Our Friday Field Trip

We had a fun field trip last Friday to the Church History Museum and Temple Square.

Our Fourth of July

So I didn't take many pictures over the fourth of July, but blogging has pretty much gone way down on my priority list. I am at that stage of my pregnancy when I'm doing good just to get my laundry done. I did get a couple of cute pictures of Ben and Brig playing frisbee.
I was also told to take a picture of this huge water slide at Lava Hot Springs. We spent the day there with my dad's family at a reunion and Emma was very brave to go down the purple slide with her dad.

I love to see the temple...

On Saturday, we were able to take the kids to their first temple open house at the Oquirrh Mountain temple. The kids enjoyed it and it was a wonderful teaching opportunity for us as parents. How grateful I am for the temple! It makes me so happy to see my children wanting to do the right things so that they can go there someday.
After the open house we went to see my sister, Jenny's, new condo in Pleasant Grove which is only about 15-20 minutes from the temple. It is very cute and she is excited to be a homeowner! We had lunch with Jenny and then went to a bridal shower for my cute soon-to-be sister-in-law, Nikki, at her parents house in Riverton. We finished the day by having dinner with the fam at Golden Corral and going to my cousins wedding reception in West Jordan. Whew! What a day! I really should have taken more pictures, but I didn't take any except for some of Brigham playing with these awesome trucks at the wedding reception. He loved them!
It was a very long, but good, day after which I immediately collapsed into bed without even helping my poor husband bring everything in from the car--and he didn't even complain! He's so good to me. I am really looking forward to having this baby so that I have a little more energy. Only 5 more weeks to go--whoo hoo!

We had another fun day today with my neice Katie at Beus Park in Ogden. It is such a fun place--a duck pond with tons of hungry ducks, a walking path, a playground, swings and a little creek that the kids couldn't resist. They all came home wet and dirty, but they sure had fun! I was wishing I had my camera and afterwards realized it was in my bag the whole time! Oh well...I'll have to take lots of pictures over the 4th of July weekend to make up for my lack of picture taking lately!

Happy Father's Day!

Look at that daddy with his cute little kiddies! I tried to be nice and let Ben sleep in on Father's Day, especially since he did his race the same weekend, but the kids were super excited to give him presents and breakfast in bed so I think he slept till about 8:00 am (in our house, that kinda is sleeping in...). The kids had so much fun decorating the wrapping for his presents with stamps, markers and stickers the day before so it really wasn't the presents, but the wrapping that they were excited about. Ben is such a great daddy and he takes such good care of us. I am so lucky to have him!

Of course we made him a special breakfast--raspberry almond stuffed french toast! Yum...

We gave him this cute picture frame with pictures of him and the kids that said "Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a daddy."

The kids made Ben this special Father's Day tie and were so thrilled when he wore it to church and received lots of attention.
We went to parents' house for our Father's day feast and I had to get this picture of me with my dad--isn't he cute? I love you dad!

Way to go Ben!

Ben participated in the much anticipated Wasatch Back race last weekend. He did the race last year and had a lot of fun so he decided to give it another go. It's kind of funny because he still doesn't profess to enjoy running all that much, but the race itself it the fun part and it's good incentive to get some exercise. He loves to shave his head, especially when he has what he considers a valid excuse so he did so just for the occasion even though he knows I do not find it at all attractive. I fared pretty well with the kids except for the fact that our computer got a virus and I, being the computer illiterate that I am, had no choice but to stay off of it until he was able to fix it. Needless to say, I've gotten a little behind on blogging. Regardless, the kids and I had fun making all sorts of Father's Day surprises while he was gone.

Here's Ben with his team.

Here he is right after he got home Saturday night. Doesn't he look pooped?

Bowling on a rainy day

The forecast for today was rain so we changed our original plans to go to Pineview Reservoir and went bowling (for free) at FatCats. You can actually bowl up to two games for free any day during the summer and just pay the shoe rental fee. Cool huh? Of course, we used bumpers and a little ramp thing that you roll the ball down so it was kind of cheating, but the kids did pretty well. Amazingly, Brig was content to sit in his stroller for most of the time, but towards the end even he got in on the action. He really just like picking up the bowling balls and dropping them on the floor--luckily no toes were smashed!

Summer is here!

I've been so busy enjoying summer already that I haven't even had time to blog about it! I was actually really excited for the kids to get out of school so that we could spend some time together as a family and not be tied to our regular routine so much. We have a lot of fun things planned for the summer (at least for the first couple of months) so I should have lots of fun pictures to share.

But first:

Here's Eliza graduating from kindergarten,Emma's field day,
and the kids in their new favorite popcicle eating spot. (Notice the red spots on those white pants--what was I thinking buying white leggings anyway?)

We kicked off our summer by going to Willow Park in Logan with a few other moms and kids from our ward. They have a cute little zoo that the kids enjoyed and we stopped by Gossner's on the way home for ice cream and cheese. YUM!

We also got to stop by and visit Ben's sister, Kelli, to see her new house and baby. It was very fun to see them and visit for awhile. I should have taken some pictures of her sweet new baby--he was so precious! I'm jealous that I still have two more months of being pregnant, but in the meantime, I'm trying to stay busy so I don't think about it too much! I hope that you are all enjoying the summer as much as we are!