I Love to See the Temple!

While we were in Idaho for Grandma Smith's birthday we stopped by the open house for the Twin Falls Temple. It was so beautiful. The kids were all really good while we were going through the temple (I even spotted Roscoe walking reverently with his arms folded if you can imagine that).

Harland Clarke Summer Party

Mike's work party was Saturday in Magna. We had so much fun, it was the best summer party they have done. The kids had so much fun that they all threw fits when we had to leave. They had rented five giant inflatable toys (slides, bouncers, etc.), hired professional face painters, and a professional clown that made the coolest balloons ever! The kids also liked the snow cones and cotton candy! Unfortunately the batteries went dead in the camera so we only got a few pics.

Abby with her flower hat and butterfly face paint

Michaela with her braided balloon headband and tiger face

Roscoe admiring his tiger face, we didn't get a pic of his balloon, but he had a super soaker gun

Paula, with her butterfly face and Roscoe

Amy wearing Michaela's hat, and Mike wearing Abby's hat

Hitting the trails

We took our first family hike on a real mountain trail. Usually we stick to the trails that are paved so we can take our stroller, but Mike was a trooper and carried Paula in the back pack so we could go on a real hike. We were going to hike to Green Pond (near SnowBasin), but didn't know you had to cross the highway from the parking lot to get there, so we ended up hiking the left fork of Wheeler trail, I think. It was a lot of fun and I think we hiked about 3 plus miles.

Yucky! Horse Poo!

Mike and the kids

Michaela, Abby and Roscoe

Paula, Mike and Amy

Roy Day's Parade

Michaela has been going to a summer singing camp this year, thanks to her Papa and Cheryl. Their first performance was on Saturday. They rode on a float in the Roy Day's Parade they were float number 86 (second to last), it was so hot!! Even with the heat we had fun watching the parade. Just don't get Mike started on how parades are so commercial now! After the parade they performed at North Park. They sang four songs; Baseball Fever, The Duel, Seize the Day (from Newsies), and You Can't Stop the Beat (from Hairspray). She did such a great job, and thank you to everyone who came to hear her sing.

Everyone Watching the parade

Michaela waiting to perform

Michaela's cool dance moves while singing You Can't Stop the Beat

Earning Her Keep

Mike has been teaching Michaela to use the lawn mower. Michaela mows while mike does the weed eater. She is doing such a good job!

ER!

Saturday night we were at the play place when Roscoe ran into another kid on the slide and bit his tongue. It was bleeding bad and looked really deep so we decided to take him to the urgent care. When we got there they were closed, so we drove all the way to Ogden to take him to the after hours clinic there, the doctor there looked at it and said that he didn't have any experience stitching tongues and said we needed to take him to the ER. The third time really wasn't the charm, at the ER the doctor said we needed to take him to section where they can sedate people. After waiting there for awhile the doctor said it was bad enough that they would put stitches in it but that tongues heal pretty good so we could decide if we wanted him to get stitches or not. We opted to not (less trauma). Roscoe keeps asking if he can go back to see the doctor "because they have TVs in the rooms!"

The doctor said his tongue should heal in about 3 weeks without the stitches, his tongue will just be a little sore.

In the car on the way to the doctors

At home after the ER

Lagoon

On Saturday we went to Lagoon and meet up with some old friends, the Schrubs. It was so hot! It was forcasted to be 102 degrees in Salt Lake City, but with the black top and all the rides I am sure it was hotter at the park. We ended up only staying for a couple of hours and left after lunch.

Paula covering her ears as Puff (the kiddie roller coaster) went by

The girls waiting in line for the ferris wheel

Abby and Mike at the top of the ferris wheel

Amy and Roscoe at the bottom of the ferris wheel

Wiberg Picinic

On the 24th we went to Great grandpa's with the farm without the farm (Grandpa Wiberg) for a picnic. Grandpa's siblings were in town so everyone got together. There were a lot of people that I didn't know, but we had fun.

Michaela and Abby

Paula (and if you know her, you know that she is the sneakiest food snatcher ever!)

Roscoe hiding under a chair with a friend

Zoo

On Monday the 21st we went to the zoo with Grandma and Grandpa Ludlow, Elizabeth, Great Grandma Ludlow, Laurel, and Jim and Cathy and their kids. We had so much fun. Our zoo passes were about to expire, so this was a good chance for us to go one last time.

Paula and Michaela at the bird show

Mike making silly faces for Roscoe

Mike and Amy

#4 Birthday Boy

Roscoe had a great birthday last week. All the family that lives near by came to have cake and ice cream. He loved all his presents and was so excited every time he opened one. He loved opening the cards and would shout "MONEY!!" every time there was some in there. My mom and Zack were both thinking alike when they bought Roscoe's presents, they ended up giving him the exact same gift, and he loves and plays with both of them.

Eyebrows!

A couple of weeks ago Michaela thought that she would try something new, she wanted to shape her eyebrows, like her mom. The only difference is that I don't shape mine with the Bic razor. I think the picture is self explanatory!

Super Prize!

A few days after my last post Roscoe did get his super prize Optimus Prime. He is doing so good going potty during the day. We are so proud of him.

Big Boy!

Roscoe (or should I say mommy) has been working very hard trying to remember to go potty on the toilet like a big boy. He not only has a potty chart that he gets to put stickers on when he goes potty, but he is working towards getting his super prize (an Optimus Prime Transformer). We also had a deal that if he could go all day without having any accidents he could call grandma on the phone. So Sunday night he got to call grandma! He wore his big boy underwear all day long (even at church) and didn't have one accident! We are all very proud, and he is looking forward to getting his super prize in the next day or two.

SLC

Saturday we rode the Frontrunner train down to the Gateway Mall in SLC. We started out at the planetarium, the kids could have watched the ball maze (I'm not sure what it is really called) for hours! After getting some lunch we went to Discovery Gateway (the children's museum). It was so much fun we had to pull (literally) the kids away from some of the areas. The grown ups even got to have some fun. Since we bought a six month pass our kids are looking forward to going back down to play soon.
We also got icecream cones and let the kids run through the fountain in the plaza. Hopefully we didn't scare Matt and Jen too much by showing them what it is like taking your kids places!
That night we went to a BBQ by Anne's (Cheryl's daughter) church, she had a huge slip 'n slide out for the kids and they had a great time.

Becky, Mike and Matt at Discovery Gateway

The Fourth of July

Friday we had a very long and eventful day. We drove down to Thanksgiving Point and went to the Museum of Ancient Life. It was the first time we had been there and it was very cool. They had all kinds of really cool models and lots of fun areas where the kids could play and have fun.
On the drive home from the museum we stopped by IKEA for lunch and to look around. It was pretty crazy with the eight kids, but it was still fun.
That night we went to Papa's house for a BBQ and fireworks! It really was an eventful day that went out with a bang!

Abby at the Museum of Ancient Life

Roscoe, playing with the Mammoth's

Family Fun

We just had a very fun weekend. Mike's sister Becky and her family, and his brother Matthew and his wife, came down for the Fourth. Thursday we threw a baby shower for Jen (Matt's wife), she is due in August. They are having a girl and are planning on naming her Kaiya.

Birthday Suprise!

The weekend before my birthday Mike took me out for my birthday. We went to the Lonestar for lunch and then went shopping at the mall. Jenelle was nice enough to watch the kids for us. While we were out Mike told me that he had planned to suprise me for my birthday but couldn't remember what he was going to do. Then he asked what we were going to do on Monday, and that is when he remembered that he had taken Monday off work to suprise me. Needless to say we had a lot of fun! We went down to Mike's new classroom and looked around, then after Michaela's singing camp we all got ready and went to Lagoon at the Beach (as Roscoe says). Thank you everyone for the calls and cards for my birthday, I felt really loved.

Father's Day Suprise

The kids wanted to get Mike something for Father's Day, so while he was taking a nap on Saturday Michaela left him a not saying,
"Us kids kidnapped Mom and went to the store, be back later."
While at the store we picked up stuff to make Mike a Father's Day breakfast, and also some water guns. We filled up the water guns before we left the store and I called Mike and asked him if he would come out to the van when we got home because I needed help with the groceries. Well, when he opened the door, boy was he suprised, he had 5 water guns shooting water at him.