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!