We love boating! My parents invited us to go the morning after visiting the rodeo and we were excited! There was a lot of wake boarding, but we also did some surfing, swimming and of course lots of fun conversation and laughing! It was a beautiful day out on Deer Creek. When we were done we headed over to Great Harvest for lunch! Thanks Dad and Mom, it was a perfect day.

Jackson's awesome at body boarding

Chloe was playing with her licorice. She's a rhino!

Wakeboard hottie

Uncle Matt and Ella

Chloe is a fish. Everytime we stopped she asked if she could jump in

Jackson loves being on the boat

I love my sis!

Mom and Dad

It's so fun to watch Parker wakeboard

Ella loved swimming

My brother Scott

Go Dave! I think this is the only picture I have of him

where he's not sticking out his tongue

Swimming with Daddy

Uncle Scott playing with Jackson

Chelsey

We got to go to the Spanish Fork Rodeo in July with my family. My kids loved it, Ella would squeal every time she'd see a new horse, and say "horse, horse" (you can imagine how often that was). When the cowboys would ride the bronco's she was worried that the horse was getting hurt! My kids kept us laughing and totally entertained! I loved watching Jackson as he sat down by the bars and intensly watched as kids his age rode sheep in " mutin'bustin' ". Chloe was full of questions and fun facial expressions. I loved being there with Parker and the kids!

Daddy's girl!

Ella looks like she's about ready to cry.

I love this picture! The clown had just told a farting joke, Jackson

oviously thought it was funny! He is all boy!

On the 4th of July Parker and I spent most of our day driving home from Lake Powell. Our kids were staying at my parents house. Megan helped them decorate their bikes and took them out into the neighborhood. Every year instead of going to the parade my parents ward does a bike parade where the kids decorate their bikes, ride around and then they have a picnic. So fun! They also brought in a huge fire hydrant and sprayed the kids!!! We got home in time for fireworks (we were so excited to see the kids!!!) and then went to see the stadium of fire fireworks. My Dad and Mom also took Jackson and Chloe to see the hot air balloons take off early one morning. They loved it.

Watching the hot air balloons take off

I remember doing this as a child

Such cute kids!

The bike parade. Jackson and Chloe still have their bikes decorated

Picnic time

"spray us, spray us..."

sopping wet

Grammy bought my kids these darling 4th of July outfits.

They loved watching fireworks.

My amazing parents! Love you both!

We have had such a fun-filled summer and been so busy! Blogging has been the last thing on my mind. At the end of June we went on a "adults only" trip with Parker's family to Lake Powell. I didn't realize how much I needed it until I was there. It was perfect to spend one on one time with Parker and to rest, relax, and rejuvinate! We had so much fun! We swam, skiied, tubed, body surfed, cliff dived, ski dooed, hiked, wake boared, did a syncranized swimming routine, played games, laughed, stayed up late, visited Rainbow Bridge, explored, laughed, ran a ski doo course (set up by the boys), ate, and laughed some more!

It was an amazing trip and we both loved every minute!

The Kemp Crew!

Brothers

Ryan and Parker

We loved going hiking!!!

Captain Larry and Co-Captain Syndee

I love skiing with Parker, we've done it since we were dating!

Hey hottie

The water was awesome. Warm and nice (ok, and a little dirty)

Annie, Jenny, Liz and Syndee

Taking a break to wash our hair!

Body surfing. The boys LOVED this. I think they spent more time knocking eachother

around doing this than they did skiing and wakeboarding. It was funny!

Rainbow Bridge

Jared, Larry, Caleb, and Parker

U-tubing

Our syncranized swim team... we got all 10's !!!

Jared, Ryan and Parker

They're like little boys

Cliff Jumping