my Sunshine: 10/1/12

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Summer Fun- August

Once August is here, the countdown is on. Only a few weeks 'til school starts.

Several days were spent with cousin Hadley while mom worked in her classroom. She took the girls to really fun places: the pool, Bridal Veil Falls, Jamba Juice, Forever 21, and to her house for playing Barbies and watching movies. How much fun is that? It was really nice for me because she picked them up and dropped them off at my school.

Aug. 1: friends over

Kimee and Darcy playing iPods.

Ashlyn and Maddi

(not pictured is Audrey and friend Hadley W.)

Bowling: Aug. 8

We had so much fun going bowling with the Foxes.

The girls even got their faces painted.

Audrey and Maddi crashed hard on Audrey's bed after a busy day.

Cousin Day: Aug. 10

Eating snow cones. Yum!

Spaghetti and meatballs for dinner

Last Day for Candy Stand: Aug. 14

We were super busy on our last day of the candy stand. It was awesome!

Temple Open House/Labor Day

For Labor Day, I planned a special trip up to see the Brigham City Temple Open House.
We did all of our projects in the yard on Saturday and left for our little trip on Monday.
We stopped at the SouthTowne mall to check out the sales at Claire's, and the girls thought the glass elevator was totally awesome. We had to go up and down the escalator several times as well.

When we got to Brigham City, we checked in to our hotel. Then we went swimming. The pool was cold and murky, so we didn't stay long. Then we went for a drive, and looked for a park and a place to eat dinner. We wanted to find someplace unique to Brigham City. Everywhere we drove past we super crowded. We drove past the temple. It was stunningly beautiful.

There were huge lines wrapped all around it. We were glad we weren't going to the open house on Labor Day. We found out the next day that the lines were about 4 hours long. Just over 22,000 people went through the open house in one day.

We found a park and stopped to play for a while. Then we went back to a place close to the park. We were there for over an hour before we got our food. When we got it, it was the wrong order and the burgers and fries were cold. Very disappointing. (We should have just gone to Arby's.) The shakes were really good though. We went back to the park to eat and play some more.

playing UNO in our hotel room

Tuesday morning, we woke up bright and early, ate the complimentary breakfast at the hotel, and then packed up and headed out for our assigned parking lot. We got right on the bus, which drove us to the temple. The girls love the bus ride!

We were so excited to get right in- no lines!

Here we are in the room that we watched the video about temples (trying to keep Maddi quiet).

The temple was so beautiful inside. Peach blossoms were everywhere, it was so neat. We could feel the Spirit so strong and knew this is the Lord's house. Afterwards, we got some yummy cookies and water bottles with a picture of the temple on them.

So pretty!

We got back on the bus and headed home.

We had to be back to school at noon, and we made it in time.

It was a really special trip that I will always remember.

Camping at Strawberry

At the end of August, we went camping at Strawberry Reservoir with Dave's friend from work, Jonathan, and his family. We had a fabulous time.

Maddi- so excited to be here.

Our camping spot had a gorgeous view of the lake.

Everyone wanted turns to hold the baby.

Maddi and Laney found the perfect place to play. A couple of funny things:

Maddi wouldn't wear her shoes. She kept calling Laney "sister," I guess because of the game they were playing.

On Saturday we went fishing.

Jonathan set some crawdad traps.

When we got back from fishing, it started pouring.

We all got wet. The tent got soaked, but after the rain stopped,
it dried out pretty quick.

Dave was in charge of making breakfast (and all the fires).

This is where we set the traps.

Audrey and Kimee with their crawdads at Strawberry.

We left Saturday evening, before dinner. We stopped in Heber and got Arby's and then drove home in our old blue truck.

As soon as we got home, I was ready to go back. I didn't want to unpack, I just wanted to go again the next weekend. It was so fun to just be outside in nature. Since we went the Friday of the first week of school, Dave was in charge of planning the whole thing and all of the packing, so that was another reason why I enjoyed myself so much. It was wonderful!