Thanksgiving Point

For Derek's summer work party this year we got free passes to all the attractions at Thanksgiving Point here in Lehi.  The girls had never been to the Dinosaur Museum there, so it was really fun.  Afterward we had a carnival/dinner as well.  It was a very full day!

The Tinker room in the Dinosaur Museum was their favorite.

Lots of hands on activities.

Meili loved watching things fly out of the wind tunnel.

Posing on a dino dig.  Meili looks like a scary creature!

The sand and water table, they LOVED it!

Face painting at the party.

Meili was VERY suspicious of the lady painting on her face.

But they turned out stinkin' cute.

Sofie loved the mama cow.

(but the look on Derek's face as the calf was nursing...that was priceless!!)

Our girls love the "Zoo Farm"

Let me out!

Meili was crushed that she didn't get to ride, next time maybe. :(

Mooooo

4th of July

For the Fourth of July we got to spend time with family in Alpine.  We had a BBQ at the park, played at the splash pad, swam at my aunt's pool, and finished with some fireworks.  Here's a few pictures:

Potato Sack races with the Cousins!

Spoon races

These little bodies are all so cute!

Tug o' war

Mei needed a little help with the sack race

Lots of cousins, but this year's party was really small, too many people have moved or were out of town.

Life's always good when there's a swimsuit involved!

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Swimming until the sun goes down.

Passing the Time

It's been a great summer, hard to keep girls busy when you're miserable, but I've had lots of support from my mom, sister, and cousin.  Not many pictures to prove we've done stuff, most activities involved being wet or being miserable, so the camera didn't come out, but here's a few of my cute girls.

These three darling triplet-cousins have spent LOTS of time together.  I'm so grateful to have them as such convenient friends for Sofie.  This was before the ban on fun (water shortage) in Lehi...

Puppet shows.

Shoulda named her Spaz! :)

Showing off our aprons before baking.

This was I think 34 weeks... I'm a little bigger these days. (typing this at 38 1/2)

This beautiful face

And this beautiful face

Their hair is finally growing!

June

June was a pretty crazy month!

I don't think I'll be able to keep up the pace the rest of this summer!

In the first week of June Dia left us.  We had a nice backyard going-away party for her at my mom's house.

Dia was leaving the next morning at 5 am, so we left the girls at my parents house so we wouldn't have to wake them up.  Dia put them to bed to say goodbye.

The last night dorkin' it up.

Mid June-ish I got to have a family baby shower.  My cousin Serena and I are due about 5 weeks apart and both of us are having a gender we've not had before, so it was great to have a few extra gifts!

Late June we got to go camping up at Timpooneke campground.  That's our tent nestled in the quiet woods where a bear had been sighted several times that day within a mile of us...

(I don't recommend tent camping at 7 months pregnant when it's 40 degrees outside and a bear is lurking around.  Makes for pretty lame sleep.)

My girls absolutely LOVE camping.  Meili is always covered head to toe in filth within a few minutes.

It was pretty chilly that week, (the week before it got WAY too hot) but no worries, grandma had gloves and jackets and hats for a blizzard.

Does this baby make me look fat?

Derek was on the job even in the wilderness.  Working on Grandpa's back problems.

Sofie and cousin Sienna enjoying aunt Deena's motorhome!

We also got to enjoy outdoor swim lessons everyday!

And again, those are MY beautiful mountains!

Sofie's teacher was so darling with her.  Sofie went from being terrified of getting her face wet to spending most of her time UNDER the water!  

Then, of course, it wouldn't be summer in Utah without a good garage sale or two.

I hosted a garage sale on the hottest possible days...

Here are the ladies helping out. (can you tell by their hairdos that mom was pretty busy that morning?)

Pregnant mama roasting in the 100+ weather.  Zoe looks pretty pleased as well!

Ward Rodeo

One of the perks of living where we do is we get to enjoy other people's fun property!

This year our ward held a "rodeo."  It was more like a fair, but the girls had so much fun!

Fun carnival games

Mei and Sofie stick-horse racing!  Meili galloped the whole way, so darling.

Those are MY beautiful mountains!

Dia took this great picture.  I think it really captures Lehi in the spring!

I made Dia learn to rope herself a cow.  Such a great picture to take home to Hungary.  A real live cowboy and everything!

Sofie roping once she got over her fear of the big cowboy that accidentally ran into her.

Petting the goats

Riding the train