Sugarhouse Park

Last week when Brenda and 4 of her kids were driving from St. George to Boise, they stopped in SLC and stayed at Tiff's house. Tiff called and asked if we wanted to come with them to Sugarhouse Park and play. We jumped at the chance of playing with family and getting out of the house.
The kids played on the playground for a while and when they were good and sweaty we went down to the little stream that runs through the park and let them wade through the water. Everybody had so much fun and even Laney got in the water after a while...
Hav and I were standing by the slide, chatting and suddenly we hear little footstep on the slide and around the corner comes Ty walking down the slide.

Look at that perfect hair flowing in the wind. Beautiful Alissa.

Cute girls chatting in the tunnel.

Cute Kyla.

Handsome Braiden.
Gorgeous Abbey being a little model. I took some more pictures of her posing but my stupid camera ruined them. Anyway, every time i took a picture of her she would say "Did you get it? Was it a good one?" She's so cute.

Laney hanging out on the grass 'cause she didn't want to get in the water.
Cute sisters playing so well.

Handsome Zack.
My handsome boy.
Abbey is always so good at playing with Ty and he loves it.
Beautiful Laney
Gorgeous Zoe

Laney finally got in the water and loved it.
Mishy being pulled all through the water and playing with the girls showing them all the cool spots.
Ty and Braiden checking out the little stream.
Ty didn't even make it home before he collapsed and slept for a while.

Little Cottonwood Canyon

Saturday we decided to go for a little drive up the canyon. We went for a short hike up to a waterfall.
Laney hiking.
The beautiful waterfall.
My handsome husband, who will not pose for the camera, so I just have to take pictures when he doesn't know.
Me and the chickens.

Father and son looking at the waterfall. It was bright and we were getting a little water in our eyes from the fall - that's why Ty is looking funny.
Afterwards, we went down to temple quarry to eat our lunch.
We saw this tool that was stuck in the granite from the pioneers. Laney and I tried to pull it out, but it was VERY stuck.
We sat right by the river and ate our lunch. We sat under some trees and it was so nice and cool by the river. It's so amazing to see hoe much water comes down from the mountains. This was where I had my bridal pictures taken and there was no water when we took them. Amazing.
The kids had a lot of fun throwing rocks and branches in the water. When we were eating our lunch (medbragte klemmer) we saw some people who were getting married right above us. There is a little platform where you can walk out onto, and we had walked under it and sat by the river. And these people where getting married on that little platform. I tried to take a picture 'cause i thought it was pretty funny we sat there under them but the picture didn't turn out very good.

Primary Parade and Drive-In

The primary in our ward had a parade on the first day of summer, which over here in Utah was on Friday the 20th of June. So after Ben got home from work we walked over the church and decorated Laney's bike and Ty's stroller and had hotdogs.
Here's Laney ready to walk in the parade around in the neighborhood. Notice her antennas on her helmet.
Ty got a little noise maker to blow in and he did the whole time.
Here's our little parade. It was pretty fun. Some of the ward members sat outside and waved to us, other than that we just walked around and thought we were pretty cool.
On the walk on the way home, we tried to hit all the sprinklers 'cause it was so hot outside. Ty loved this one and Ben got him to run right through it. He loved it.

After he ran through it.
He saw this picture and and a couple of others of himself and said "three buddies".
After we came home from the parade we went to the drive-in to see "Kung-Fu Panda", which is really cute and funny, and the new "Indiana Jones", which is not that good...sigh!!
Ty waiting for the movie to start. Ben said that he thinks we picked the longest day of the year to go to the drive-in and wait for the movie to start.....Ty didn't really see any of the movies 'cause he fell asleep about 10 minutes after the first movie started.
Laney watched almost to the end of the "Kung-Fu Panda" and then she fell asleep too. But we had fun.

Photo Shoot

I bought this cute frame for Ben for Father's Day, which said "Daddy - A son's first hero. A daughter's first love." Anyway, so I needed a picture of the kids to put in the frame. I thought after church would be a great time, since they were already dressed up and the weather was great. Laney was all for it. Ty wanted food. And that is the reason there are lots of pictures of Laney and only one of Ty.

Laney wanted to make "scary faces" after we were done. This is her scary face!!! She wanted to take some pictures of Ben and I and our scary faces.....here's a little sample:

Personally, I think I won!!!