Last days of summer :(

We headed up to Park city to find shoes and on the way back stopped to see Bridal Veil Falls, The girls had a lot of fun, but did not appreciate the ICY water Seriously cant blame them though.. It was cold I was in and out in seconds BRR!

It is still a lot of fun to hike under the falls .... Yes I know Hallies bangs need to be cut.. They have been cut and she no longer looks uncared for ;)

This was up further and Hallie was not sure about it, and Chris wasn't happy either as he was in the ice cold water trying to get the picture.

On your way from where we parked there are benches and trees and little areas that look like they are made for pictures.. I wish I was a super awesome photographer, but, I am not

See! Super cute huh! I really didn't realize Hallies bangs looked this bad. I had been keeping them swept to the side. How is she even seeing??

Attempting to find cute spots. Kamrin Is so sweet as you can see, always trying to cuddle Hallie in.. She is the best sister.

Take notice of what Hallie thinks is her most beautiful smile :) It cracks me up every time. She really has an infectious smile that lights her whole face..This doesn't cut it when you see the real thing! Chris is so awesome to put up with my random stops then slow as a turtle pace. Not to mention the complaining of my feet hurting from swelling because of MY awesome plans :)

what the??

If you look closely at this picture you will see that the person in the back is a full grown woman!!! It was so funny! I was grateful to have my camera and a red light!!!

Zoo days!

So if you don't know, I love the zoo, and would probably go way more if it wasn't so far. This time I went with my cousin Dusty and her kids Lexi and Jakson, and my niece Kaylee
We even saw bears! Moving!

I had to document it

We also got to see, AWWW, the baby giraffe :) Its so tiny!

Another view of the awesome giraffe baby

It was HOT!! We all got ice cream and I got this awesome picture of everyone licking except Lexi, I'm thinking she knew a smile is the appropriate response to the word "Smile"

This is Hallie with the baby Meercats. They were pretty cute!

Dusty had to go and I had promised Hallie that we would ride the carousel, everyone else wanted the train so we made a deal. She immediately hopped on this wolf

Got them both on the elephant trunk

Kamrin hopped on first the penguin then the seal with babies

Picnic!

Tanner does this awesome "Parkour" Stuff, Its pretty awesome to see in real life! and even in pictures
Kamrin and Dyllan swinging away

Hallie would not stop for a picture..I had to take what I could get! :)

I think Dyl did too much of everything, his stomach hurt, but I got this cute picture of the three of them!

Playing cards was fun. Dyllan is a card shark!

Playing cards

More cards.. There was covered seating and a nice breeze which allowed us to actually sit and chat comfortably and play cards. It was a nice day

Dyllan showing me his monkey bar skills

I don't think Hallie was out of this swing for more than 10 minutes in the 3 hours we were here. She was loving going as high as possible, although I did think my Grammie might have a heart attack if I hadn't convinced her she was safe.

The Tracy Aviary

Kelley Walker, Darla and I went to the Tracy Aviary a few weeks ago, seems like no matter how hard I try to remember something I always leave it (pregnant brain damage I think). This time it was my camera so I stole these off of Kelleys blog :) Here is Katie and Kamrin in the house you go in that shows you what birds you might find in your backyard in, I believe it was, Argentina
You can buy bird food which is fun, unless you have to use it to get the mean pelicans to drop the smaller ducks they are bullying out of their mouths. Seriously it was creepy, and the worker guy tried to blame it on a 3 males to 1 female population.. This is seriously the only picture Hallie got busted in. Caught on camera

Here's the same place we just replaced Hallie with Ben :)

Darla and Ben, I swear this kid, he is so adorable! He wont say a word but gets everything he wants...Tricky Tricky Ben..I'm onto you though!

Sean and Katie, these two are so much fun, I don't think we've had a time that it hasn't just been a lot of fun hanging out. Katie always includes Hallie which I think is sweet, and Sean, even though he gives me nightmares about having a boy, just really loves anything fun.

Taking full advantage of my Zoo pass this year!

I have found that if you go to the zoo frequently, eventually you actually see all the animals doing stuff..Its fun. Today we got to see the elephant eat, move and hit this hay.
It was hot..I love that the zoo put in these misters which is what the girls are doing in this picture :) Getting misted

More misting..I think the kids loved these the most

Sorry Tanner I tried not to get any more than the one picture! Seeing the elephant move was pretty cool and there were seats!

Kaylee ,Kamrin, and Hallie..Dyllan would not get in this, and seriously I told Tanner One picture I wont ask again

And here it is unfortunately Dyllan doesn't want to be in pictures either! and Hallie was not wanting to participate either

I Love this one! Darn Tanner ;)

This was my attempt at a family picture before the promise of only one.. Check out Wrandi and Kaylees faces someone should be rolling their eyes! Tanner is a good couple inches taller than I am now. Grr!

Sad to say I did not get to see the Giraffes..The new one had just been born and there was a no visitor policy! :( But I did find out Tanner likes them too

Zoo with friends

We got to go to the Zoo with our neighbors Grace, Clair and for me Melissa. Hallie and Kamrin LOVE these guys! Its really fun having great people next door.
This dumb ball... I said run girls no one is on the ball, reached down and got my camera and this is the picture I got.. Grr... I like our girls but bot so much the strangers!

Hallie has this thing with the turkeys and "peahawks" which is so far my favorite name for that bird! This is her I'm smiling with my teeth smile

My girls love these tiger, grace loved it, Clair looks a little hesitant though :) I would have thought it was HOT!

Just in case you haven't seen the tiger or haven't seen it move TA DA! It was moving and playing with this bucket

Oh Hallie, my little bug lover.. She wants one of these. Its an African millipede. She thinks it will tickle her and Please can I have one mom. EWW

Swimming in Cherry Village

We had so much fun swimming! Thanks Wrandi! (for getting your camera and burning a disk also) This is Hallie before we left, she was cold and wanted to be a burrito
Kamrin and Dyllan, my poor girls want goggles so bad..I will probably get them some, but seriously I did not see Tanners or Dyllans eyeballs till we were done in the pool ;)

Hallie has loved to go swimming since she was 6 months old

Tanner is really such a fun brother. He makes the coolest stuff out of ANYTHING, but the best is that he still takes time to PLAY with Dyllan and invites him to be a part of what him and his super cool older jr high boys are doing. Its really nice to see. We are lucky Wrandi caught a picture or two of him

He may not agree, but if you cant actually get away away from a camera you just better pose.

Luckily Hallie has got Kamrin who is just as sweet with her....She isnt in jr high though...we will see!

Kamrin is loving swimming! She did not leave the deep end!