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Babysitting and Family

As like most of you last week was a bit on the crazy side. I agreed to babysit for a friend of mine and Tuesday morning the fun began. Stallone got to our house bright and early in the morning and then started a day of fun with the boys. Everything went well until Wednesday morning. Stallone woke up feeling sick to his stomach and by 11:30 had thrown up all over my couch and carpet. Ugh!!! Of course my mom was visiting so instead of doing anything fun we were cleaning instead.

Thursday was better. We hung out at the house and got some cleaning done and then in the afternoon we headed up to Herriman to a water feature at a park up there. The funnest thing happened though, as we were pulling up we saw a big extended van and thought that maybe it was my sister. That would be crazy though that they were there too so we didn't think any thing of it until we were getting out of the car and spotted a couple of my nieces. Yep, my sister and her kids were there. They had arrived just a few minutes before us. We had a great afternoon watching the kids play in the water and gabbing up a storm.

My nephew Jonah

Clairissa and Uncle John

Clairissa sitting on top of the Poles

Abby and Clairissa sitting on top of the poles


Abby was cold. Hard to believe since it was close to 100 degrees outside.


My nephew Caleb


Of course Andrew pulled his cousins into the water. Nobody was safe other than the parents and Rachael the Gimp.

Mckenna was the next Victim


All the kids decided to make the slide into a water slide. They took empty cans and filled them with water and then dumped them down the slide. The kids got serious speed going down!I love Jillian's face I think this says it all.


My niece Allie

Then Zach and Stallone decided to ride their skate boards through the water.






Clairissa Hanging on the playground equipment

We finished off the evening with fireworks in the neighborhood. The Jorgenson's had some great illegals from Wyoming and we had a big pack of fireworks we bought from Costco. The kids made snickerdoodles for a treat and Rachael and Andrew's friend Taylor and my niece Noel got to visit with us for the evening.

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Dione said…
Awesome pictures! Thanks for taking and sharing them! We had so much fun with you guys - so glad we all decided to go to the splash park that day!
7/30/2008 10:39 PM
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