Caramel Creation

When we are in the backyard playing, Caramel loves to sneak back into the kitchen and make some creations. It is better for me not to watch, I would just limit her. Her favorite foods to use are bananas and marshmallows. She found this plastic egg holder which was perfect. After she makes something there is always a freezing step. One time she sliced up bananas and put pinches of bread on top of each slice then froze it. This was called banana bread. Love it. Much better then her drinks she is always adding salt and pepper to.

Costume Time

 

Cookie Monster!

 

 

California Raisin!

 

 

Big Hug.

 

We have these sweet costumes from Anthony's childhood. Anthony's sister, Charity, was Cookie Monster one Halloween. And Anthony was the California Raisin. Anthony's mom, Pam, made these costumes. Anthony still has some California Raisin figurines the kids play with. The kids enjoyed wearing them for a bit. They found themselves pretty hilarious walking around with big costumes on.

Drifting Day and Pioneer Day

 

Anthony and Rhett headed out to Monroe for the annual Drift event. Rhett was super excited and remembered going last year. They met up with another car loving family, the Hancocks, for breakfast at the Brown Bag Café (a place I worked at when Anthony and I were dating).

 

 

Rhett loved checking out the different looking cars with bright colors.

 

 

Anthony and Rhett were really close to one car that crashed hard against the wall. They also got close watching the cars heat up their tires. Rubber from the tires would hit them as they watched, lots of smoke too.

 

 

Entertaining the friends with some comedy. Anthony has know the Hancock family for many years. They have a Miata bond and continue to work on project cars ever now and then.

 

 

Rhett loves to look for the mini cars.

 

 

Even got to sit in some cars. Awesome!

 

 

One was a professional Corvette powered Miata Drift car.

 

Caramel, Myles, and I went to a quieter event for Primary up at the church building. A Stake Primary Pioneer Day with games. I was in charge of the 3-legged race station. Caramel was a good trooper cycling through the games 4 times and hanging out with different friends as they came and went. She did get the treat of ice cream 4 times as well, a total plus. I thought her favorite station might be the eating contest one, but it was a fruit by the foot eating contest (Caramel doesn't like fruit roll-ups). She still did it though and would find the garage afterwards to spit out the fruit gooiness. Pretty gross. Sorry no pictures.

Swimming and Baseball in Utah

Anthony flew in to join us for the 4th of July in Utah. The kids and I with my dad drove down to Utah, June 28th staying until July 6th. The kids had tons, tons, tons, of fun being with cousins and swimming at the neighborhood pool. Desi, my sister, has the best kind of pool that gradually gets deep just like the beach. Myles just like the other 2 kids, has to be in the water as soon as he sees it. Anthony had some fun with water fights and all the cousins.

 

On the 5th of July everyone headed to the baseball field in Salt Lake for a Bee's game against the Rainier's from Seattle. First professional baseball game the kids have been too. It was great weather and we sat in the homerun grass area which was nice for Myles. After awhile the kids got rowdy and we moved to the benches. We moved also because there were rain clouds coming with thunder and some lightening.

Cachet and Anthony

Rhett hugging Anthony's arm

Anthony entertaining Myles

 Best part of the game was when there was a break and 3 people dressed as a hot dog, a pizza, and an ice cream cone had a race around the field. Kids loved it especially when one would fall over or trip over each other. After the game there were fireworks that shot of very close. You could see some of the flames landing in the grassy outfield. We even got hit with some debris. It was a beautiful, loud show.

 One last picture of Anthony, me, and Myles before we started driving back- 13 hour drive. We stopped in Ontario, Oregon. The kids loved sleeping on the hide-a-bed and swimming yet again. In Idaho we saw some dust devil- they look like tiny tornados. Glad we made it back safe.

 

Mount Timpanogos Caves, Utah

While we were in Utah visiting my family. We did a fun family hike up to Mt Timpanogos Caves. Chanel, my sister, lives walking distance from the Mt Timpanogos temple. You can see the temple from her backyard. The drive to the hiking area was only 10-15 minutes. We got up there early at 7am which was great, we hiked in the shade and it was only hot a little at the end.

There were great rocks to look at- they were "Lightening McQueen rocks". You walk through a fun small tunnel that Lightening McQueen would totally drive through. Having Myles on my back did make me walk slow and want to sit down frequency. Rhett was happy to go slow and did have some complaints about when were we going to finally make it, he was the youngest one walking.

Marc, my brother in law, was leading the way with Bentley, Olivia, Caramel, and Lyla (on his back). I didn't hear any complaints about the 1.5 mile hike up from Caramel, she was most concerned about keeping up with the cousins. Once at the caves there were great formation descriptions and a map of the caves the kids looked at. We found some awesome things called Caramel Falls. 

Of course, at the start of the cave tour, Rhett had to go to the bathroom. So I hiked back down, a short distance, to the bathrooms. Seeing the toilets, he decided he didn't have to go, but I made him sit anyways and we went. Myles wasn't too happy to join the cave tours. It was clearly nap time and he cried until he fell asleep. The cave tour was cool with interesting areas and some tight squeezes. Myles stayed asleep for awhile which was great for him. The hike down went super fast. Bentley, Olivia, and Caramel did a workbook to become Junior Rangers.

Love enjoy nature and seeing the sights.

Myles Walking

Myles started taking 3 shuffles than a plop to the floor at the beginning of July. By the 4th of July he would do 10 to 15 steps but still bear crawling mostly. His best practice was if there was a ball or helmet in front of him he could kick around. By the 10th he was walking everywhere. Still, he loves to kick the ball around and walk straight into any kind of water, sprinklers- a favorite. 

 

Caramel and Rhett didn't walk until after 1 year, about 13 months. So I was surprised with Myles walking before them.

In the pictures, we are at Tiffany Park Elementary with Myles kicking Rhett's helmet around.

First Weeks of Summer

 

To help get the summer rolling, we worked on mapping out the Cedar River Trail from Ron Regis Park to the Senior Center. The summer goes easier if there are events on the calendar. There was some interesting humid weather with scattered rain showers.

 

One ride I even got to ride my bike with Myles in the trailer, not his favourite way to ride. That same day it down poured just after arriving to the park, good thing there was a sheltered area. We waited out the storm.

Nice and exhausted