Max is 11

For Max's birthday he wanted to do iworlds for his party. Uncle Lincoln also loves space camp so he got to be our designated adult to watch all the kids for two hours. It's not a hard job because they're pretty busy trying to survive and save the world, or something like that.

Then we came back to the house to do cake and presents. Max was pretending to be 2 since I put two candles in the cake but it's actually an "11".

Then the next night we got to do fireworks. I'm not sure how to take pictures in the dark with my new camera, maybe it doesn't have that function. I read the instructions but it still takes me a while to figure things out. Max loves fireworks.
Then on Sunday (his actual birthday) we had a family party at Grandma's.
He always needs some legos to keep him busy. He's a little too fast at putting them together. He's going to take the cash and gift card from his other grandmas to buy the lego monorail train next. That should keep him pretty busy. Jon put shelves in his room just for legos that are helping them to stay together longer.

Trip to Denver

This weekend Jon had a conference in Denver 4 miles from my sister's house. I texted Lyssa to see if we could come visit and she said, "YES!" She loves visitors and is a great host.

On the first day we hung out at Tattered Cover. Love that place.

Lyssa told Max and Seth there was a statue somewhere in the store that they had to find. It is so realistic, that it creeps the kids out a tiny bit.

On Friday night Max and Seth got to join Peter and Thomas at gymnastics. They are doing dive rolls over each other. Seth asked if we could stay until Tuesday so he could go again.

Going to Pei Wei after all that gymnastics.

Elitch Gardens (Thanks Teri, for the passes!) It was the busiest day we have ever seen. The parking lot was so full, they were making people park at the Pepsi Center. And it was the hottest day of the summer so far. But the kids still had a great time.

Thomas does not love the Ferris Wheel. He doesn't love heights. But he loves being with his cousins so he did it.

Seth wasn't too sure about the swings. He ended up loving them after trying them.

Max had no hesitations about this ride!

The kids call this the Sandlot ride because of the movie Sandlot. It is the throw up scene. Happily, no one threw up in our group. Everyone rode this ride four times because it didn't have a long line.

And here is everyone in the wave pool. Hopefully this picture was taken before someone pooped in the pool and it was closed for the rest of the day.

Good times.

4th of July

For the 4th of July weekend we went to Idaho for my nephew's baptism. Yay, Mack! It was a great meeting and always so fun to all be together.

Saturday night we did a few fireworks in Idaho at Grandma's. The boys got way into it, of course.

Then we drove home on the 4th since Jon needed to be back for work on Tuesday. We did some more fireworks at the other Grandma's. We did have one firework fall over and shoot at us which was quite exciting (since nobody got hurt.)

Duck Tape

This blog is brought to you by Maddie! :) This weekend I was kind of bored, so we bought some duck tape at Target and started creating.I made this lovely beach bag. Ya, that's right, I made it. I got it off the Family Fun website. It looked fun (Guess that's why it's called family fun) and easy, so I tried it. It turned out GREAT! My YW leader couldn't stop obsessing about it. It was pretty awesome.

Seth saw a neighborhood boy once wearing these duck tape shoes. He was very impressed and asked him how he made them. He said that he just put duck tape around some old socks. Of course Seth went into the mud room and grabbed a pair of MY socks. He had already worn them a lot (despite they were pink) and they were stained black on the bottom. I agreed he could use them and this is how they turned out. I have to admit, they were pretty cool. B) We've also made some wallets, but we couldn't fine them at the moment. Just try to picture the coolest wallet you've ever seen and multiply it by 100. That is basically how they looked.

Max took all my pictures. (I'd like to give him credit for that) They turned out pretty good. Thanks for reading!!! Ta Ta For Now! (as tigger would say:)

Pool Time

I got a new camera yesterday. I just couldn't live without my camera and my birthday is just two months away, so Happy Birthday to me. I wanted to try it out so I took it to the pool. I think I like it! It's a Canon powerShoot that fits in my front pocket.

Tanner's Long Board

This is the reason Tanner liked his manufacturing class so much. They got to make long boards. He had to buy his own wheels once it was done which was pretty spendy but it's nice to see enthusiasm for a class.

I wanted to take another picture of the finished product but my camera got soaked in Sobe and doesn't work any longer. I guess I do have some 4th of July pictures on Jon's phone if I can figure out how to transfer them. Hmmmm.

Girls Camp and Day Camp

Last week I went to Girl's Camp with 30 Young Women. It was super fun because we stayed in a huge cabin with bathrooms that had showers and flushing toilets, that's my kind of camping. The first night we got there we had a fancy dinner then had each of the girls walk the red carpet while we spotlighted them then crowned them. It hopefully made each girl feel valued.

I didn't want to carry my camera around everywhere, so I didn't take a lot of pictures. One day we went horse back riding and hiking (that was a tiring but fun day) and one day we went to the temple. This day we headed to Bear Lake, which is way bigger than I thought. We rented a pedal car for the girls who were waiting their turn on the boat. The adults got to go get the car and pedal it to the park. We were laughing the whole way, it didn't go very fast for the amount of pedaling we were doing. We felt like the Flintstones.

Beautiful Bear Lake.

Then today, I got to go to Seth's first Cub Scout Day Camp. He wanted to actually camp for the night but it was only half a day which I thought was perfect. His buddies, Michael and Tanner.
Seth was most excited to shoot bb guns. They were actually way harder than he thought and he ended up being frustrated. Max told him he would like it better next year when he was a year older.
I gave him $5 to spend at the Trading Post and he bought a pocket knife and these sunglasses.

Krumholz Cousin Adventures

My kids are very lucky. They have cousins their ages on both sides of the family and are very close to all of them. They have so much fun together.

I don't have very many pics of Tanner with the cousins, so here's one of them swimming together.

Gram Life Guarding

George Washington Hair doos

Doing an obstacle course at the park. Even Grandpa played.
Going to Orange Leaf for Yogurt. They have TVs in there so everyone looks comatose. You get to choose your own toppings and put them on yourself, then it's weighed at the end.
Swimming again. More cousins...Collin, Joshua, and Maren.
One day it was SUPER windy so the kids tied sheets to their ankles.
Lyssa loves Communal in Provo, so we had to go there one night.