WAHOOZ

Mike and Al were given four unlimited tickets to Wahooz from some neighbors. Yesterday Al and I got to take the kids...it was great fun. I think we hit the bumper boats at least 7 times, the race cars about 4, golfing twice and some games with tokens thrown in there also. It was lots of fun the kids were awesome.

Bumper boats

The first couple of times we went on the bumper boats Cailah rode with Al or I, after spinning around so much with her driving we were very excited when she wanted to try it out on her own. She did an awesome job and it was great fun. One time they didn't have enough room for all of us so we just let the kids go and it was great fun watching them attack each other. They were not shy and were not afraid to attack others out there...it was hilarious. We all were drenched. We alternated bumper boats and others things to keep us cooled down. It worked quite well. After riding it a few times one of the attendants asked Abby and Cailah if they knew the rules. They were able to tell them and got 25 tickets for being able to tell them. They were very excited.

Miniature Golfing

Mike, Al and the kids all golfed once while I was still at work but I got to go again with them later. Braydon was on fire. It's a good thing we decided not to keep score at the beginning because I'm pretty sure he kicked my hinny. He as on fire, birdie, par, birdie, par, hole in one...he walks up to one and says I'll probably get a bogey on this one...one happens...hole in one.

Look at that face. :O) Yeah I ran away
We mixed it up on different greens to add to the fun

Pool

Bowled on another

Backward shot on another
Braydon was being funny and trying to make it so I couldn't get his picture of him doing the backward shot...didn't work I got three of him :O)

Go Karts

We had lots of fun on the gokarts. I think everyone road with everyone. Braydon and Abby also did the kiddo ones by themselves. Braydon only wanted to do it once because the adult ones moved faster so he preferred to ride those with Al or I. Abby loved the other ones and rode them about 4 times. For all the Bell family...there were two tunnels in our race and yes...we yelled. :O)

Things I've Learned While Living With Delayna

Look at what Delayna taught me. :O) I know shocking. Isn't she stinking cute though.

Greenbelt bike trail with mom

Before floating the Boise we got up in the morning and went for a bike ride on the Greenbelt here in Nampa. It was lots of fun even though I couldn't get my teenager to come with us....shocking I know, teenagers aren't usually like that. :O)

We saw lots of "Gucks" and the weather was great. I wish we had made it down to the greenbelt in Boise but since dad is retiring mom and dad can come and visit and we'll do it another day.

By the end of the trip I was riding the bike with the baby and Cailah on the tag-a-long. I'm riding along wondering why on earth I am so tired and it is so hard to ride thinking it's not like were riding up to many hills. Come to find out the bike tire on the tag-a-long had gone flat and made it much harder. Luckily we were almost home so Cailah road on Abby's peg the rest of the way.

Floating the Boise

We got to float the Boise last Saturday when mom was here. It was lots of fun. No injuries noted....one close call, one water snake, a raft with a slow leak (yeah Alyssa and I had fun with that :O), and one child that was sad after wards because she "didn't get to go in the water" (ok Cailah fell off her tube three times, laughed each time and I believe spent more time in the water than anyone else, but they didn't have time to jump back in the water while Mike and went to get the car and so hence the...I didn't get to get in the water comment and sad face, oh to have the perception, or reality as it may be of a child).

This trip Braydon just did a Nick, laid back on a tube attached to a raft and floated where ever the river took him. Alyssa and I laughed as the raft started to lose so much air we were pretty much floating with the life jacket. After enough fun with that Alyssa got a tube and one of the kids jumped in we me..and went I say jump I literally mean large leap...yes that would be Braydon he dive bombed my already sinking raft it was pretty funny. Then it just wan't hold up the two of us very well...we could not bail quick enough so I rode it for a while by myself...I tried folding it in half and using it like a chair but that work until I hit a rock so I dive bomged mom's raft and we had an interesting end to the float. So much fun. I want to do it again.

Next time we float I'm going to purchase a waterproof camera and get some action shots of falls and trees. For now though we just got a shot before the headed off. Thanks for Mike get the cars to and fro were much easier. Not so much fun for him but nice for the floaters.

Delayna is still too young to go but she practiced up in the garage.

8/1/09

24th of July Celebration

This year our ward had a very fun 4th of July Celebration. Mike, Al, the kids, & I all rode our bikes down to the church. The primary sang songs, then they had a parade. The kids dressed their bikes up in pioneer style and road through the parking lot and back. It was very cute.

I had to take a picture of the Burke kids (Alyssa babysits them and Sis Burke is her Beehive Pres) and their bikes because they were soooo cute.

The bishopric pulled the hand cart. They must have spent an hour during the party pulling kids back and forward down the parking lot...and it was HOT outside. They were very fun.

Then the young men and young women had a tug o' war, well the young women plus the bishop. The boys decided to all let go at the same time and down the girls went. They all laughed and tried to do it to the boys but of course they were ready and it didn't work. In the end though the girls one. I'm not going to go into specifics like ratio because that just isn't the point. :O)