Summer Fun Week 8

Pioneer Day, Sunday July 24th

also my cousin's birthday (Happy Bday Anita!)

We went and visited a couple of old neighbors: Sister Clegg and Susie.

The following photos are at Susie's.  We actually didn't get to visit with her.  She wasn't home.  We enjoyed her animals and yard and will have to go by again soon to visit with her.

My Pearls love the animals.  More and more I want to be able to get horses for them (along with chickens and maybe throw in some other animals.  They want pigs too, but I'm not too sure about that).

Miss B wearing a pioneer hat to go with the day's celebrations.

 This baby miniature horse kept nudging Baby and following her.

 

 Playing in the goat pen.

Zip Line at Susie's

You can't see them well because it was getting dark, but I wanted to put the videos on for them anyway.

Miss M & B

Valley Fireworks

 Sparklers with some neighbors.

Let's see.  What else went on this week.  I slacked in the photo department this week.  Although not visually documented, we had a fun week.

~ We had a wonderful evening bbqing, visiting, hot tubbing and slip'n'sliding.  We were just getting into fireworks when a HUGE wind storm blew in.  Some grabbed their little'uns and ran for cover while others scavenged to get the bbq stuff inside.  A little scary, but we all came out unscathed.  Overall it was a nice evening.

 ~ My Pearls and I went to our community pool.  Fun as always.

~ Piano and gymnastic lessons.

~ B had a water party to finish off her basketball camp.  Thanks Coach Katie! 

~ M & B took their Dad to a Father/Daughter activity.  Luau was the theme and they said that it was a lot of fun. Then we finished off our fireworks at home.

~ A Big Announcement of the Week:

New cousin (boy of course) born on Thursday, July 28th to Steve and Cara.

He is so adorable!  I don't have any photos to share at the moment so you will just have to trust me.  Can't wait to see him in person.  Maybe we will have to plan a trip out to Colorado soon.

~ Family Picnic at the Park

~ Visited the girls new school.  They are transferring to a Montessori style charter school.  The girls are nervous and excited at the same time.  Me too.  It feels like the right move for them though.  The hardest part for the girls is not being able to see there friends at school.  But now there are new friends to make.  :)

~ Some hula

~  As a family we went and saw Kung Fu Panda II.  It was a good show.  We RARELY all go to the theatre.  1.  expensive, especially with our size group.  2.  don't get to see a lot of the movie because the little one needs to move about so much.  I'm usually in the back trying to keep her occupied so that I can see some of the movie.  This time it was actually better.  I still had to wrestle with her most of the time, but while sitting.  The step in the right direction.  Right?  We went because Miss M's eye therapy group treated everyone who goes to the office.  They do this each year.  It is very nice of them.  They have a great staff and do a fabulous job.

~ Saturday night I went to Dear Lizzie for what I thought was a blogger meet up.  It was my first time going.  I wanted to go to meet other bloggers, plus see Dear Lizzie store.  I have been wanting to go there for awhile and finally had a good excuse.  Not that I needed one.  The evening turned out to be a Soiree for Spark The Event (yeah, I obviously didn't look at the details of the fb message) I am so glad that I went.  I am very excited about Spark The Event.  It is going to be an amazing event.

I will share more about that later.

No hike this week. Second week in a row, unless you count our "hike" around SLC.  ;)  Oh well, at least we are getting some water time in! 

It was a great week.  I can't believe there are only a few weeks left of summer.  Sad!  I love playing with My Pearls! and am going to miss while they are in school.  And enjoy the break from each other at the same time :)

Do you have any big plans to finish off the summer?

Summer Fun Week 7

~Started off with some thriftie shopping.  The girls were having fun trying on a bunch of High heels.

They fit me Mom.  Can you buy them?  

Me: Yes, maybe when you're 20.

~4 Batches of cookie dough, can't ever make too much. A friend was leaving to go into the Mission Training Center and we made him a big bag of cookies.  And then we have been eating the rest.  :)

 ~Corn on the cob eating.

~Movie watching

 ~My lucky #13

 ~Creating

~Magic Trick Show.  The girls went around to the neighbors to get them to come watch the show (2 tricks).  They had several adults and kids coming over.  They made signs and put the signs on their bikes.  You could easily hear them ride around and yell Magic Show For Free.  They would also do this to every passing car.

 ~Getting ready to bike ride.

~A family of quails come hang out in my neighbor's yard everyday.  You can't see them well in the photo, but believe me they are there.  The babies and mama are eating away while the dadeo looks on.  It is neat to watch how the dad watches out for the safety of his family.

~Miss B brought me Baby late the other night while I was working on the computer.  She was soaked in sweat and so I took her shirt off.  Baby sat in my lap and was playing with a pen.  I knew she had a pen because she was clicking it open and closed.  Moments later, not sure how many moments,  (you know how you can get lost into the computer world) I noticed that the pen wasn't clicking anymore.  I looked down and she had decided to use the pen...on herself. She has more all over both thighs that you can't see in the photo.  Oops.  Guess I should've been paying attention to her a little better.

 

 ~Enjoyed one of our favorite backyards.

~I found this sign taped to the back of our van a couple days after they had done the show.  We had been driving around a lot that day too.  Hilarious!  It would be fun to know some of the thoughts people in other cars would have had.

~Hot tubbing (this ended up being our water venue.  I know, lame since it is in our yard.  I did plan on going to a real water venue, but Rob had to work that day we were going to go and ended up changing plans 3 times that day, Saturday.)

 

~Wedding reception fun.  They had a photobooth which M&B especially enjoyed!

The frosting is all over her face.

 Plan #3

~ July 24 Pioneer Day Celebration Breakfast

The Stake President brought his horses. and My Pearls enjoyed them.  Miss M and B couldn't get enough and wished that they really could have ridden them around.  I couldn't keep them away.

Ready to ride!

 

~ We then proceeded to Kennecott.  Pretty amazing!  Miss B didn't want to go, then once we were there didn't want to leave.  

The sky photo is with the moon.  Little I loves to point out the moon during the day.

Ate a little In and Out.

While Rob was at a meeting My Pearls and I headed over to Temple Square.  We didn't get enough time there a couple of weeks ago and wanted to go again.  We had not been downstairs in the North Visitor Center very long when the fire alarm went off.  My oldest two were a little panicked.  It ended up being a false alarm and we could re-enter the building only a couple of minutes after exiting.  

We sat for a short time in the tabernacle.  Baby picked up on the acoustics right away and kept making hooting sounds so she could hear the echo.

Someone was practicing on the organ and it was loud and the piece he was playing was annoying.  I couldn't quite get what it was supposed to really sound like.  Or maybe he was just trying to be loud and obnoxious.

Rob met up with us after his meeting and we then finished the fun, hot day off with some ice cream.

Summer Fun Week 6

This week was packed with fun.  We had Aunt Glant and Cousin C staying with us for part of it.

This is how it went (and a reminder that many shots are done with my iphone):

~ Baby wanted her hair done for church until I started to do it.  But we toughed through it.

~ A couple of surprise photo shoots by a couple of My Pearls.  There were about 20 done of the patriotic combo.

 

 ~ Water Park Fun

~ 12of12

You can read the photos/events details here.

~ Miss A Gymnastics

~ Miss B Basketball Camp

~ M & B swimming for Activity Days

~ Jeepin'!

~ Worked on some furniture and stuff.

~ Ice Cream to cool off.  3rd try was a charm.  We went to the BYU creamery on 9th but there was a HUGE line of camp kids.  So we tried the WILK. Closed.  3rd try was B&R.  Success (w/ blurry photos)!

 ~ Visit to Temple Square.  It was great!  A friend of Glant's was able to join us.

Kendra, A. Glant, Little I, Cousin C, Miss B, Baby, Miss A, Miss M, Mwa

 Aunt Glant handing out wishing pennies.

 I believe one of us ladies said something about wishing we could wade in the pool.  Let me say you can't turn your back.  I turned around and found one of My Pearls standing in the reflection pool. Guess who?

 

Right after having her get out another daughter of mine got in. Geesh!  But we did discover that the reflection pool is not only about a foot and a half like we thought.  It was over knee deep for the 2 water testers.

Nice and reverent

Thanks Aunt Glant and Cousin C for visiting with us!

~ Cleaning the hot tub 

~ Chillin' ~ Yummy barbeque, amazing yard, fantastic weather, great music and beautiful friends.

Pals

M & M

 

What kind of summer chillin' did you enjoy this week?

Oh, and here is a video I found that I don't believe I had seen before.  I think it was taken about a year ago.