July 4th and more with the cousins

    We had such a fun week, with a fun 4th of July celebration to start it off. We were especially thrilled to have the cute Atkinson's here to help us celebrate living in American. We also enjoyed having them the remainder of the week, Charlie especially. No one loves her cousins more then Charlie!

July 4th breakfast of pancakes.

Device time

How cute are all these girls!?

Beau was a big fan of the chalk art activity.

These two grand girls are so fun.

We had a great group of friends & family join our celebration.

Pool time.

And it's not an official visit from the cousins unless there's a choreographed dance performed.

    And as I was searching for photos of Jackie's first car, (which I never found) I found this gem of a photo of Kayli with Jackie at almost the same age Charlie is now. There's no doubt now, they may look alike but Charlie is definitely taller!

Charlie and Kayli are literally only about 6 months apart in these photos with Jackie.

    Greg was in the mood for a trip up the canyon Wednesday and thankfully the girls were on the same page. It was a perfect day, lovely weather and not too crowded up the canyon.

We live in such a pretty place.

Charlie with four of her most favorite people.

    Greg and I celebrated our 27th wedding anniversary this week and we did a little more reminiscing. I'm still annoyed that I had my veil on wrong the day we were sealed but thankfully we went back and got professional photos. 

We were just kids!

And this lovely art work is courtesy of Jovi. She's got some skills!

    So after a fun week the Atkinson's had to head back to Idaho, much to the disappointment of Charlie. We also were sad to see them go and even more sad that their trip home was far from ideal or what we had planned but they're now back safe and sound in Idaho. We are currently waiting to hear back about our car and what might be wrong with it but thankfully we had great rescuers who saved the day and maybe our car breaking down, shortly after we got started on our trip, was a blessing in disguise. We may never know but we're just glad Ben could drop everything and make the long drive back to pick up his girls. We're also grateful to Kristin for saving us from a hot & long day in the park.