Summer Update - way too many photos!

Whew! It has been a busy summer and it promises to get busier. Soon the kids and I leave for Utah and three weeks of extended family time. So here is what we have been up to.

Building legos - Jake especially loves to scatter them, oh I mean help

Ashton had his school program. He was a shark in the 5 little fish song.

My focus is off, but he spent the whole time hiding his face till the end. So shy!

Jakey laid on the floor and colored on the program.

This one is of a cute Jakey sleeping

Elder Smith and Elder Puida. Who knew we would get to know them so well? Our kids loved playing with them and we will miss them now that they are no longer in our branch.

Ashton likes to put on my gloves and pretend to be the hulk.

My three sillies on an outing in Indiana.

A huge tire in the park. Our kids loved climbing it.


Our trip to the Indianapolis museaum of art. I was very brave and took them to a real museum with paintings and sculptures and the whole bit.






This is three ships all wrapped around each other. It is much cooler in person


A whole floor that is supported by tons of plastic people. Jakey liked looking at them and Emma liked jumping on the floor.

Outside was a true english garden near a restored older home.

The grounds nearby had interesting outdoor exhibits. Weird shaped benches in this one.

Human Bones made with rocks. Kids loved climbing on them.

An area made of hoops.

Perfect for playing chase and climbing on

Giant love sculpture, reminded me of the one at BYU

Then to the children's museum. Which was really nice!

Jakey loved the dinosaurs area.

They had tables with toy dinosaurs to play with.

One of the many skeletons was the newly discovered Dracorex hogwartsia, so named after the Harry Potter movies because it had really cool horns.


The museum had history displays with terra cotta warriors

and a puzzle where you had to rebuild cleopatra's sarcophogus cover (spelling is wrong)



They had lots of areas to dig, all kids love that.

Then they had a show where a car transforms into Bumblebee.


It was a lame transformation but a super cool costume frankly.

Terra Cotta Emma

The lego area - the funnest for our kids.

What a cool car made from legos.

Lego Ashton

Upstairs they had more dinosaur stuff and a place to draw your own dinosaur. I loved each kids drawing.



Emma was in soccer for a few months. She loved it and got pretty good at kicking. Still a little scared to get into the mix though.

Ashton would wrap up in a blanket and Jakey would peak at him.

Emma had her school concert - Its a Jungle Out There. She is in the back and has her face decorated like a hyena.


Masks left over in the birthday box.

Jakey had his second birthday. Look at how excited he is to see a cake.

Trying to blow out candles

He couldn't wait and got his fork into the cake.

Opening gifts was also so fun. I love how he smiled at everything.

Slip-n-slide fun

The person who really liked it was Ashton who went over and over down the hill.

Jake liked splashing and running around

Jakey asleep last sunday. He was trying to get down and just was too tired to do it.

Camping outside our house. Jed works most Saturdays so this is a good solution. It was fun, reminded me why I like my mattress so much, and since the tent sloped downhill we all slid into Emma at the bottom. I should have took a picture of that.

See, we do live out in the middle of nowhere.


So far that has been our summer fun.


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rozanny said...

I especially love the art museum! How fun.