Provo Rec Center with the Fam

We spent Friday night at Gm and Gp Bailey's house then headed to the Provo Rec Center on Saturday.

The Provo Rec Center is basically the best thing that's ever happened to our summers. It's the best! It has a huge indoor pool area with a big kiddie area, lazy river, rock-climbing and diving area, 2 indoor/outdoor slides, and another pool AND it has a big outdoor pool area with another huge kiddie area, wave pool, and 2 big slides. It's basically a mini Wet 'n' Wild, but for only $4 for kids and $5 for adults. It's a steal and hours of fun!

We wanted to go again before the summer ends and thought it'd be fun to get some more family to come with us. We ended up with quite the group and it was a blast! We had us, Gm and Gp Bailey, Preston and Devin and their boys, Mark and Mandy and their kids, cousin Paul, and Robert and Susie.

Aunt Susie and Anne.

Uncle Robert somehow got charge of crazy Will! ☺

Bruce, Mark, and Uncle Robert (and I think it's Madelyn jumping off the climbing wall).

Preston and Warren

Gp Bailey, Aunt Susie, and Will.

Paul jumping off the 'cliff'

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Beckett chasing Madelyn around Uncle Robert ☺. When we ventured to the outside pool Uncle Robert told the group he needed to find some "Mathews shade" haha. We were all laughing because it's SO true!! Mandy and Devin were saying they had to get used to being with the Mathews family who is always trying to find the shade when the families they grew up in wanted to get out in the sun! I added, "Ya! Pam is always wanting to sit outside in the sun when we go out to dinner and I'm like, uh, no." Haha, I'm a Mathews you know!! 

Warren, Devin, Rhett, Preston, Pam, Nolan.

My cute Nolan ♥

Gm and Gp Bailey were so kind and invited us all over for a BBQ at their house after the pool. Mandy and I both expressed concern that we might scare them off with our crazy, big crew but it seemed to go really well! (Mandy did offer to gag Will to help bring the decibel level down a few notches ☺). 

Gp Bailey busted out these cute little tractors that you put together. The kids all loved them and it kept them occupied for a good half an hour!

Then...Gp Bailey brought out the big guns and started a big water balloon fight!!

Some kids enjoyed getting wet and getting others wet, others only really wanted to get other people wet haha. But it was a blast!

It was such a fun summer day and a day that reminded me how grateful I am to have such an awesome family that I love being with ♥