Saturday, July 21, 2012

St. George...its so hot right now!

Riley and Lauren - Lauren was teaching Riley some songs on the piano.  Riley adores Lauren, when we got there, Riley saw that Lauren was wearing their same pink shirt, so Riley immediately changed, so that they could be twinners!! They only see each other 2 or 3 times a year and they have a blast every time!

Chloe and Collin - 2 funny little kids together - full of personality, and feistiness! I  think they could be twins.

Our Utah trip this month was inspired by a business trip that Mike had to take to London,  I wanted to go with him so bad, but couldn't stomach the airfare!  So instead of hanging out alone for the week, we took off to my parents house for a week.  Apparently, we hit it at the hottest week of the year, averaging about 108 for most of the week!  So our tripped involved alot of water fun!   Here they are:


Don't they look like Charlie's Angels??


I know his eyes are closed, but he had the cutest expression on his face when I took this picture!  Chase loved every second of the water this week.



St. George has this cute downtown area with what we call, The Lazy River, its great for kids this age!




Then across the street, there is the coolest little ice cream/sweet shop!  So we got some ice cream, of course

For those of you who didn't know me in high school, I worked at Auntie Anne's Pretezels my senior year, in our mall - it was so fun!  So, I found a recipe {on Pinterest, duh}  for Auntie Anne's pretzels, and we made some.  The kids had fun rolling and flipping their pretzels, and I still remembered how to flip a pretzel with style! 



And more water fun in the backyard... we need to convince my parents to get a pool!  We were able to go to my aunts house to swim twice, but forgot my camera both times.






We went to see Brave - I guess the kids really liked it, but I thought it was a little weird and quite scary!


And finally our second to last night there, we had a major storm blow through, with lightning and thunder, crazy wind, and a flash flood!  I walked by and this was Grandma with the kids just watching the storm, so cute!


Our last outing for lunch, in the rain!

Such great times!  I am totally bummed that I didn't get any pictures of my parents with me or the kids!  Needless to say, they were there every minute, and we are so thankful for them and miss them always!

4th of July!



I'm not going to lie and tell you that I am not a sucker for festive clothing for my family around any holiday.  Give me matching dresses and coordinating colors and I am happy!  That being said, here are my adorable kids in their 4th of July clothes.  I love the red, white, and blue!  Mike and me even tried to join in, (actually I told Mike he needed to wear a blue or red shirt...he'll catch the vision one day :))Anyways, we had a great day, starting off with our ward breakfast, yummo!  Then We went home and I packed up our car to leave for Modesto to party it up with my sister, and then leave for Utah the next day!



 Here are just some of the girls cute friends from our ward - we love them!


We then went to a little "festival" with my sister and kids, where they had food, games, and a big fireworks show at the end of the day.  The kids loved the playground, and I loved the colors in these pictures!








Watching the fireworks...

Chase was a little scared, then fell asleep half way through


Happy 4th of July!!