June

Bridger and Elijah

Natalynn likes to collect things of the same color. Today she chose black and whiteDer Brigder, I luv you. I think you ar tha best bruthur. Luve Natalynn Natalynn was her usual busy self today. Coloring, cutting, taping. I didn't think anything of it until she brought forth her creation. It is Mommy, with a speech bubble "Yum" and musical notes to show me singing. I'm holding a flower and a candy. Complete with Jolie the fly, sun, hair bow, grass, and a house.

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We discovered a wonderful old movie called The Red Balloon. It's about a boy who finds a red balloon and it becomes his friend. It follows him and plays with him. The kids found it very funny. I highly recommend it.

Friday's Staycation

We went to Timpanogos Cave with Stetson. The kids have often talked of climbing a mountain. In their imaginations we walk straight up, and might fall off. So this was an educational experience.

Natalynn thought this looked like something. I can't remember what. She loved to stop and look at every rock, flower and bug. It took a while.

A group of webelo scouts went up right before us and our kids kept pace. Sometimes passing them, sometimes being passed. Both Natalynn and Bridger walked the whole way.

Natalynn said this looked like a bunny. So we had to get a picture!

Wow! We're up so high!This picture belongs in Tuesday's staycation post. Oops. Someone tell me how to delete pictures!

We made it to the top!

Awesome formations.

Seeing the wildlife

We love uncle Stetson. One rule we had was that both little ones had to be holding a grown up hand, and they had to walk on the inside. Stetson counted as a grown up when Natalynn got sick of holding Mom and Dad's hands.

Timpanogos was awesome. We also spent some time at Nana and Papa's house. On the way home we stopped at Cabella's to see the taxidermy animals and the fish feeding. It was fun, the fish got to eat live goldfish.

Thursday's Staycation

Thursday was a bit more relaxing. Started out with the "castle park" then moving right along to bike rides.

We went to the library to pick out some movies. We set up the tent in the basement. The movie was watched in tent with plenty of snacks.

The missionaries came over for dinner. Natalynn has developed quite a friendship with these cute sisters, between dinner and seeing them at a recent baptism. She made them bracelets yesterday. Sister Latu had a good time braiding Natalynn's hair and told us of her childhood when she and her sisters had to have braids before they could go to school. Sister Estavez was lots of fun too, and is Natalynn's favorite. Natalynn was super excited to wear and show off her matching dress/doll dress that she got for mother's day

We had breakfast for dinner. That night we had a sleepover in the tent.

Wednesday's Staycation

Started out with crafting. We made dream catchers and bracelets. Then off to Jungle Jim's.

You would think this would be his favorite ride right? Nope, least. He went around in small backwards circles with a look of sadness and boredom. Best Friends. Finished the day off with a dollar movie.

Family Staycation

This year we decided to stay home and play for our vacation. On Monday we went swimming, or attempted to go swimming. It was so crowded we could hardly move, so we left there after 3 hours (record time for our fish-I mean kids). Since we had time we let the kids drive the car in the church parking lot. On our laps of course. Natalynn got pretty good at parking. Bridger was in heaven.
Tuesday we took trax downtown. This was mucho fun for B Man. We went to Discovery Gateway all...day...long. So much fun. For the kids.

Where's the ball going?

Natalynn did this for close to an hour. The wheel brought a ball from the bucket, to the bottom circle and eventually up to the top. Can't figure out the excitement there, but she had fun.

This is a better picture of the cursed toy. After Natalynn finally finished Bridger did it for a while.

Helicopter!

This was a fun exibit- life sized dominos! They let the kids stand between the dominos then they would knock 'em down!Life sized foos ball. When you speak or yell it changes the sound of your voice. And life sized pool!

Clark planetarium-lots of free stuff to do!

You can't go downtown on a summer day without playing in the water!Mist!For dinner we went out to eat. The kids got pancakes. Natalynn drinks the syrup...She has now officially got a worse sweet tooth than Mommy.Quick visit to the temple My favorite tree. Reminds me of an olive tree. Just a few feet from the temple.

Finally, we went to a concert in the park, then took the train back home. What a day!