Goofin' with Grampa

The twins got some good playtime in with Grandma and Grandpa during their visit. Koen and Grandpa Michaelson kept exchanging raspberries on the cheek giggling.

Grandpa and Koey playing together
Another great pic of Grandpa and Koey.

Not the raspberry!

Grandpa juggling twins! (again, I don't know why this site randomly flips pics, sorry)

Dad was looking left out.

What a great way to get the wiggles out before bed.

Sharing raspberries with Grandma!

A Happy Day At Oquirrh Mountain Temple!

I am SO blessed to have a wonderful family and in-laws! Barry's parents (Rocky & Cindy)drove straight through from Cleveland to Utah appx 28 hours just to be with us on this wonderful day. His brother, Ben, also flew in from Denver!

We spent the majority of the afternoon at the Oquirrh Mountain Temple for me to receive my endowments. A few of us hung out briefly afterwards and took a few pics to mark the occasion.
I was able to take 3 days off work just to hang out with people I love. I also went golfing for the first time and apparently didn't do to bad. I managed to not hit anyone and stay away from water hazards. Can't say the same for the sand traps though.

What an amazing experience! I had almost a whole session full of family and friends that took time out of their day to support us.

Can't wait to go back again and be sealed to my beautiful husband and wonderful children!

Afterwards, discussing squeezing in another round of golf before meeting everyone for dinner later.

What a great day! Love you guys!

My "little" brother Mike, and his beautiful wife, Kyrsten, was also able to make it. Thank you everyone that came!

August Randomness

Just a few left over pics from August. The boys are helping mom make brownies. (Kael on left) Painting sun catchers to hang in their windows.

Kael loves the color green that he decided to paint his entire sun catcher his favorite color.
Hannah very focused the in intricate details.

Very colorful and creative little girly.

Dallin painted a pretty cool and colorful monster truck!

Driving with my boys to the park to Rollerblade and ride bikes up the Provo Canyon. (L-R Kael, Aidan & Koen)

And of course, silly faces must be made!

Up Southfork at a ward picnic. If there are any balls nearby, Kael will find 'em!

Water balloon fight. Koen's balloon didn't pop when when he first threw it so he's running after it to throw it again.

Gonna get mom wet!

Boys and mud go together like peanut butter & jelly.

Koen trying to figure out how to work the hula-hoop like the other girls.

Kael found out you can run faster going down a hill and thought that was pretty fun.

"Something tells me it's all happening at the zoo..."

Labor Day weekend originally planned to go camping but decided to take the kids to the zoo instead since it temperatures were fore casted to drop over ten degrees and rain which is the last thing we wanted to encounter when at the property. It was fairly busy but we all had fun. Here is Koen getting first glimpses of a real monkey! They look a little different than in the cartoons, but the twins were still amazed!

Kael, Koen and Dallin watching some monkeys play.
Our monkeys watching the monkeys....hopefully not taking notes :)

Koen, Dallin and Hannah sizing up

We had a great time watching the penguins! We came at feeding time and the kids got to watch them dive through the water to get the fish.

Miss Hannah Banana!

Giraffes were pretty cool too!

There was a little baby giraffe that was following his mama around, he was so cute!

So I forgot my camera so all the zoo pics were taken with my phone. Not the best, but at least we have some fun pics to post!

At the reptile exhibit.

Watching the turtles swim around

At the elephant exhibit there is a big metal elephant that hums (sort of) and sneezes. The twins wouldn't go anywhere near it without plugging their ears.

Some big turtles in the Madagascar exhibit. The foosas there kept fighting with each other so they had to shut down the exhibit to separate them.

THE Spiderman himself!

Just hatched and the zoo let us take her home!

Playing around

Koen wanted to go on the monkey bars, especially after seeing his big sister crossing them. When Uncle Reed let him dangle a bit, Koen quickly decided he wasn't quite ready.

Just hanging out, throwing coins in the fountain, waiting for dad to bring Chuck the Truck around. We zoomed on home, ate a quick dinner and hurried off to the park to play Frisbee and play with Aunts, Uncles and cousins until well after bedtime!

History in the Present

The past month has been such a great month. I have had the opportunity to meet up with some old friends. I am lucky to know some really great people who I have grown up with and continue to be my friends through it all!

Barry and I got to meet up with George (not sure how the blue thing appeared on his nose) and his family during the 4th of July weekend. I've been close friends with his family, especially his mom, Marian, who is one of my favorite people! I've known this wonderful family since I was 18.

Here are a few of the girls I've known since we were all 5 years old. We all have remained friends through kindergarten, middle school and high school. Not only that, but we all lived within a block and a half of each other and went through primary and young womens together, celebrated numerous birthdays, and have supported each other through the good and bad. We get busy and loose contact for a little bit at times but when we get together we pick right up where we left off. We were lucky to arrange a lunch in the park with our kids and catch up. The beautiful women in this pic are to my right, Angel. On my left, Britney and Mayme. Although there were still quite a few of us either working or living out of state, I think it's safe to say that we will continue these friendships until we are all old, sitting in rocking chairs on a porch, knitting and discussing the latest and best denture adhesives. :) I would post a pic of us as youngin's but I'm pretty sure that every picture someone would be embarrassed by the height of the bangs, or their 80's attire :) Love you guys!

This is a pic of the last time I met up with Vic and Nate. When my family moved from Provo to Springville during high school I made some new friends who I also continue to keep in touch with. This was the last time we all met up which was about 6 years ago, after I had Aidan.
Nate has lived out of state and country (being Canadian and all), and Vic has been constantly busy touring with all sorts of bands and doing their tats (being French and all). I didn't get a chance to take a pic of meeting up with Nate and his wife because we were too busy having such a great time. Here is a pic of Nate and his Wife Raquel who is just beautiful and sweet. I'm so happy for them!
The next few pics are Barry and I going to my friend, Brent's wedding.

Brent has been one of my best friends/big brother since we were 13. He got married on the same date and place that I did my first time so I just had to bring a camera and get the picture of ME at HIS wedding!

And here is the original taken July 2000!

I have a few more old friends I'm scheduled to meet up with so I will update this post as I see them! What a fun month!