Bathing Suit Beauty

This is a typical scene at our house these days - Berry in a bathing suit.  We are not sure why, but Berry has decided that she has nothing to wear and insists on putting a swimsuit on each morning. 

She wakes up, opens her drawer, and selects her suit of choice, then brings it to Fisher or I asking for help to put it on.  After breakfast, she will go in her room, remove said suit and come back with a different swimsuit (she owns three). 

She loves wearing her swimsuit so much, that removing it to put on real clothes elicits kicking and screaming - so much so that we just let her wear her suit unless we are going to church.  If we are going out in public, I try to put a coverup on her, but sometimes even that doesn't work. 

At church today, she pulled her skirt off - secretly hoping that we had packed one of her suits.  She was sad to discover that we had not.  As soon as we walked in the door from church today, her skirt and shirt were off and she returned from her room with her suit. 

We think her obsession with swimsuits might have to do with her love for swimming.  Maybe she thinks that if she wears a suit, eventually she will end up in a pool. 

I guess she got tired of her suits.  Today she stole one of Lou's suits and wore it backwards most of the day - it was scandalous.

School Days

School days are here again!  The girls were excited (Lou) and nervous (Curly) to go to a new school this year, but after the first day, all the jitters  turned into adoration for their great teachers.  We are all excited about school!  Lou loves it so much, she wishes she were in all day Kindergarten with her friends, but I am glad she can be home with me.  It seems like Curly just started Kindergarten and now Lou is there - time goes by much too quickly.



So cute in their uniforms



 

Home Sweat-y Home

After three weeks of fun with family, we returned home.  I was a bit nervous to actually be going it on my own with three children and a newborn, but we have survived!  I even ventured to the library and to the store with all four kids!   Back in AZ, we only had three weeks until school began again.  We swam as much as possible, played with friends, tumbled, and went on a few outings.  The girls had a summer "Challenge Chart" of goals to complete in categories like reading, memorization, and cooking.  They worked hard to finish before school began.

Curly last swim meet

We gave the girls a tumbling mat for their bday s- hours of fun!

Every night we take Lou to the bathroom before we go to bed.  It is almost impossible to wake her up and hilarious to watch her stagger or sometimes just stand in one spot and sway as she tried to navigate herself to the bathroom.  She usually can't make it back into bed on her own and when she does she flops over as soon as she reaches the top of the ladder.

Lou's legs

 The weeks before school began we took a day trip to the Sedona area to go hiking and enjoy the scenery.  Why hadn't we gone there before?!?  It was very beautiful AND 20 degrees cooler.   We hike about 2 miles to a creek and enjoyed a picnic lunch in the shade.  Even with the change in temperature, it was still in the low 90s and we were very hot by the time we finished - especially the backpack toting adults.

Ready to go

Time for lunch

  

Fisher rigged up a cradle for baby boy

Wading in the creek

 

Cool Ocotilla and the view isn't bad either

Too much hiking for Berry

Cathedral rock

Cooling off with a slushee

Finally, a few shots from around the house - 

Sweet smiles

Father and Son snooze

A rare scene for Lou

Berry's first pigtails

Ice cream cone leftovers

Play Sprint!

I would have titled it a play marathon, but our time was so short - it was more like a sprint!  (Olympics on the brain)  We spent a few days in Utah and packed in A LOT of fun with family!

K-Rae helped me drive to Utah and we stopped for an afternoon visit with  Woodbury grandparents and cousin Elyse before heading to Oma's house.  In the two short days we were there we toured Bryce and Jenny's new house, visited the "Days of 47" parade floats (very impressive), had a picnic in the very cool Daybreak park, played in the fun and creative children's section of the Church History Museum, rode the "train" (trax) and had lunch at the new and impressive City Creek Center.   Phew!  We had a blast!

Sweet Oma/Lore helped us make the long drive home and stayed for a short visit before flying back.  We were so grateful to have her here.

Sharing a popsicle with cousin Nels

Lainey's cousin Tammy with their float

Jenny and Baby Boy

Spinning - Whee!

Wren and Berry

Berry loves to swing -a pretty view too

Fishing on Nephi's boat

 

Learning some Latin dance

Cute cousins waiting for Trax

City Creek Center

The fountain show

A week in Idaho

What do you do in Idaho for a week?  Well - here are a few things...

Smile at cute baby boys

1 month old

Float the River

 Lou said her favorite part of the float was when Grandma fell into the water trying to catch the raft and pull it ashore.

Meet up with old friends - The Turley's

Snuggle with Auntie

 K-Rae moved back to the west from DC just in time to spend some time with us!

Go shopping !

Freeze while eating  Millhollow  Frozen Yogurt - yum

Have fun with Auntie

Play trios with sisters

Go out for lunch

Give Grandma Hugs

Watch magic shows

Discover worms!

Realize the joys of rain!

As you can see, we had a wonderful time in Idaho!