Summer fun!!

It has been a hard summer with a broken leg (twice) & 8 kids ( ages 1,2,3,4,5,7,9,11) . But we have still managed to have a lot of fun doing different non-swimming things.

All the kids piled in the wagon. They all wanted to get in it whenever Linkin would let them. He is a little protective of it.

A pre stica cast pic of the boys going down the slide. I didn't want himn to try to go down but he insisted & when he puts his pouty lip out & says "it's not fair! ",  it is hard to say no.

Bikes!

We got Troy & I bikes & a trailer for the littles to ride in. The idea seems like a lot more fun than it is in reality. Maybe when all Loo & Afty are better riders & we don't have to keep pushing them along.

The first trip we had Afton ride in the trailer. Troy decided he was to big to ride with the littles.

Linki & Ry were much happier this trip without Afty in there with them. 

The Chillies with my bike on the side.

Linki & Ryly with his get well soon balloons from the Hovey's. He loved the frog & fish, & slept with them for the first week after he got home.

Troy has been off work this week & we have been trying to do some fun stuff before school starts again. Thanksgiving Point has $2 tuesday's the whole month of August , so we decided we had to go. After being there though we decided it would be worth it to pay full price & not be so squished into the building.

Troy & Linki with some fossils.

Lathan loved telling us what kind of dinosaurs they were & whatever else he knew about them.

You can't really tell but they are sitting on one of the dinosaur feet.

Here is a better one.

Makayla was so good to help with Kyrie at the museum.

Trex's these were really cool looking.

Troy's favorite the Triceratops!

My favorite was this huge seaturtle!! Linki wasn't very happy about getting his pic taken.

Yesterday the kids' Thigpen granparent's came to visit from Lousiana. Here is a pic of everyone with them, Alexis & Willie, the old Dalmation. All the kids loved Willie & wanted to hold his leash. We had a very good visit with them & the Webb's. We were happy to be able to spend time with them.

  While Troy has been off we were able to go back to school shopping with the kids. The first night we took the boys, while Jenny & David watched the girls. We went to several stores & took them out to eat & at the end of the night they got to pick out a special treat. The girls loved spending time with their Auntie!! The next night we took the girls & left the boys & Rylynn with Grandpa & Grandma Boot.we did kinda the same kind of thing but decided to start earlier next year, because we had a hard time finding shirts we really loved for the girls.Addy loved the special time & had to get swung once in & once out of every store. Makayla even took a turn. It was so great to have some time with less of the kids & to be able to give them more attention. We will have to keep going on these fun date nights. ( but maybe not spend so much everytime) We are so blessed to have such good kids, they are all very well behaved, kind, caring & loving.

Linki is doing a lot better. He is mostly happy now & doesn't growl at the kids everytime they come near him. He has learned to do an army crawl & rolls around to get from side to side. He does thimk that if he see's anything Toystory we will just buy it for him though. He is so strong & brave & always makes me happy. Love you Linkers!!