Our summer so far. Part one.

This is going to be a long one with tons of pictures!
I will start where I left off last.
A week after Kamzlin's 1st birthday, Josh and I flew to Minnesota to pick up his propane bobtail for the new business we are starting, High Country Propane. We are pretty excited about it. Anyway, while we there we decided to do some fun stuff. Both my mom and Josh's mom took turns watching the girls. We missed them but it was nice to have some alone time.

We had to document this. Anyone who knows me knows that I tend to overpack. Three days and this is all I brought. Big deal. And... I survived!  

top floor!

 Mall of America

 The food from here...YUM!

 Miniature golf!

These sting rays loved Josh! 

About a week after we got back from Minnesota, we went on a family vacation with my mom, dad, sister's and their families.  It was so much fun, and so much needed.

We went to California and rented a house that could fit our beautiful growing family. It was close to the beach and had a swimming pool in the back just for us!

We split the drive, and stayed in Las Vegas the first night. We took the kids to the m&m factory and went swimming.

 She wanted dad to hold her hand.

 They love their grandma!

We HAD to take a picture of Josh and a Joshua Tree. Obviously. 

We stopped for a break and to stretch our legs!

Knottsberry Farm...

They were not fans of the characters. At all. 

Universal Studios...

Hogwarts!!! My sister's, mom, and I are all HUGE fans of Harry Potter! This was the main reason for this vacation! We loved it. I may or may not have bought a wand. Don't judge.

I had to share this one because it makes me literally laugh out loud! The girls were struggling to get ready for the picture and the minions face is priceless, went with it perfectly!

Seaworld...

She would make this face a lot looking at all of the fish. It was adorable! 

Pet show! 

While we were in San Diego, we stopped at the San Diego Temple. My favorite temple! My goal was to take my own picture of it to hang in my house. I am still working on my skills for taking pictures and by no means am I a professional, but I thought it would be so cool to be able to say that I took it. 

These are the two I took and edited a little. I can't wait to print them off and hang them in my home!

Here are some others just for fun...

Beach day...

This is definitely not all of our summer fun but I am going to have to break it up into parts, this was a pretty long one. Stay tuned though, I will try to update part 2 tomorrow. :)

Have a lovely Monday.

Kamzlin's 1st Birthday!!

Kamzlin's birthday party was on Saturday and we had so much fun! We had it at our home and it was a little windy so I didn't get to decorate as much as I wanted too but we had lots of family come and just had a wonderful time being together.

I love our families so much!

On Monday we visited Kaizen's headstone and brought him some flowers. Because we talk about Kaizen a lot, Kanzis does too. She loves him so much. I kiss a picture of Kaizen every night before I go to bed and last night she saw me and asked if she could kiss him too. It makes me happy that she talks about him and whenever she names everyone in our family, Kaizen is always mentioned. I don't know if she will ever know how much that means to me.

We are also so grateful for all of those who have served for our country and lost their lives fighting for our freedom. I hope that they know that they are thanked and loved so much.

After that, we borrowed my mom and dad's side by side and went up to Josh's grandparents cabin with some of his family, then we took a little ride up to "the top of the world." Such pretty views!

Josh's mom had some baby raccoons, so Kanzis got to hold one. I held one and it started to hiss at me and then proceeded to pee on me. They sure are cute though!

Have a wonderful rest of the week! :)