Finally!

This isn't a road trip post.

We actually had a hot enough day to play at the beach today! YAAY!

Macy's first encounter with the beach....not too bad. She's not a fan of the cold water...and didn't eat TOO much sand. SUCCESS!!
Lucy wasn't a fan of her hat...and stole macy's binky. Other than that, she had a good time :)

hat:1 Lucy:0

Simming beauties

Lane is re-visiting his love of the beach. He was sad that we could not stay longer

darn camera strap :)

Yay for buckets!

snack break. She was pouty cuz I made her rinse her hands off in the water before she could have her fishies :)

Day 1 at the beach: pretty successful. Beach wasn't too nasty, not too much goose poop, no leaches this year: BONUS! However, i definatly need to come up with a better system...better beach bag, toys, and what not. BUT for the first run with all 3 kids by myself, not too bad. We lasted about 2 hours, then the girls were D.O.N.E and ready for their naps. Actually macy didn't wait and fell asleep in the van on the way home.

Until next time, beach!

VEGAS!

Ok don't get too excited....we didn't really go to "VEGAS" ....we were in NORTH las vegas to visit Willy and Katie! It was fun to see them, and meet their little girl, and see their cute cute little house!!! BUT i'm pretty sure my favorite part of the vegas truck was getting a ride in Willy Race Truck (not pictured...) BUT it was pretty fun. However, i'll be honest. I'm not sure anyone can actually LIVE in Vegas becuase it is rediculously hot....and i wasn't even there in july-august!!!

Here's Lucy giving Gracie a horsey ride...

Lane breaking in their pool


hangin out

Macy and Gracie

Cutie pie gracie.
Thanks for the fun visit, will and katie! Can't wait to see you when you move back to washington!!! :) *hint*hint*

Here's the Manti Temple. I think this is my favorite temple. It is SO pretty and SOOO amazing inside. It was fun to walk about the grounds with the kids.

Just a pretty sky picture or two

the girls weren't too excited about taking pictures

there's a smile

more smiles! I was SOOOOO Sunburned that day....

" lead me....guide me....

walk beside me...."

Lets go fly a kite!

We bought some kites at Grammas. Lane had a blast, and got really good at flying them! Except the part about getting tangled up in the string and tales about 1000 times...

Lane flying
Lucy wanted to try, daddy's getting it ready

She was pretty good as long as the string wasn't let out more than 5 feet :)

Gramma's House

We went to my Gramma's in Manti and had so much fun visiting with her and family. Gramma loves to wear hats. The kids were modeling one of her purple hats :)

Lucy rockin her "cheese" face.

The other favorite thing about gramma's house, is she reads them bed time stories. The kids loved having her read to them!

Playground

While we stayed at my Aunt Leslie's, we took the kids and my cousins kids to the playground. This was our kids' first experience with monkey bars....I think.....

Lucy was more impressed than Lane was..

I love this picture of scott and Lucy...

Scott trying his hand at the monkey bars....

Temple Square

We took the kids to visit Temple Square in SLC while we were in Utah. Lane was excited to finally see a temple. Though the excitement wore off pretty quickly, the kids did pretty well looking at some of the sites and visitors centers there.

I'd never gone up to the top of the Churc Office buildings before. They have tours, and a little observatory on top where you can get neat pictures of the temple.
The girls' first trip to the temple :) I had to take their picture on the wedding picture rock!

What a beautiful building. I think the temple is one of my favorite places to be. I miss the college days when I could go every week.

This was how the girls' looked mostly all day. Macy doesn't mind the stroller. Lucy would still rather walk..

Familypic

lane clinging to the temple...hopefully that sticks throughout his life :)

at one of the fountains

catch up

Well the woods are back in town! We survived our road trip to utah-vegas. We had lots of fun, and have LOTS of pics to update, but I'm just doing one tonight before I hit the hay...

Me and Lucy at the cactus gardens in Vegas
It was hot hot hot.....i don't think Lucy has ever felt the heat of summer before....last summer here was so mild, and this year its only been 70 a handful of times....vegas was DEFINATELY a climate shock for our kids... it didn't help much that driving home from vegas, we hit a little SNOW STORM in montana.....home sweet home :) It's been in 60's lately here in Newport......I love it really.....yeah we might not get to swim this summer but i'm ok with that.

So we had to take a token "Vegas" shot....They have slot machines in EVERY store there. This bunch of slot machines was in the "bass pro" shop. We didn't let lane put anything in....don't worry......he had no idea what he was even sitting on...

Lucy testing out the guns at the bass pro shop......binky and all!

Lane with the giant metal Ram

Lucy in the car.....don't let the smile fool you. She actually HATES being in the car. It took several candy bribes, rounds of "popcorn popping" and various other things to keep her from screaming the entire way home....But look at her CUTE car seat cover...I made that before we went! Pretty easy, i just traced the existing cover, sewed it up, and voila!!! Fun

We got to take the Trax train in utah up to salt lake city. Lane LOVED riding the train. The girls could take it or leave it.....it's pretty handy, and we didn't have to find parking in SLC....good times.

those are a bunch of random pics...more to come!!