The Post You've All Been Waiting For.....

Summer 2009

Exciting, isn't it?! I'm lazy no more! So, rather than do five billion separate posts, I just thought I would shove them all together and make one really long post. I don't mind if you just scroll through the pictures and ignore the writing. Although, you may be missing some extraordinary thoughts, so I'll leave that up to you.

First off, we found this great little beach about 5 minutes down the road from us. And I'm sure you are all thinking, "A beach in Utah?!" Yes, indeed.

We've been there several times and the kids just love getting out of the house for a few hours.


Scott traveled to Colorado the first part of August to do a bike race with his brother. They were in the Vail area and the bike race had an elevation climb of about 6 to 7 thousand feet. It was pretty crazy.
The kids and I traveled to California to visit my family and I even got to go to my niece's bridal shower. I was so glad that I got to be there for her shower! I got to visit with my cousins, my aunt and lots of other women that I haven't seen in so long.
I thought this was the most creative present of the night. These are towels!
This was my gift.
These three girls had the best time helping with the presents and feeling grown up enough to be there!
Most of our week in California was doing this:

SWIMMING!!!

Story behind this picture. Zoey spent her time splashing on the top step and saw me pull the camera out. So she walks over to me and asks me to take a picture of her, then walks back to where she was and smiles for me. A model in the making.
We did go to the beach one day. I had to show my kids that the beach at the lake isn't quite like the real thing.


It was such a great week! We spent tons of time with cousins and Grandma and did so much swimming, that we all came home fried crispy! Perfect!