This Week

Wow what a week!
Monday- Labor day.  we worked on the playhouse Yeah. The kids wanted the slide inside and Dave is making it happen. We are excited for the playhouse. The kids painted the tramp stairs, thing outside and picnic table a bueatiful blue. It was fun to work hard together as a family. Naomi loved to paint and was proud of herself
Tues- Brianna had a volleyball game and rocked it, she is setting for her team. I think she got all of her serves of, set great and played her hardest. I love that she always gives it 100% seriously I don't care as much how good she does (even though she is so good); I care more that she gives it 100%.   I am proud of her happy attitude. she worked sooooo hard this summer and has really gotten better settings, hitting, serving and passing.  She could have played on the A team but the B team needed a setter, so she said she would set. It was not an easy decision for her, since she is so competitive I am sooooo proud of her for praying and being a team player. She is amazing and sees the big picture. Wow what an example. Go Bri

Naomi's teacher called me and said she is doing great. I love it. Kyle has a real gift to be friends with anyone. This week

Summer 2015

Kam loved camping

*Father & son-  liked doing the horses and finding bones. We got to go in the cows pen in the wagon, he catches wild cows I also got to feed a calf and. It sucked on my finger (Kam)  Loved hiking; and plaing (ky)

*Rigby lake swimmings (Ky); inviting people over and doing the fire (bri); Doing the Kayack (Kam); finding seashells(na) Fun to have friends over to(Dave) Millions of memories (mom)

*Granite It was fun to go swimming, be with family and have scones, crossing the cold creek, and eating a gross bug for $40. (Brianna); Playing with ethan and the hammocks, lake swimming (ky); swimming with no life jacket in 8 ft water for the first time (kam); Swimming no life jacket (Naomi)

*Ririe- I loved playing with Mckinnley and those guys (ky); I liked watching dad tube (mom) I liked boating and fishing (na, Ky, kam)  Tubing and fishing (Bri)

 

*Palisades cabin

I liked going to the family reunion this summer and hanging out with avery and getting to know her better (Cabin @ palisades)Bri

*Playing with Jonah, and seeing Marks family (Ky)

*Fun to see my brothers (Dave)

*Coloring with Parker (Naomi)

*Shaving cream fight

 

Dales Cabin*

Hot  tub & cousin (ky) hot tub and late nights (Bri) Spending time with my cousins playing games (kam) hot tub & grandmas bucket (na)

 

West Piney

Going down slide & playing with my friends (Ky) loved the slide (Na) the slide (Kam)

 

Lagoon (12 times Brianna and Kyle  10 times mom and kam)

Loved Canbial and spending time with my family,  wicked, wild mouse spider, going with my friends train, sky ride, rocket, hydrolouge I liked everything there (KY); I liked when it started raining really hard and got to go on the log ride tons and tons (Dad) my favorite was spending time with my family and the log ride, I liked the train( Kam) Naomi conquered the haunted house and was so proud of herself.  I liked going with my friends (Bri) It was fun to cook on the grill (dad) egg drop & lady bug (Na) Draculas castle with grandma (Bri). When they almost had to use a tractor to get grandma out of a car ride with na. (Kam) I love our smart water pounchos, going in april when it was freezing, and going on water rides. Running from ride to ride and laughing (cackling); watching so much joy in my kids face Naomi snuggling on grandma at lagoona beach. And hiding under the rain poncho.

 

*Brianna dressed up like a cow and won chick-fill-ya

*Library

*boise- for nates mission

*Kris and Josh got married

Dad- This summer was fabulously fun and fast

Brianna- This summer was super crazy, fun, and blistic (crazy and awesome)

Kam- Boating was fun; catching a fish was fun, getting wiped with crazy tube rides was fun; waterpark with grandma was fun. Watching pacific rim.

Naomi-  I love when I went camping with my family; lagoona beach; I love Brielle I love brianna

Kyle- Watching Jurasic world ,and texas rhode house the summer was awesome, fun crazy and the funnest summer ever

Mom- This was a magical summer. I feel so blessed to have made the memories we made. Words can’t even describe how incredible it feels to be a mom of such great kids. When summer began this year we decided that we wanted to get season passes for lagoon. Wow how fun. We ended up going down there 9-12 times. Everytime was so fun. I am like a little kid when it comes to lagoon.Dave would take the two little ones and I would go with the older ones. The boys love all of the rides which is so fun for me  and Brianna conquered her fears at the first of the summer she could only ride bombora but by the end of the summer she rode everything with the exception of rocket. I loved Naomi with her map and she ran all over the park from ride to ride. Especially lady bug bop. I loved going with the millers and having sweaty armpit high fives.  I loved watching Dave with the kids he loves being with his kids. (he was even willing to ride cannibal and was sick all day) I loved going with my kids’s friends they have amazing friends and it was a blast to be with each of them. I loved going with mom yesterday and watching how excited Naomi was to be with her. Talking , missing the turn off for Pocatello, and eating 10 lbs of sugar. I loved our Lagoon routine drive down ; rides for 2-3 hrs. ; lunch; lagoona beach for a couple hours; rides for another 3 hours lots of ice water, grab dinner and head home. I feel more in love with each of my kids as I spent time doing lagoon activities with them. The weather was always perfect and I felt we were truly blessed. Camping was another amazing event, we could pack in less than 30 minutes and would be out the door for an adventure. Our kids were awesome workers.

 

Another Great week

Boy I love my kids. This week was another one full of fun. On Monday I got a call from Dave the red Toyota finally died. So I went down to Burley to help him tow it to the junk yard. It has been a good car we got it for cheap because Dave runs the wheels off of his car. He put at least 80,000 miles on it since we bought it. So it has been a pretty good little car. Brianna said she was glad it died before she got her license but seriously it has been great. Towing it was another story though. Wow it was so scarey. We had a 20 ft tow rope, and had to go 17 miles down the highway. My hazard lights went out so I was terrified the whole time. Dave called me and kept encouraging me. We made it to the junk yard and headed home. So good by little red car. Sure glad we put a new tire on it Saturday. I was proud of our kids, when the car died they had no problem holding down the fort at home while I left for 5 hours. They are so good at pitching in.

Wednesday we camped at Rigby lake with the Maxfields. It was another great day. Melissa, Brianna and her friend and I rode scooters around the lake. I totally felt so young and it was a blast. Brianna has some awesome friends just like her.  Everyone kyacked, watched a movie and just had a great time.

On Thursday I had the opportunity to go to the temple with Brianna and her friends. It was so great. She has such good friends. They spent the day hanging out, eating pancakes and then we went to the temple. After the temple we went to dollar store and had secret sisters. Way fun

On Friday last week we spent the night at grandma and grandpa's since dave was at scout camp. after a couple of fun episodes of America got talent and a good night rest. Naomi, Brianna and I went shopping for school clothes with grandma. I asked Naomi if she wanted to come if Grandma wasn't coming and she said Brianna I need your wisdom  what should I say. So cute she loves grandma. They found some serious cute outfits. Naomi loves leporad print pants and scored on an outfit. Brianna found bright happy yellow pants. and a cute polka dot shirt.

This Friday we went boating with Grandma and Grandpa, we had hot dogs and another great time. I recently lost 40 lbs. and was able to slalom again. So fun. The kids all took a wild tube ride. They love to have grandpa pull him. He has been boating for a lot of years and is really good at keeping the rope tight and giving them a good whip. Kyle tried to ski, I think he will pop up pretty quick next time he tries. He is so daring and fun to watch. Kameron caught a fish on the dock, Hammers shared a dock and where fishing and he caught the first fish. He was so excited we packed it up in a pringles can and brought it home. He was going to save it to fertilize the garden but I think trixter our cat got it. Brielle loves her grandpa and was so happy to be with him on a boat all day.

Dave got a new mower this week and it is a nice one. All of the kids love it, it mows the lawn in half the time. Kyle told us not to use the blue mower because it was making a weird sound, he is so good at fixing things and realizing when things don't work right (our little engineer) anyways, he looked and told Dave the belt was off of it. Sure enough it wasn't on there correctly. It blows my mind how smart he is to be able to figure things out.

Kameron is my math whiz and so today I taught him yatzee, he is constantly thinking up math problems and solving them. For example today my mom said she is saleing her car. The kids asked how many miles are on her car. I said I don't know. The first question Kam asked is how many miles does it take to get to town? I am sure in his deep thinking he wanted to figure out if she goes to town this many times it has this many miles on it. He is constantly trying to figure things out.

Brielle is cracking me up lately. We were playing the game signs with the kids the other day, and we heard the tub running. I went to check on her and she was in the bathtub, Diaper on drain down and water running. She was taking a bath. She also vacuums all of the time with the popper vacuum and gets in the sink to try to do her own hair. If she is hungry and I don't get to her fast enough she gets in the pantry and tries to take care of it. She laughs a lot and still love the song Jesus wants me for a sunbeam.

this Week I am thankful for my families health. For bueatiful days everytime we hang out as a family. I am thankful for the Sabath, we have started turning off t.v and it has really made it a special family day. I am thankful for a husband that does his calling and loves us. I love watching him play dodge ball with the kids, or try to fix things for us. I am thankful for my parents who are involved in our lives and love us. I am thankful for the neighborhood we live in the people here are so great. I am thankful for the friendship I have with each of my kids. They teach me so much. Each of my  kids are unique and teach me. I am grateful for the blessing of tithing.

Summer 2015

Wow summer at the Brown's is a magical time to say the least, and this summer has been nothing short of that.  School got out late june 5th and is scheduled to start Aug. 26th. So we only had about 11 weeks, but we have been cramming it all in. We always plan our summer out in about March so we don't get to the end of the summer and say oh man I wish we would have!

We started off the summer in April. Our big thing this year was lagoon season passes. So for $100 a piece we bought passes. We go once a year anyways but decided that we would forgo the playmill, swimlessons and any extras so we could get lagoon passes. It has been a blast. Kyle and Kameron love to ride everything wicked, colasses, spider, roller coaster etc. So the Boys and I just run from ride to ride. Brianna was a little more cautious at the first of the season (She is scared of heights) but by about trip 3 she has conquered those fears and rides everything with us to. It is such a blast. Naomi is all smiles as she ride bombora and the dragon. She loves it to. Brielle is a kind baby, and is patient in all of our summer adventures. We try to take her on a train ride at the end of the evening. On top of the excitement of the rides we all love lagoona beach. Who doesn't love water slides and a lazy river. Again Kyle rides the speeds slides and everything. Kameron can go down the innertube ride about a million times. Brianna has enjoyed it all including watching her friends flirt with the lifeguard. She has her own crush. Brielle and Naomi love to ride around the lazy river Brielle rides on my feet. Naomi also loves the slide for kids. It is so much fun and so magical. We have spent 4 days of magic there already this summer and plan on at least 4 more. Our neighbors and friends the millers have bought season passes there to so we have enjoyed it with them there to.

**Next was a camp trip with Maxfields by rire lake. They taught us a new game with balls, have a camp fire, boated (Dave tubed) and just had a great time.

**We got to spend a couple of days with Farrah and mom at dales cabin. Where we hot tubbed and had a blast making memories with cousins.

**We've had a few rigby lake trips. With our new kyacks.

**This year was a Brown reunion at a cabin in Island park. Mark and his family came out and it was a great time. There was tons of food, a shaving cream fight, slip n slide, kyacking, talking, getting to know you games never have I ever, two truths and a lie,  games,  laughing, and back to our house for a sunday  homemade fries and burgers. It was great to be with them all again and fun to watch parker and Naomi and Brianna and avery and parker. What a great experience with everybody.  Jason's friends was very generous to let us use the cabin.

**We camped at Rigby lake and invited about 4 families to come with us for smores in the evening. It was so much fun that Dave reserved it for 5 more times this summer. Our ward has so many people moving in that we can't keep up, so we will invite the families and start getting to know them!!