Ziplining

Ziplining was on our ABC list and lucky for us Heise has a great zipline coarse.  They don't have an age restriction and you only have to weigh more than 50 lbs to go, so that meant that all 7 of us could go together.  And what a great day it was to zipline.  A little breezy (that's nothing new) but the temperature was perfect.  They have 8 ziplines and you do 2 of them twice so you get a total of 10 zips.  It took us about 2 1/2 hours and all the kids loved it.  They started out riding hanging on and sitting straight up but by the end they were all upside down.  Very fun day, I would recommend the Heise Zipline to anyone!!

Tyson and Carson racing each other!!!

Ashlynn riding cannon ball to go faster!

Analee upside down!

Carson upside down!

Tyson flying upside down!!

Braeden hanging upside down!

4th of July

We are all about traditions on the 4th of July.  We always go to the parade, Wendy's for lunch, do whatever in the afternoon, BBQ with family for dinner, watch the fireworks from Broadway Wendy's at night then come home and light our own fireworks.  This year was no different and it is always a great time.  We are so thankful for this country that we live in and for all the men and women who fight to protect our freedoms and all that we enjoy here in the good ol' USA.

We went to Rexburg for the parade this year.

They got to be in the parade to hand out coupons with the Wendy's float and they loved it!

Ready to watch the fireworks.  The firework show started over an hour late this year because a guy decided to jump into the river to swim to a little island about 1/2 hour before the show was to start.  Anyway sadly he didn't make it and the search and rescue team were looking for him so hence the delay in the fireworks.

Lighting our own fireworks.  Our kids love to light the fireworks, I don't think they care at all
about watching they just like to light them!

And last but not least, the sparklers.  I am learning and think I will be able to take
some cooler pictures next year with the sparklers.

Cress Creak and Big Springs

We can not get enough of the outdoors.  It is interesting how summer works, we get up earlier and stay up later and we are busy all day long.  Spending most of the day outside.  We drove to Island Park today to float Big Springs with the Evans family.  The weather was beautiful.  The boys pulled us down most of the river and I enjoyed laying on the raft soaking up the sun!!

Evans family in front of us

Carson taking his turn pulling our raft!

Tyson, what can I say? I asked him to smile normal,
and this is what I get.

Just hanging out

We saw 5 moose along the way.  Two mothers and babies and one by himself.

Last week while all the Pincock cousins were here we went to Ross Park, Rigby Lake and Hiked Cress Creek.    We hiked to the creek, played for a while then hiked the loop back to the creek.  We played some more then a couple boys said, "time us, we are going to run the loop again.  So we did and they were fast.  So then the race was on.  I ran it twice and it was not easy.  Too fun!  We are getting lots crossed off of our ABC list!

All my boys were at Scout Encampment so it was a little quiet around here, but as you can see we kept ourselves plenty busy.

To Bone and Back

I have heard about the relay To Bone and Back for lots of years.  This was my first year running in it.  It was lots of fun.  It is a 40 mile relay.  20 miles to Bone and 20 miles back to Idaho Falls.  Each team member running 5 miles.  I took leg #2.  It is all uphill.  My goal was to run it in under 60 minutes as hills are not my favorite.  I made it in 54 minutes!  We ended up finishing in 3rd place overall in the All Women's Division! With a finish time of 6:08.  Yeah us. 

Summer

Summer. . . . My FAVORITE time of year! I love having the kids home! This is our second year creating an ABC Summer list. The kids loved it last year so we are doing it again. We tried to think of different activities for each letter but some of the favorites are the same.  There are some things you just have to do every year.  We are already making great progress on the list and still have lots to look forward to! 

Trek

Todd and I were asked to be Ma and Pa for our Stake Trek this last weekend.  Braeden and Tyson both went, it was fun to see them but they were both in different families!  We had 6 children in our family: Sarah, Maria, Morgan, Jared, Nate and Braden (not our Braeden) and Grandpa Dennis.  We were so proud of our children.  They got along great with each other and they all helped along the way.  It made it even more fun than we hoped!  The stake did a great job!  They had lots of fun activities, games, dance and food.  The kids had a great time.  The weather was awesome only getting into the low 70's during the day.  The only bad part about that was that it rained Thursday night and it was COLD.  We are so grateful we got the chance to be a part of our Trek!  I made this video for our trek family.  Enjoy! 

Little Red Bike Ride

I got 10 friends together and put in for the lottery to see if we could get in to the Little Red Bike Ride in Lewiston Utah.  And lucky for us we got in!!!  I did 50 miles last year with my sister Jen so this year we were all for the 100!  As we started training in our lovely Idaho wind and freezing weather some decided the 50 would work best for them.  We drove 3 cars to Utah the night before and had a great time together!

Dinner at Olive Garden.  Look hard to find Stacy and Christy hiding in the back!

Biking in the halls of the hotel!

So funny :-)

Shopping for a shirt for Christy since we didn't order matching shirts.  Oops

Ice Cream at Charlie's. . . . . yummy

The five of us doing 100 at the start line

Perfect weather,  perfect company, perfect ride

We met up with the three that rode 50 for lunch.  We were so happy we got to see them!

Subway for lunch

The 100 mile ride started in Lewiston went all the way South of Logan through the farm lands and back around leaving Utah and crossing into. . . . 

IDAHO!!!!  All the way into Preston and back around to Lewiston.

We made it!!  All five of us 100 miles.  So proud of us.  Total time 8 1/2 hours ride time 7 hours.

Enjoying Ice Cream once again after the ride before racing home to get all the rented bikes back to Bills!

 Come to find out Stacy and Christy forgot to ride! Ha Ha.  They decided the mall sounded a little more fun.  You two crack me up.  We were happy you came and played with us!!