Visitors From Other Places - June & July 2011

When our visitors come here from out of town, we go to the zoo a lot. Idaho Falls has an awesome zoo for our small city. It's very affordable and kids 3 and under are free which is even better. Here is Cooper on the copper lion.

Scotlyn & Alicia, Brandon & Parker are very happy to pose for me to take a picture. Cooper and Robert wanted nothing to do with any pictures.

Scotlyn and Brandon having a great time.

Scotlyn, Brandon, and Alicia

Parker, "Hey mom, look at me."

Parker and Robert are 5 months apart in age. Robert was born in October and Parker was in March.

Deann and I have been friends for over 10 years and have lots of fun together. She and her girls have been up to Idaho to visit us every year since we have moved from Southern Utah. We always have a great time and find lots of stuff to do together.

Kitura and Scotlyn found a moss pool...ewww!

Parker and Cooper

Again...Parker and Cooper at the zoo again.

All the kids down by the Idaho Falls. We walked down here after we visited the Farmer's Market.

The boys': Parker, Cooper, Jeff, and Matt down by the falls.

Kitura, Kambria, and Scotlyn at the zoo.

Kitura and Scoltyn

4th of July 2011

Parker was watching Scotlyn and Logan Sumo wrestle at the town fair.

Cooper and Parker watching the fire trucks pass by.

Matt bought this hat from a street vendor for way too much money but he thought he needed it. After we bought it, the sky went cloudy.

Trying to pose for a family picture but mom is the one that has to take the picture. They all still look pretty cute though.

We did a few fireworks in front of our house.

May, June, and Our First 5K...

School is finally out and we have been very busy so far. Grandma Wendy was able to come stay for a week so I could finish up cleaning my classroom and Matt and I could do a little playing. He had a business day trip to San Francisco. So, I got to tag along and we had lunch at Fisherman's Wharf and strolled along the shops. We brought the kids back a crab made out of sourdough bread.

We took a drive to Island Park the end of May and expected it to be a comfortable temperature. Instead, it was 32 degrees and was snowing. Instead of seeing fish we just had lunch and made the hour and a half drive back home.

Scotlyn and I decided to do our first 5k. Well, I walked the 5k and she ran a mile. I told her to run her heart out and she did. She finished in just under 10 minutes. When she passed the finish line she ran right to the bathroom to puke. We look forward to much more of these after we build up some endurance. These can be addicting.

There are 2 pictures of the boys at the local money hole (the carnival) that rolled through town. I love the smiles, amusement, and pleasure that we get from these things. They are just so darn expensive. I dropped 30 bucks for each kid to ride 4 rides. I would have much rather gone to Disneyland!!

Kite Festival at Sandy Downs...

We took the kids to The Kite Festival today and had a great time. Only in Idaho Falls does it snow one day and then we have a kite festival the next. It was a little chilly but luckily the wind cooperated. We attempted to fly Matt's airplane (of course we have an airplane kite) but in the end it was Parker's Lightning McQueen car kite that was the easiest. The kids had fun eating hot dogs and watching all the neat kites flying around us.

Cooper Turned 2 on April 20 and because it was such a busy day. He got glazed donuts as his birthday treat; which he quite enjoyed because he had 3 of them. My aide, Linda, gave him a toy truck and he got a bug catching kit from his daycare. We had dinner at 5 Guys Hamburgers and he was just as happy as could be. We sure love this little guy though. He is so much fun to have around.

We celebrated Easter with our neighbors, The Wards, and had an egg hunt. Matt got a remote control airplane for his birthday so he took that out. He also got some rockets and shot them off for the boys to watch. It was a beautiful day to be outside. Scotlyn had just finished up her week of plays at church. She was in 5 shows of the musical "Arise" at Calvary this past week. What a wonderful Sunday it was.

Only 5 more weeks until "Summertime" arrives for us and then it's 3 months of playing...Yay!!!