summer fun!

This summer was so fun! We had so much sunshine, so many fun family vacations, and lots of trips to the water park and aquarium. But best of all was the fun we had at home! Gabe and Nyah always had something wonderfully creative to play and ended up outside every single day with Cole and Mason, our great next door neighbors.  One day I spotted them down the street under a tree and walked down with otter pops to investigate... they were camping they said! And playing Uno in the shade. It was so cute!  There were a lot of discoveries of bugs as well this summer... as long as it wasn't a spider, Nyah had no problem holding it.  She is braver than I!  The best was when she rescued a beautiful butterfly (her words... it was really a little moth) from Denali's water dish.  She was so worried about it's broken wing. She sang to it for an hour at least, songs about how Jesus would heal it's wing.  It was so adorable.  We even found a praying mantis one day and all of us took a turn letting is crawl up our arm. It was a little unnerving but thrilling at the same time! (Gotta think and feel like a kid sometimes... it's fun!) We went to Highland Days with the cousins and the kids got to be in a bike race by age. It was so fun to watch them racing along on their bikes - they both did really well, Nyah even won second! We LOVE the summer time and we LOVE living in Utah!!

"Camping!"

look at that monster grasshopper!

Hiking to Lake Mary (Ian was there too!)

The rescued "butterfly"

On your marks, get set, GO GABE!!!

Nyah on the podium accepting her prize!