Making a Splash

We didn't make it to free school lunch very often this summer...but we did make it this day and we got cousins to come with us too.

After lunch we headed to the Splash Pad...and Silas got a few snuggles from Uncle Jeff.

Phin had so much fun with cousins...here he is chest bumping one of them.

Silas enjoyed hanging out with me in his new swimsuit...he is our little shark.

Camp Zarahemla

Our ward had a camp-out the first weekend in August.  We camped in Morgan at Camp Zarahemla.  Phin and Millie were so excited to go camping. 

We had yummy burritos and nachos for dinner.

Someone also shared a huge marshmallow with Phin.

Our ward made homemade doughnuts that we enjoyed after a short devotional. We enjoyed our doughnuts and chocolate milk with one of my favorite Beehives...and one of our favorite babysitters.

Seth slept outside in a hammock and I shared a queen air mattress with Silas and Millie.

In the morning our friend David showed Phin how to chop wood.

We enjoyed a yummy pancake breakfast and then the kids played.

The tree swing was a favorite.  Here is one of my other favorite Beehives taking Millie for a ride.

Phin used the slingshot as a head accessory on the way home.

A bit of August

We slowed down a bit in August...the realization that school was starting soon hit us pretty hard.  We spent one morning at the Children's Museum.  We love their little craft classes.  Phin and Millie are artistic...and I don't love the mess that comes with being artistic...so this is the perfect solution.

The new Water Play area opened in July and the kids LOVE it.  They spend so much time playing here and the exhibit is so interactive.

Aaron and Spencer came over one Friday to play.  Aaron (Spiderman) and Phin (Darth Vader) played hard all day long.

We hit up A&W for Root Beer Float day...and were disappointed our local joint closed.  So we drove all the way into Salt Lake for this freebie.

Phin completed another round of swimming lessons.  He is becoming more confident and finally made it to the deep end of the pool in this session.

One Friday evening we took a long walk down to the Bun Basket for dinner and then took our dinner over to Firefighter Park.

Millie's favorite part of dinner...dessert.

After dinner we played with our remote controlled cars on the tennis courts.

On our walk home we found this piano outside of the Art Center.

We also spent lots of time hanging out with cousin Carver.

My dear friend Holly was in town for a wedding and was able to stop by to visit and to meet Silas. 

We celebrated August 31st by getting a $1.50 scoop of ice cream at Baskin Robbins.  We also used our Chick-Fil-A calendar cards to get a Large French Fry and Large drink...we called it dinner.

We are  ahead of the game and have started to prep Halloween costumes.  Millie is going to be Tinkerbelle, Phin is going to be Captain Hook, Silas will be Crocky, Seth will be Peter Pan and I will be Wendy.