24th of July

Ashlynn, Michael, Aaron and Matthew. Aaron was playing with the cars and the other decided to help.

We celebrated the 24th with the Bair Clan at Grammy and Grandpa Bair's house. It was a great chance for the cousins to run and play. Plus we got dinner and fireworks. It was a great evening for all.

Joseph playing with the bulldozer. Grammy was nice enough to let the boys play at the edge of her garden. The boys just loved playing in the dirt.

Max playing with the dump truck.

Max is all ready to play in the garden.

Joseph digging in Grammy's garden. Be careful of the plants!

All ready for fireworks!

Max showing Aaron his toy.

Aaron wanting his favorite toy, a cell phone. This time it was Desi's.

Grammy and Grandpa let everyone pick a couple of fireworks to be theirs. The older kids got to light their fireworks. The younger kids just got to watch their fireworks, but it was still theirs.

Ruth is ready with her fireworks.

Matthew is very excited about his fireworks. Jacob not so much.

At the end of the day all Aaron wanted to do was to have a drink and cuddle with Daddy.

Picnic with Grammy and Grandpa Bair

On the 18th of July we decided to go for a family picnic. We called Stephen's parents to see if they wanted to join in the fun. This way we also had an excuse to go to a park in West Jordan that I had heard a lot about. We grabbed dinner from KFC and everyone enjoyed it (it was combined with A&W so we got some good root bear too!). After dinner it was time to play at the playground.

They had plenty of baby swings. Most parks only have 1 or 2 so you usually have to wait for one. But not this park they had at least 8 of them. No wait. It was great.

And as you can see Aaron loves to swing!

Grammy Bair took Joseph around the park. They have lots of cool things to play in. His favorites were the boat.

And the Train!

We were going to have pudding for dessert, but realized that we didn't have spoons. So we went back to Grammy and Grandpa's house to have dessert. The boys also got to play on the tramp. They love playing on the tramp as long as they are the only ones on there.

All the boys chilling on the swing.

To the Zoo with Sandy

My old room mate and Stephen's third cousin, Megan, and I have been talking for a while how we need to get together and go to the zoo. After months of talking we finally went in July.When we got in there I saw the lion water fountain. I had to take Joseph's picture while he was drinking from the water fountain.

Joseph was really excited to see the elephants.Aaron just wanted to know what it was he was supposed to be looking at.Here is Sandy, Joseph and Aaron in front of the Elephants.Here is Sandy with the Zebras.Here is Sandy, Joseph and Aaron in front of the animals that Joseph would not stop talking about at home. The Giraffes!Here are Joseph, Aaron and Sandy with the Cammels.
By luck we were there on the day that they introduced a new snow leopard cub. That was fun to be one of the first people to see the cub.
We had such fun time at the Zoo with our friends Megan and Sandy. It was Joseph first trip to the Hogel zoo and Aaron's first trip to a zoo.