Me and the kids decided to fly to Vegas for a few weeks since it's been almost an entire year! Our flight was delayed because they had a medical emergency and the plane had to turn around that was coming for our flight. I was at the airport with these 3 crazies for 4 hours and then we had a 3 hour flight....enough said!

 Aunt Brooke suprised us and picked us up at the airport with Grandma and Grandpa. The kids have sure missed her since we use to live so close and see her all the time

This was pretty much Ari's facial expression for the first 2 days...just taking it all in and getting comfortable

 Playing with cousin Mia in the pool

 Hailey relaxing

 Candice bought a double slip and slide and the cousins just had a blast playing on it one night

 Ari finally showing her personality

 Hailey and Scott racing

 It's 2 hours earlier here than in Missouri, but I adjusted the kids 1 hour a month before we came...Still they come crawl into Grandma's bed around 6:30 every morning (Hailey once was 5:30) to watch cartoons. It usually ends in breakfast in bed- how spoiled are they!?

 Hailey loves to help out doing everything, especially if it's in the kitchen

 Aunt Bre, Uncle Wally and Laith came and we all-along with Aunt Candice, Uncle Rick, Mia and Grandpa and Grandma went boating at Lake Mead.

Ari's first time on a boat

 Hailey as been a few years now and absolutely loves it!

 Scott's been going since he was 1 and loves it too!

 Hailey wearing Grandpa's hat

 Grandpa and Grandma swimming with 4 of the 5 grandkids

 cute little Ari

 Grandpa built the kids the cutest little playhouse out in the back and they love it out there

 All the grandkids crammed in the playhouse one night :)

 Ari likes the road to the playhouse better than the actual playhouse...she just thinks it's the coolest thing in the world to walk back and forth on the path

 Each night usually ends in all the cousins playing in the sandbox

 

The faucet stays running so they can get water for their projects. Laith LOVES water and kept going over for drinks- so cute!

 Ari absolutely is crazy about Aunt Candice. She loves her and wants her to hold her every minute. If Candice is around, she pushes me away and even grunts if I come near her...so funny!

 I think we are going to have to get her a sandbox because she loves it. She grabs a shovel and walks herself over each morning to play

 Cutie pie Laith! Ari was picking on him a bit and he would run from her if she came near him, but now he's holding his own and we've had a few slapping fights LOL

They fight over who gets to sit on Grandma's lap

 Grandma made these cute little pies for the kids and Ari had fun playing in it. She tried some of the whipped cream and gagged of course, but she had fun playing with it LOL

 Goofy Ari

 Laith takes swimming lessons in California where the babies actually SWIM! I mean he kicks his little legs and everything! So cute

 Cute little man



This guy right here is the best Daddy in the entire world! And you can tell because his kids never leave his side :)

On Fathers Day the kids of course made Kevin breakfast in bed and hand delivered their cute little hand made masterpieces

 They made him this giant sign and had sooo much fun painting it! Even Ari got her hands and feet painted to step and stamp all over...it was pretty fun!

We love you sooo much Kevin! Thanks for being such an awesome Dad and Happy Father's Day!!!

In other news, our little town just got it's own Branch! Who hoo! Kevin was called to be the 1st counselor in the Branch Presidency. Our town has needed this for quite a while now, and we just got our own set of missionaries too so it's going to be awesome to see the church growth!

Scott has been taking swim lessons and having so much fun! He's been doing the front stroke, back stroke, floats, and even diving for rings in the deep end. Usually his swim goggles are glued to him, but he hasn't used them at all this year so I'm really proud of him! His teachers keep saying how he can hold his breathe forever...I told him it's from doing contests diving for rings with his grandma.

Today at the end they let those who wanted to jump off the diving board. Here's a video of Scott

Untitled from Nicole on Vimeo.


They also always let them go down the twirly slide, but his teacher talked Scott to going down the fast slide today

Untitled from Nicole on Vimeo.

My little kitchen helpers

 Going to play at our children's discovery museum

 They had this bridge to make with all the metal pieces, bolts and nuts and of course Scott just had to put it together

 30 minutes later and almost ready...

 then we lifted it up onto the blocks and ta da!

The guy said this bridge only gets built once every 2 or 3 weeks because nobody wants to take the time to do it. I told him Scott just had to do it the minute he saw it.

 more fun things

 "tickets please!"

Hailey consentrating on her building

 Ari learned a new word right when I snapped this picture "CHEESE!"

 finally has enough hair to put in a little pony...so cute!

 Scott got 2 strikes when we went bowling last night- yeah!

 Hailey's moves- you can see how it ended up in the other lane a few times

 Spare- whoo hoo!