I Love My Family

I have been awful at updating our family blog. I feel like we've been so busy living life and starting my cake business I haven't had much time to post about the things we've done. 

Summer is such a fun time because we get to spend extra time with little Miss Brooklyn. We couldn't get away this summer but we've tried to do some fun things with the kids. 

We went to the newly redone.... added on to Bean Museum at BYU. The museum was so nice I didn't remember how morbid some of the animal scenes were. There were a lot of Lions eating other animals haha.

On Pioneer day we got to go to the big Days of '47 parade in Salt Lake and thanks to my work we had front row seats and breakfast and we didn't even have to spend the night on the street. It was awesome. Both of our munchkins love parades. 

Cookies for the giveaway. Yum!

For Chris's birthday he wanted an old school Mario cake. I love the themes he chooses for his birthdays. I'm married to a big kid. 

We checked out the new Museum of Natural Curiosity at Thanksgiving Point. The kids loved it. I feel like there should be more of a limit on how many people they let in at a time. I figured since we went on a Monday ...during the day it wouldn't be too crowded but there were soooo many people. They have some fun things but there were so many kids there that my kids weren't able to play with some of the things. I think my favorite things about the museum were the rope bridges and walking around in the gardens.

For Chris's work party we got to go to the new Aquarium. It is so much bigger than the old one. Both kids got to touch a stingray, I also touched a shark and Brooklyn and I both got to touch a starfish. It was nice having the whole place to just Chris's company. Gavin decided about two minutes after we left the aquarium that he wanted to touch the starfish.... I guess he'll just have to do that next time.

My phone was dying so all my pictures are crummy.

 

We went to the Ogden Temple open house. It was so beautiful. The outside looks nothing like the old temple. I love that we were able to go and take our children and help teach them the importance of Temples. I love that Gavin while we were inside asked "What is this place?". Temples are such special place and because of temples I get to be with my family forever. I'm so glad that my children can recognize that it's a special place even if they don't completely understand it yet.

 

 

It was so bright!

 

This weekend Chris helped the kids make a water park in the backyard. We tried to find a slip in slide but since we couldn't find one they made their own. Chris is such a good dad and the kids love playing with him.

And a few extra pics that don't fit anywhere.

Gavin got a bee on his nose that didn't sting him but wouldn't fly away until I flicked it off.... it was crazy!

Brooklyn loves her potato bugs.

Church was rough on Sunday.... thankfully it was the last Sunday before Gavin can go back to nursery (as long as he doesn't get sick knock on wood)