Hazel's 2!

Our sweet Hazel is 2! We love this little girl so much. She has always been so so sweet and mellow, but as soon as she started walking she was suddenly bursting with energy and personality (and a little bit of attitude). She also thinks now that she's walking that she can keep up with her older sisters and brother. The night before her birthday, she was riding her tricycle with them and fell into our thyme bush (resulting in the big scratch you see on her neck).

On her birthday, we celebrated by getting snow cones and then going to Pima to play at the playground.The kids playing with the bubble machine Hazel got for her birthday. Hazel loves bubbles!
Hazel looking at a book from Uncle Matt and Aunt Nikki.Hazel's very favorite thing was this little doll stroller. Hazel loves babies and was loving pushing it around!Ben and I each have a "birthday buddy". Brigham is mine and Hazel is his. Her birthday is the day after his so we had a joint party on Friday night. Here's a picture of the birthday buddies blowing out their candles.

Treehouse Museum

We just had to go to the Treehouse Children's Museum while we were in Utah. The kids love this place. And I got lots and lots of cute pictures of them having fun.

Brigham dressed as George Washington.Aren't they cute little firefighters? Dr. Barfus

King Brigham and Queen Rachel

Playing school.Hazel loved the babies in the hospital/nursery area.Brigham trying to pull the sword from the stone

Eliza made this little clay pot in the art garden.

Brigham loved this pirate ship.Guess who loves to play dress-up?

Hogle Zoo

Uncle Matthew and Aunt Jenny met us in Salt Lake so that we could all go to the Zoo together while we were in Utah.Mic and Libby also came. We had to get this picture with the tiger because Uncle Mic is a big fan of cats;)Hazel really liked the prairie dogs.Playing at the playground

Dinosaur Park

Utah Summer Trip

Apparently I didn't get enough of vacation so what else is a girl to do but beg her husband to let her take the kids to Utah and play for a couple of weeks! And, Ben (being the awesome hubby that he is) sensed my need to get away and spend some time with my family so he very sweetly obliged. It was very spur of the moment and we had nothing planned, but that was the beauty of it--a vacation where the main objective is to have fun and relax! I also talked Nikki into driving down with us for moral support so that was nice. She got to visit her family and stock up on stuff for the new baby so it was a win-win situation. Anyway, we packed loads of fun stuff into two weeks and had a great time. Here are some of the highlights:

Playing in the water in Grandma and Grandpa Shelton's backyard

Taking baths in Great Grandma Lofthouse's BIG tub

A picnic at the park for FHE

Gelata at Zeppe's!

Swimming at North Shore Pool

Cafe Rio with Rachel and Steve Kelson and cute baby Will (I wish I had gotten a picture!)

Visiting our Barfus Family in Cache Valley (Again, did not make good use of my camera...)

We also did the Dinosaur Park, the Hogle Zoo and the Treehouse Children's Museum , but they each get their own post because there were just soooo many cute photo opps and, consequently, I have dozens of pictures to share! More to come!