2nd Week of July

We had another fun week, though a little less eventful than the 4th of July.  Steve had his follow up appointment w/ his heart Dr, and he said Steve is good to go, no restrictions.  Great news!  The Dr advised having a check up when he's 50 years old.  Here are some other highlights.

Conor and Nyles took a rocket and robots class (Monday-Thursday) offered by the school district.

Holding up the rockets they made.

They had a lot of fun being together and making robots/rockets.

Cute Nyles w/ his rocket.

Nyles and Carter in the pool at Joann's house.  Nyles lost another tooth!

 

London, Carter, Nyles and Conor eating Creamies and watching a show on Grandma/Grandpa's bed.

Steve went up to Silver Lake w/ Joann and the boys to get away from the heat one day.

They brought up the hammocks to sit in.

Just hanging out.

Getting a snack.

 

And there's still snow up there!

Snow!

Silly boys!

The boys throwing Pop-its on the sidewalk.

I took Nyles and Carter to the splash pad when Steve went to Young Men's one night.

Carter following a fish down the water.

The boys having a great time!

Now that our retaining wall is done, it was time to fix the fence that had blown over.

Steve and Bishop Anderson digging holes for the new posts.

Steve working hard on the fence.

A few days later the fence was done!  Good work Steve!

Sunday afternoon we went up the canyon to Donut Falls to enjoy the beauty and a little cooler temps.

Cute Carter and Nyles enjoying our hike/stroll.

Beautiful scenery.

Pretty flower and river.

Family picture.

Carter hitching a ride.

More pretty flowers.

Steve got a new phone so we had to try out his camera too.

Making our way back.

A cute little pot gut.

Carter getting a ride again and taking over Steve's sunglasses.

And we had to put up the hammocks for a while.

Nyles was so excited to put up his hammock.

Nyles had to show me how to keep dirty feet out of the hammock.

Carter giving Nyles a push.

Cute Nyles :)

Great quote.

4th of July Week

We had a really fun and eventful week during the 4th of July.  Here are some highlights.

Our pretty Lilies are blooming, an orange Asiatic Lilly and yellow Calla Lilly.

Beautiful Daisies!

Barb came down by herself from Boise.
We went to the Jordan River Temple and did a session together (Barb, Pauline, me and Rose).

 

Sisters!

We put our flag up for the 4th of July.  Carter fell asleep on the way up to Melanie's house.  

He had to bring his new game from Aunt Rose though, a popcorn game.  Silly kid :)

We went swimming as soon as we got up there.  

It was only 65 degrees outside, but luckily the pool water was warm.

Steve pulling around Carter and Nyles.

Carter thought it was fun to pretend he was a choo-choo train.

Silly Carter sticking his tongue out.

The kids thought it was fun to jump on and off the inflatable swan.

And pretend it was a boat.

Aunt Diane showed the kids blow bubbles from a water bottle and sock.

Pauline and Barb came up around lunchtime.
And then we did face painting.  Pauline helped paint the kids' faces.

Nyles wanted to be a tiger.

Carter's turn.

Conor wanted to be a skeleton.

The girls outside playing on the swings.  Lynsie and Nyles w/ their tiger faces.

Carter w/ a tiger print.

Cameron w/ some patriotic painting.

Lynsie (Stacie's friend) and Stacie painted each other's faces.

Dave, Jeff and Steve giving Phill a big hug.

Stacie, her friend Lynsie, Barb and I helped cut up the veggies for our stir fry dinner and Phill grilled the chicken.  We had coconut rice to go w/ it.  It was super yummy!

Stacie cracked me up every time she spoke.  She reminded me of a nut cracker!

Yumm!

After dinner Barb, Pauline and I went for a walk around the neighborhood.  

We saw some pretty Poppies.

Fire!

We then had a patriotic pinata for the kids to hit.

All the kids got some candy.

After putting Carter to bed, we watched the fireworks from their deck.

Nyles was so excited to stay up and watch the fireworks.  He got a front row seat :)

On Friday, July 5th, we went over to Deer Creek Reservoir first thing in the morning.  The kids played around on the little kayaks while others went out on the boat.

Nyles on the kayak.

 Chandler on the paddle board.

Taking turns on Lynsie's boat.

Carter getting excited to go on the boat.  Loading more kids up.

 

Carter and Ethan on the boat.

Stacie, Macey, London, Cameron, Noah, and Lynsie on the boat.

On the inflatable tube. 

 Nyles on the right side. 

While we were on the boat, Steve was trying the paddle-board.

Back near the shore, kids on the kayaks again and paddle-boards.

It was a little cool, so Carter had his jacket on and long pants for a while.

London, Olivia and Alexa getting some lunch.

Just playing in the sand.

Filling his sand bucket.  Steve and Nyles just taking a break.

After lunch we went back to the house and went swimming at the pool again. 

We packed up after swimming and went home.  We needed to get some stuff done around the house the next day.

Our pretty Calla Lilies.

 And our Day Lilies coming out as well!

Saturday morning Barb and I went on a hike to Little Bell Reservoir.  Pauline didn't sleep the best so she decided to stay back.  It was a beautiful morning hike.

The reservoir was so full!

The river was overflowing anywhere it could.

The bench was almost completely surrounded by water.  There were ducks and geese around too.
After our hike we met Pauline and had lunch together.

Saturday evening we went back up to Midway for dinner and then Chandler opened his mission call.

He is going to the San Bernadino, California mission, leaving in September.

We're all so excited for him.  His farewell is at the end of August.

On Sunday, we got together at Pauline's house for lunch.  I made cookies, which Carter loves.

He also says he loves PJ Masks right now :)

Another sister picture before Barb had to drive home to Boise.

 Barbara showing off her guns. 

That afternoon we went up to Silver Lake.

So beautiful.

My cute boys!

I love the pretty flowers.

The boys wanted to hike up a rock, so I went w/ them.

And there's still snow up there in patches.

More snow patches.  It definitely feels cooler to go up the canyon.

Great quotes.