Dino Museum

We went to the Dino Museum with Annie, Hannah, Sophie and Jonah. It was so much fun. We lost Hannah for a second and then the next minute we lost Sophie. We decided that we needed to talk to the girls because it was VERY busy there. After that we had no more missing children. The girls loved looking at the dinos together and talking about them. We went to a 3D under the sea movie about prehistoric animals. Victoria and Hannah were a little scared. But Elizabeth and Sophie just watched the movie with no trouble. Jonah was busy doing other things and was not interested in the movie. All the kids played in the sand, digging for bones. Little Jonah and Elizabeth thought it was funny to throw sand at everyone. Then at the water play area the 3 older girls played together while Elizabeth and Jonah talked to each other. Jonah kept hitting Elizabeth and I showed him how to be nice. I video taped Elizabeth showing Jonah this and then Jonah hit her again and she told him no and again how to be nice. It was so dang cute as he just let her do it. All the kids had a great time with each other and I cannot wait until we get together again. I loved talking with a good friend and being in great company. Thank you Palmer family.

Monster Trucks

Louis got 4 tickets to the Monster Truck show from his work. We called our neighbors to see if they wanted to go with us. The race started at 6pm. We got both the girl ear muffs and they were so cute in them. Elizabeth's would squish her cheeks together...so cute. They did qualifying first, we watched race cars race and sprint car racing. Once they qualifying was over BigFoot, the original and 6 year winner, and another truck raced side by side twice around the track...BigFoot kicked some butt. Then all the trucks came out one by one and did free style and that was SOOO cool. They jumped over big jumps, long jumps, popped wheelies and did donuts. It was so much fun. The girls had a blast. At 10pm it was time to go home. Elizabeth was alseep in my arms and Victoria was crying because she did not want to go home. I told her we had to get home before the drunks got on the road...LOL. I am so glad that Miriam and Mikayla went with us...it was just so much fun and so much fun to watch the girls have fun. Hated paying $15 for 4 hotdogs and $2.50 for a drink that would cost $1.00 at Maverik...but on well.

Our Family

Us and the Bailey's

Car racing

Rocky getting everyone wet

The legendary BigFoot

Captain USA

Outlaw...he was AWESOME in the freestyle

BigFoot is in the lead

Look at that air and BigFoot wins, 2nd night in a row

The Shed

So, finally Louis has a shed for all his stuff, it better be big enough 12x16. The day we got it delivered, Victoria said now we have someplace to keep my horse. We had to build the forms, spread out 5 yards of dirt and spread 3 yards of gravel. We were all set to lay the concrete ourselves but I convinced Louis that we should hire it out and we did. That was a blessing. The girls loves helping spread the dirt and gravel. The day we did dirt, they were so dirty, they had never been that dirty ever in their lives. But they had to much fun digging and building volcanos. Now, we have been moving everything in it...the garage is empty and there is plenty of room for my truck. We have to paint it to match the house but other than that it is done. We got one smoking deal on it and if I told you the price we paid I would have to kill you...LOL.

The dirt mound pretty much gone

Digging in the dirt

Gravel all spread out

The Barn

Building with Papa

The girls got a Tool Box building kit from Home Depot and today they put it together. They had their kits and hammer in hand and were ready to build. Papa read the instructions and got the girls started on pounding in the nails into the outside pieces. Victoria did a good job of hitting the nail every time. Elizabeth was a wild woman and went to town hitting the nail with the side of the hammer along with moving the other hand too. I helped the girls keep the hammer steady and they did all the pounding. Victoria was slow and steady and Elizabeth was hard and quick. They glued the handle in and then they were done. The girls and I painted the tool boxes, wrote their names on them and they had some stickers of tools to put on the boxes. We are going to go to Toys R Us to get them some tools. It was so fun doing this with them and Papa loved spending time with them since he has no boys. It was a fun day.

Summer Doings

We have been really busy this summer. We go to the Zoo, Aquarium, Swim Lessons, Ballet, play dates with friends and just regular things around the house. I have gotten to the point where I don't take my camera anymore to places that we visit over and over again because I want to just enjoy my time and not worry about getting pictures. We went to a Child's saftey fair and met Life Flight Crew, Search and Rescue crew and dogs and Police Officers. Got the girls their ID packets that I need to get their fingerprints done. Went to Home Depot and met some FireFighters and Victoria asked them if they have a black and white fire dog. They each got a tool box that they will build with Papa and then paint with me. We have been playing in the pool at home. We have just had a great Summer and now we are getting ready for Victoria to go to School. I hope that all of you have been having a good summer too.

The Living Planet Aquarium

I got annual passes for the Aquarium. The girls love it so much. We went twice in one month and after our last visit we went to Chuck E Cheese's. The girls love to look at the Octopus, Penguins, Sting Rays and Sea Horses. Elizabeth touch the 2 star fish but Victoria would not on the first visit. The second visit she touched the regular star fish but not the spiny one. I love taking them places and seeing how they react to things that we do.

Chuck E Cheese's was so fun. The girls just played and played. We did manage to get some lunch in them. But they just had so much fun.

Frog

Octopus Lobster

Elizabeth touching SeaStar

Spiny SeaStar

Swim Lessons

The girls both took swim lessons just like they do every Summer. They had a great time this year. Victoria passed Level 1 Preschool and needs to go to Level 2 Preschool. She needs to work on putting her face in the water but other than that she did so good. Elizabeth did a wonderful job. She onnly needs to work on blowing bubbles with her nose and mouth submerged, she does it with her mouth submerged. She loved going every morning. They loved going down the slide that last day of class. I now need to stick to taking them swimming at least once a month to work on things and keep the skills up.

Victoria and her teachers

Victoria going down the slide

Elizabeth and her teacher

Elizabeth going down the slide