Monday, June 18, 2012

Summerfest

Every year we look forward to Summerfest.  It's a lovely craft/art/music festival for 3 days in downtown Logan.  We have our favorite artists we look forward to seeing every year, and always see new things we like/wish we could afford.  A lot of it tends to be very pricey since it's all handmade stuff.  This year there was a definitely noticeable decrease in vendors.  And still masses and masses of people...everywhere...let me just tell you how fun it was negotiating the narrow sidewalks full of people while pushing a double stroller...and trying to stop and look at things.  I felt like an elephant.  Eventually I made Jason be the elephant.  :)
So this year we walked away with nothing, as our favorite artist we buy something from every year wasn't there this year.  But we did treat ourselves to some art fair food.  Lots of places to choose from, and me and Jason split up in order to get through lines faster and when we met up, we both had BBQ pork sandwiches.  Different vendors, and different side dishes.  But both BBQ.  Great minds think alike.
We also treated the girls to the most gigantic thing of cotton candy I have ever seen.  It was seriously almost as big as Brookie.  And the girls were in HEAVEN.  And I picked the worst day to forget to stash some wipes in my purse.  Woops!  Good thing they had some little sani-wipes at the booth.
 Look at the size of that thing!!
 Brookie enjoying her first cotton candy snack from Grandma.
 My fave :)
Then on the way out to our car we ended up walking by the Kettle Corn booth....yikes.  That stuff is my WEAKNESS!!  I love love love it.  And Jason and I were having movie night at home that night so we decided to get one to go.  Let's just say almost half of it was gone before we even got home, and it was a very large bag of kettle corn!
Summerfest is always fun, even just to get out and walk around daydreaming of all the awesome artwork, and people watching of course.  One of my favorite pass-times.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Family Pizza Night

Sick of all the updating posts yet?  :)  Here's one more for ya.
We took the girls out to eat at Piza Pie Cafe the other night.  We haven't actually taken them out to eat a whole lot.  A few horrible experiences when Brooklyn was a little younger have kept us at home most of the time.  But we decided to go, since we had some awesome coupons, and me and Jason love that place. 
Kayla and her daddy.  
 Me trying to get Brooklyn to smile...
 Trying again...
 One more time....
 This was as close as we came.  Too bad she was looking at me and not the camera!  But it turned out to be a cute pic!
 The girls did SO good, and really loved the place! 
Makayla ate with her pinky up the whole time...it cracked us up. 

Tough Mudder


 So Jason and his sister Ashley just got back from a weekend trip to Colorado.  They stayed at a super fancy ski resort.  It was gorgeous!!  They were there for a Tough Mudder event.  13 miles, obstacles, mud, ice, electric shockers...basically torture in my opinion.  But they had an awesome time, and Jason said he'd even do it again!  His legs are torn up...I told him it looked like he was dragged across pavement or something.  Ashley's friend Christos also joined them. 

 They got to explore Denver a bit.  They actually stayed in a town called Avon I think...I could be wrong on that...but Denver was only an hour or so away.

 This was after the race...my pictures never download in the order I want....


 At a Rockies game!



They had a good time!!  Jason wants to do another one in Salt Lake in October....brrrrrrr......

The Graduate, the Bird and the Cowgirl

Sounds like a really interesting story title eh?  Not really.
My littlest brother Bryon graduated high school!  What!?  I swear he's still like 6 years old.
But it's true, he's on to bigger and better things....like exploring Europe right now...what!!??  Yes, that's right.  He's a bit spoiled, and we all (and he) knows it!
There he is marching in!
 And sitting RIGHT in front of us!  We had good front row seats :)
 And poor Brookie was SO tired, she snuggled Grandma the whole time.  Look at that smooshy face!
Hard to believe next year Bryon will be turning in his mission papers!  Holy cow.

Makayla started swim class.  She does much better than I thought she would do.  She pretty much does everything except go under and open her eyes.  Even going under sometimes she needs to be talked into....but I'm pretty sure I know where she got that from...I remember myself being really tentative in the water, and HATING getting my face wet.  But in the last 2 weeks she has drastically improved in alot of areas.  So we're going for another 2 week session!  She passed the first level!  
 And to make it even better, she's in class with her adorable cousin Haylee!  And it's just the 2 of them...for now, I think next week they have 4 kids total.  And their teacher is SO awesome with them.  She loves him.  Too bad they rotate teachers every 2 weeks.  But that's also probably a good thing. 
 And here is our little friend.  She sits on top of our window AC unit and pecks at the window...every morning, at 5am...like our personal little alarm clock...set about 2 hours too early!
 And here's the cowgirl!  Playing dress up at cousin night at Gordon and Kristi's house!
 This pic was just too cute, so I stuck it in.  Makayla was being ultra sweet this day.  She wanted to hold Brookie's hand everywhere we went!












So Long Pre-School!

For a few months anyway, we are free!!!!  Ok, not really "free" I guess.  We still have lots going on.  And apparently I am way behind on blogging, because the last post was from Jason's birthday almost a month ago!
 Makayla graduated from Melody Lane Preschool (1st year) in May.  She'll go again in the fall, 3 days a week instead of 2 in the 4yr old class.  She absolutely LOVES preschool and got so mad when we left and I said she didn't have to go again for a few months. 

Here she is with her class.  These photos are terrible, I am aware.  My camera has got one foot in the grave, and I was in a really terrible spot for pictures.  And not wanting to ruin anyone else's picture taking I didn't stand up for a better position.   So I made it work as best I could.   

 She learned the alphabet in sign language.
 Played a cool stick song! 
 And was really sad to say goodbye to her teachers!  They really are amazing ladies. 
So now on to swimming lessons and lots of summer fun!