Neptune Park

August 28th, 2013

One night Amy and I packed the kids up a picnic for dinner and we headed out to Neptune Park.  It is out in Saratoga Springs and it was a fun park.  They have so many different kinds of toys out there and the kids had tons of fun.  They just can't wait to go back!

 

Brynn had fun in this car that bounced forwards and back!

 

These were some cool spinning seats

 

Kason hung on for dear life!

 

This was kind of like a tetter totter but with swing seats.  It went up and down though and was lots of fun. 

 

This is Makenna the monkey climbing up the rope pyramid

 

She made it all the way to the top!  It was really cool.

Outside Movie

August 23, 2013

A couple years ago my parents started the tradition of projecting a movie outside for everyone to watch.  We eat lots of candy and just have fun.  This year didn't go quite as planned because it was a cold and rainy day.  But we didn't let that ruin our fun and we just moved it in to the garage.  The kids still thought it was the greatest and had so much fun.  Here we are watching the movie Epic at Grandma and Grandpa Powell's house.  (picture quality is horrible but at least it shows us there and having fun!)

Sleep Over

One weekend in July Weston had gotten out the blow up mattress and slept downstairs because I had the flu.  The kids thought that was the coolest thing ever so the next night Weston put the mattress up to the girls room and let them all have a sleep over.  But the didn't let poor Brynn join.  She had to sleep in her crib.  :(  At least she still got to be in the same room and have some fun.  And they did have fun.  I honestly didn't think the kids were going to ever fall asleep but they finally did.  Look at how cute they are!  (once they fell asleep that is!)

Hogle Zoo!

August 17th 2013

We made our annual trip to the zoo and the kids had so much fun!  They loved the elephants, monkeys, giraffes, and the polar bear.  I thought the polar bear was the greatest.  He kept doing flips in the water and it was fun to watch him.  Makenna's least favorite were the snakes!  It was funny to see her run from the exhibits when she saw them!  Here are some pictures of the fun day!

 The elephants

Look how cute the baby elephant is!

 

Brynn loved seeing all the animals

 

Here are our little monkeys who escaped from their cage!!!

 

Perfect photo op.  Everytime they kids saw one they had to go stand by it and get their picture taken!

 

This polar bear was so much fun to watch.  He just would do flip after flip after flip.  

 

The giraffes were always my favorite growing up.

 

Notice our Miss Vanna White! 

 

Kason loved seeing this big turtle.  Afterwards he kept asking if he could get a pet turtle.  I looked into them but they are aren't good pets for kids. 

 

Brynn just playing in the water!

 

They apparently had cool lego displays through out the zoo but most of them had been removed because the heat was ruining them.  But the did have these set up for the kids to come and play with.  The kids had lots of fun building with the big blocks.  

Family Home Evening at Bridal Veil Falls

July 1st, 2013

I forgot to add this post about our family night back in July so this is going a little out of order.  It's so hard to keep everything straight when I'm trying to catch everything up from a couple months ago!  Oh well, better late than never!

So for FHE I thought it would be fun to take the kids on a hike.  We wanted something easy that all the kids could do so we went up to Bridal Veil Falls.  It's so nice because it is paved too so we just put Brynn in the stroller.  We parked down at the bottom so they could have more of a hike and they were so excited to be out in the mountains.  They were even more excited when we made it to the waterfall!  Before we even knew it they were both trying to get in the water and walk over to it.  So we took off our shoes and headed in.  Makenna started climbing straight up and we had to keep reminding her to come back down.  I don't think she would have stopped climbing!  She would have gone straight to the top!  Kason and Brynn were just excited to sit there and throw rocks in the water. 

Once we walked back to the car we stopped at a picnic table to eat popcorn that we had brought.  The kids loved it and had so much fun.  This was a fun family home evening and the kids can't wait to go again!

Swimming Lessons

We finally got the kids signed up for swim lessons the first week of August.  They went for about 2 weeks and both Makenna and Kason had so much fun.  I wish I'd gotten them in earlier this summer so we could have done another session before the chaos of school and dance begins.  Oh well.  They both did great and passed their classes.  I'm just glad they are feeling more confident in the water now.  That was my main goal in the lessons.  But here are a few pics of them at lessons.  I kept forgetting to bring my real camera so these are just ones from my phone.

Kason floating on his back.

 

Makenna after she came back up from holding her breath under the water.

 

Brynn and I would hang out outside and work on our tans during lessons!

Summer Days at the Splash Pad

Sometime in July 2013.  It was a Thursday

I took the kids up to the splash pad up in Highland.  I really wish Lehi would get a clue and build one but since we don't have one here my favorite splash pad is the Highland one.  I like the river that the kids can play in and then they do have the part that splashes water up.  But here are a lot of pictures from that afternoon.  Makenna had seen a couple older girls posing for pictures so she wanted to do the same.

 Prepare yourselves for a Makenna picture overload!

 

Doing cartwheels in the water

 

She seriously thought this was the coolest!

 

Giving thumbs up for the camera!

 

Brynn just splashing in the water!

 

She had so much fun!

Kason just chilling on the side of the river.  He was much more cautious than the girls.  He just liked sticking his feet in the water and watching everyone.

 

Makenna couldn't miss a photo op so she ran over to jump in the picture!

 

All three kids!  Say cheese!

Next time I'll learn to take the picture's facing the other way so they don't look all dark and shaded!  Oh well.  The kids were so happy and they had so much fun!