The Hogel Zoo

This one is almost 2 months late, but Oh well! My mom came out for a quick little visit the beginning on June and we took the kids to the zoo.  Jayden touched a snake, we check out the new creepy crawly exhibit, and had a great little lunch.  We spent like 4 hours there and the kids of course had a blast.  Payton was hilarious, he LOVED the elephants, and would scream Hi to them and wave all cockeyed.  Thanks mom for taking us all and spending some good grandma time with the kids.

Jayden

Madyson

Payton (he was telling us to be quiet cause the tigers were sleeping)

3rd and 4th of July

We had a good 4th of July nothing too special happened.  We got dressed up in our festive outfits (red, white and blue) and just hung around the house on Saturday and then went to the cities fireworks show that night.  It was really good and long.  Then Sunday we headed to church again in red, white and blue, who doesn't like to be all matchy once and awhile. After church we had a BBQ with all of our good friends and we had a great time.  Then on the 5th we went to the Layton city Parade and had a lot of fun there.  The kids had never been to a Parade before so they thought it was so cool, especially the candy that was thrown around.  We didn't take any pictures on the 5th but here are some of the other 2 days!

 As you can tell they didn't want to cooperate for the family photo

Watching the fireworks

The kids at the BBQ, Madyson, Jayden, Payton, Ethan (throwing a fit), Chloe, Gwen (in the floaties), Finn, Kade and Phoebe.

Thanks Matt and Ranae for hosting!

Payton turned 2!!!

I can't believe my baby turned 2 and I don't have another one.  His birthday was on June 26th, but you know it's summer so who remembers to blog? 

Payton has been such a good baby since he was born.  He is so sweet and the most polite kids you will meet.  He has brought so many smiles to our faces the past 2 years, especially lately with his silly knock-knock jokes.  We love you boogy!

 Payton had a great Birthday party with all his neighborhood friends

 The kids had a blast swimming and playing on the slip n slide, we had cupcakes and everyone got to help Payton open his presents

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAYTON!!!!!

Payton and his Big Sis!

Madyson has never been one to like Payton.  In general she has always stayed clear of him.  Up until very recently she hasn't even acknowledged his name and has called him baby forever and occasionaly still does.  He loves to tackle anyone and just try to play like Jayden and Madyson do but she just runs away.  Well a little while ago they were playing so well together (rare moment), so I wanted to catch it on film (well whatever).  They were giggling so much that I was laughing too.  I love these two!!!

Maybe when Jayden is in school full time they can become good friends like Jayden and Madyson! Here's hoping....

Memorial Day BBQ

As much as I would have loved to have been in Cali (Santa Cruz) with all the peeps and family we couldn't go this year so we made the best of it and spent time with friends instead, which is sometimes better than family! We had 20 kids total there, it was crazy and at times a bit out of control (okay mostly Jayden), but the company and food was so good!  Maybe I will have to start a tradition of my own!

The kids playing on the swingset and my kids being crazy!

This is all of the kids from the families there (minus 3 babies), From left to right

Faye, Treyson, Bryant, Daphne, Noah, Jayden, Derrick, Allie, Madyson, Ethan, Ashley, Chloe, Pheobe, Gwen, Payton and Carter!

We had such a great time, Thanks everyone for coming and spending the day with us!

It's been about Ma...

I guess Madyson has been the subject of all my pictures recently so this is mostly random pictures of her.  I finally got the guts to cut her hair off.  It was so long and stringy (its so thin) that it was a tangled mess every single  morning. I ended up cutting 6 inches off! I'm pretty proud of myself.  She also started a dance class just at a neighbors house once a week, so these are the pictures of her the first week, and she loved it.

My cute girl before the hair cut

So this is all I have of the boys,  the socks are to keep him from sucking his thumb!

She cried because she didn't want curly hair lke mommy, but she is so cute!

So excited

Twirling

I love it!

Before (sorry for the no clothing)

After (back)

After, sorry this is as good as I could get, she's so sassy!

So far we are loving the new hair do, it is not tangled at all in the morning (which makes things easier on both of us) and I can still do some of the things I used to with it.  It turned out shorter than I would have liked but thats the great thing about hair it grows back!

Bouncin' Around

A couple weeks ago we went to Salt Lake to a place called Jumpin' Jacks with the my sister and her kids and had a ton of fun!  The kids were a little weary of the jump things at first and after throwing them down the slides a couple times they loved it.  When the kids were about ready to go a lady showed up to paint faces and worked by tips only and the kids were so excited to get it done.  We will defiantely have to go back again!

Madyson

Jayden

Payton

Payton and Mommy

Jayden and Landon, these boys LOVE eachother!

Jayden, I mean Spiderman

Madyson was a beautiful butterfly, I loved this one

The older gang (we figured payton and tana wouldn't hold still)

We love when we get to hang out with the cousins the kids have so much fun together and can't seem to get enough of one another!