Swimming in Lava

We found a day of sunshine in the middle of all the rainy days and went swimming in Lava Hot Springs with Misty, Raini, Mom and all the cousins. Everyone had a blast, but the most exciting part was the water slides. The lines were short and we didn't even have to wait for a turn. We stayed for 3-4 hours until we all decided that we were all to sunburn to stay any longer. Some of us were smarter than others. (Raini. . . not so smart!) Levi and Baylee all business as they exit the waterslides.
Maggy was kind of chicken and didn't venture off of the steps, but still had fun. The next day she woke up and asked, "can you take me swimming again."

Payge. That says it all.

What a smile. She had fun on the smaller water slides maybe next year she will be tall enough to take a ride on the new "scarey" water slides.

Swimming, Slides, & Sunscreen?

Even the grown-ups had a little fun in Lava this year with the brand new slides that they built over the highway. I was pretty shocked that we convinced Mom/Grandma to join in the fun. I think it might have been Logan's handsome smile that put her over the edge.

Mom with a shocked look on her face. It was great to hear her let a little squeal go on the way down! What a sport. Fifteen years ago she would have died before she would have gotten wet at the swimming pool and now look at her.

Baylee thought that these slides were to coolest. It really surprised me that they didn't freak her out.

Those tiny people on the the slide are Baylee (yellow) and Mom (white) it was both their first time down. They did climb the million stairs to do it again so it must not have been that bad!

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Twin Falls was the meeting spot for the annual Yost girls trip. What fun. Every year we go somewhere different, but usually do the same thing. . .Shop! That's just what we did, shopped until we dropped. Among the traditions usally includes someone getting their haircut. Needless to say, many, many bad haircuts have been the result of the Girls Trip. Misty and Kera both got their haircuts this year and neither one ended up ugly, like my girls trip haircuts usally do. I think I've finally learned. . . I'll just stick to the shopping! I think we shopped from
8 a.m.-10 p.m. that did include a few garage sales, a trip to D.I. and yes the mall. I did not know that one could shop that much in Twin Falls, Idaho, but I guess the Yost Girls can make anything a fun shopping trip.This is a picture at the end of the day. We did hit a few more stores after the mall, and of course went to Jack in the Box for a late night snack !This is the one of the best parts of the girls trip, just relaxing and catching up on some hot gossip. I took Taby this year. She was a sport about the whole thing, we hardly knew she was there.
Some times we can get a little crazy and have some good clean fun. More than once we have gotten some sideway glances, and weird looks as we all pile in a dressing room and giggle together. I'm sure people wonder. . . "What the Heck!" In case you can't read my shirt, I'd rather be sleeping.

Remembering How Blessed I Am

I was just reminded today how blessed I am.Even though there are many days that I forget. I would not know what to do without the fighting, messes, and high pitched squeals. Tonight I will thank my Hearvenly Father for all four miracles he has blessed our family with, and try tomorrow to rememer that I am blessed.

Newborn Pictures

This picture is one of my favorites. I like to think that she is remembering someone or something from her heavenly life she just left.

This is Taby's favorite position. She loves to sleep on your shoulder.

Brittany, a friend, asked if she could practice taking newborn pictures when Tabytha was born. She was so nervous that she wouldn't do a good job, but I think all the pictures turned out great. I wish I could post all of them for everyone to see. These pictures were taken when Taby was a week old. It only makes me wish that I had such beautiful pictures of the other girls when they were newborns. Thanks a bunch Brittany! Feel free to practice any time with my family!

Go Fly A Kite

We promised the girls that if tehy did their chores and kept the house clean that we would take their kites out and fly them. It just happened to be a windy day and thegirls were good so we went to the school and had some fun.

Payge, being "PokeyJoe," had to take a rest from the hard work of kite flying.


Here is Baylee with her jellyfish kite.

Maggy had to join in and use Dad's kite. she had lots of fun and insisted that dad take a turn flying the kite too.

Maggy's Birthday in June

That smile says it all and makes the money we spent well worth it.
It has been so rainy lately, but that didn't stop her from taking her new bike for a test drive. Notice that smile again!

This is Maggy trying to convince Dad that it would be alright for her to ride the bike around the house, because it was raining outside. Yes, he finally did give in who could say no to such a cute little girl with such an excited smile.

Jeremy and I have decided that having a Birthday in December is no fun!! So we decided to give Maggy an unbirthday gift. Maggy loves riding bikes and has been riding a little red trike with split front tire all spring. One afternoon we went shopping for a bike and found this one at Target I know it is not fancy but Maggy thinks it's great!