Camping Fish Lake / Misc July

Camping at Fish Lake (July 28-30) / Misc End of July (July 23-31)

 Emilyn was performing dances for me while I was working in Lucas's room.  She is not attention shy!

 While we were in California at my mom's house the girls slept in a big queen bed together.  Before we left Emilyn had been coming into our room every night, pretty much since Lucas was born.  I realized while we were there she stayed in her own bed at night.  It clicked that it might be because she could wake up and see Matisyn right next to her and go back to sleep.  I told Matt we should try pulling their bunk beds apart to see if Emilyn would stay in her own bed if she could see Matisyn in the bed next to her instead of having her out of view above her.  This picture was taken on their first day with their beds next to each other.  They were excited to have them like this, and so far it seems to be successful.  She has come in a couple of times, but for the most part she has been sleeping through the night.  Yay!

 Following Lucas on his mania of milestones we found him standing up in his crib when I went to get him up from his nap a few days after we got home from our trip (7-26-13).

 Something big that happened in July was that CJ went into the MTC.  He is serving an LDS mission to Berlin Germany.  We're so excited for him, but it was sad to say goodbye.  We went to see him one last time on the day he went into the MTC.  The kids and I missed his farewell because we were still in California.  He left on Pioneer Day, July 24th.

 Before we went to see CJ we had breakfast together at Magleby's Fresh.

 I found this picture in one of the scrapbooks of Matt leaving on his mission and holding baby CJ.  Now we have a picture of CJ leaving on his mission holding Matt's baby Lucas!  They were about the same age.

 We went out on an early date for our 12th anniversary to Chef's Table.  Matt's mom was able to watch the kids so we took advantage of an available day to go out together.  We test drove a van ( I guess that's what you do when you've been married twelve years and have three kids!), and decided against buying one for now.  Then we went to Chef's Table and had a very delicious, 2 1/2 hour, peaceful dinner.  I'm so happy to be sharing this crazy life with my best friend and handsome husband!
 

 At the end of July we went on a camping trip to Fish Lake.  We had never been, so at the beginning of the year we planned a trip with the Barrett's and Thygerson's.  It was our annual summer camping trip.  It was such a beautiful place.  I was worried about Lucas being able to crawl and get into everything, but he did great.  He just let everyone hold him, and the kids did a wonderful job at entertaining him constantly.  There was plenty for him to look at.  The girls were happy just being able to run around with the other kids and explore.

 Lucas slept pretty well.  He woke up to eat once a night and stayed pretty snuggled up and warm even though it was cold outside at night.  The first night he did wake up early in the morning and I just snuggled him in my sleeping bag to warm him up.

 We got a lot of rain during our trip.  During the downpours we huddled under the ez-up and the kids ran into the Barrett's new tent trailer.

 Lucas all bundled up!

 I love this look of Emilyn's!

 It was cooler than we were hoping, especially with all of the rain, but we still had some time at the lake.  Some family time in the canoe.  Lucas was taking a nap.

Emilyn was a BIG FAN of paddling the kayak.  You had to duck occasionally if you didn't want to be hit by her, but she was smiling so big and was so happy we just let her paddle.

Ice cream at the store

Lucas is crawling all over now.  He loves to crawl underneath the exersaucer even though he gets stuck.  Such a cutie!

Emilyn Quotes:

"He is just the cutest!  Can we keep him forever?"  Said about baby brother, Luke Skywalker as she calls him.

Emi:  "I don't think Santa is real."
Me:  "Why not?"  Said with a little panic!
Emi:  "Because how would he get into all of the houses?"
Me:  "Well how do you think all the presents get there then?"
Emi:  Said very matter of factly, "The reindeer."
Me:  Relief and smiles!

On the way to church on Sunday, "Is it fast or slow Sunday today?"  Doesn't fast Sunday sound exciting when you put it that way?!!!

This is what Matt said to Emilyn when she was being a pill the other day. 
"If you keep crying and whining I'm going to send you to the orphanage to eat gruel and sing songs like Annie!"  The girls really like the movie Annie!