Life As We Know It

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Bear Lake

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From Lagoon, the kids and I headed straight to Bear Lake for the rest of the week. All the girls (and Cole & Tate) stayed in a condo at Harbor Village. Sadly, I have pictures of no one but Blair and the kids. I guess thats what happens when you get old :). But, this is what we did the whole time... swim, well that and exercise. It was a fun few days just to relax and hang out.

Cole and Tate are starting to become little buddies. Cole calls him "Tot" (from his nickname Tater Tot) and constantly wanted to know what "Tot" was doing.

Lagoon

Carrie and her kids are in town for their annual summer visit so we all went to Lagoon last week. Brooke is brave and wanted to go on every ride... even the big roller coasters, which she's not tall enough for yet. Her favorites were the Dino Drop (a miniature version of the rocket) and the Dragon Roller Coaster. Cole is not like his sister. He wants to go on all the rides but if they go too fast or too high he gets scared and cries. His favorites were the swings and the cars... nice and slow. This is one of my favorite family traditions, even though our kids are getting old enough that we don't get to go on the big rides anymore.

Swimming Pool

The pool in our neighborhood finally opened July 1 and even though we're not home much the kids and I love it when we are!

These pictures were taken the weekend of July 4th. My kids have no fear of water whatsoever. Even without water wings on they will just jump in and don't care if someone is there to catch them or not. I'm still not sure if that is a good thing.

This particular day, the kids and I swam from about 12-5 and then Cole worked in the yard with Matt for a couple more hours. By the time we got him inside to shower, he dropped like a fly in less than five minutes. He didn't wake up when I undressed him and even when I picked him up to put him in the shower. He worked hard!

Gateway Water Fountains

A couple weekends ago Matt and I took the kids to play in the fountains at The Gateway in Salt Lake. Both kids were scared at first and wouldn't go in, but finally Brooke decided she liked it and had a blast. Cole just watched. That night Brooke told my mom that she played in some "big big mountains at Salt Lake." It was pretty funny.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Campout

The annual Family Campout has been a tradition since my parents were dating. I have lots of camping memories as a little girl. Fishing, horse riding, four-wheeling, snipe hunting, camp fires, and good food! I think the last time I actually stayed I was probably about 15- maybe younger. Usually I just go up for the day and dinner. This time we decided to stay one night because Brooke begged. Both the kids loved it and once we got Cole to sleep they actually slept pretty good. I don't think Matt and I got any sleep though. Laying in a tent with two wiggle worms makes that a little hard. We came home really dirty and tired, but had a blast!

Daddy and Brooke hanging out

Roasting marshmallows

Cole's turn at baseball

Except he thinks it is golf :)

This was so cute... we were all sitting around the fire talking and the next thing we know Landon is standing about ten feet away peeing. Sorry Brie I had to post it!