Water park, July 4th, and Bees game - phew!

We spent a day at Cherry Hills Water Park (minus dad who had to stay home with the stomach flu we had given him) with an uncle, aunts and cousins - Caleb's favorite ride was the one with tubes and the girls loved the lazy river the best.  We were definitely tired out by the end!

Hooray for so many cute girls!

This is the scene on the 4th of July in front of the Johanson's house.  Some fireworks, some fiddling, and some ice cream cones with cousins - what more could you ask for on the 4th?

And here we are at the Salt Lake Bees Game with Grandma T and Grandpa Mike - beautiful night for baseball and...

cotton candy of course!

Didn't get a very good shot of the mascot, but Avery's face says it all when it comes to shaking hands with the big bee!

This is a picture of two darling sets of twins and a good sport in the back - we visited Aunt Joneen and Uncle John for a few minutes one afternoon and the girls met Jack and Cherie Matsen's twins.  It was so fun to hear them talk about it after we left - how they look like each other but not exactly the same, like us, and how one of them likes pink and one likes purple - like us too!

Sundance!

We met the Johanson's at Sundance one day and decided to take the ski lift up the mountain and do some exploring. This is the view the girls and I had from our chair lift.  In front of us:

and behind us:

We decided to go on a little hike before riding down again.  Here's the gang -

It proved to be a bit hotter than we thought it would be and we didn't have enough water to go around which made it that much worse...but we survived!

What a day!

On a bright Saturday morning, the girls and I got to go see Annalyn swim in her first swim meet!  The "on your mark, get set, go!" was so fun to see and she did a great job swimming!

It's fantastic to have such a grown-up cousin - and such a cute baby cousin!

Then we headed up the canyon to Snowbird, where we met Grandpa Brian and Great Grandma Johnson and got on the tram!  Riding up and down was so exciting - and we had an awesome view of the beautiful mountains all around us.

What a fun memory to have with great grandma!  We spent the whole afternoon with her, which included playing at the park and dinner on the way home.

Before leaving the top, the kids created their own little rock sculpture :)

More cousins, more fun!

Here are three little 5 year old girls looking up to their 18 year old cousin! We met Jon, Heather, Forrest, Chandler and Dylan at a new splash-pad park in Sandy one afternoon. We all had dinner together with Grandpa Mike and Gramma T and then enjoyed the park and each other's company.

Later in our trip, all three girls sat at the table for quite a while working on their perler bead creations!

And just messing around and getting wild and crazy is always a favorite thing to do in Gramma T's big TV room, with or without Oscar!

Hanging out with Grandpa Brian

We met Grandpa Brian for lunch and then got to see his dog Boone, in action...

the throw,

the splash,

the leap,

the return!

They put on such a show - the kids loved it!

We hung out with him at the park one day too - there's nothing like a little, or a lot of attention from grandpa!