Success

Hannah went to nursery today all by herself. The senior primary kids were able to sing in peace.

"Not Grape"

Hannah loves grapes a lot. They are probably her favorite food. She will hang on the fridge and say "want grape!" This is how my mom got Hannah to like her, by feeding her grapes.

Today we were eating lunch and Hannah said "not grape". I looked over and saw a chewed up grape tomato set back on the vegetable plate we were eating from. It was pretty funny. She was not happy to find out she wasn't eating a grape.

Fall

Yesterday Matthias fell off a 5.5 foot drop into a river. While not super surprising it was a little scary. He, James, and a friend were playing on the ledge near the water as they usually do and I guess he slipped. I was not watching right at the time of the fall, but looked over just after to see James and Mckadie staring down at the water. He only had some scraps on his knee. The kids said he landed on his back. There are a lot of large rocks in that river so I'm just glad he didn't hit his head. The water is only about 6 inches deep. I was a little shaken up last night, but he seems fine. I'm really happy things didn't turn out worse. I have a feeling I'm going to have a lot of stress over Matthias as the years go by...

Antelope Island

We went out here July 9 and had mixed feelings. I love it and had a lot of fun. It was super hot though so most of the other adults were a little turned off by all the heat. Plus Aubrey wasn't super happy so everyone but our family ended up leaving right after the hike. But we had a fun hike and our kids loved it. Then we visited the ranch which was fun. The kids enjoyed looking at all the cowboy stuff. After we tried to walk down to the Great Salt Lake to let the kids put their feet in the water. We made it about half way down to the beach when Taylor shouted that we had to go back. We literally turned around a ran as fast as we could back to the car, waving our arms around our heads trying to avoid getting eaten alive by biting gnats. Seriously, they we SO bad! I promised to take the boys back in August with lots of bug spray.

Castle Park

Here the kids are at G-ma and G-pa Harvey's Castle Park. The boys love going here with Grandpa every time we come to Utah!




I'm sure Grandma was very happy when the boys showed up with this 'stick'. They carried it all the way home from the park.


Before we left the boys were transcribing books in the backyard (their idea).

4th of July

We went to South Salt Lake parade Saturday morning with my family, then over to the once amazing carnival. This year it was reduced to just 2 inflated bouncers, one snow cone stand, and some races. Pretty sad showing, but the kids had fun any way and we had fun since everything but snow cones was free.







Then we had a bbq with my family and hung out all day. Lots of fun and very calm and relaxing. The boys spent approximately 6 hours in my parents' sand box.

We ran back up to Fruit Heights that night so my family could get ready for their trip to California. We did some sparklers and fire works in the cul-de-sac. Then we sat on the drive way to watch two big firework shows. The boys were so wired. We had a lot of fun!




Here the boys are with Taylor's cousins (Kathy's youngest brother Ben's kids)
Matthias, Court, James, Jace


The kids pretty much lit all the fireworks. Bailey (age 9) made sure all the boys got a turn to set the firework in the road and she lit most of them herself. It was lots of fun to watch.

Tennis

James wanted to take a tennis class this summer, so I signed him up for one through our community center. The class was very inexpensive and James had a great time. He really learned a lot and can hit a ball with a racquet which is more that I can do. Since I've never played tennis before I also learned a lot just watching.