6.22.2011

Summer So Far

I've finally uploaded the pictures off my camera and was reminded of how much we've done so far this summer.

Ashton finished up his preschool with Miss Allie. We will miss her!
We stopped in Colorado Springs to visit cousins.. and Ashton got to hang out with big boys and wear all their cool costumes.

We went hiking around Colorado Springs on a beautiful morning.

The cousins made silly faces.

David went with the boys up this little crevasse.

We took the kids to Temple Square. They thought it was fun to run around but Ashton didn't get the reverence theme. He tried to shoot the Christus statue with a spider web and then asked who was on top of the temple. When I responded with Moroni he said "I'm going to cut him off!" Here's hoping this super hero phase doesn't last forever.

We reconnected with some of our favorite friends. Emily came to visit the first week David left. Elsie and Ashton had a love hate relationship. The boy/girl play differences were VERY evident. But it was great to be with Em again and Katie even came up for a girls night where we all sat talking and laughing until way too late. (We missed you Bree and Lanni!)

We discovered my skinny girls can fit in a swing together.
Just 9 more days till David gets a 3 day break to come to the wedding over the 4th of July! As I watch Ashton and Hannah ride around in their kid 4 wheelers, jump on the tramp, play with their cousins and ride in Daisy (my mom's ranger) I know this is exactly where they're supposed to be. Add to that the perfect weather of 75 degrees and being spoiled by my parents and I KNOW for sure I don't want to be anywhere else. So eventhough I'm without my better half I have a hard time feeling sorry for myself this summer.

4 comments:

Sammy said...

The girls in the swing together is classic.

Katie said...

Ahh good times Sammy. Ok so I am SERIOUS about a fun get together sometime next May for all our birthdays...but we need to get Bree and Lanni in on it. I think we are all May birthdays except Lanni. So anyway fun times. Your kids are adorable!

lanni said...

ah! wish i could have been there -- i always love a good stay up late and chat.

plus, 2 kids in one swing is a favorite trick around here.

plus plus -- to respond to katie, my birthday is in july. and i shall be THIRTY. so there.

Emily Malinka said...

OOHHHH BIRTHDAY FUN!!! I still haven't accepted the fact that I am back living in 115 degrees here... I want to come back to UT!