Pioneer Day

For the 24th of July (Pioneer Day in Utah) we went to Jared's home town of Levan.  We love to go down there.  It really is such a nice small town and everyone is so friendly.  On Saturday morning we got the kids all ready.  My parents and my sister Tori came with us.  We got down there and then Jared took the kids plus a ton of candy so that they could get in the parade line-up.  I set up some chairs at Grandma Myrt's house and watched the parade with my parents and Jared's parents and his sisters and a few cousins.

After the parade a friend of my in-laws asked if anyone wanted to ride in the wagon, of course Lucas and Paige wanted to go.  (MaKady had already gone for a walk with my Dad) so they hoped in and headed down the road.  I picked them up a while later and we headed down to the city park for lunch.

In the afternoon they had games and inflatables for the kids.  Lucas and MaKady really liked the games.  Lucas liked the roping the horse game the best and it was hard for him to move on to the next one.

After the kids played games all afternoon we sat in the shade and waited for dinner.  They have such a nice dinner at the park.  Lucas had a lot of fun jumping to Grandpa.

After dinner the sun set and they had the greatest firework show.  It really was amazing.  I love fireworks, its one of the best things about summer.

Weekend Away

We decided to head up to my parents house for the weekend because we knew we would be moving soon and we never know how long it will be in between visits.  When we got there my mom had lunch already to go.  Jared just had to throw it on the grill.  Yum!!

 

Mary and Trinity were there visiting as well.  Paige, Trinity, and Lucas had a blast "dancing" in the sprinkler.

Lucas loves playing in the water.  This is how he has looked most of the summer, soaking wet dirt all over the place, having a great old time.

MaKady & Grandpa

My Mom

On Saturday afternoon we decided to go to Crystal Hot Springs, but when we stepped outside it was pouring, and I mean litteraly buckets of water.  There was a flash flood warning and my aunt even called my mom to see if everything was okay.  It lasted about 15 minutes and then it just stopped.  So we got to go to the hot springs after all.  It was really a fun weekend.  Glad we got to go.

 

 

Swimming Lessons

A few weeks ago we packed the kids up one Saturday and decided to go to Yuba for the day.  We love going down there in the summer and we felt like it would be fun.  But when we got down there we were disappointed.  The lake is so full that all of the beaches are covered up.  The water is clear up to the road, there is hardly any place to park let alone play in the sand and have a picnic lunch so we turned around and headed home.

Around Levan Jared said, what if we just go swimming at the Nephi pool and then have our lunch at the park.  So that is what we did.  The kids loved it, and Jared had a great time jumping off the diving board.  He said it reminded him of his childhood.  While we were there we noticed that Paige really needed some swimming lessons.  We had looked into them before, but because we are not residents of Payson, the price is too high.  But at the Nephi pool it was a really great price.

Paige started swimming lessons on Monday the 4th of July.  She went every morning for 2 weeks.  She loved it.  And by the end she was swimming much better. 

I got to go watch her one of the days because I took work off.  It was fun to watch her having a great time.  She had 2 teachers and there were 3 little boys in her class.  At one point they had all the kids sit up on the edge of the pool and do a sitting dive off the edge.  The teachers were there to help if they needed it.  All the boys went first and they each dove in then swam to the edge.  Then it was Paige's turn.  Her form was good and she tucked her head to dive in.  She started leaning into the water and I thought everything was going great, but all of a sudden she twisted her little body and grabbed right onto her teachers head.  (I about died laughing, yeah I'm that parent that thinks everything is hilarious).  Her teacher scolded her a little and told her that the next time she should jump straight into the water.  So Paige said "ok" and up she went to get in line again.  The boys went and then it was her turn again.  She looked good, leaned into the water, then bam!!  She did it again.  Hilarious!!!  They moved onto something else after that.

We loved that she got to take swimming lessons this year.  It was so much fun for her.

Crazy..

So much has been going on in our life these last few weeks.  Actually the last 3 years have had many ups and downs, but we won't go into details.  Let's just say that we have some major changes headed our way.  I feel excited, nervous, sad, happy, crazy....you get the idea.  Also I wanted to share this link because I know how easy it is to get wrapped up in our own day to day things and start to feel like why me?  I love this blog.  What a wonderful story of love and hope.

Zoo

I needed a day just to spend with my family so I took Thursday off and we went to the zoo.  It's been a long time since we last went and it was the first time.  It was so fun to just watch his reaction to everything.  When we were first buying our tickets the kids were throwing pennies into the little waterfall.  Then when we went to try and go in Lucas started crying.  I guess he thought that was all we were going to do.  HaHa!!

 Jared decided to go on the carousel with Lucas.  He first sat Lucas up on this lion then all of a sudden he jumped up there with him.  There was a sign that said "1 rider per animal"  I thought the guy was going to make him get down, but he didn't.

 MaKady wanted me to take a picture of all the bats. She loves bats.  

What a super fun day.  I'm so glad I was able to take the day off of work to spend with my family.  So far our summer has been great!!

35 Years

My hubby turned 35 on June 2.  This was not a birthday he was looking forward to, but he woke up that morning and he said - "I don't feel any older".  I just had to laugh at him.  For his birthday we went to Trafalga.  Me, Mary and the kids played miniature golf while Jared, Trent, and Tyler went to the batting cages, then we all played in the arcade for a while.  We met my parents at Golden Coral for lunch.  It was a mad house as always but that's why we like going there.  I tease my parents that we are the Griswold's.

In the afternoon we came home and had banana cream pie (because that is Jared's favorite) and sang happy birthday and he opened a few presents.  Happy Birthday Love!!

Alaska - Tuesday

Tuesday July 21, 2011

We left Alaska at 8:00 am and got to Seattle Washington around 11:30 their time.  At first we thought about just hanging out in the airport for the next 8 hours till our flight left for Salt Lake but honestly who really wants to sit in an airport all day?  So we found a little place to check our luggage and we ventured out.

We took the light rail from the airport to downtown Seattle then got on another little monorail to go to the Space Needle.  It's something I have always wanted to see, so this was our chance.

 We all look just lovely don't we.  I guess it's from traveling, but...

It really was so cool to see the space needle and to go up in it.  I didn't know the history of it and it really is pretty cool. "Built in 1962, the Space Needle served as the symbol of that year's World's Fair. It has since become the symbol of Seattle, and one of the most recognizable structures in the world."


After we went up in the space needle we had lunch at the Seattle Center and took the monorail and light rails back to the airport.  We caught our flight and made it home to Salt Lake around midnight.  It really was a wonderful trip and something I will never forget.