Weekend Summer Fun

We are wrapping up a great weekend that included dinner with Grandpa and Bubba (along with root beer floats), sidewalk chalk, the park, a visit to Nate and Brynn's, and a trip to the zoo. 

Some pics...

Saturday morning playing "go night night", which is a new favorite game.  They drag all their blankies, pillows and dolls around the house and lay down with them, tucking each other in.  

Practicing their gymnastics skills at MountView park.  The weather was great this weekend.  After four straight days of 100+ degrees, we finally had some cooler, cloudy weather. 

Josie wanted to see Uncle Nate's motorcycle, but notice she brings her blankie up there with her.  They love visiting Brynn and Nate's house because they have a kitty (Cache).  Unfortunately, the feelings aren't mutual and Cache is terrified of them. 

 Riding on the merry-go-round at the zoo. 

Brett Naisbitt brought his kids down and met us at the zoo.  We had a great time.  Josh and Brett - still BFFs. :)

Brynn's baby shower and Anna's baptism

It was a busy weekend!  We had Brynn's baby shower here are our house on Saturday.  We are all getting very excited for Little Dude's arrival next month and it was fun to celebrate.  I can't wait for the girls to have another little cousin and to be here in Utah to be part of it. 

Have you ever seen a cuter pregnant girl?  This is the diaper cake my mom and I made her. 

 Very excited grandmas!

 Four generations of moms and daughters. 

Later that day, we joined the Jones family to celebrate sweet little Anna's baptism.  The girls had so much fun playing with their cousins.  Here's one of the Jones family at Jim and Rebecca's house for dinner afterwards. 

 See that red stuff all over Mia's face?  Grandpa decided to let her try out some strawberry sauce!!

 Amanda and Allison with Josie. 

America's Birthday at Snowbird

We had a great time celebrating the 4th of July this year.  Last year, Josh was laid up in bed all day after surgery, the year before the girls were too little to do much of anything, and the year before that I was pregnant with scary complications.  So this year was fun!  We spent the morning with Brynn and Nate up at Snowbird enjoying their pancake breakfast, a ride up to Hidden Peak on the tram, some fun in the bounce house and a trip down the Alpine slide. 

These pics were taken at the top of Hidden Peak.  I worried the whole time that the girls were going to fall off.

 Enjoying the bounce house and the big slide.

 The Alpine slide was so much fun.  Both girls absolutely loved it.

We came home after lunch at Chipotle and spent the rest of the afternoon/evening hanging out at home and trying out some sparklers (which they thought were kind of scary). 

The girls recently learned about America's flag at school and they were so excited to see flags all over and talked a lot about "America's birthday".  I think they wondered where the birthday cake was though. 

Daddy and Uncle Jim Got Muddy

Josh completed the Spartan Beast race a couple of weeks ago with Jim.  It happened to coincide with the one-year anniversary of his back surgery.  I was so proud of him. The Spartan Beast race is about 12 miles and 25 obstacles up in beautiful Midway, Utah, ending in a big old puddle of mud.  It looked hot and hard, but they say it was a good time.  And I can't get him to write this blog post, so we'll have to leave it at that.

The girls and I had fun spectating and they have been talking about "daddy and Uncle Jim getting muddy" every day since the race.  Here's the group of them that did the race - a bunch of friends of Jim's. 

The girls played at the park area while we waited for them to finish.

One more picture of him right after finishing.  It really has been a long year for Josh with this back surgery recovery.  I think there were quite a few moments when we weren't sure he would be able to do this kind of thing again.