A Busy Week

Labor Day started last week, but it wasn't the most relaxing holiday. We started off with a bike ride, JJ rode his two wheeler the whole time, he did great!!! After our bike ride Spencer and I worked in the yard, and fixed a sprinkler line. Thanks to Jason and Kris for having us over Monday night (that was the relaxing part)!

 

JJ's self portrait of his Halloween mask. Any guesses?

 

Wednesday JJ went back to preschool. He was so excited, he had a great day. 

Poor Eva thought she got to stay too. One more year dear!

 

Eva loves to dress herself these days, she's actually a little crazy and unreasonable about it. She wanted me to help her put socks on this day, but when I put her socks on she just yelled at me, "the blue one, Mom". Her blue is pink. She asks for a blue anything, you can be certain she wants PINK!

 

Friday night we went up to the Heber Valley Girls Camp with my family. We had a really good time. It was freezing and we had to snuggle really close to the fire. In the morning Spencer and Eva were sitting around the fire, and a spark landed on Eva, and went right through her pj's. Poor thing! Within an hour, you couldn't even tell where she had been burned. That was the only incident, Spencer caught a snake to show all the kids, and he got bit. Good thing I brought the first aid kit!

 

JJ was hilarious in the morning, he did not want to take his jammies off, because they are camo. He kept saying no one can see me. So I indulged his little imagination by asking, "Where did JJ go", and looking the wrong direction. I love his imagination and innocence. 

 

Sunday we went to some neighbors for dinner. The kids really like to help these days. They love to help make goodies. JJ has been really good to "clean his toy room", and Eva likes to help wipe the table.

 

My little monkey, always finds a tree to climb, this was in front of the library today. 

Where did the week go???

This week was really busy, I have some catching up to do...

 

Anything missing???

.....Training wheels!!!!!! Way to go JJ, your a two wheeler now!

My little Eva is so cute! She has a pep in her step that makes me smile, when she walks I think of the term twinkle toes.

JJ started soccer this week. On Monday we bought him some shin guards, he had to wear them ALL day!!!

 

Another beautiful afternoon at Thanksgiving Point Children's Garden.

  

JJ's first soccer goal. He scored two points! Way to go JJ!!!

Wednesday we went to JJ's preschool open house, he had to wear his soccer uniform to that too. 

 

Thursday we went to Grandma and Grandpa's house to watch the Utah football game. JJ wanted to be the bread on a sandwich.

Friday night we went to our ward camp out. We had a fun time!

 

Saturday morning we walked around Silver Lake, it was gorgeous! We love this time of year!

Saturday we finished the day at the Bee's game.

Enjoying the Great Out Doors!

Grandma dropped by last week. She came for a little walk on the shoreline trail!

Friday night we went for a little hike at Snowbird!

Saturday we went to the Provo River for a bike ride. JJ and Dad caught a snake, this was a catch and release!!!

Sunday Snuggles!!!

Family Bike Ride!!!

Cousin's comin out of the Bear Cave. Children's Garden at Thanksgiving Point.

Fierce Pirate!

Dancin' in Eva's outfit. Silly JJ!

Playin in the rain!

This and That...

Friday we went to the Zoo, again. We have a membership, so we go there a lot! If you ever want to go with us call me!

Thanks to Grandma Shauna for watching the kids for the weekend, so we could celebrate our Anniversary. We went golfing, went to a couple movies, and went to a BBQ. We really enjoyed the time off.

This is our bird friend from the golf course.

Tuesday was our cousins day this week. We tried to go to the South Jordan museum, it is closed until Sept. Plan B? We took the kids to Chick Fil A for Ice Cream and a little play time.

With all the afternoon thunderstorms we've had lately have come some amazing sunsets!!!

Yum Yum, a cooking enrichment group was scheduled for this week. The theme was "Summer Food", I made Gazpacho, a cold tomato soup. Spencer and I first tried it in a beach restaurant in sunny Malaga, Spain. Every time I make it, it reminds me of that trip. Spencer and I have had a lot of fun over the years, and I'm looking forward to many many more years of good memories!!!

Pictures from last week...

 

Last Friday my sisters and I went out to dinner with a few friends. We had a great time catching up! Hopefully it wont be another 10 years worth next time!

 

Saturday we went to Provo Canyon, there is a great bike trail with several playgrounds. We rode bikes, had a picnic, played in the water, and then walked to Bridal Veil Falls. We had a really fun day!  I love this picture of Eva, I copied the idea from Adrienne- Thanks! And here's JJ with his bike.

  

Sunday was beautiful, after church Spencer, JJ, and I sat on the porch while Eva napped. It was fun to just hang out, some of us got a little silly!

 

 

Monday night we went on a little hike as a family.

 

This is the whiny face ... pretty cute!

 

The kiddos love running threw the sprinkler, after, JJ laid down on the grass and said, "Mom, I think this would be a good picture!" He knows what he's talking about!

 

Wednesday was our 9th anniversary!!! Happy Anniversary Spencer!!! Thanks for the beautiful roses!

Wild Weekend

Friday I got up knowing I had a lot to do. We were going camping and I had to prepare 18 tin foil dinners for that night. Not to mention all the packing. Spencer was headed to work when he found a major problem. Our basement flooded!!! There was water everywhere. The only thing I could think of was that the sprinklers were on for a really long time the night before. You see two of our sprinkler lines wont turn on automatically, so Spencer had turned them on manually and kind of forgot about it. Well normally that wouldn't be such a big deal, but the end of the dripper was broken, it was like the hose was on and shooting right into our window well. Well it was a big mess, thankfully we were able to borrow our neighbors wet vac, and I used a little duct tape to fix the line, all is well now. One good thing came out of the chaos. As I was opening the windows to air out the basement I found "Crawly", that's right I found the lizard that escaped from the cage into the air ducts. Crawly was still alive, but looked very, very thin. So amongst all the chaos we had to tend to the poor little guy, he is now doing much better, I think he is out of danger. To top it all off I took my car into the shop to get the battery checked, it's been really funny when I start it. Well it was the alternator, thankfully it was still under warranty so we didn't pay a dime. We ended up taking Spencer's car camping, it has problems of it's own, but we made it.
We went to Little Deer Creek Campground in Wasatch State Park. We ate tin foil dinners, and I made cobbler with my Dutch Oven. Spencer gave me the Dutch Oven for Christmas and I've been excited to use it. The cobbler was yummy!!! The next morning we woke up to the sound of a pack of Coyotes. It was really cool to hear their calls, not something you experience everyday! After breakfast we took off to the Uintah's, and we spent the day at Tea Cup Lake. Spencer and the kiddos swam, and the Uncles and cousins spent the day fishing. We had a great time!!!

Here are the picture/s of the day:

 

My basement

 

Crawly's Back!

 

Campin Cousins!

 

Teacup Lake

 

Who knew "cleaning" the cooler could be so much fun!

 

JJ picked out a Star Wars book for completing the Summer Reading Program, he was so excited! Eva picked out a Dora book. 

 

Cousin's Day at Gateway. We took the kids to play in the fountains. They had a blast!

 

Poor little Eva fell off her chair at dinner, she wanted to sit on my lap the whole time. JJ asked me to get him something, so I moved Eva off my lap. She cried and cried, then JJ offered his lap to her, that did the trick. What a nice brother!!!

 

Twice this week Eva wore under ware, no problem. On Tuesday I let Eva pick out her very own under ware at Target thinking she'll love wearing the ones she picked out. Wrong! She doesn't want anything to do with them. This morning I put them on her head, just to be silly, and hoping that she would be interested in them. She's wearing pull ups for now, but I told her that when the pull ups are gone she has to wear her under ware. She is definitely ready for it. I don't remember the last time I had to change a poopy diaper.