Birthday Bonanza

June and July are Birthday months around here - 3 birthdays in 3 weeks.  We added to the party by having a Lovell family "staycation" in the middle of it all.

With all the change (moving) in our family this summer, the plans to have a Lovell reunion at Lake Powell were scrapped and everyone (except poor Nate who was also moving) met in Idaho.  We spent a day at Island Park, before seeing an amazing production of "Les Miserables" at the Playmill. We visited the ranch and a few brave souls went water-skiing and tubing on what has been the coldest day of the summer (I was not one of them).  When it warmed up we went to the Splash park and the pool.  We played games, watched soccer, talked a lot, and ate too much good food.

Picnic at Mesa Falls

Beautiful view of The Tetons

K-Rae & Diego at the ranch

Berry and Lyssie back to their old tricks

Sleeping on the trampoline

Baby S loving the Splash Park

Curly was lucky to celebrate her birthday with Lettie this year.  Since they both have birthdays near the 4th, we made it a big party all day long.  We hit the parade, played outside, watched a movie, had cake, and topped it off with fireworks. 

At the Parade

 

Bubble blowing contest after parade

Curly the witch

 Curly and Lettie both enjoy Harry Potter books right now, so Shar and I had fun making wands for everyone and letting them choose a wand at "Olivanders"

The wand, choosing the wizard

Excited for ice cream cake!

Spud's wand really did work :)

 The celebrations on the 4th were the finale to having family here.  We did get to have an encore in the form of a spontaneous and fun visit with Cayenne and Mark's family when their car broke down a few days later. 

With everyone gone, Lou's birthday was a bit more quiet, but we had fun playing mini golf and enjoyed a lazy afternoon reading a good book.  Lou really wanted an Olaf cake and thanks to a trick I learned at a Relief Society class a few weeks ago (and some taffy from the parade), it actually turned out looking like him.   We had fun making it together.

  Lou is our actress and puts her volume and energy into everything we do.  She and Curly are best friends and I love watching them play with their little siblings.  It's never boring around here.  They are all growing up too fast!