The rest of the summer!

With difficult internet, a very slow computer and a broken flash on a camera...I finally bring you the rest of the Belnap summer! Here is a picture overload of a summer. (Yes Kevin, this is proof that we actually do cool stuff!) We visited both of my grandmas. Did anyone else have one of these? We grew up playing on this awesome horse. And now the next generation continues to play on this fun horse!

This is the day after the 4th of July. It has become a tradition here in Provo for us to see the hot air balloons in the morning. It was really fun! (We missed it the first day because we slept in. Sorry Rachel and Tanner.)Here we are camping! But don't get too excited. We are camping in McCammon, ID. Not my idea of 'roughing it' but hey. This was the Karl Belnap family reunion, which was once again more like the Ross Belnap family reunion, since our fam is HUGE!!! I was trying not be bitter that I didn't win the dutch oven cook-off (obviously still not over that one:)And then Kevin ditched us and went to Disney World for 'training.' PricewaterhouseCoopers paid for him to go to Disney World for a few days. That is who he interned with over the winter. They also paid him while he was there! And that is why we have signed a job offer with them. :) This is Kevin with more of the PWC interns. You'll have to ask him who these people all are. They spent 2 days playing around in Animal Kingdom and the Hollywood park. Sorry, I've never been, so I don't really know what I am talking about. He was in a culinary competition, they built bikes and listened to speakers. Sounds rough.


The person taking the picture didn't realize they were taking a video. So here is Kevin with Mickey! Emma was excited.So while Kevin was in Florida, we (me and the kids) stayed in Idaho for a week. He came to Idaho the day before his birthday. So we stayed another day and celebrated his birthday. What a great day!So we invited all the Belnaps. Our nieces and nephews could hardly stand candles being blown out without their help. So Kevin let some of them help. Emma is helping too! After the fact, we realized that we had the first Kay Jenkins family reunion. Everyone came down to Utah and we went to LAGOON!!! It took us planning it all summer, but we finally made it. So from right to left: Dad, Alicia, Camilla, Kevin, Jen, Allison, Richard, Stephanie, Brandon, Emma and Mom! Thanks everyone for coming. It was awesome!
Here we are at Lagoon! We are all really excited to be here (as you can tell).
Alicia and Allison riding the swings. You go girls! (Kevin is the insane one taking all the pics. I was too chicken and dizzy!)
What is a reunion without some chow! What a fun day!

This is Brandon, Allison and Richard on the tidal wave. Brandon was pretty nervous and held on the whole time. We love ya Brandon!
This is in line for the white roller coaster. And this would be the only ride that mom rode all day. Sorry mom. But we are soooooo grateful that you watched our kids so we could ride crazy rides like the Rocket!

We all rode the Merry-go-round with Emma. She was a little nervous, but then warmed up to the rides. Dad said it was funny to watch us, because about 6 grown people were surrounding one toddler. What can we say? We love our Ems!
I think Emma rode this ride like 6 times. She loved it! She was crazy on the rides. We took her on the kid roller coaster and even took her on the huge white roller coaster! What a trooper!

Emma finds her true love? Nope, not the boy...the car! She loves to drive anything so the cars were a hit too.

Our dear "Unca Bandon" fell asleep behind our couches. He is 6'5" (at least) and 100% legs, as I am sure you can tell.

We also took a family vacation to Yellowstone. Here is my bragging rights, my grandpa started the Playmill Theatre in West Yellowstone, MT. So this is always a sentimental place for me. We always drive past our cabin and stop in to see this great place. And yes, that is me in front of the theatre.

We were able to stay at our brother-in-law's cabin (for free, the best vacation!) in Island Park. So we spent two days going through Yellowstone National Park. Here we found some elk along the road. Emma called them 'Uk.'
Here we are up at the artist paint pots. It was really pretty, but cold for us Utahans.

Here is Emma looking at a geyser. This child has no fear! Funny story, she even tried to throw her shoe into Echineas geyser. (So Dine, not just a stick would fly out of the water :) Luckily the shoe did not go into the geyser, but Kevin did break park rules and hopped the fence to get her shoe.

Here we are in front of Old Faithful. "Ain't as faithful as it used to be!" We had a blast up at the cabin with just us. It was a nice relaxing family vacation.

And what would a summer be without swimming? Emma and Jacob love to swim together and spent a few days playing in the water. (Which mostly consists of just running around the yard in their swim suits.)

We put the hose on the slide so they could have a cheap 'water slide.' They loved it. My favorite part is Emma sliding down and catching air at the bottom. (Plus the clip ends showing her nice JLo bootie!) We love ya Ems!


And here are our girls in their matching dresses. Thanks Grandma! We love our girls and think they are adorable!