Events

    This past week we were minus two kids. Mark and Isaac went to our wards youth conference in Lake Powell for the week and with only five kids (really four because Kayli rarely joins us for anything.) I felt inclined to do a little more. So Monday I took the kids and our neighborhood friend, Jacob, to McDonalds to grab lunch and then to a nearby park to play and eat. It was a little warm but we had the park to ourselves, which is always nice, and the kids loved it.

I won the prize for "coolest mom" for this adventure.

     Monday evening I convinced Greg to take us to an Owlz baseball game at UVU, which is free with our "Pass of all Passes." It was fun and something I hope we do again soon.

Our passes only get us grass seating but that works for me. 

      Tuesday night we enjoyed a movie in the backyard with some of the neighbors, including the neighbor with the projector. We watched "Jurrasic Park II". I've never seen any Jurrasic Park movies and I thought it was pretty good and there's nothing I like more than being outside on warm summer nights.

     We interrupt this post for some Charlie updates. Charlie is big into copying everyone around her. Here's she's mimicking her big sister.

Watching Kayli to make sure she's got this whole phone thing figured out.

I think she's figured it out.

      Next is her version of "porching" safely.

Our neighbors, Cole and Mason, always enjoy a little porching with Charlie, or anyone for that matter.

    And here is one of her latest pass times, eating dirt!

Clearly she's lacking something in her diet and it's DIRT!

     Now back to our weeks events.

      Carter, Brock and McClane enjoyed a little time at the local splash pad Thursday afternoon.

     And then to finish our week off we had the opportunity to see the Candy Bomber, Gail Halvorsen, fly over Orem and drop candy from his plane. We didn't get all the way to the candy drop site but just seeing him fly over was an incredible experience. If you don't know who I'm talking about you should watch "Meet the Mormon's" or just google "candy bomber" and you can find out all about this incredible man and the impact he had on thousands of people in World War II.

He flew over a total of three times and we actually found a great spot to pull over and watch. Greg took video but I  always cringe at trying to upload a video to my blog.

     Well that's our eventful week. We did other things too but nothing worth posting about. Mark and Isaac arrived safely home last night from Lake Powell and we're looking forward to our 4th of July celebrations later tonight and we'll get to share them with my Uncle Paul, Aunt Debbie and cousins, Andrew and Josh who have come for the weekend so it should be extra fun! Happy 4th of July!!