Summer Lovin' with the Abadians

Jonah

I love this baby! We went for a walk up by fernwood and this boy loved it! You can tell by that cute little smile on his face. He's definently an outdoorsmen.

He has gotten so BIG these last couple of months. He's a baby in a toddler's body. He smiles like crazy and so easily and I love how he growls these days it's such a crack up!
Violet
Yes we did it! We potty trained the miss. She is so funny, she always wants me to read her a story or hold her hands while she goes. On this particular day she got a little fancy with the toilet paper and got some stuck in her tutu.

If there were one word to describe this little princess it would be Delicate. She walks around on her tippy toes and loves everything girly! She is definently not rough and tumble she's just a little lady.

She loved picking wildflowers in the mountains on our walk.

Ryker

This boy is getting to be a big kid. He would be in heaven if he could just play with his friends 24 hours a day. He loves friends!He loves watching our garden grow and checks on it every day. He picked these strawberries out of our patch and he also has been picking the raspberries off of our bushes. He has also been very entertained by catching bugs in the backyard. He's quite good at it too. He catches dragonflies, spiders, grasshoppers, and pretty much anything he comes across. He's not afraid of the creepy crawleys.

He also caught a snake and kept it as a pet in a box in our backyard for about 2 days. He is a little snake handler! Gary and I both don't dare to pick them up so it's quite funny Ryker loves snakes so much.

Ryker and his pet that escaped Mr. Snake.

The 3rd and 4th of July!

We went to the Canyons hotel in Park city and stayed the night. They had a concert and fireworks. Here is Ryker at the concert just entirely asleep.

Violet got her face painted for her very first time. She wouldn't stop looking at herself in the mirror!

Jonah stayed awake for most of the festivities including the concert at night! He also loved the fireworks.

Fireworks in Park city!

Ryker got his face painted too!

We had a big group with us of cousins, Aunt Jill, Uncle Brad, Grandma Jen and Papa Shane.

We danced at the concert!

And we went to Park city's parade the next day.

Here is part of our group.

Dashy, Finnley, and Violet waving their flags!

Ryker and his flag.

Jonah bugs loved his too!

Violet's favorite part of the parade was the horses!

Ryker's was this bird man on the giant bike. He also loved the U.S ski team doing flips on their snowboards and ski's!

Family shot at the Old miner's hospital at the festivities in the park.

After Park City we went to Gary's Family's and had some yummy food and this adorable cake made by his Mom.

The kids did smoke bombs with Grandpa in the backyard.

Jonah got swung in this blanket! Ryker took this picture!

We also had some pretty intense Tug Of wars!

Ryker with his lovely lady cousins! Estella, Josie, Chloe, & Ava.

Gary, his brother Dave, and his sister Gloria with Sienna, Elias, and Jonah.

I love getting all of these cousins together!

Papa Bill with the Grandkids

Chloe, Josie, and Violet

Violet loves her Dad

Jonah and Ryker are the sweetest brothers. Jonah cracks up at Ryker all of the time and Rykes loves playing with Jonah!

Uncle Dave doing the cheerleader balancing act with Ryker.

These guys had the brilliant idea to do superman together! Luckily no one got hurt! Brothers what are we gonna do with em?

Superman!

We love the Summer time it's so bright, happy, and fun!

It was fun having Gary around this time for the Fourth last year he was deployed. I am thankful to live in our free country and for the men and women who serve it!

I SERIOUSLY love Lake Powell!

Lake Powell will always hold a special place in my heart. I have childhood memories here. I love how there is no agenda when you come here. You don't have to wear make up or get ready. You just get to sit back, enjoy the people you love, and play in the sun! Firework shows at night were AMAZING!

The wishing lanterns were even better! They would fly super high in the sky until you couldn't see them anymore and they were biodegradeable!
Everyone got a turn to make their wish. Ryker was mad his wish didn't come true right away. He wished that he could fly.

There it goes!

Gary took full advantage of his vacation! He tried the air chair, surfing, and wakeboarding. Here he is with the kids on the awesome raft!

He was really good at surfing! He loved it and went out everyday sometimes twice a day to do it!

I had a pretty good time too! We had our survivor wars. Me and my cousin Harm raced in trash bags. I was the winner!!! We also had some tubin' adventures. I have a huge bruise to prove it. We get rough and try to throw all the people on the other tube off. Harm was on my team and we kicked some serious butt!

I love being able to spend time with family and rekindle relationships!

Me and my sis Cass.

Gary and I.

Jonah played with the other babies and did what babies do best.

We took him out in the sand a few times he loved digging his toes in it!

He also had his first boat ride!

Ryker was in heaven. I don't think he stopped going until I made him lay down at night. He told me that he wants to live in Lake Powell forever!

As you can see he was so tired. He wore himself ragged but he would keep on a playin!

He tried surfing with Dad! I was so proud :)

He went for lots of boat rides!

& played in the sand.

He played alot with his cousin Kalli.

And probably his most favorite part was catching all of the lizards. He would catch lizards for hours! It never got old to him.

He carried his lizard around in ths pink bucket for a long time!

Catchin lizards again with cousins carson and diesel.

Pettin his lizard. Yes I think it's safe to say he had an amazing time!

Violet also had some fun. She loved playing with her cousin Diesel!

PLayed with old fireworks in the sand,

Loved this zebra,

Got buried in the sand,

Played with other two year olds Dash, and Finnley. So stinkin cute!

She also poured massive amounts of sand on her head. :)

She loved just being around the other kids and she had a great time playing in the foot water that everyone dipped their feet in before getting into the houseboat. She even drank a couple cup fulls. ICK :) Luckily she didn't get sick!

Grandma Jen and Poppa Shane came along too!

Here was our beautiful spot!

And the most amazing Aunt and Uncle I ever could ask for whom invited us all to join them.

Uncle Brad and Aunt Jill. LOVE EM'

Beautiful Lake Powell I can't wait until we meet again!