Dinosaur Museum

We decided on the last $2 Tuesday of the month to join the mass chaos at Thanksgiving Point and go to the Dinosaur Museum.  

Waiting outside for our friends

Cheesy grins all around!

Hanging out in the cave

Both girls were unsure of the shark and Izze wouldn't turn around for the picture, too scared I suppose.

Newport Beach!

Last week I loaded the girls up and we drove to Newport Beach to visit my sister and her family for a week.  I wasn't sure the girls would last 11 hours straight in the car so we stopped in Primm at Buffalo Bill's to stay the night.  I'm pretty sure we should have just kept driving because right as we walked in Addie said "what is that smell?" and I don't think I slept a wink!  We continued on our journey the next morning and we were all glad to make it to our destination.  We went to the beach, swam a lot, played at some parks, and just had fun spending time together.  Andrew flew in to help us drive home, which I am grateful for, I'm not sure I could have stayed at Buffalo Bill's again! 

The barn at Buffalo Bill's in Primm

Little Corona

Addie playing at the beach which she claims to not like...

Izze loving the sand

Carousel at Balboa Pier

We stopped in Vegas on way home.  We walked part of the strip and the new thing is to dress up like characters and have people tip you to make money, I guess.  Addie wanted a picture but only if Andrew was in it, ha ha.  We saw all sorts of "characters" on the strip!

Silly Addie

We had some car seats in our front room for a bit, don't really know why, and Addie loved playing with them.  I thought it was cute she strapped in all her barbies and then herself...

Happy Birthday!

We celebrated Izze's second birthday on Friday!  I can't believe it has been two years already, she is growing up so fast.  She says so many words and is stringing words together.  She has quite the strong personality, but is still shy until she is comfortable in situations.  We went to Lagoon for her birthday, Izze loves the rides and gets so excited to stand in line all by herself.  When we ride Puff her arms shoot straight in the air as soon as the ride starts and remain there the entire time.  We also went over to my sister's house in the afternoon so she could play with some of her cousins and have cupcakes.  We took her to dinner at her favorite place, Chick-Fil-A, she loves playing on the slide.  Addie was so nice to help her open all of her presents and play with them too!

Park Fun

A few weeks ago we went to a park we had never been to by the Jordan River.  The girls had a great time and loved swinging, going down the slides, looking at ducks, and just being outside.

Camping ... Finally!!!

We were finally able to take out the Flying Dutchmen this past weekend, we have been too busy and the weather has been too stormy before now.  It still rained on us a little, but we survived and the tent trailer survived the winter with only a few minor repairs.  We went to Wasatch Mountain State Park, just a few miles from the town of Midway.

We had fun hanging out at our campground.

We took a self-guided tour around the Huber Home in Midway.

We hiked to see an overlook of Heber Valley, the girls actually made it most of the way.  Thanks goodness for cloud cover!

It sure warmed up in the afternoon and since we had a water spout in our campground, the girls decided to make the most of it ... several times.  The cold water was very refreshing!

We decided to take advantage of having the town so close and chose to eat at Cafe Galleria one night.  They specialize in wood-fired pizza, it was pretty tasty. 

We were so close to Guardsman Pass so we drove from Midway to Park City one morning via the pass.  It was very pretty!  We saw a few snowmobiles that looked as though they had been ditched in the winter, they were in the strangest places and positions.

View from the top...

We completed our trip with a visit down memory lane for myself by eating at Dairy Keen in Heber.  Growing up I would stop here with my friend and her family on the way to her cabin several weekends every summer.  The food tastes the same and the train is the same, the restaurant has expanded a bit.   We loved our camping trip and will definitely camp here again in the future.

4th of July Festivities

We spent the 4th of July by going to the Murray Parade, where the girls loved collecting all the candy that was thrown at us.  We then went to a BBQ at my parent's house, where we celebrated one of Addie's cousin's birthdays and ate some yummy food in the rain!  We took a break for Izze's nap then headed over to Andrew's parent's house for another BBQ and some fireworks.  Addie could hardly contain herself all day wondering when it was going to be firework time.  She loved setting out the fireworks and playing with the sparklers.  Izze was unsure of the whole thing and chose to sit on my lap most of the night, which was fine by me.  As we were driving home we had another firework show as we watched all the aerial fireworks from lots of neighborhoods.  Once we hit our neighborhood we could barely make it to our house for all of the fireworks in the streets, it sounded like a war zone out there. 

At the parade, Izze still in shy mode

Ben and Addie

Addie playing in the pool at Grandma Jensen's house

Izze refusing to play in the pool

Our Family

Sparklers!