The Beginning of Summer

We love summer. This summer is off to an amazing start! This post will have way too many pictures in it, but honestly I have been trying to pull my camera out more to document these fun days in my babies lives, and then sometimes I just have a hard time narrowing it down to just a few pictures for the blog. 

It is finally warm in Utah! Last week I took the boys out on errands and as we were finishing up we noticed that the water was on at the splash pad! So we stopped and played for just about 30 minutes (in their shorts- we didn't have swim suits with us) and the boys had a wonderful time. Hudson is a little cautious about the water, Chase runs uninhibited and has a blast. We went back the next day with a picnic and our friends the Dunns. I'm sure we'll be back many more times this summer!

We still have about 30 boxes around from our move. In fact, one of our empty basement rooms is just full of boxes and the kids call it the "space ship room" and have a blast playing with them. This day they brought boxes upstairs and were playing "robots" with them. The picture doesn't really capture the adorableness of this game, but the sweet memory is still in my head. 

 The boys are starting to play together in such a fun way (when they aren't fighting over toys- which is still very frequent, unfortunately). This day they lined up the kitchen chairs and were playing "train". Nothing I love more than seeing my boys being creative and imaginative together!

 We had a little party at our new house with our old BYU friends! I've said it before, but we just had the best group of friends down there in Provo and we love every chance to get together with them. A lot of them aren't around here anymore but the few of us that are try to get together at least a few times a year. We had the Bennetts, Nittas and Virgins over on Friday for a BBQ and it was so fun! I was lazy about taking pictures, except for this one of Chase and Ryder wrestling. Chase and Ryder are kindred spirits and rough-housed all night long.

 On Saturday night we settled down for a quiet night at home with pizza and a movie. We watched A Bugs Life, which Chase loved and only kept Hudson's attention for 20 minutes. Then we had donuts. National Donut day was actually the day before, but we were really busy that day. These boys love donuts. Obviously. Chase checked two books out of the library this week that both mentioned jelly donuts and he didn't know what that was. So like any responsible parents we introduced the boys to the concept. You could say they were fans.

 Then we went to the zoo. Hudson told my mom a few weeks ago, "Nana- I want to go the zoo. Let's just go real quick okay?" As soon as we all had a free day Nana took us all to the zoo. Ben even took the day off work, Will, Kate and Nora joined us and we all had a fabulous time! It was sunny weather and Hudson had enthusiasm coming out his ears! He chatted all the way there about all the animals he wanted to see and he squealed and danced with excitement at each animal. It was such a blast. He had this little old disposable camera he found at my parents house and he was "taking pictures" of all the animals. It was darling!

 At the Elephant Exposure they had little drums and rhythm instruments. Our little crew made a pretty cute little rhythm band!

We had a perfect day! Afterwards my parents treated us for to lunch at Paradise in Bountiful, joined by my grandparents as well. It was just all so fun! After much needed naps the boys and I went up to my parents house to swim. Chase is just a little fish and is so determined to learn to swim well enough to be able to jump off the board without his life jacket. We had a blast. It's been a wonderful start to summer!