the murrays

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Fun Times with our Pedersen cousins

We got to hang out with the Pedersens a few times while they were in Utah for almost a month!

We took them to Salem Pond, and introduced the kids to kayaks! And Whitney took every opportunity to become friends with Wade.

This is Owen and Xavier on the paddleboard:

Owen, Whitney, Katelyn, Xavier, Jayda and Maris. My kids taught their cousins how to jump off in the middle of the pond, it was super fun!

We also went to Seven Peaks since we had passes we needed to use up.

The kids had a BLAST having epic beanie baby wars with Uncle Kjarom and his German accent!

We found a fun park to watch the fireworks at Thanksgiving Point on the 4th of July! These are out of order but whatever! Katelyn facepainted all the kids, it was way cute.

And since Eric's work wasn't doing Lagoon this year, we took Grandma up on her offer to take us to Lagoon with the cousins! And Eric didn't even have to go haha. Emma was brave and went on her first couple of roller coasters!

Jayda and Maris were the little daredevil twins!

Oh and Katelyn didn't come either! She had Summer Shakespeare and she doesn't like roller coasters anyway. So I just had 4 kids! And here's Lauren and Emma on the egg drop!

Emma, Owen and Xav, and Jayda, Vivi and Maris on the teacups. A couple of times I took extra kids with me on rides, it was super fun since Emma is so big!

Owen, Maris, Whitney and Cleo are the second row from the top.

And here's cute Wade on his birthday.

and the kids jumping after family pictures.

It was a fun July- come again Pedersens!!

Monday, January 3, 2022

Family Pictures

July 1st was our adorable nephew Wade's birthday, and Mary arranged family pictures in their backyard for the same night as his birthday party. Ryan and Cortnee didn't come for......reasons......so we snapped this family pic without them but we won't ever print it. I'm confident putting it here because no one reads this blog except my wonderful sister Melissa and my kids.

At least they let their girls come so Mary and Brad could get a picture with all their grandkids.

Which turned out pretty cute!

Cuties.

I like this genuine smile of Owen's!

What a beautiful family. They are so fun to be with.

Jayda, Wade and Xavier, age almost 7,1, and 5

Oh my goodness he is so cute.

I loved our family pictures too! These standing hug ones were my favorite, but either Eric or I had our eyes closed in the 2 the photographer gave us.