Bad Habit

Making sunday treats...

So, I've had this horrible habit lately of letting at least a month go by without posting. Sorry. Anywho, what that means is....here is another round of posts of our latest adventures. There are only 8 posts this time :) ENJOY!!

Cousin Visit

Its always fun for me when MY cousins come to visit.

I was able to visit with some of my cousins on my dad's side. From left to right, Amy lives in Texas, Leslie lives in Massachuessettes (of course she moved there AFTER we moved back to Utah) and Carol, on the end, lives in Utah.

Hopefully I'll be able to get together with some of my relatives on my mom's side soon....HINT HINT!

One thing that we love...

A friend of mine "recently" published about the things her family was "lovin' " at that moment.

One thing that we love to do in the summer as a family is to take Sunday Walks.

Last Sunday, the 26th, we took a walk down by the Jordan River in Murray (by where we used to live and we where hope to move back to shortly...) and we fed the ducks.

James is getting braver in the things that he'll do....

Molly, on the other hand, has no fear...

...But she's always willing to have daddy hold her when she gets tired...

The first "real" day of summer

For some reason it just doesn't seem like summer until I take the kids swimming. On June 24th, my sister, Meredith (pictured above...I could NEVER look that glamorous at a swimming pool), and her kids joined us at Kearns Oquirrh Park Fitness Center...the same place where they held the ice skating events for the 2002 Olympics.

The yellow slide was the big hit of the day. Brave Molly was the first to try the slide. The little stinker would push kids the kids in front of her down the slide or out of the way if they didn't go fast enough.


James surprised us all by going down all by himself, all on his own. He's usually a little timid around water, but once he saw Molly go down, he decided he could do it...and backwards!

Check out the video of Noah, James, and Molly going down the slide.

"No, I not tired!"

Molly is at that wonderful stage where she is growing out of naps. If she takes a nap, then she's bouncing off the wall until 10:00 at night.

If she doesn't take a nap, then she'll either be super grumpy or fall asleep in the car or in odd places and be even grumpier if she gets woken up.

One day I found Molly asleep on the floor in her room like this....

Going Native...

After a four year absence, we were finally able to participate in the annual Duncan Family Campout! This year we spent June 10 - 12 at Freemont Indian State Park. None of us had ever been there, so it was new adventure for our family.

Sometimes it was hard for James to appreciate all the cool stuff we had to look at...

Pictographs by the visitors center

Cave of 100 Hands
We only counted about 20....maybe they should rename it to Cave of 100/5 Hands

Molly practicing her grumpy face.

No matter where we go, Molly is always able to find a place to play in the dirt.

This time it was the volleyball pit that served as the place of choice. Aunt Kathy found a sprinkler and the kids were able to flood the sand pit...All the kids got good and dirty as all kids should when they are camping.

At our group campsite, we basically had a small canyon all to ourselves. The kids had a blast being noisy and hiking all over the rocks.

Boondocks

June 4th was spent celebrating cousin Nathan's 6th birthday. We went to Boondocks, one of those places that has lots of stuff to do at it: miniature golfing, indoor arcade, laser tag, squirt boats, race cars (James was too short to go on those :( ) and bowling.

It was James' first experience with mini golf and he really liked it. He has been begging us to go again.

Molly was happy as a clam throwing rocks into the various ponds on the golf course.

Date Night!

After spending all day with the kids at the zoo, I was able to go on a date with Steve! Wahoo! It was so awesome! We were actually able to have a full conversation without being interupted. Imagine that.

Steve's work, 4Life Research, (where he's a web designer) has season tickets to all the sports teams in Utah. One of the teams is The Blaze, an indoor football team. It was my first experience with arena football....it was quite fun! The tickets were front row...literally...we had a small padded wall seperating us from the astro-turf. We could see and hear everything that was happening on the field. At one point I asked, "Did that player just touch that other players butt???" It was definitely more than your typical sports butt-swat. We even got sweat on us as the players crashed into the wall right in front of us. I forgot how fun it is to go to live sports games.


In high school I was part of a group that tried to bring school spirit to the attendees of various sporting events :), and those days came back to me as I cheered on the Blaze. Even Steve was surprised at my ability to yell and cheer on the home team.

They won!

Zoo Trip

On May 21st we took a trip to the zoo. A nice little outting in the intermitten warm weather we had this spring.

Despite being at the zoo with all the cool animals to see, the kids love playing at the zoo park the best.