Summer

This summer has gone by so fast, yet slow at the same time. We have had a lot of fun just being able to go and do. We love to stay busy!!! My summer job ended and we still had plenty of time to get out and have fun.

We loved getting out and going up into the mountains to go hiking. Which with little kids is not really hiking but slowly walking a whole 25yards. Camilla is at the age that she wants to be like big brother and walk every where. She is so independent that she wants to do everything by herself. She is so cute about it too. She is my little explorer when we hike she has to touch and feel everything that she sees. She will pick up leafs, twigs, dirt, rocks and really anything else she can fit in her hand, as we are trying to "hike". Brody also likes to hike and will ask us if we can go hiking. He starts out great for the first little bit until he gets distracted. This is really a constant occurrence for him. If you have ever seen the movie "UP" you will understand my wonderful Brody. He is that nice dog that is doing something and then yells squirrel and he is off chasing that squirrel. He always keeps us on our toes. He likes to look and see what there is around him while we walk, so he will stop and look at the different leafs, bugs, rocks, and animals but never really stops to explore. There is just to much he wants to see. He also jumps at any noise that he does not recognize and screams at anything that comes near him. Needless to say our hiking is fun! But I would not have it any other way. They love the outdoors just as much as Mike and I do. So it just makes me happy being with them "hiking"!!!

We also have found that we like being "Rock Groupys". My moms cousin Calvin is a major rock hound and he this summer has participated in a few gem, rock and jewelry shows out this way and we love to go see all the different booths. Brody loves collecting any of the free rocks that most of the booths have for the little ones that come around. And he loves anything that has to deal with dinosaurs at one of the rock shows there was a booth that was letting the children dig for dinosaur bones. He was in 7th heaven and did not want to leave. He talked about those for a long time after that. Being able to go and be groupys was just fun and we learned a lot about ROCKS!

We chased balloons with the Davis clan and we ran across fields that the weeds were almost up to my hips just so the kids could get close to the balloon. And that they did! They had fun helping to bring down a pig balloon. They were able to play under it as adults played with the balloon like those parachutes you played with in elementary school. They helped get the air out by rolling on it. This just made Brody happy until he realized that he was not going to get to go up in it. He still had fun! We also got to see the balloon glow with our friends Tara and Chris Rhoades. It was too windy that not too many balloons were able to get up. That was a bummer but it was fun going.

We were able to go out to Laramie WY to visit with one of my dear friends Trish and her family before they moved to New Hampshire. They were making the long trip to New Hampshire so we decided to meet them at one of their stops that they had along the way. It was great to see them especially knowing it will be a while before we get to see them again. We loved being able to see their new baby Caiden and hang out with them. It was not the best place to stop and met up with them, there was nothing to do and the hotel was pretty crappy. But really it was just about seeing friends! Love and miss you guys!!!

We visited the Temple with the kids and they loved walking around the Temple grounds and taking pictures for mommy.

Really I am not sure what else we did. We stayed busy being a family. I was not the best with taking pictures all the time but I will put the ones that I have on.

Well that is our happenings this summer. Now on to post about our Autumn time!!!