Stepping on bellies....

This crazy dad in our house we will call "Silas" thought it would be....

oh so funny to pretend to step on the girls' bellies.....he was right!

We were all laughing hysterically!


What crazy things we do for simple entertainment.



But in our book this was pretty dang cute!

4th of July 2009

Our 4th of July was so much fun this year. We started off with our small town parade, and then off to the park for fun kid games. Navey had such a sweet, excited attitude and very easy going(FINALLY). After the games we headed home for a few zzzz's(we all took a nap) and woke just in time to head to the movies. We watched Ice Age; very cute and clever. Then of course a wal-mart trip, we can't go a weekend with out one. We invited Silas' parents down for a BBQ and fireworks. We had some good eats, and then hung out in the front yard waiting for it to get dark. I bought a few sparklers, pops, and glow in the dark rings. But thank goodness for neighbors....they had just the right amount of pre-fireworks for our kids to watch and love. Then the show began, and my poor little sweet Kenna was not impressed with the noise, so she laid against me and half covered her eyes while I covered her ears, she is so sensitive, but it keeps her little so I'm ok with that.

Play, Play, Play

McKenna was able to benefit from Navey's swimlessons too. Connie(the teacher) has an amazing yard, they have a huge tree house with a TALL slide, sand box, trampoline, little kid size house and truck, basketball court, grass, and of course the swimming pool. Kenna loved to play while Navey swam, truely Kenna would try to come near the pool every so often to see if she could somehow manage to get in, she never made it in. Their were a few days that I had to run errands while Navey had lessons and McKenna was not impressed with Navey getting out and us driving away. I would dare to say you could hear her screaming at least a block away. It was very heart breaking.

Swim Lessons 2009

Navey's swimlessons were a big success this year. She is getting much better at following directions and not becoming so free spirited when she enters the water. She is in level 3 and I believe she was the youngest. Most the kids were at least 6 or 7. Connie(her teacher) had them swimming the long length of the pool doing the front crawl, the frog(breast stroke), the chicken airplane zoom,(breast stroke on their backs),back crawl, floating on their backs, rescue jump off the diving board, diving off the diving board, and diving for rings on the bottom of the shallow end. As you can see Navey didn't quite get the diving part All the time, their were many belly-flops. My absolute favorite is when she would recite OUTLOUD "chicken, airplane, zoom" to help her remember how to swim that stroke. What a goof!

Heaton Family Reunion SLC 2009

The Heaton Family Reunion was a success again. We started it off with a few hours at Raging Waters Friday night. The original plan was to be at Raging Waters all day saturday, but because of the weather to come on saturday we went friday instead. The kids loved it even though we were only able to be there a couple of hours, but honestly that was enough for me. Silas drove up a couple of hours after me and you forget how much your signifigant other helps out. It's exhausting to keep track of two kids around water! And mine seem to have no fear which makes it even harder.

Heaton Reunion SLC 2009

LOOK OUT for the SHARK!!!




Thanksgiving point museum. All the kids seemed to love this museum. It was all about dinosaurs. They got to see bones, aquariums, draw pictures, put together their own dinosaur, play in the water and sand, and dig in the dirt. It was pouring rain outside so this was perfect for our family to be together. Navey loved being able to find "little foot, and Sarah's skeletons" off of Land before time.

Safety Town

Navey was involved in the Safety Town program that Hurricane put on. She got to go every day for two weeks for a couple hours and learn all kinds of ways to be safe. Some of her favorite things were going in the ambulance, in the police car, seeing the fire fighters dalmation character, and the best of all was getting sprayed by the fire truck. What an amazing program, she would still be going if it would only last ALL summer!