At the end of June Spencer went to Ogden overnight for a job assignment. We met him that night and spent the evening with him in Ogden and then the next morning when he went back to the job site we went sight seeing on our way home. I'm not too sure what I think of Ogden, but the Temple grounds were very pretty. The boys enjoyed stretching their legs as I looked at the beautiful flower beds and took some pictures of the Temple.
We also stopped by and saw the Oquirrh Mountain Temple since I have not been to it before. It was amazing to stand on it's grounds and see 2 other temples so close. Very surprising to be in one place that has 4 Temples all in the same valley. It was a neat experience.June also brought our city's celebration days. We attended the parade and parts of the mayor's dinner. Choose to skip the golf tournament, the run etc. But the boys had so much fun at the parade. A friend of mine let us sit in her driveway and Cameron just loved her gravel. Erik was too busy being worried that the parade was across the street in another yard as their were a lot of people over there doing a lot of fun things. :) After the parade was over I think it finally sunk in what a parade is.
At the mayor's dinner they have a portion where a helicopter flies over the city and lands on the playing field. After letting the children check out the helicopter a little then they have a ping-pong drop for the kids. Erik was not interested in the helicopter, so while everyone else looked at it he played a solo game of imaginary baseball. One of the little girls we know eventually joined him in running the bases.
Erik had fun, but we've taught him too well I guess because when they dropped the ping-pongs he ended up letting the kicking little girl take his ping-pong ball. She's lucky it wasn't last year because he would have cleaned her clock and taken the ball. One of the EMT's though confiscated balls from older kids who were not suppose to be on the field or those kids who took more than the 2 per child limit and he passed them out to the children who did not have any. So Erik came home with 2 licorice ropes and Cameron with 2 powder candy sticks.
I thought this was cute. Erik was wanting a cookie in the kitchen not at the table. So I let him sit on the floor to eat and Cameron joined him. At this point Cameron had already eaten his cookie and is trying to sweet talk Erik out of his cookie. Nice try! :)Then came the month of July. WOW! We attended Colonial Days and introduced Erik to the past. I think he still doesn't understand about history being so long ago. But he was excited to see the cannons and Abe Lincoln. He really liked the clothes the young colonial boys were wearing too. He cried as we left because he wanted to stay and he wanted a costume like theirs.
Erik is really glad that we don't still have punishment like this:
I was very interested in the modern spinning wheel. It's so compact!
July also brought a new biking experience for Dad & Erik, a tag-along. By now both have pretty well mastered it, but at first Erik was very nervous and a couple of minor spills I think made Daddy a little nervous as well. Spencer has the cleats that lock into his pedals so when they go down he can't really stop them. :) However, they both love it!!!!!! So now with the trailer for Cameron we can go on family bike rides. I just stipulate flatter ground than we have here in town.
This is while we were waiting for Daddy & Erik to return from their bike ride.
We were tickled to buy our first flag and got it attached to the front porch for the 4th of July. We all really enjoyed our own fireworks at home. We could hear fireworks from around the valley close to us, but trees blocked many of them from our sight.
Erik still loves to build robots and monsters with his big blocks.
Mom, this is my pair of crocheted baby booties that are from the Country Woman pattern. I'm making another set for a baby shower in a week. I'll have to let you see them when I'm done because I'm doing them in pink and planning to place pink roses on their toe instead of a bow.
Erik is the artist and our family. Here is his chalk rendition of our family.
While Cameron and I were waiting to be radioed to head down the hill for our family bike ride, I decided to snap a shot of him in his new sun hat. He was so excited to go. It makes it fun that the boys enjoy biking so much.
One of our summer projects has been getting the chainsaw that Uncle Ray so generously gave us ready to bring in winter wood. So during one of our backyard meals Erik was pretending that he was a logger.
I guess we spend enough time in front of the computer. Cameron started trying to spend his own time typing at the computer.
We went to the ward camp-out and have camped out in our yard a few times since July. Cameron loves the tent as much as Erik does.
Here was our new backyard find. A California Long-horned Beetle.
Cameron loves to share big brothers food.
And since he likes to clean. He's very willing to wipe up their spills.
In August we went for a drive on the scenic Nebo Loop. This is a picture of Mt. Nebo. We really enjoyed our day.
The boys and I had a park date with my friend Rachel. Cameron loved this climbing spot. Erik had fun playing with the children. And thought it was fun to be spiderman on the dome.
Cameron is learning to take his own naps. It's so cute some of the places and ways he decides to settle down. Last week was the hallway while I took a shower. But this picture had to be the cutest one of all.
We've enjoyed watching the wildlife and birds in our area. Spencer had spotted some piper type birds in a field so we went and looked at them. But across the road in another field were three cranes. They were really neat to see. You can't tell it from the picture but they were large birds. Not to mention there was a rooster pheasant playing hide in seek. Can you find his tail?
This last Saturday Spencer went with a friend from work and they hiked to the Mt. Nebo summit. This is one of his pictures while on the trail. They are headed to the peak farthest away in the picture. He really enjoyed the day.
So far that sums up our summer months of fun activities. Erik starts school next Tuesday. So Monday afternoon we kick off the week by going to school and meeting his teacher. Here comes fall. But what a nice summer it has been!
