Summer July 12-17

Summer July 12-17
Life at our house during a week of our busy summer, at least what we took pictures of!  It seems like we have something planned everyday, which has been good for my active, playful girls.

Matisyn has done two little summer camps with her old preschool, Bushel and a Peck.  The latest one was a kindergarten review, but this one was called "Cowboys, Indians and Pirates."  Matisyn always added cowgirls into the name.  She loved each day.  This was her Indian vest, bracelet, and necklace.

 Dog piling Daddy on the trampoline.  Bless that Daddy for giving me a few moments of peace in the evening while he was beat up and LOVED on the tramp.  He's been gone so much this summer, the girls think he is such an exciting guest.  He was gone most of this particular week at Scout Camp down on a lake in southern Utah and hiking through Zion.  The other day Matt was home for the whole Saturday (it hasn't happened in a while), and Matisyn said, "Wow Mommy, can you believe Daddy stayed with us the whole day?  Isn't it amazing?"  He has been stretched pretty thin between work, church, and home, and hasn't had much time to himself.  I'm grateful for such an "amazing" husband and Daddy, even when he is so busy, busy, busy!

 I took the girls with Lacey and her kids to a new park and splash park not far from our house.  We have loved the park playgroup every Tuesday exploring new parks in our area, so we were excited to have an extra day at a new park.  The girls all loved playing together.

 Matisyn and Maili playing at the park

 Emilyn acting like a big kid, right in the middle of the action.  Her favorite spot was under the slide playing with the wood chips.

 Splash Park

 We finally made it to Seven Peaks this summer.  We have loved having our Trafalga passes, but I wish we would have taken even more advantage of them.  We met Becky and her girls, and spent the whole day playing.  Emilyn skipped her nap completely, I think for the first time ever, and played happily the whole day.  She loves to be outside.  Matisyn had a little meltdown when they wouldn't let her go on the boomerang ride because she wasn't big enough and she had to come down the stairs.  I felt bad that I hadn't noticed the sign, and she was so sad that she didn't get to go with her big girl cousins.  Other than that, she had a blast.

We had so much fun at the new park, we took Daddy back to show him the same week.  We weren't prepared for the water this time though.  The girls didn't mind, they jumped in with their clothes.

 Matt enjoyed the unique playground equipment as much as the girls.