What happened to July?

So where did July go? Oh yeah we started with the Fourth of July. The night before the big parade there was a children's parade and Grace and Ava climbed in a wagon with their cousins and Brett pulled them the whole mile in 100 degree heat-What a man!!! We call my father in law Big Dot (long story) so we put a sign on the side that said "Big Dot's Little Dots." It was pretty cute.

I don't know what is wrong with this picture, but I can't get it off my blog. Help!!!!!

After that we went up to Bear Lake for a week with my mom's family. By we I mean me and the girls. We layed by the lake, played games at night, ate good food, stayed up late, laughed and of course crammed way more people than should be possible in to any one place. The girls had a great time. Here they are with my counsin Jamie's little girl Tessa.

We had a neighborhood day at Lagoon, followed by Bammy Day at Lagoon. (Bammy is my mother in law-long story). Grace and Ava love Lagoon. Grace loves the music shows and Ava is a total thrill seeker. My favorite ride to take them on is the Tidal Wave. I think everyone on the other side of the boat was laughing at all their cute faces.

Bammy Day at Lagoon.

Our good friend Pete Dalton got married and we went to his reception at Gardner Village. The girls were a bit wary of the ducks.

My amazing little sister Michelle gave birth to beautiful Macey Jeanon July 10. She was a tiny 9 pounds 6 ounces. Way to go Shelly!!! Grace and Ava are already completly in love with her and both fight over whose baby doll is named baby Macey. Ava is very happy Macey has her own binki and that she doesn't have to give Macey hers.

The family went to the Bees game to see Nate Gold play. The girls loved the hot dogs, the train and the play ground, but you would have thought the Bee was the devil the way they cried when he came close. We got to see Nate hit one out of the park. It was fun to stand up and cheer for a home grown player!!

The 24th of July. I love this carnival. What's not to love about cotton candy, snow cones, carny rides, and scones?? I don't know. The girls didn't know either, because they had a great time.

We spent the last weekend of the month at the Barkdull Family Cabin in the Uintahs. The girls loved playing kick the can, riding the four wheelers, sleeping in the loft and mostly just being dirty.

Whewww!!!! What a boring month. Good thing we leave for Powell next week!!!!

I finally remembered how to add a picture to my blog. This is team Elinor, our team for the Wasatch Back.

Wasatch Back

This last weekend Brett and I got to spend almost two entire days without the kids and only got two hours of sleep. Which makes it sound a lot dirtier than it really was!!! We spent last weekend racing from Logan to Park City -on foot. Yes 181 miles on foot with ten other crazy people that we happen to be related to. Our team name was Elinor's team after my grandmother who passed away over ten years ago. All but two of the team members were either sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters or spouses of. Surprisingly this event is really fun and we had a great time. It took us 29 hours and 36 minutes to finish and we beat our expected finish time by about 20 minutes. And my wonderful Uncle Clark signed us up for 2009!! While Brett and I were enjoying our romantic weekend. My parents took our kids to the Dinosaur Park.

Disneyland

We just got back from the happiest place on Earth. It was so much fun. Ava was really good, but she was terrified of the characters and too short to ride most of the rides. For Grace the vacation was magical. She really belived that the characters were real and the brave little girl rode on every ride (except The Tower of Terror) that she could. We went with our good friends the Andersons and had a great time with them. I am already looking forward to our annual Spring trip to Disneyland next year!!

Just your average trip to the doctor

Yesterday I had to take Ava to the doctors. By the time we got everyone loaded up in the family sedan, unloaded Gracie to go potty one more time, reloaded Grace, ran back in to the house to get both girls dolls, got back in the car, ran back inside to get the keys, and parked at the hospital we were only ten minutes late for our appointment. Which is pretty good for us, until I went to check in and the receptionist let us know our appontment was for the previous day. But the good people at Grow Up Great found a way to squeeze us in. Which was a good thing because in the span of about ten minutes of getting in everybody got to use to fun toilet at the doctors, including Ava. Who is not potty trained and since I did not have an extra diaper with me, .she went through the rest of the appointment and the ride home with no diaper on. It goes without saying Ava's pants, my pant's and the carseat cover got thrown in the wash when we got home.