Summer Fun

Where did the summer go?  I still can't believe it's already October and I'm now busy making Gavin's Super Why Halloween costume!  I want to post about all the fun we had over the summer, but I'm also anxious to get caught up with our blog soon.  So here's a quick (or not so quick) summary of our summer time adventures.

July was a busy month.  Just five days after getting home from our Canada road trip, we hopped back in the car for another road trip down to Denver.  Our good friends Jeff and Stephanie were getting married, so we were down for that.  It was just a quick drive down, one night there, and a drive back the following day - but so worth it to meet up with old friends.

The day after we got back from Colorado Jared's family came up to Utah for a visit, and we had fun hanging out with them and spending Pioneer Day together.

Gavin making his own butter

(pretty sure he was done after 2 shakes and made me finish the rest)

Pioneer/compass scavenger hunt 

Face Painting

Native American Dances

Covered wagon ride around the park

At the end of July Jayden entered the MTC.  He and Janea came up the day before, and we enjoyed lunch together at Zupas before dropping him off.  He's serving his mission in the Denver Colorado South mission.

Between all our trips and visitors, we also spent lots of time swimming and playing at the rec. center, setting up Gavin's sandbox, and fixing Gavin's new bike.  Our neighbour down the street got a new bike for her birthday, and gave her old one to Gavin.  I wish I had gotten a picture of it before hand, but what started out as a pink barbie bike is now a blue boy bike.  Dads sure are awesome!

August was maybe a little less busy, but still full of fun.  We didn't get to go camping as much as we would have liked this summer, but we were still able to enjoy a trip to Bear Lake, and Gavin and Jared spent a night with the Wilson's down at Maple Canyon.  I had to work this weekend, but here are pictures of Gavin and Jared on their rock climbing trip to Maple Canyon.

Our little rock climber!

 

Here are pictures from our Bear Lake camping trip.  We were planning on staying for three days, but after lasting through the rain storm the first night, the second night was a little too much so we ended up packing up in the rain at about 9pm and heading home a day early.  Despite the not so great weather, we still had a fun time together.

Despite the rainy evenings, the afternoon on both days was beautifully warm!

We had some dang good tinfoil dinners our last night!

And just in case you haven't seen enough pictures yet, here are some more photos of our summer.

Gavin loves helping out in the kitchen

Playing at the park...

Or in the sandbox

Mmm Good!  Enjoying some chocolate pudding

More pudding please!!!

Fun times at Nickel City

Friends!

In August our friends next door moved down to Mappleton.  Gavin sure misses having Jack right next door to play with... even if they did often fight more than play when the were together

Gavin and Eve

We've loved having season passes to Thanksgiving Point!

 Remember these??!

Create your own pinball machine

Summer ended with another visit from the Edgel's and a Labor Day stroll/bike ride at Bridal Veil Falls - feeding the fish, playing in the water, and a game of Pooh Sticks on the bridge!