Brian, Jen & Jordyn: 2009

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

The rest of the summer in a nut shell...

Well I have been behind for awhile now and am continuing my quest for a completely updating blog (which is kind of my personal holy grail at the moment...). So I am summing the rest of the summer up right now so I can move on to fall and hopefully be caught up so I can actually blog about Halloween immediately following the actual event instead of 2-3 months later... So here goes!!

My bad to the bone baby!

Jordyn with her "porcupine" gloves, (that's what she calls pine cones *lol*) she loved to help us pick them up from the yard. She is a really good little helper!!

New pool!! We did A LOT of swimming this summer!!

Jordyn with her fish she caught =)

Brian showing Jordyn how to use her new Batman fishin' pole

Jordyn has discovered she knows how to use our iPhones, here she is playing her Spongebob game

Looking cute at Sugarhouse park

Feeding the ducks and geese from a safe distance *lol* they are pretty feisty!

We had a lot of fun this summer and these are only a few highlights besides the vacations and what nots but I hope you enjoy them anyway!! Now we can move on to fall!!

Thursday, October 8, 2009

The zoo for Grandma's birthday!!

My mom's birthday is the 28th of August and the celebration for this year took place at the zoo, which is a very good place to spend ones birthday if I do say so myself. Anyway we went in the morning and ended up staying almost 4 hours, it was a great day full of sun, animals and treats!! The best part was all the cute baby animals! We got to see the baby giraffe, snow leopard, meer cats, tigers, and a few others. The sloth was even out!! Who could ask for more? Here are some pictures of the highlights:

Maybe the tounge is for balance... *lol* whatever the reason it's pretty cute!!

Riding on the train with grandma and papa, oh and with her new foosa. If you don't know what a foosa is you better head to the zoo!!

The obligatory family picture I put everyone through everywhere *lol*

Yep you see it right, Bri's arms are almost as long as that gorillas =)

Round 2... this time with papa! She conned them each into going on a ride with her *lol*

Jordyn and Grandma on the carousel. Round 1...

This bird just hopped right out onto my moms finger, it was awesome!!

"Haha you can't see me..." The baby snow leopard was playing right up by the glass, it was so cute!!

The baby giraffe followed us in from outside and came right up and was looking at Jordyn, it was really neat!!

The birthday girl with Bri and Jordyn in front of the rhino's, "like in James" (James and the Giant Peach is one of Jordy's fav movies *lol*

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Dino Museum and Bear Lake!!

Again, sorry this is so long in coming but better late then never, right? Anyway as previously discussed this summer my family from Texas came up for a couple weeks and we did lots of fun stuff as a family. We went to the Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur Museum, courtesy of Jared and we were able to spend a weekend at our family condo in Bear Lake. It was lots of fun!! At the dino museum we saw all the cool fossils and displays as well as played a ton at the sand and water table thingy. We made a very beautiful lake and island *lol* and yes it was mostly us big kids... At Bear Lake we spent a lot of time at the beach and playing games. It is always fun to go up there to get away and it was an added bonus to have Jeff and Em be able to go with us this time.

Jordyn and Brian (he's being kind of a fem raptor or something... *lol*)

Cole being crushed by the build your own dino

We love the dinosaur museum!!

"The Brians" and Jordyn playing in the sand

Some of our party got lost, yes it was mainly the other adults =)

Jordyn playing with the beach ball

Danny, Andrew, Bri and Neal working on the Bear Lake channel

Brian's sand castle complete with tomb entrance and pit of death...

Spence and his temple, Ethan told him he wanted a temple and a temple he got

Brian and Spence playing horse shoes

Typical Jordy cheesy face *lol*

Having lots of fun at the playground!

She is a little monkey!!

Brian and Cole had just buried David, and yes Brian does drop that balloon right after the picture =)

I love this picture, the water is so blue!!

Cute little sandy bum!!

Jordyn either building or destroying a sand castle... I'm not sure which *lol*

Jared buried in the sand

Sunday, August 16, 2009

The 24th of July

This 24th of July was a special one as Jeff, Em and the boys were here with us. They usually are here for the 4th but since they were also here in April for Andrea's wedding they decided to come a little later so we could all go to Bear Lake and fun things like that. It also worked out really well for us too since we spent the 4th of July in Montana. We started out the day at Ken and Lynnette's where they had set up a very awesome slip and slide, a ping pong table, 2 small swimming pools and lots of chairs to relax in. We had a blast playing on the slip and slide for hours!! Oh and I say we not just the kids because pretty much everyone got involved at some point, Kris even went in her clothes!! I'm not sure who's idea it was to bring the balloon launcher into the equation but it sure was cool. You will be able to see what I mean from the pictures below. Even after we implemented "catchers" most of us still ended up soapy, muddy and bruised, what could be more fun?! Several of the big "kids" also enjoyed the little pools with Jordyn and Ashley so all in all the water was a huge success all around! Thanks to Ken and Nett for the yard and the fun and I'm glad your lawn recovered hehe. During all this fun we did squeeze lunch in too, where there is a Minson family gathering food will always be found!! It's like a rule or something. After all the afternoon fun we went home for nap time so I can't attest to what everyone else did but after nap time we all met back up at my Grandma and Grandpa's for a BBQ and some games before fireworks. It was lots of fun and the only bummer was that Brian had to go into work for a couple of hours but he was able to eat and see fireworks (which were awesome!) so it worked out in the end. What can I say it was another super fun day with the family!! I apologize in advance if I missed anyone in the pictures I tried my best to get everyone!! Let me know if you want copies or you can check out more photos on my facebook page!!