Summer Fun!!!

There is no better Time than Summer Time!!!!! We have done so many fun activities together. The kids and I always make a "summer bucket list" and pack it full of things we want to do together. We crossed almost every one off of the list. We went to a drive in, swam a thousand times at Tiani's and Kathys, walked to Daybreak Lake a lot, went to the Pleasant Grove Pool a couple of times, watched a movie on our driveway, and so many other things I'm sure I'll post about later. It's just the best. I died over my two little boys tan lines. Seriously the funniest thing ever. Just wished summer lasted longer!

24th of July at the FARM

This may just be one of my favorite activities of the whole summer. There is no where that I would rather be on July 24th than my Grandmas Farm. It's her birthday and everything there reminds me of her. I'm so grateful that my children get to spend so much time at the same farm that I did. They float the canal just like we did, swing on the rope swing, jump on the tramp, run around with the cousins, catch tad poles, go fishing, everything just like we did. It's a truly magical place and I LOVE being there. That evening we got to go up to our fireplace for the first time and actually use it. Toby was beaming from ear to ear. It was so fun! The view was just incredible. We made tinfoil dinners and roasted marshmallows and watched the fireworks.  Couldn't have dreamed up a better day.

My Birthday Week

So this birthday was a little bit different for me this year because Toby was out of town. Can you believe it?! You wonder how I can even celebrate without him...but you know what? I'm surrounded by some pretty incredible people and my family and friends didn't skip a beat. He made sure he had me breakfast in bed before he left. The kids were so cute and made sure I felt very loved. They made me the cutest "Birthday Sign." The day of by birthday all of my family went over to Tianis where we just swam our little hearts out. It was absolutely perfect since that is just about my favorite place ever. It was really really fun and a perfect day. But the whole week was fun. I took the kids to Black Ridge reservoir, Kathy's swimming, swimming with my high school girlfriends and my parents gave me tickets to a Donny and Marie concert and that was just so fun. Man I love his concerts. Even got myself a new towel. When Toby came home we made sure to go out and celebrate too so all in all it was a very eventful week full of fun and celebrations.

Our Date taking Elle to Her First Concert…Train!

Toby has always loved the music group Train. Been one of his all-time favorites. So when they came into town he jumped at the chance to buy to tickets. I enjoy them too so was very excited. But the thought hit me the day before that our daughter loves them and too and had never been to a concert. I talked to Tob and without hesitation he decided to buy her a ticket…which was pretty easy because we just had grass seats at Usana Amphitheater. I was SO excited to tell her! We waited to the day before and than asked if she'd like to go on a little triple date with us. Her entire face lit up! She kept saying "really?! really?!" It was so cute. My mom offered to watch the other kids for us so we dropped them off at their place…which ended up being a whole catastrophic deal with her neighbor when we "parked" in front of his garage for all of 2 minutes while we unloaded the kids…but that's a story for another time. Actually it was hard to enjoy the first hour of our date because of the run in Toby had with Richard…but we kind of made it a joke later and honestly with Trains music and the company of each other we had such a great time. The smile on Elle's song as she sang a long is something I hope not to forget. She was just beaming. We put our arms around each other and sang our hearts out. She's such a delight, a wonderful girl and I'm so grateful she's ours. She's just growing up way too fast! I just love those "one on one" times we get to have with each of our kids. I hope they know how special and loved each of them are to us.

The Fourth of July

This has always just been one of my favorite Holidays! I LOVE celebrating our Country! I love the red white and blue everywhere, the songs that play on the radio, the flags flying everywhere. It's pretty inspirational. We woke up and went to breakfast at Grandma and Grandpa's and then came home and got ready to swim at Grandma Kathys! It was a wonderful weather and my whole family got to be there…even Joel and Tessa and the kids. Tory's family went to park city so it really was just us and the Christensen's. (sara's family was there for a bit) We ate and swam swam swam and then when the kids were as worn down as possible we headed back to our place for more eating and FIREWORKS. Can I just say that might be one of the best things about the location of our home. The view of the fireworks from our house is just unreal!!!! We can see them all the way down our street to the right and to the left and it just looks like the whole sky is lit up! It gets even more incredible when you climb to the top of our fire pit. I've just never seen anything like it. Everywhere you look there's a massive firework show going on. We invited the Christensen's back over and Jace's family, and my Dad made homemade ice cream and we just laid out blankets everywhere and it was a WONDERFUL night…one of my kids favorites too. Just look at these two little boys enjoying the show in comfort and style. Oh to be 2 and 5 again. So funny! One of my favorite fourth of July quote's in "Land of the Free Because of the Brave." Sure love the 4th of JULY!