June 2012

We started June off with a camping trip to Coalville, Utah. It's past Park City probably another half hour.  We found the old Lincoln Highway and enjoyed reading some pioneer stories and looking at trains.  We even smashed some coins on the railroad! We went swimming and played a lot. Probably the highlight of our trip was taking our boat fishing on Echo Reservoir.  No fish, but a fun boat ride. We wanted to stop at an annual anique sale on the way home, but Makayla had a little heatstroke, so we needed to get home.  



Train smashed coins.



A hawk's nest on a telephone pole.

Ready for swimming.

Boat ride!

Antique sale place.


My brother Ben came home from his Seattle, Washington mission!!   We went to the airport to greet him and followed him to his release. The stake president forgot about it and had to drive an hour to get there, fun, fun! (not). Ben looks great and was a honorable missionary. I really loved his homecoming talk, you can just tell what a spiritual giant he is.



Balloons for Ben!



Welcome home Ben!

 

Drinking Jones Soda while waiting for the Stake President.

 My sister Maisy is in town from Mississippi and it is great having her here for a few weeks. Our kids love their cousins and I like visiting with them.

We celebrated Sterling's 3rd birthday by showering him with his favorite toys: cars and trucks. He is definitely 100% boy, how into them he is. He always has taken 2 cars to bed every night and at least 2 cars with him everywhere he goes, even in the car, and even to church.  He got to choose lunch, so we ate McDonalds so they could play on the slides and got his face painted with Batman.  In the evening, we went up to Silver Lake and had a picnic and had a nice nature walk around the lake.

We are working on potty training Sterling, some days have no accidents, some have too many.  I hope that we can get a handle on it soon enough as it would be awesome to only have 1 kid in diapers/pull-ups.

We took more trips to the Aquarium, the Zoo, and the local Spashpark.  They were feeding the otters at the Aquarium and we loved watching them run everywhere to find the hidden dead fish. The new Rocky Shores exhibit at the Zoo was cool too.



Scott and I celebrated out 10 year anniversary June 29th. I really can't believe it's been that long! 3 kids later, yeah it has.  We were hoping to do something really cool, like a mini-trip somewhere. We didn't plan it well enough, so when my mom offered to watch the kids for a night, and we took her up on it.  We did a staycation mega-date here. We went to Lagoon for 6 hours on Wednesday the 27th. We were able to catch the rollercoasters, which was awesome! We love thrill rides, but it's hard to do those with little kids. We then went to Fat Cat's Bowling and bowled 3 games each, Scott winning all of them :) We rented Man on a Ledge and got some ice cream.  The next day we went to IHop for breakfast and then mini golfing ( I won this one) at Hollywood Connections, then to a movie, The Hunger Games.  Then it was off to Nickelmania, an arcade.  We sure played hard and it was so great to have that much date time.  Thanks to my parents. Bring on the next 10 years!