We've celebrated pioneer day even living outside of Utah – but we sure enjoyed celebrating it like the locals this year!   Spent the morning re-landscaping the front yard where we ripped out the tree/bush monstrosity (I use the term "we" very lightly – most of the credit is due to Nate, his brother David,…

I didn't take many pictures at the first family reunion we've been to since we left UT 10 years ago, but I'm glad I at least took this one of Meg, Nate's dad, and Great Grandma Adams.   

So of course she needs to try everything that Meg eats.  (Hence the dry cereal today…)

The kids spent an entire day in the backyard hammering in sticks, cutting and tying yarn, and trying to get the "shelter" to stand up.  They had the best day ever, and I had so much fun watching them!  (After the fort fell down over and over and over, they finally had the idea to…

Of the popsicle, that is.  Oh yeah, and the popsicle mess.  By the time he was done, he looked like he'd been through WWII and didn't fare so well.  What else did I expect from a red popsicle on a 98* day? 

Picking berries with my grandma in her garden was a thousand times better.  Carter spent the whole 2 hours saying, "Grandma, grandma, grandma, is this one a GREAT one???" (whether she was telling a story or not… 🙂

There aren't a whole lot of similarities between our "old" zoo and our "new" zoo… but with the new Rocky Shores exhibit, now they both have otters.   Thanks to Grandma, we enjoyed a super-fun, low-stress visit to see only as much of the zoo as we felt like this day.  (Which was nice, since…

…of medals (the kids planned an Olympics when we got together before the dads were in town) …and of friends, of course.  (We got an uninterrupted – and delicious – evening with the grown-ups!  SO much fun.) We are so lucky to have caught the Broughs twice while they were in the USA.  Next time…

(bunnies) Meg loves hers – and Emmaas.  They were so cute together this morning I had to grab my phone and take a pic.  

I find myself asking that question all day long - the minute I turn my head, she is gone.  She can let herself out the front door (which always has to be deadbolted now) and I usually find her opening a cupboard or drawer and unloading all of it's contents.   I think she was encouraged…