Heber Creeper

We bought tickets and took a ride on the Heber Creeper one day. The kids love trains and were super excited to ride on this. They sat inside for a minute, but it was such a beautiful day that we took advantage of the outside car for most of the ride. It was a pretty long train ride, but the kids were never bored. They were thrilled to be on the train and check everything out that we passed. This was so much fun.

Park City

We had a blast on our little vacation. Each day we woke up and went straight to the pool and most nights we went swimming again before bed. It was so much fun to hang out just the four of us after we'd been missing Spence for so long. We went out to eat most of the time, but one night we decided to order pizza and watch a movie in our room. We chose the wrong night for that- the power went out 20 minutes into the movie, so we went swimming in the dark instead. The kids got so much better at putting their faces in the water on this trip.

When we got to the hotel, the kids were thrilled. We've stayed in a number of hotels before, but this one had two rooms, a kitchen, a balcony, and two TVs. The kids were in heaven. The immediately began running all over and checking things out. For the rest of the trip they called it our "hotel house".

Airplane Museum

After Fall busy season, we planned a little "vacation". We didn't really want to go anywhere far because we are driving to the lake soon, so we decided to take the kids and go to Park City. The first day, we went to the Air Force Museum in Roy before we headed up. I thought the kids would like it, but I totally underestimated how much Davis would love it. He thought it was the coolest thing ever and now whenever we pass it on the freeway, he asks if we can go there again soon.

Joy School

Today was the first day of Joy School for the kids. There are six other kids in our neighborhood in the group. We're only doing it once a week for two hours. I've been pretty worried about the kids going, or mostly just Davis going, because I don't want them to be a distraction to all of the other kids. They are some of the youngest in the group and sometimes Davis just doesn't care what he's being told to do. He isn't grouchy about it, he just ignores the person talking to him or says "Just a sec", but then continues on doing what he was doing.

We've spent the last few days talking about rules for school and how we are supposed to behave. When I picked them up today, the mom that was teaching said they did really well and even participated. Hopefully this continues. If not, no big deal; they don't go to kindergarten for three years...

Wedding Fun

My little brother Morgan got married on August 21st. It was a great day and we're excited to have Kristi in our family. Davis and Blair had a great weekend playing with cousins and we liked seeing Brady and Em too.

All four kids thought it was pretty great to have flowers like the adults.
Grandma and her girls

Daddy and his princess

Ivory was just hanging out like this. Doesn't it look like she posed? What a beautiful little girl.

Best Buddies

Davis was not thrilled to have his picture taken that night.

This was the favorite spot for all of the kids.

My gorgeous girl

When Kristi threw her bouquet, Blair tried to catch it with the other girls. When someone else got it, Blair burst into tears big time and cried, "I didn't catch the flowers". She was devastated. Em, Tara (Kristi's sis) and I all had small bouquets, so Kristi gave Blair mine and she was totally thrilled. We had the bouquet on our table for a few days and she continued to tell me how pretty her flowers were.

Morgan totally had it coming on his car. When Spence and I got married they trashed our car two days in a row at each of our receptions. Spence came up with the stellar ideas, I did the shopping, and we had lots of helpers. We did the usual car chalk (which Brady made rated R of course), but then we filled the car to the top with packing peanuts. Morg has a sun roof so it was easy to get it full. We had to clean it all up afterwards, but it was totally worth the $65 and the clean up job.

Rodeo

The kids were thrilled to have new boots, Wrangler's, and cowboy belts. I think they look stinkin' cute.

Cowboys

The kids have been wanting cowboy boots for a while so we bought them some and they wore them to watch Aunt Kayla in the Cache Valley Rodeo. We had a great time and Kayla did awesome. She was almost as good as the girls doing the pro rodeo. That weekend at the Cache Valley fair Grandma Erickson bought them cowboy hats. They love wearing their boots and hats no matter what else they're wearing.

I'll post a picture of them in their boots and wranglers soon. That's a little better look...

Trout & Berry Days

A couple of weeks ago was Trout & Berry Days in Paradise. We drove up to spend the day with Grandma & Grandpa Erickson, aunts and uncles, and cousins. The kids had a great time on the toys, but weren't sure what to think about the trout scramble. Both kids ended up with a fish, but Davis was ticked about Spence putting him in the water. Grandma Erickson won a gift certificate for a night at the Anniversary Inn in the "Mothers of Paradise" trout scramble. After Trout & Berry Days, we had a fun afternoon at the Roundy's pond. Thanks for the great day Grandma!

Camping

We went camping at Vernon Reservoir with Erin and Riki Graybill earlier this month. Spence was super excited to show the kids all the fun to be had fishing, so he stopped at Sportsman's Warehouse and got them each a pole and all the gear needed.

It rained most of the day Friday, but we went anyway and we were glad because it cleared up. After dinner they gave fishing a try, but it didn't go so well. We tried again in the morning, but it was so windy that casting was almost impossible and the lines got blown to the shore right after they were casted. I think Spence decided he'd break out the poles again next summer. Maybe they just need to be a little bit older. Davis was more into the rocks around and Blair just wanted to sit in her princess chair.

We had a great time with the Graybills though as always and can't wait to go with them again.