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| Aurora had a great birthday, it's hard to believe she is already 7. She loves to go ice skating and took some more lessons over the summer. So we took her ice skating on Saturday night since her birthday fell on Sunday this year. She is way better than me on the ice. Next Saturday we will take the whole family to a jump house to celebrate a little more. We sure do love having this sweet little girl in our family. |
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| We had a great time at North Shore. Avery loves the diving boards and water slides. Aurora loves the lazy river and kiddie slides and Logan loves everything. He is not afraid of the water at all. He really wants to go on the diving boards and water slides like Avery. |
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| Logan loved going up to Joseph and saying, "hm." Then it was Joseph's turn to do it back. |
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| We had a wonderful time at Yellowstone the first week of August. There are so many cool things to see. We did a lot of walking and driving from place to place and still didn't get to see everything. It is amazing how many different colors you can see in one place. Logan thought that the white bubbling hot springs were hot milk. By day 3 the kids were so tired of walking and driving. We decided to come home a day early because we were all so tired. However, we defiantly learned a few things to do different next time. For example, we will not break camp everyday, we will just stay in the same place and drive back and forth. We will also have some down time each day to give the kids a break. We are looking forward to going back in a couple years. |
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| We drove through Grand Teton National Park on our way home. We stopped by Jenny Lake and plan to go back to do some hiking and canoeing in a couple years. It is wonderful having a husband who only works 180 days a year and has every summer off. |
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| The kids all enjoyed swimming lessons. Avery did amazing and has become a strong swimmer, he can swim the whole length of the pool. Aurora also did really well, her teacher said she is a fish. Logan loved just playing around in the water, he has no fear. Weber State's swimming lesson's are the best we have ever experienced. They have really small class sizes, no more than 4 in a class and the teaches are excellent. |
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| Avery got to walk in a parade last Saturday because his team was the winning baseball team this year. |
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| A natural spring, so beautiful. |
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| Tired Logan on the way down. Almost 10 miles round trip. It took us about 2 hours 40 min. to get to the top with Logan walking about 3.5 miles of it and being carried off and on the other mile and a half. One man asked if he could take a picture of Logan to show his older boy when he complains about hiking. This was great hike and so fulfilling when we made it to the top. It was fun to pin point different places and to see them from a different perspective. I think we will have to this one again with our other children. We love spending time in nature, enjoying the beautiful earth God has made for us. |
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| With the two older children in Oregon this past week at their grandma's house, we decided to go on a longer bike ride. We had wanted to bike from Farmington all the way down to Sandy (about 40 miles), but it ended up raining more than we had anticipated so we decided to catch the train after about 20 miles and ended up in downtown Salt Lake. It was a really fun day and being soaked wasn't all that bad. Logan stayed mostly dry in the bike stroller with the cover on. Logan also loved riding the train back to Farmington and he enjoyed his ride in the stroller. |
