Monday, September 5, 2011

Labor Day 2011

For Labor Day this year we had our good friends the Matson Family come and stay Sunday night at our house.  The kids had a blast!  This is all of us eating dinner together (except Jay who was taking the picture). 

After dinner we went to the Mesa Temple to walk around the visitors center.  It was a beautiful Arizona night!  We were cracking up because Brighton and Codan went through the entire visitor's center pointing out the pictures of Jesus.  If there happened to be someone looking at one of the pictures with Jesus, they would make sure they knew who it was.  

We came back to our house after and the kids crashed on the couches while watching "Hoodwinked Too".

Monday morning we made a crepes for breakfast, which were sooo good!  Afterwards we went over to Aunt Lynda and Uncle Paul's house to swim.  They are so nice to let us come over anytime to swim.  The kids swam for 4 hours straight!  

Here are all the kids sitting on the edge of the pool.  It took forever for them all to sit next to each other. We would get some of them up there and they couldn't wait for the others and they would jump in.

After we got them all together for the picture they decided to all hold hands and jump in the pool on the count of 3.  Half of them jumped on 3 and the other half after 3.

Aspen and Carlee putting on their goggles.

The boys wanted to be thrown up in the air over and over again!  Luckily Danny didn't get worn out too quickly.

Brighton doing a flip in the air.

Brody doing a cannon ball.


Codan jumping off the edge.

Jadyn, Aspen, Carlee, and Autumn.  These girls had a blast together!

Jadyn, Aspen and Carlee jumping off the waterfall (even though they knew they weren't supposed to climb up on top).


Jessica, Danny, Jay and I were cleaning up, when we were done, we came out to the driveway to find the girls laying down resting their heads on the tube.  You have to realize it was 109 degrees outside, they must of been worn out!

 After swimming we went back to our house and cooked out on the grill while the kids ran through the sprinklers.  The kids had so much fun together they didn't want the day to end.  They even asked if they could skip school and hang out together another day.

3 comments:

Jesmyluk said...

Seriously so jealous!! Two of my favorite families hanging out together without us!! Seems so unfair! Miss you Larsons!! Miss you Matsons!!! Glad you had a wonderful Labor Day together, but did you have to rub it in?!?!?!
xD

Jennifer said...

Jess C., we wish you could have been there with us!!! We would have had sooo much fun with you and your kids! We miss you guys a ton! You need to move back to AZ so we can hang out together!!!!!

The Belliston's said...

I loved seeing this! Jessica never updates her blog so I guess I can depend on you to get updates ;) Looks like you guys had fun. Glad you guys finally made it back to Arizona!!