Reese Family Visits Las Vegas!!

Fred had some work stuff to do in Vegas so Elisa and the kids joined him! They got here Friday night so we got together Saturday and the kids swam!! They had a lot of fun and were excited to see each other!!

Then they came to church with us on Sunday and stayed after for hamburgers! Kerby barbecued and the kids hung out!




On Tuesday they invited us to hang out at the pool at Mandalay Bay!! It is such a nice, fun pool that the kids didn't want to go home when it was time!! It has a wave pool, a lazy river, and sand where the lawn chairs are! It was so fun!!



I tried to get the kids body surfing in the wave pool:



Here is Madison, Taylor and Sophie body surfing!!


Payton would run away when the wave came!! :)




The kiddie area just got a little of the residual wave--just enough for little kids!
Here is Emerie, Sydney and Sean.

More activities from our trip to Utah!

Okay--how often do you get to Limbo when NOT in Hawaii or at a Luau??





Isn't Camille's belly the cutest!? She was due the 10th but didn't have it till the 15th!!

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We went swimming in the Ridd's swimming pool at their complex! It was fun but the kids ended up playing on the park toys as well!

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We ended up boating on Saturday, July 12th up at Deer Creek! What an adventure! There's really no good beach--just rocks! But we made the best of it and had a great time! We picked up fried chicken and brought lots of snack foods! I don't have a picture of this but what a story it is!! Hayden was playing in the water with Zack and Cam for at least an hour! He got out to get something to eat and tried to brush off all the debris that was on him. But there was this little long black thing next to his navel that wasn't brushing off! It turned out to be a leech!! EEk!! Wow--I had never seen an actual leech in person!! It was still squirming after we had to yank it off--it had a pretty good hold of his skin! He even had a bruise the next day where we tore it off!!


Madison and Mekall--Emerie, Taylor and Zack on the drive to the lake.


Emerie, Ellie, Taylor, Madison and Mekall eating fried chicken--Cam, Hayden and Zack playing in the lake.

Kerby, Madison and Mekall--Zack, Taylor and Emerie


Zack and Taylor--Ellie and Heidi


Kerby and Mekall--All the gang


Mekall, Taylor and Lucas--Jake, Ellie, Mekall and Taylor

Another YMCA day!

Interesting trip to the YMCA! There was drama, fun, and sun to be had! First--the drama--every hour they have everyone get out of the pool. Probably to switch lifeguards, check the pool, etc. Well--there was a teenager and his father there. The teenager--a big kid, probably 13 or 14 years old--would not get out of the pool. Kind of funny at first, but then as the lifeguards chased him and tried to box him in, it got not so funny! The kid was running up the stairs to the slides--getting away from the lifeguards--and then when he got to the bottom they were right there so he tried to climb up the waterslide! He then got away again and went in the Kiddie area and kept dodging the lifeguards! The lifeguards were pretty frustrated by now and getting irritated! They brought out more reinforcements--upper management--and they tried to get him too! Then he ran over to two girls on the loungechairs and grabbed her hot dog and started eating it!!! She was shocked! Then he went over to the concessions stand and bothered all patrons in line. Okay--now it is getting ridiculous! I wondered why the dad wasn't involved in trying to get him but I guess since he was a really big guy he just couldn't chase him! Lastly--the boy locked himself in the boys bathroom! About 5 lifeguards tried and tried to open the locked door but couldn't! At this point my kids are all scared and want to go home!! Finally--they get the door open and escort him and his father out of the YMCA! Wow!! Swimming and entertainment!!



Footnote--The lifeguards actually came to me and told me I was not allowed to take pictures! It is posted everywhere she says and tells me to put my camera away! Too bad! I snuck a few pictures but was unable to take a short movie of the fun whirlpool they have there! (I guess they had a guy that was coming to just take pictures of the kids swimming!! SCARY!!--Okay--so this location (by the Meadows mall) is a little ghetto but it was really not crowded and the kids had a ball--AFTER the 'show'!! ;)

Summer at the YMCA Waterparks!

Okay--I know I have a ton of pictures from swimming at the YMCA but I guess since that is mostly what we have done since school got out I don't have much of anything else! We sure love it there! We have even ventured out to another one a few miles away! It is a little different--bigger kiddie area with a slide, only one large water slide, only 1 diving board--so we plan to venture out to others! In fact, Thursday we decided we are going to the one by Meadows Mall! It is said to have a lazy river too!! I love being members of the YMCA! Lots of benefits!! One being--Park Hopping!! :)

We even started getting snow cones because it is so blasted hot this week!!



Emerie wasn't supposed to be in the heat or the sun for a couple weeks so I tried to keep her in the shade and brought her an Mp3 player to listen to and a leapster to play with! But she eventually got in the pool! She is doing great so I didn't worry too much! Her voice is getting better but it is still 'nasely' is that a word? She talks through her nose!



Madison and Payton, Me and Payton

Laurel, Taylor and Haylee, Emerie

These are pictures from the Durango Hills YMCA. The kids love it! It has grass!! It also looks like a mini-waterpark! I love the beach-entry kiddie area too! I think it has helped Payton learn to 'swim' a little better without floaties (they don't allow anything but life jackets).

Madison, Taylor and Haylee in front of the Kiddie Land water slide!


Madison in the tube, Madison and Haylee