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!

Fun with Jeppsons and Johansons!

We went up to Farmington to spend the day with the Jeppsons and got to go cherry picking!  Here's Amberly supervising Presley and Avery as they chose the reddest ones to put in the bag.  Dad and Caleb stayed at the house because Caleb wasn't feeling well.  He ended up having the throw-ups all day - NOOOO!  (It quickly spread through all of us in the coming days, but miraculously we didn't give it to anyone else  - what?)

What handsome boys!  We went to Dimple Dell Pool with the Johanson's and had a blast!

     The boys hanging out...and checking out Max's cool lizard!

City Creek, Hogle Zoo and Liberty Park

We took the train downtown with Pasquale and Pete to see the City Creek Center for the first time.  (Megan stayed home with a sick Liliana).  We had lunch together and walked around for a while - it turned out to be a pretty hot day, so after we met up with Brian and Alisha, we went inside to the food court where they had a children's play area and of course, a place to get ice cream.

The kids had a blast running around and climbing on things together!

The next day was a cousin event at Hogle Zoo!  Here's the group, climbing on a rhino - I think??  

The two little heads belong to Presley and Avery looking through the glass at the awesome polar bear.  You could see above and below the water and he gave us a fantastic show filled with numerous flips and jumps in and out of the water!

           The girls posing with Annalyn.

Hanging out with the giraffes and admiring the beautiful tiger.

One of the last things we did was head to the carousel.  The kids wanted to keep riding it and riding it, picking different animals to sit on each time of course - so fun!

 

Here we are at Liberty Park on the last night before Megan and family left to go home.  Swimming suits, picnic dinner, and even a balloon maker?!?

Wow, isn't this the most adorable picture ever?  Liliana was finally feeling a little better after several days of yucky fever and blah.  What sweet moms and baby girls!

We were so sad to say goodbye, but sooo happy that our trip to Utah overlapped a little with the Melinos visit!  We love love love them!

Wheeler Farm, Utah 2012

It's seems like I just finished posting pictures from our 2011 Utah trip, and in fact, I did.  It takes me soooo long to organize and post and write about our enormous Utah trips because they're 3+ week  excursions and we do so many fun things and I take so many pictures!  I really need to figure out a new system so that I can keep up with my blogging and not still be doing it when the next trip rolls around (that's what happened this last time!)  

Anyway, here it goes again- I'll go in order but I'll have to keep up with more current posts at the same time.  So if anyone looks at my blog and wants to know, Utah 2012 posts will be dated in June and July, while other posts from the rest of the summer and into the fall will be showing up once in a while too.

We spent the afternoon at Wheeler Farm the first full day we were in Utah.  Cousins a plenty of course, including Pete and Liliana!  In fact, during this trip we were able to spend time with all three new baby girls - Liliana, Kayla and Lindy...lots of adorable pictures to come!

We started with a little picnic,

fed the ducks,

played played played and enjoyed Kayla and her smiles!

 

Spring baseball!

Caleb's on the Marlin's baseball team this year - here he is all ready to go!

Up to bat...

watch closely, or you'll miss this hit...

and coming...

coming...

coming on home!

His greatest fans...

Travis, Caleb and Nathan (neighborhood friends - Nathan's on his team and they played a game against Travis's team one night!)

Definitely a gold medal team!