Twin's Birthday Party

Soooooooo.........Sunday was the twins birthday!!! Our little cabooses turned 3! I can't believe it, we're out of the baby phase, toddler phase and now working on the diaper phase. Our little family is growing up : )

Here is the cake I made for this celebration. We had a beach party and also added their cousin, Haileigh as another reason to celebrate since she turns 2 the following week.

David, Heather, and Kyrsten finishing up food and watching kids play.
Aunt Kyrsten!!!! (Mike's Wife)
Our fun little slippy slide with a pool at the end.

Koen playing with the hose, spraying the sliders on their way down.

Reed was going around and pegging people with water balloons, squirting with water guns and handing out wet hugs. David finally grabbed Reed and took him down the slide, giving him a taste of his own medicine :)

At the end of the slide, soaking up the last bits of water while Raquel is quietly reloading her water guns in the background.......

Kael issuing a little pay-back

Koen experiencing the slippy slide

Reed & Raquel soggy wrestling to see who's going in the water first.

Munch going down the slide

Yes, yes, I got soaked......Poor Koey was a little overwhelmed as well by the amount of water Uncle Bubba was able to splash out on his way down. Klayton aboard his super fast, super sweet, speed boat a.k.a. The Mean Machine, a.k.a. Too White for The Camera Exposure, a.k.a S.S. Daddy

Squealing, enjoying the ride as he skips across the top of the waves

The SS Daddy also converts into the Uncle Ocean Liner. Kael is enjoying his cruise to the pool

Fish out of water

Presents! Dadddy and Koen opening presents

The business side of Koen. After opening the first present he wastes no time and moves onto the next.

A few birthday faces (Reed is behind the camera) Uncle Bubba

Aunt Kyrsten

Aunt Heather

Aunt Raquel

Cute little Munch

Brody

Koen

.....And yes, you guessed it, I am high on Birthday Fun!

Munch and her cake

Kael helping Koen blow out his candle on his cake. What a great big brother!

The Birthday bunch

Munch being attacked by the birthday paparazzi

Crunchy face Munchy

Playing a little three-on-.......no one....

Of course if it's basketball related, Daddy has to be involved :)

Munch is very focused on making a basket

Coaching Kael on how to shoot a basket

One of many coaching lessons

He shoots!

Cleaned up food, waved goodbye to guests, and now ready for bed. What a great day to have spent with such great people, my hubby and my little guys!

Denver/July 4th Weekend

This particular weekend we were keeping pretty busy that we didn't carry the camera around with us most of the time. We woke up early and took the twins to see the Provo Balloons launch. Afterwards, we went home, hopped in the car and drove to Denver in time to go out to dinner with Barry's parents and see some fireworks.........whew! The next morning we went to see Ben (Barry's brother) bless their new baby girl. Afterwards we went to their house and FINALLY took a few pics.

Koen (brown hoodie) wasn't feeling to well and ended up having a fever most of Sunday and puked on Uncle Ben's couch!!........sorry :(....... We still managed to enjoy family and eat lots of food!

Grandpa playing with grand kids and taking a beating from Makai.

Koen playing with Grandpa Michaelson.

I was able to snap some tender moments between Kael and Grandpa Michaelson while they were playing together.

I LOVE this pic!

I had to snap a shot of Makai kicking a ball around in the yard. He was sticking his hands out and pointing his toes every time he kicked the ball....lol.....so funny....and cute!

....and point, and kick....a very graceful kicker :)

Barry, Grandpa and Kael playing with "fireworks."

Apparently someone (who shall remain nameless (not me)) bought "fireworks" and when it came time to light them we discovered that they were the party poppers that confetti comes out of when you pull the string..........so the kids had fun "setting them off"

Kael and Dad

Kael and Dad popping more. Koen refrained from the popping festivities since he wasn't feeling too swell. Poor little guy.

Well, we made it home just to unpack, work 2 days, repack and leave for Bear Lake for the next weekend. That particular trip, because of the quick turn around, the camera was forgotten :( So no pics were taken at the lake. I'll see about getting pics from the other camera that was there so I can at least post something!