4th of July

We had our annual 4th of July celebration with the Hayward family this year. Started off the day with the Layton parade (which was kinda lame this year, but great weather), walked around the vendors and let the kids play in bounce houses, swimming, barbecue, and fireworks that night.

Thanks Tony, Shea, Taylor & Isaac for a GREAT day!

Look at that grin!

My sweet little girl waiting for the parade to start.

I bought the head thing (has streamers behind it) for $2 and she wore it for 2 minutes. Great.

My babies

Flag fighting

They were so excited. As soon as the parade started, Grace said, in her sweet high-pitch voice, "I like it!" Ryland pointed at everything and loved all the trucks.

The clan. 80% twins. 20% not a twin.

Grace's karate chop

"Where is the candy?"

The 2 year old table at our barbecue

Illinois Vacation Part 2

A few more pictures from our Illinois Vacation.

Ryland & Grace would cuddle with their cousins, mainly Zac like this pic and Eli.

Grace and Lucy (Tracie's pup)

This is INSIDE of a church!! It had a huge playground area with a track around the outside of it. Coolest thing I've ever seen in a church.

Our Illinois Vacation: part 1

We drove out to Illinois to spend time with my family:  my brother Barry, his wife Belinda and their 3 adorable kids, Aidan, Evan, & Keaton  AND  my sister Tracie, her husband Mark and their 3 amazing boys, Ben, Eli, & Zac.    We had SO much FUN!!!  Here are some of the pictures and I'll post some more later.

We went to a Children's museum in Decatur, IL and the kids loved it.  This is a picture of Ben & Tracie on the "news".

The museum had this HUGE climbing thing in the middle about 2 stories high.  Kian & Grace made it all the way to the top, whereas Ryland was a little scared.  

This is Ryland at the bottom after his "defeat", he "hurt his arm"... note the face.

Eli playing ball with Ryland while Zac was playing baseball.  We went to 2 games during the week, Zac's and Evan's.  At Zac's game, besides playing ball, Ry & Grace spent their time playing in dirt.  They were COVERED in dirt and Grace put dirt in her diaper covers.

Here is 1 picture of the pool, I'll try to post more later.  This is the Mulshine's pool that they belong to and the kids LOVE it!  Ryland is usually afraid of pools but he did great in this one.  Kian had tons of fun wearing his goggles and swimming with the big boys.

This is Kian rolling down a big hill.  Its funny because the hill comes out of nowhere and it makes you wonder what is under the grass....  nothing like the real "hills" we have in Utah.  LOL

Eli & Aidan holding Grace

Aidan Mulshine

Having fun in the park!

Belinda tickling Grace.  Take a look at Randy's face...  he grew "that" over the week.

I'll try to post more pics later....

Oregon trip, Kian's birthday, Easter, and more.

Life has been busy on the Thomason front in the past couple weeks! The first weekend of April, we went up to Oregon to celebrate Randy's grandparents 65th wedding anniversary. Then Kian turned 5 YEARS OLD on April 8!! The following Saturday, he had a big birthday party to celebrate. The next day was Easter! Kian has had 2 soccer games this season already and had a Pinewood Derby car race at AWANA this past Friday night (might add pics of that later). It has been busy, but FUN!! Here are some pictures...

At the hotel in Oregon. Our room had 3 Queen size beds and the hotel had a heated indoor pool, so the kids had so much fun!

The Kids table

On this trip to Oregon, Ryland realized how much fun Uncle Jimmy is and didn't want to share him with Kian.

Love that big smile

Playing with 2nd cousin, Mercedes.

Grace, sleeping like a rock

My favorite boys

Our cool kids in their sunglasses

Kian's birthday and the meal of his choice. He put 5 fries in his burger and said it was his birthday cake. (Aww... but I did make a big chocolate cake as well)

The only soccer pic that I liked. Its of Kian comparing muddy knees with his soccer buddy.

Kian's birthday party was at My Gym and it was the BEST PARTY EVER! It was an hour and a half and all 15 kids had so much fun! The best part? We just had to sit back and watch while the My Gym teachers did EVERYTHING!! It was SO much fun!

The few 2 & 3 year olds just played and played, didn't get too involved in the organized activities.

They played a lot of fun games and the kids had big SMILES on their faces the whole time.

THE SPECIAL BIRTHDAY BOY!

They pulled Kian around on a sled for a minute and he waved while their was a birthday song playing. It was pretty hilarious. All the boys wanted to give him 5.

Some of the boys:

Daxon, Kian, Demry

Jordan, Joshua, Noah, Isaac

Taylor, Nathan, Malachi

The teachers even served the cake we brought!

Thanks to everyone who came to Kian's party... he had so much fun! I don't think we'll ever beat this party!

Easter morning

Ryland is going to turn into a jelly bean

Grace's smile is hilarious, while the boys look less than enthused to interrupt their candy eating with pictures.

Princess Grace

And for your viewing pleasure, here is 1 of many reasons the kids love their Uncle Jimmy:

Ok, 1 more video. Easter morning.