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Summer Fun Week 4

A Visit to the Mitchells in Aztec, New Mexico.

Car Ride Silliness!

Lunch Break at our favorite Moab Park.  They even had new instruments since the last year when we were there.

In New Mexico

Little I's new pal.  J and Little I. hung out a lot during the week.

Trampoline Fun

Hike around their property. (They have 30 acres.  How fun is that? I'll tell you.  A LOT of Fun!)

Their Riverside Beach

Walking the drive.

Lounging.

 Bunk House

 Hanging out in the Bunk House

 Horse Riding.  My Pearls loved it!

Riverside Campfire

 Mmmm S'Mores

Community Swimming Pool.  Towards the end a huge wind storm come up.  The wind brought with it sand.  We were planning on leaving and that sped up the process!

 Night time reading with Paul by flashlight. We had a power outage from the wind storm.

Fun and Games

We heard Christine and 3 of her girls all of who play really well.

 A visit to the Aztec Ruins.  We really enjoyed it.  The guide to special interest in our family and showed us more after the tour.  Miss B was really into it because she has studied quite a bit on different Native American tribes.  That influenced her sisters' interests.

 

 

 

 

 Miss A lost another tooth.

 Coloring with J.

Swimming down the overly refreshing (aka freezing-believe me, I know.  I went down it too. It's amazing how children don't seem to mind as much) canal.

Miss A's escort.

Eating at A&W

Thanks Paul and Christine and Kiddos for making it a Great week.  We had tons of fun (dispite the fact that my family took turns being sick, except for Rob.  Sorry Paul, but glad that it didn't keep going). Thanks for putting up with us.  

We love yous!

We enjoyed lunch on the way home sitting across from the Monticello Temple.  Pretty amazing how small it is.  It was neat to see.

On the way home scenery.  I saw a lot of rock formation that were pretty amazing.

We returned home Friday evening in time for me to get things ready for Miss M's baptism Saturday morning.

 

Miss M has such an amazing spirit.

 Afterwards we had a luncheon.  Little I was sneaking into the cake.  She would dip her fingers in it and then hide under the counter to eat it.

Summer Fun Week 3

This post is a week late because we left towards the end of it.  Here are our exciting events for the week:

~ Basketball Camp

~ Piano Lessons

~ Gymnastics

~ Little I went to a birthday party which seemed really fun.  They had the Bean Museum come and they brought a live snake, lizard and turtle and some other stuff for the children to enjoy.

~ Photo shoot for Miss M's baptism invite.  She loved it and it was fun taking photos of her.

Part of the time my other 4 Pearls played at the park.  Then we joined them and even got some water fun in.

  My Pearls love books - they kind of took over looking at this girl's book who was also at the park.

 

 

 Baby wanted to cross the stream like Miss M.

 She was helped along the way.

Clapped her hands and shouted "I did it!  I did it!" on the other side.  It was so cute.

 Peek-a-boo

 

 

~ Royce, a friend of Rob's, stayed with us until Sunday and then he and his wife stayed a night while we were away.

~ Sprinkler Fun

~ Master Gardener picnic up in the mountains.

My Pearls really loved beating up the corn on the cob pinata (made by the guy on the right)

 

 

 ~ Bought a sucker fish.  The fish tank was getting gross.  Okay, it was passed gross.  We had been meaning to buy a algae eater for awhile and finally did.  They are amazing! Right away it went to town.  The tank is spotless now.  Way to go Sucker!

~ Neighborhood yard sale Saturday morning

Miss M's "booth."  She made $10-$15.  Our little entrepreneur.

~ We left for New Mexico to visit the Mitchells right after the yard sale. (More on that on Summer Fun Week 4). 

~ We didn't get in a real hike for the week, but played a lot :)