Demolition Derby

Some good friends of ours dropped by a couple of weeks ago with Demolition Derby tickets.  Their nephew and friend of ours, drives in the derby.  So we decided to go.  We called a babysitter last minute because they dropped by the day of the derby and we decided to take Jack along.  We thought he would enjoy it.  He was a little confused at first.  Wondering why  these cars are hitting each other and everyone is clapping when I tell the kids everyday to put on their seat belts and ramble off something about not getting into an accident.  So Jason and I went over how the derby worked and how the drivers were pretty safe inside the cars and once he understood it, he loved it!  He stood up on the bleachers, with both arms up in the air shouting!  It was a blast.  Definitely something we would do every summer.

It's just hilarious.  The whole thing.

And some other stuff going on.

Katy had her last dance class of the summer.  Julia started to tag along and she really enjoyed it.  I think the dance class ended up being more like a jump on the large bean bag, color on the dry erase board, free babysitting for an hour a week kind of class but whatever.  It was fun for them. 

And I have been teaching Leah how to drink from the carton.  She does pretty well.  

And she loves it.

I was trying to upload the videos from the Demolition Derby and was having some trouble.  So I tried uploading random old videos and they worked for some reason.  So here are two  old ones that make us laugh.

That's Julia trying Strawberries for the first time.  And Jack trying to catch the chicken for me. We later gave both of them to a friend.  We will never have chickens again.  :) 

Gram!

Happy Birthday Grandma Barbra!  We love you so much and hope you had a wonderful birthday.  I look forward to seeing you in three weeks!

Camping

We went camping a few weeks ago up Hobble Creek Canyon (above Mapleton).  We tried Dutch Oven for the first time!  What a tasty success!  We made Cherry Cobbler and that little oven will accompany us on every camping trip for here on out.  Sooo yummy.

 Some chicken sausage tin foil dinners thrown in the fire.  Din din.

 Cherry cobbler :)  Bad picture. :(

 Katy loves to cook and LOVES the free samples we always see around the grocery store.  So she always makes a little set up of her own. This mornings sample, milkshakes.  Or hot cocoa.

 Jack and Daddy fishing along the river.  Jack told Jason to say "fishing!"  instead of "cheese".  Fishing!

 Some classic sass from Kate.

Leah going with the flow and enjoying the cool, fresh air up there.  A great trip.  One of many to come.

There you go Julia.  You got it.  Just like we do at home.

Kate dances

A nice high school student in our ward loves to dance.  She approached a couple of little girls in our ward and wondered if they would like to come to a "Beginning Dance Expressions" :) class throughout the summer.  It doesn't cost anything, it's one day a week for an hour and Kate wanted to go.  There are only 2 sometimes 3 other little girls in the class.  Kate loves getting dressed up for it once a week.  We dug around in the dress up clothes and found her a great  garage sale dance outfit.  Perfect.  We're happy for her and glad she is getting out and into a little class with other kids because she can be very, very reserved. 

Keeping busy

It's beginning to really warm up.  Supposed to be 100 today so we decided to head to the Splash Pad.  We also figured out that the best time to go is right after 9:00.  No one is there!  And by the time 11:30 rolls around and we are ready to go, the place is crawling with people.  So it works out great!  It cools the kids off and wears them out. :)

Jack and Julia are always off on some adventure together.

Kate usually stays close to me and picks bouquets of flowers.

We really love this development in Spanish Fork.  A couple of years ago they built this great park and now a fun Splash Pad.  We especially love it because it is less than a  1 minute walk to Daddy's work.  He comes down on his break and we have lunch together.  It is the white building you can barely see there in the background.

I didn't get close enough, but that's the park.  The kids love it and it has these huge umbrella like things stretched out over all of the equipment so it stays shady.  A Costco is going up behind it and that makes up happy too because Cosco pizza tastes like New York pizza.  Hard to find out here.  But no where near as good as the real thing. 

:)

Outside having some fun painting bird houses.

Good job Jack!

Julia in trouble to snatching Leah's pacifier.

It was fun taking these last set of pictures with my film camera.  It's amazing how grainy they look compared to what digital pictures look like nowadays.  But that is 400 ISO film, so not the finest grain but about average.  But that exposure on Kate is unbeatable.  Still love that old F5.

Katy & Jack talk

A conversation I over heard today between Jack and Katy.
Jack: It's super hot out today.
Katy: Uh huh. (Really focusing in on her otter pop)
Jack:  I wish we didn't live in the desert.
Katy:  Uh huh.
Jack:  I wish it would rain.
Katy: I wish Jesus would flood the earth.

Jack Graduates

Jack graduated from preschool on May 22.  We are so proud of the little guy.  He can't wait for Kindergarten to start.  It will surely be a bitter sweet day for us though.  Julia and I made him some graduation hats one night out of Recess Cups and Lindt Squares. Yum:)

The theme for graduation was "Going to the Zoo"

I've had a hard time uploading videos but each kid had to hold a zoo animal and walk onto stage.  They also had to memorize individual parts and Jack's was "Hippos are huge and they eat  tons of grass.  What would you do if one came to our class?"  He did great!

Julia really wasn't all that interested in the ceremony.  She played in the flowers the whole time.

Jack and his teacher Mrs Patti.  He loves her so much. Congratulations Jack!!