Summer Vacations!!

Davis dancing as we sing Happy Birthday to his Daddy

Caroline and Brooke "Surfer girls"

Brooke and Liney playing in the waves

Crazy kids!

Grandma Taunnie Olivia and Kinnley

Grammy and Poppy

Kids on the boat

Kennedy and Liney


Kennedy and Mitchie

Kayli and Jeremy

Kayli and Jeremy WIPEOUT!!

Kayli and Cassie SUPERMAN!! Jeremy, Mr. Cool!

Buddy

Jayden and Kinnley

Mitch, Coy and Coleman

Coy and Coleman

Coleman and McCoy see you later alligator!

Coleman and Coy HOLD ON! Kennedy bombs away!!

Kennedy and Chloe

Kinnley Skim boarding

Mia, Nerd,Caroline and Katie

Liney and DaddyGrace and Chase

Blow Harder Jason, there's a lot of candles on that cake!!

Kennedy...A what?

Caroline...A goof!

Wierdos

Surfer boys

Holli, Grace and Heidi digging for sand crabs

Kinnley and Hunter waxing the board

Kenz and our cute friend James from Connecticut

I'm so HOT I SIZZLE!!....

Holli Kim and Heidi

Davie and Daddy

Holli and Heather catching some rays!

Kimmy and Sawyer

Sawyer playing in the sand, you better watch out Davie!!

Davis digging in the sand

Hillary, Jason and Davis

Kim and Sawyer

Bailey and Kennedy the next girls to join the circus!

Anthony

Brooke, Chase and Caroline, sandy kids!

Heddy, the next Baywatch girl?

It has been way too long since I have updated our blog. Summer is flying by and I thought I would bring you all up to speed on the McDonald family. We have just gotten home from a great trip to Newport Beach with the Scharman family. We always have such a fun time. It is truly one of the best trips we ever go on. This year everyone except Haley and her family, were able to be there. This meant tons of kids and tons of chaos. Isn't that what a family trip is though?? If chaos is how you measure the success of a trip, then we definitely got straight A's!! We love to hang out and play on the beach, the kids love playing in the waves, and of course you have to experience a blazing hot day at Disneyland, to make the trip complete. This year there we were able to enjoy the youngest kids that were to young to really enjoy the beach last year. Davis and Sawyer absolutely loved the beach and the water. Anthony didn't really love the water, but he had a great time playing in the sand. It is so fun to see the babies loving the ocean and experiencing the annual Newport vacation. I can't wait for next year to roll around so we can pack up and head back down!!

We also had the chance to go camping with the McDonald family. We always have so much fun camping and playing with our McDonald cousins. It is so great to spend some quality time with Grammy and Poppy as well. This year we went up to East Canyon. Holli had to work the night shift and Mark had to be to work early the next morning, so we left the kids to camp with their cousins. They had a wonderful time. (at least our kids did, you'll have to ask Shannon, Nikki, Grammy and Poppy if they did though) We spent the days on the lake waterskiing and riding on the biscuit. How no one gets hurt is beyond me. They get pummeled by the waves as they crash and jump over them on the biscuit. The crazy thing is that they just keep begging for more! We love getting to eat Poppy's yummy dutch oven dinners every year. He is the king of the dutch oven!! We love getting to spend time with all of our family and creating such wonderful memories that will last our lifetimes!

Where are you?? Oh I know,.....you're on facebook!!!!

I took this picture of Holli and told her I was going to put it on her blog so I decided to add a few others!!! Haley

Our little models, Kennedy and Caroline

Kennedy and Caroline were ready for church amazingly early today so we decided to take a few photos before we left. Aren't they just so cute. Caroline kept coming up with new poses and wanted more and more pictures taken. Is this a sign of things to come?

EEEWWW it's Halloween!!

Halloween is always a huge event at the McDonald house. At least it is for Holli and the two younger kids. This year was no different. We had a great time dressing up in our costumes and trick or treating and having fun all night. Some of us even had more than one costume to choose from. We had a great time at the annual Scharman Halloween party at Grandpa Brent and Grandma Jan's house. It was complete chaos as always but once again we have wonderful memories we will cherish! Hope everyone had a safe night and made a killing on the amount of candy you all collected!!

Raking leaves at Grammy and Poppy's house

We decided to spend our Saturday raking leaves as a family. We spent a total of 6 1/2 hours going to three different houses and working out fingers to the bones. The kids each put some serious effort into it and everyone was a huge help. We are proud of how hard they all worked. The yards all looked great when we were finished with them!

Carving Pumpkins!!

We had our Annual pumpkin carving with Grandpa Brent and Grandma Jan tonight. We had so much fun. Grandma Jan was a serious trooper to have tons of kids with carving knifes and pumpkin "guts" flying everywhere in the house! Can you say total chaos? We have a few serious Michelangelo's in our family. We had some great sculpting and carving to create some amazing jack-o-lanterns!! Thanks grandma and grandpa for the Halloween memories!!