Brittani's Wedding!

One of my very best friends Brittani got married this month!! I got to be one of her bridesmaids and loved it! Her bachelorette party we did at a pottery painting studio called Color Me Mine.  It was the perfect place to do a fun activity and chat.  I didn't get a single picture from the studio!
Afterwards we headed to sushi at a nearby restaurant.
The night before the wedding Carrie Truman and I stayed at Brittani and Chris' and helped a bit and the next morning was go time.  Britt and I's roomie at BYU-I Tess came into town from Boise and it was so great seeing her.
Congrats Britt and Chris!! (The wedding pics are mostly screenshots from the photographers website).

Park City Flying All Stars

One weekend this month we went up to Park City to the Olympic Training Park.  They put on a show called the flying all stars where some past Olympic skiers and Olympic hopefuls put on a show going off jumps into the water.  Amazing what these athletes can do! They also have a climbing wall over the water and a professional rock climber showed off how to climb that. After the show we went to the outlets there and did a little back to school shopping for Brooklyn.

First Week of Preschool

Brooklyn started her first week of preschool this past week! She has been asking about preschool for months so we were both happy when it was finally time.  We are doing a preschool co-op with four other families in our neighborhood this year.  We rotate hosting and planning the lessons from the online curriculum we are following and this first week was my turn.  I loved being able to plan lessons again and get into teacher mode.
Coincidently we have all girls in our group and they are a fun group.
This week we focused on the number zero, the colors black, blue and white, the story of the creation, and the book "The Five Little Ducks".
Some of our activities included:
Making homemade ice cream. Acting out The Five Little Ducks
A game of "putting out the fire" using sidewalk chalk and sponges with water. Blowing puff balls with a straw to the corresponding color of paper.

Trip to Capitol Reef National Park

This was the last weekend of Thomas' two week summer break so we made a last minute decision to book a hotel and spend a day and a half at Capitol Reef National Park in Southern Utah. We left Saturday morning and arrived around lunchtime.  Stopped at the visitors center for a map and then headed to a u-pick orchard in the park for lunch and to get some apples. Attempted a hike but after about a 1/4 mile we weren't sure if we were on the right path and it was hot so we headed to the hotel for a swim.  On the way back to the hotel we passed a spot that had some petroglyphs and it was right when a park ranger was doing a presentation on them so we stopped for that.





































At the hotel we had the pool and hot tub to ourselves and this was Brooklyn's favorite part of the trip.  Thomas and I were taking turns swimming laps and competing to see who could swim the length of the pool and back fastest and Brooklyn wanted to join.  She swam with her puddle jumper on the length of the pool! And without any assistance.
After swimming we cleaned up and went to a Mexican restaurant for dinner and then relaxed at our hotel.


The next morning we were up early to hike and explore. We went on three separate hikes and once it started to heat up too much were headed on the way home.

On our way out of the park we stopped at the Old Fruita Schoolhouse that was built in the early 1900's.

A quick fun trip to top off our adventures this summer.