It's so cute.

Preston wishing he was big enough to climb.

Adam having fun too!

Goofy Aaron.

I love it when we can find good, cheap (or no cost) fun activities for the whole family!!

Fourth of July fun!

We had a fun Fourth of July weekend. We spent the night at Adam's parent's house on Sunday and let the kids do fireworks there (we let the grandparents spend money on fireworks) :) Plus a random person gave us a box of fireworks for Adam being a good Samaritan by towing him. So the kids had a good time with the fireworks.
On the actual Fourth of July night, the kids were so tired they didn't even stay up for any fireworks! hahaha I don't think they even knew what they missed.

On Monday we went to a near -by park that had some fun rocks to climb/ jump off of--and the kids had a blast. We took lots of pics trying to get "mid air" shots! Fun!

And I think this needs some serious documentation.......ALL the kids are looking at the camera!!!

And this one!!!

And Preston....Is 10 months this week!! And today---a milestone---he pulled himself up to standing! AHHH!