The Basua Bunch Blog

Pool Fun

We have had so much fun in Ariana's new pool. She is great to share with everyone. We have spent a good portion of everyday out there enjoying the HOT sun and the cool water!

Ta Da! My new pool!

Ammon is my brave boy going down head first!

Britain is READY!

Tori enjoyed floating in her little boat!

Nik being Nik! He is quite the goofball!

Tori keeping cool! I love this hat on her. Of course, it only stayed on through the picture!

Kalixta braving the slide!

Ariana loves Tori's boat, outside the pool!

Summer fun!

Friends

Ariana is great friends with Jane. Every time we see her Ari gets so excited! They love to play together. When Jane came over for the 4th of July it was so cute to see them play together. They did lots of silly things but the cutest was watching them play "friends." They would play this with anything.

Here they are playing it with their water balloons!

Here they are playing it with their ice cream cones!

Love these girls!

Cruisin'

Marci has the cutest beach cruiser. She brought it over on the 4th of July and took Tori cruising.

Cute! Cute! Cute!

Bubbles and Water Balloons

Our dear sweet friends the Packard Family spent the 4th of July with us. They are so fun to hang out with! They have seven kids like us. Even better there is a friend for all my kids to play with. It works out GREAT!! 

They brought these HUGE bubble wands when they came over. We all had fun trying to make bubbles or trying to pop them. This is Carlos practicing!

This is the oldest Lisa showing us how to do it right!

The kids loved the ginormous bubbles!

Britain trying to make the bubbles.

Adam had to try and he did a great job!

We also had water balloons at our party! Everybody loved those, of course. You can see Ammon behind Adam playing a game. The big boys popped the balloons faster than I could take pictures! (Levi actually took some of these pictures! Good job Levi!) The little kids just like to hold and play with theirs!

Ariana and her best bud Jane with their water balloons.

Tori even got in on the action. She loved the water balloons! She would suck on it and pull the knot with her teeth. She popped a few on her too. She didn't cry too much!

Isn't this the cutest little chair?! She fit into it perfectly!!!

Championship Game

The championship game was tonight! It was a great game. Nik pitched the first three innings and didn't get any runs. This was a good team too. Usually they win by 10+ runs. He was doing a great!

Our team was hitting and so we were winning 4-0. Adam put another pitcher in who was playing great. Then some stupid technicality happens. Everybody spends 10 minutes discussing it and the results went against us. We had to take out the pitcher and put in a new one. He didn't pitch too well and they got 5 runs. So we lost. It was a heart breaker. We really should have won, even the other coach told Adam that! It was so frustrating to lose on a technicality, we were the better team! Nik is bummed. He did have an awesome catch while playing catcher!

The Braves

The fans

Showing off his guns in his new shirt!

July 4th

Our 4th of July was a blast! We were surrounded by family and friends and had delicious food and fireworks! What else do we need?! It was a great day! It was perfectly warm and sunny. We ate lots and played in the water!

And took tons of pictures!!

The 4th of July isn't complete without sparklers! I love them! Ariana liked them from faraway, but everyone else loved them too!

Ariana's 3rd Birthday

Today was Ariana's 3rd birthday. 

She was so excited to have her special day, which turned into three days of celebration. It started Friday when got a card from my grandma and her present came from my Mom and Dad. It is always great to get mail!!! She opened her gifts and LOVED them!

 

This backpack is a soft fluffy lion! So cute!! She got new clothes so she HAD to change!

Saturday she got to open a new pool from Mom, Dad, Grandma Sylvia and Grandpa Buzz! We sent it up and played in it all day (more pictures to come!)

We had cake and ice cream Saturday with family and friends! I won a decorated cake at a service auction at church last week. My sweet friend made Ariana this cake and Ariana loved it! It was so perfect for her! Marie is helping her hold it! Isn't is amazing?!

Along with the candles the cake had a sparkler on it! It was scary at first but she warmed up to it. She blew and blew until the sparkler and candles were out!

  

Ariana with Jordan and Michelle!

On Sunday we had popsicles and opened a few more presents! She had such a fun weekend. Thank you to all who made it so special!

Another win!!

The Braves won again tonight! It was a great game! 

My three ball players! Zoe's finished her season already. She had a blast and says she wants to play next year!

All the kids! It was a little chilly, can you tell. Ariana can not hold still for group shots!

Braves play Tuesday (at 7:45) for FIRST PLACE! It should be a good game to watch!

Ammon's last game

Ammon had his last game today. He has had so much fun this season. I have had fun watching him this season! He is an excellent player and I look forward to watching him grow and progress!

Two of Ammon's biggest fans!

Play Ball!

More baseball! Nik's team took first in the regular season and tonight won their second game of the tournament! They play Thursday and then again Tuesday for either first, second or third place.

Nik had an awesome game tonight. He pitched three inning and only had one hit which he threw to first for the out. He also went two for three up to bat!

GO BRAVES!!!

Hoodie

The weather has been weird this summer. We have had LOTS of rain. I don't mind. It keeps things on the cool side, gives us rainbows and the thunder and lightening storms here are awesome! The cooler weather has also given me the chance to dress Tori up in this cute hoodie that my mother in law gave her!

LOVE IT!

Outlines

The kids wanted to do something fun. I remembered a friend of mine traced her son's shadow on the sidewalk with chalk and he colored it in. It looked like such a fun activity but I didn't have chalk. I do have a HUGE roll of butcher paper left over from Jordan and Michelle's wedding. We cut off big pieces and got the crayons and had a blast outside. 

I traced each of the kids and they spent the next hour putting clothes on their outline.

And the final results!

Kalixta is running fast!

Gotta love the red, orange and green combo!

Love Ammon's spider man shirt!

Britain is laying in the grass looking at the clouds!

Britain went as far as to say, "This is the best day ever!" 

Kindergarten Days at the Doctor

Today I took Britain and Kalixta to kindergarten days at the doctor. It is the doctor's fun way of getting kids ready for kindergarten by getting their shots, vision test and other tests done. The first thing the girls were ask to do was pee in a cup. It was hilarious listening to them discuss that."We have to pee in a cup!" giggle "How do you pee in a cup?"giggle "Why do we have to?" more giggles "I don't want to drink out of that cup!" 

They had their temperatures taken, oxygen levels check and blood pressure taken. Kalixta thought it all tickled but Britain cried because the blood pressure cuff was squeezing her arm too hard. They had a finger prick to test for anemia. They didn't like that at all. They thought the vision test was funny! Then came all the fun checking from the doctor. Our doctor is great and had the girls giggling through all of it! 

The nurse then brings the girls t-shirts and wants them to take a picture with the doctor. Britain automatically starts posing. Kalixta is much more shy and doesn't know what to do. She starts doing her nervous signal and the doctor liked it and did it too. Here are the pictures!

Then came the shots which they screamed though. They ended up with a juice box, a granola bar, a passport to kindergarten, a t-shirt, and FOUR stickers so it was a good trip!

Tennis

We played tennis today for family night! It was fun and frustrating! I am not good, hence the frustrating part. Adam impressed me with his tennis skills!

Kenny and Marci came and had fun with us! They bought Jesse, Clayton and Levi! They had a good time too!

The kids had a blast!

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to the father's in our lives:

Sleepy Time

Britain, Kalixta and Ariana were playing a game. They each filled a laundry basket with blankets and pillows and were pretending to sleep and then wake up. They were downstairs for a good hour before Britain and Kalixta came up. They told me Ariana was really asleep in the laundry basket and I needed to take a picture. I was feeding Tori so Zoe volunteered to go down. She got the best pictures of the cutest little sleeper!

Oh, how I love sleeping kids!! One of my favorite sites!!

Zoe had to take one of herself too. Not the best picture of her, but I love it! I think it is funny she wants to take her own picture. I was never like that. I still hate being in pictures or on video! She is becoming a great photographer!!

Braves

Nik is really having a great year in baseball. He is pitching well. He has a number of strike out this year.

He also plays catcher and is really good.

He is hitting really well too. He has only struck out once or twice in the last thirty times at bat. He gets good solid hits. He has had two in park home runs already! Last week he hit in the winning run. They were tied in the bottom of the last inning. There was a runner on third and first and two outs! He got a good hit and the runner on third scored winning the game. It was great!! 

Coach Adam at work.

Right now they are in first place! If the finish in first they will have a chance to play for the state championship. Good Luck Braves!!

Flag Day

Happy Flag Day everyone.Yes, I know it was yesterday, but we celebrated it today. You see, in this part of the good state of Utah the Boy Scouts of America put a flag in everyone's yards. They use it as a fundraiser but will put a flag in your yard either way. I love how it makes the neighborhood look! It is beautiful to drive around and see flags in every single person's yard! 

Now that Nikolas is 12 years old he gets to help put the flags up and take them down. Yesterday he volunteered to do not one, but two routes because it looked fun! Lucky Adam got to drive him and a friend around this morning to put flags in all the yards.

 

Adam lucked out and got to go golfing with his brothers and sister in law so the kids and I drove Nik and his friends around tonight so they could pick up the flags.

Ammon had to get in on the picture taking and was goofy! Or cool! However you look at it!

 

Funny funny boys!