Cousin Kylee, Uncle Brian, Avalee, Breelyn and Aunt Twylla came to visit us for the night.  We celebrated Twylla's Bday with a PF Changs feast at our house

So cute- 2nd Cousins

Decoding

Shane's favorite TV show was Gravity Falls.  It only ran 1 season because the producer said it was just too much work.  Every show has hidden codes, pictures that they try to figure out.  A few months ago it was announced that they would release a book with all the hidden codes and writings/journals that they never released in the shows.  Lets just say Shane is obsessed.  I'm talking hours of figuring out codes, patterns and hidden things.  Here we are 3 days after getting the 1st book, buying a new one as it fell apart

Shane, first thing in the morning -decoding

 Shane and Aidan are posting You Tube videos on how to solve different pages 

His channel is called Shane The Banana if you are bored

It took them 3 hours to decode this.  It ain't easy stuff either

Danons!

So great to get a visit from the Danons!  It's so easy having them around, feels like family and they are so entertaining.  Jake and Shane are dorking out with Pokemon Go

Reese and Hailey hit it off

Jump everyone!

Jake Jump!

Jake didn't want to leave our house.  He and Shane have a lot in common and on the flip side are total opposites.  It's funny

Camp Camp

Camp Camp was in full swing last week.  I took the kids to the Circus.  I bought some mediocre tickets and as i showed the ticket-taker our tickets he asked me, "Do you like upgrades?"  Um Yes! Here we are in the 4th row center in the Staples center.  Too bad it wasn't a basketball game

 The cats were yards from us

These are some easy kids to be around, when together

 half time at Staples Center

 He wishes

We have had some pretty sweet beach days!  Only 1 of the 5 kids got really burned that day!

I took the kids to a Parkour place.  They took 1 lesson and were bored.  So we came back for open gym and it's their new favorite place, Ever!  Hailey pegging her friend doing a flip while Shane about to launch off the bar

Aquarium stop

Mammoth stop

We made a pit stop in Mammoth on our way home from Boise.  It was short but sweet.

We made it home, it was a LONG day

Scholars

We overlapped visits in Boise with Twylla and the Scholars.  

Breelyn and Avalee

 Taking a walk to the river.  Avalee is a such a crack up, the kids love being around her

4th of July

4th of July morning.  The kids decorated their bikes and joined in on the neighborhood bike parade

Amateur firework show

Katie showing off some skillz

 Then off to Ann Morrison Park for the real deal

Hailey complained the fireworks were too loud = success 

Lava Tubes

Hey, who wants to go down a big hole and explore in the dark?

 A dark hole and a ladder

I was very surprised, the kids weren't scared at all and just kept exploring new tunnels in the dark

 Jesse's cave look

 We all survived