Summer Vacation

 

As always, I’m hopelessly behind in blogging. But I really wanted to post about our trip to my parents house at the beginning of summer. At this point in life, we only go visit them once a year, and I love to look at the pictures.

Hanging out at the hotel.

On our way to Ivins we stopped at the Kennecott Utah Copper Mine (aka Bingham Canyon Mine), I’m not sure which is the official name.

What strong kids!

It was really quite fascinating to me. That whole is enormous! I was glad we stopped to see it, but we were all ready to be on our way.

One of Ben’s favorite things to do at my parent’s house is pick apricots. It’s kind of hit or miss whether they will be ripe when we get there. But he doesn’t seem to mind eating slightly green apricots. This year they were pretty good.

While we were there the first bad heat wave of the season hit – maybe around 104 degrees? It totally sucked the life out of me for a couple of days. One of the days we got out the slip-n-slide for the kids. I’m not sure how much actual slipping and sliding went on, but they still enjoyed playing in the water.

And while the kids played, the adults sat around shootin’ the breeze. That’s one of my favorite things to do there.

Adam took the kids out to Dixie Rocks/Sugar Loaf/?Some Park. I really don’t know the actual name. But the kids sure enjoy going there. I’ve never been yet, because I have always either been pregnant or too nervous to take a baby/toddler to those rocks. But someday I’ll make it there.

And what a beautiful view of St. George from on the rocks. I love to see the St. George Temple right there in the middle.

Well I have a bunch more pictures to put up. Hopefully tomorrow? Or even later today? We’ll see.

What we’ve been up to (a while ago)

Here’s a little bit of what we were doing before school got out. It’s kind of a long post filled with a bunch of pictures.

A trip to the park with Pa and Grandma, and The Tomlinsons.

Cute Ben

Pirate Emma

Super Spencer

Me and Sydney, and Grandma Martineau

Pa with Rachel, and Megan with Sarah

Daniel and Rachel

We also went to an Easter egg hunt put on by our ward (the day before Easter), at our local park.

Bucket Heads Spencer and Emma – I don’t know where bucket head Ben is.

Rachel and Daniel getting ready to find some eggs!

Chilin’ Sarah, and Megan and Cousin Melanie!

That weekend we also colored some Easter Eggs.

And lastly, some pictures from Bounce – our local bounce house play place – which the kids love!

If you look closely at that last picture you’ll notice a band aid on Ben’s chin. That’s from when he fell of his scooter on the way to school and split his chin. Poor guy!

Hoot

This year I am trying to give only homemade gifts. It is giving me a great reason to sew, it saves money, and I can use up some of my excess fabric. (Is their even such thing as excess fabric?) So far I’ve done okay, but not great. Mostly because I just run out of time and energy to make it all.

But a little while ago Emma was invited to a birthday party, and I had the idea to try and make an owl pillow, similar to one that we had seen at Target and loved. I used only fabric and scraps that I had on hand, and appliqued most of the pieces on. I was so pleased with the outcome!

Emma was in love with it also, which made her so excited to give it to her friend! And it also made her really want to keep it for herself. Maybe she can help me make one in her own fabric choices. :)

Playing Catch

Adam took some action shots of the kids playing catch. You can tell a lot about their personalities by their throwing form. :) Or at least I can.

Sydney didn’t play catch (in case you were wondering), but she’s still awfully cute! All these pictures are still from March, that’s why everyone is a bit bundled.