Weekend Getaway!!

Weekend with Wendy--my W.W.W.!!  We started this last year and I hope to continue it every year!  It was such a nice break.  We started off Friday late morning going to lunch at Bite Size (yummy!!) and then we got pampered with pedicures and manicures.  My toes are the neon green and Wendy's are the purple.  We shopped at a fun Fall Boutique.  Then we got dressed up and went to dinner and a play.  We saw Little Women at the Centerpoint Legacy Theatre in Centerville.  What a nice production!

 Then after a wonderful night's rest and a relaxing breakfast, we drove downtown and went to the Salt Lake City Temple and did a session.  It was wonderful to go there with one of my closest friends.  We took pictures after we changed though...

 Then over to City Creek for some window/wishful shopping!  I think we both found some lovely jewelry for our husbands to buy us at Tiffany's!  :)

I'm so lucky to have Wendy as a friend.  We are so close, I love it.  Several times we had people ask us if we were sisters-and even one time ask if we were twins!  I love my friend and loved my weekend getaway!

More company

 Well, between company at the beginning of the month, going out of town for a week and now company staying with us again-it has been a pretty full month!  Josh's parents came to stay with us for 8 days right as school was starting.   We love having them come visit, it is always so great!  One of our outings with them was to the Dinosaur Park in Ogden.  Pretty cool place.  Nicely done inside and out.  Loved this picture of the girls being 'eaten' by a T-Rex.

 Another outing was to go to Bite Size, City Creek, and then Temple Square.  We started a tour of the Conference Center but just as we started, an organ recital was going to take place so we decided to stay and listen to that then finish the tour.  It was neat because afterwards the Organ player let the girls come up on the stage and watch him play.  The recital was a great highlight of the day.  Then we continued our tour, which took us to the roof of the Conference Center.  

While they were here, of course we had to play sjoelbak.  Smokey thought it was fun to play too! 

First Day of School

 Can't believe the summer is over!  Welcome back school!  The girls were super excited to start back up again, they really missed it.  They are growing up-Bailey is in 4th grade and Erin is in 2nd!  My beautiful girls!!

Washington Trip

My mom, the girls and I went to see my brother and his family in Seattle.  We had a great time!  This picture above  was taken at a fun park that we went to.  Bumper Boats!!  It was pretty funny, Bailey was always going after Melissa, never anyone else.  Erin went with me once and Dave once-she was great at the water gun!  Then we also did some miniature golf, the girls first time.

While we were downtown Seattle, we spent time at Pike's Place Market and new this year there was a large ferris wheel put in just off the water. 

We went to a Minor League Baseball game--Boise Hawks vs Everett Aquasocks!  After the game, the kids got to run around the bases and got a certificate.  They had never been to a baseball game before.  It was great because when they played the song "Take me out to the ball game", the girls both sang "Root, root, root for the Cubbies" instead of 'home team'.  Josh's mom sings it that way to them and they didn't even know that Cubbies wasn't the real word until that night!  It was pretty funny to listen to them sing it. 

Webby and the kids!

On our way, we made a nice stop at Snoqualmie Falls.  A nice view, lunch and break from the car!

Erin's Birthday!

Cannot believe that my little girl is 7 years old in just a couple hours!  She is such a fun loving energetic girl.  We love her so much.  Before our company came we went bowling and out to dinner at Chuck-A-Rama.  Both of which she picked.  She had a great time at her birthday party on Saturday with some of her friends.  She was so happy that Ben and Hannah Crocker were here to celebrate with her!  She wanted a Gummi Worm cake so I made cups of chocolate pudding and cookies as if it was dirt and put in gummi worms.  She wanted to play musical chairs and pin the tail on the donkey so those came next.  Then they played water balloon volleyball and then we made a big slip n' slide down our little hill.  Fun was had by all. 

Conversation with Erin today:
Christine: Erin, tomorrow is Monday-what does that mean?
pause...
Erin:  School starts!!
Christine: Nope
pause....
Erin:  Our Washington trip!!
Christine: Nope
huge pause....the wheels are turning in her head so I showed her the calendar and asked her what is said.
Erin: MY BIRTHDAY! 

Even though we had been counting down the days to her birthday for the last several weeks she had forgotten since we had her party the day before.  Super cute. 

 Bailey, Erin, Ben, and Hannah had a great time decorating the backyard before the party.  Josh made the comment that they are learning how to toilet paper trees at an early age.  :)

The Crockers!

      

Our good friends, the Crockers came to stay with us for a couple of days which was just amazing. The kids all had a great time playing together in the backyard, at the pool, at Erin's birthday party, at Bear Lake, at the park ice-blocking and much more. We had such a great time with them. So good to see them again. Hope it won't be too long until we see them again. Sure do love them!

 

Alcova Lake Wyoming

 Some neighbors invited us to spend a long weekend at their trailer house on Lake Alcova.  It was such a nice break.  We went hiking, jetskiing, and played on the beach.  The girls had a blast playing in the lake with our neighbors two large labs.  It was hot but it was great!  The girls especially loved being pulled behind the jetski in a tub.  They are little daredevils!

 On our way back home, we stopped by Independence Rock and Martins Cove-both great pioneer locations.  It was wonderful to go there with Bailey and Erin and talk about pioneers.  It went right along with Pioneer Day that was a couple days after.