September 2015

This is a little of what we’ve been up to this summer.

Spencer helped Dallas mow the lawn:

I enrolled the girls in a summer class through the city.  They did science experiments and loved it.  Brooke won some candy for her cup/boat which held the most marbles and was so proud of herself:

I figured Spencer would want to go to a class of his own so he wouldn’t feel left out.  I signed him up for a tot sports class.  He was…not interested in the class.  Instead he preferred to pass his time doing this:

Should I be worried?  Because I am.

We have eaten a million Otter Pops:

Somehow this happened and both girls were completely satisfied with the arrangement:

The big girls took swim lessons.  Brooke, and indeed most of the kids, LOVED the lessons:

Caroline on the other hand…

It took her some time to warm up to the idea of swim lessons.

Brooke after the first lesson:

And Caroline:

However, by the end she had become so much more comfortable in the water and was actually enjoying herself.  Hooray for progress!

After the fiasco of the summer community classes, I didn’t dare sign Spencer up for swim lessons.  He was more than happy to play on the iPad the whole time:

Madison was a little busybody and ran around all over the place.  Luckily the pool had a little park right by it that we could play on:

Madison is not a fan of grass touching her skin:

We saw “The Little Mermaid” at the Hale Theatre.  We loved it!  Caroline wouldn’t take a picture with me so I had to borrow my niece, Emma:

Perhaps Caroline was just hungry.  We went to Chili’s after and Caroline ate a bazillion pieces of pizza:

My aunt and uncle came to visit.  Here’s my cute cousin Hailey who just graduated from high school:

The girls loved the black frosting from the cake:

Sweet Caroline turned 6!  She was certain she’d lose her first tooth on her birthday.  It didn’t happen.

Caroline wanted a repeat cake, so I made the Dora-head cake again:

We visited my parents who were selling hot dogs during Bountiful’s handcart days:

Nice photobomb, Brooke.

We’ve loved the splash pad:

We had our ward variety show.  Brooke showed off her stop motions again and drew a crowd:

After much hesitation and debate, I began giving Brooke piano lessons:

So far she’s doing well and is happy to practice a little each day.  Is is too much to ask for this to continue forever?

As the post title suggests, we went to the Hill Aerospace Museum.

Then we had the Fourth of July.  I have never felt as accomplished as a mother as I did when I successfully got all four of my kids to nap before leaving for fireworks.

Once we all woke up we met up with my family, had dinner, and watched fireworks. (Please ignore my bruised and battered baby.  She is constantly bumping into something.)

We met up with my sister and her kids and went to the Ogden Treehouse Museum.

They had an interactive play that I took Caroline, Madison, and Spencer to.  Caroline volunteered to be a wolf:

Then I volunteered Madison to be a pig since no one else was willing.  Little did I know that would mean I got to be a pig, too, and wear a child-sized costume:

These pictures are courtesy of a stranger who saw me go onstage so she went over to my purse, dug my camera out, and took pictures.  I’m still sorting out my feelings about that.

We had a great day at Lagoon this year.  Once again we went with Dallas’s work and once again he designed our T-shirts.  What a guy.