We celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary on July 2nd- 16 years seems like a really long time, and it's gone by so fast! We celebrated with a night up in Deer Valley and it was absolutely lovely! I love that we have such a beautiful option only 1 hour away from our house, but feels so "away from home".
This girl has sass and character coming out her ears!
We had a lovely 4th of July! We had a chill day at home and headed up to my parents in the late afternoon.We had a blast swimming with cousins (and their cousins) and had a delicious BBQ, ending with watching fireworks from the deck. I love this holiday!
We had a fun swim day with Newbolds while they were in town! We've missed these friends so much! The kids were absolutely nuts and crazy for several hours.
I took the kids for free slurpees on 7-11 at 7-11. Magic.
An evening run-through-the-sprinklers session turned into great imaginary games involving laser fields. This group is too cute!
Just Davis, rocking an awesome pool outfit!
We did cousin Lagoon Day! This year it was just me and my mom and all seven grandkids. The girls mostly stayed together on the more mellow- kiddie rides and my boys went nuts with the crazy roller coasters.
Lila, it turns out, is a total ride junkie! She loved everything and wasn't scared of anything! She isn't tall enough to do any of the big roller coasters, but she can do "Bombora" (an more mellow but legit roller coaster) and she rode it twice and loved it.
Davis was tall enough to ride pretty much everything and was delighted about it. He got to ride "Primordial" with his brothers first thing (they waited 45 minutes) and it was the highlight of his life. Then they waited only a few minutes for Cannibal (pictured) and Davis now feels he can conquer anything in the world. He rode a whole bunch of big roller coasters with his brothers and absolutely loved everything, even the scary ones. Chase and Hudson are great amusement park kids- they are fearless and can handle pretty much anything. They were very sweet to include Davis and made him feel like a million bucks.
We all rode Rattlesnake Rapids together. We got completely drenched, which was great because it was an insanely hot day. It was hilarious and we all laughed a lot!
We all had the best day! The lines were almost non-existant so these kids got to ride everything as many times as they wanted. We stayed 7 hours and went home all exhausted, hot and very happy!
Chase got to go to Young Mens camp. He had the time of his life and came home exhausted- and of course I have no pictures of it! While he was gone we did some fun things with the younger kids. Lila has been begging to go bowling all summer, so we made that happen. We spent a fun morning bowling with the Joseph boys and Lila had an absolute blast and refused to be photographed.
Then one night we took Hudson, Davis and Lila to IF at the Kaysville Theater. The movie was so cute and the boys loved it! It didn't really hold Lila's attention so she had to whine quite a bit about how tired she was, but she still stuck it out until the end.
Lila and Rosie like to play "hair salon" in the pool. It comes with an original song they sing at the top of their lungs while doing the hair of anyone who is willing to sit there. Papa is a frequent customer.
Chase and Hudson did golf lessons in July and they loved it- especially Hudson. Then they got to go golfing with Papa one morning and all three of them were pretty giddy about it. Then Davis felt left out so he got to go to the driving range with Papa the next week.
We celebrated Heidi's birthday with an opening ceremonies birthday party! I asked Lindsay to make her cake and it was as delicious as it was beautiful. This is the first time we've had Heidi on her birthday in like 10 years and it was so much fun! Her friends Laura and Sage were here visiting too and I loved getting to hang out with them so much!
Heidi with her fan club. We've all really loved having Heidi here all summer- I don't know what we'll do when she moves back to Boston!
I snuck away on a Saturday to do Salt Lake stuff with Heidi, Laura and Sage.
This was Davis all ready for his outing to the golf course. He picked out this entire outfit by himself and was ready to go by like 7:15 that morning.
I took my kids on their own little back to school shopping date- just some shopping and lunch. And although it wasn't really necessary to do school shopping for a preschooler- Lila is never one to be left out. So naturally she got to go first and chose her favorite restaurant "Kneaders" for lunch. She grinned ear to ear the whole time and was generally delightful. She can be so sweet and easy going if we just do exactly what she wants!
Davis picked Dylan's for his lunch and he was hilarious. He talked my ear off the whole time- told me all kinds of (incorrect) information about the restaurant that I haven't been to in like 20 years but he frequents with both Papas and his dad. I ordered him the wrong burger (it came with lettuce!) but he didn't hold it against me. Although he DID hold it against me that I wouldn't let him get a soda and a milkshake because obviously Papa lets him have both.
July was so fun and HOT and busy!
