A Beautiful Day at the Park

I love it when the lighting is perfect and I just can't resist taking pictures.  It has been a while since I have done so, so when the day was perfect and Greg was home to watch Treyson I took the girls to the park.  Allie has been riding her bike everywhere which is really nice and we just had a fun hour of playing and mom taking endless pictures.  

She can't go across these but she can swing like a monkey on them.  And Brailie can climb anything at the park now.  I am not nearly as nervous letting her as I was with Allie.  

Fall Fun

We are absolutely in love with fall around our house.  The weather in Green River is perfect in the fall.  We couldn't ask for anything nicer.  The girls have been playing outside a ton and we have been going for walks again and we finally got some pumpkins.  Yay for fall.

My little man in his super cute church tie onesie from Uncle Steven

Sweet pumpkin girl.  I am happy to report that both girls love pumpkins as much as their mom.

Cute little boy.

At the fall farm in Payson.  It was kind of a rip off-like they charged money for every little thing.

A hayride.  The girls love hay rides.  They would have loved the ones my dad used to do.

These turkeys were a little miffed at \Greg and were ready to attack.  He is doing a good job not showing any fear.

Hay bail maze.  The girls loved it.  I wonder if they would like bale jumping?

Mud Pies

We have been doing a lot of this around our house lately (consequently I have been doing a lot of laundry too).

The girls have been playing out back by their playhouse with water, dirt and lettuce.  I grew a  bunch of lettuce in my garden and have no use for it at all so I have been giving it to the girls to play cooking with.  They love it and we have lettuce strewn from here to breakfast.

 We had a good rainstorm a few weeks go and the girls were ecstatic to put on their rainboots and get splashing.

 They started in our puddle but soon moved next door to the big puddle by Bob's house.  It was a muddier one.

First they splashed, then they sat in just the mud and dug. 

 The miss Brailie ventured partly into the water

 And then I finally just said, "oh go ahead and sit in it" and they didn't hesitate.  

 It started like this but let me just say a full bath was required when it was all done.

When Lily came to play

Ashlee and her daughter Lily came to visit at the beginning of July.  The girls loved having Lily around.  It was so fun to visit with Ashlee and have her over for the day.  We met her in Price a week later and went swimming and ate dinner with her and her parents too.  These pictures are from the girls playing in the sprinklers in our backyard.  The day was so super hot so this was nice and refreshing.  I am not sure what Lily thought of it though.  She had the best facial expressions. 

Two girls and a bucket of water

The girls asked for a bucket of water and a few cups and bowls the other day.  They wanted to clean off their bikes.  When I went out to check on them it looked like their attention had quickly shifted from the bikes to them.  They were standing in the water bucket dumping cups of water on their heads just giggling and having the greatest time.  I just left them alone to play.  They were drenched within minutes but it was a hot day so I don't blame them-probably felt wonderful.  i love it when they play well together.

The new playhouse

Our neighbors the Hughes family has a little outside playhouse that the girls absolutely adore.  It is a pretty girly one but I figured if we could just find any kind of outside playhouse the girls would be happy.  And I was right.  I found this one on KSL classifieds.  We were going up to Provo for Stadium of Fire and Auntie Helen was giving us her old table and so we just decided to see if we could find a playhouse and a kitchen that we liked and we did.  I got the playhouse and a nearly brand new kitchen (we have it inside-pictures to come) for $180.00.   

 We put the girls old kitchen inside the playhouse (which is a good size).  They have been making mud pies ever since.

Backyard Blast

With the weather heating up we have been trying to find ways to cool down outside.  While Greg was gone to basketball camp the girls and I borrowed Grandma's Gecko sprinkler and paddling pool and got refreshed with that for a couple of days.

 The when dad got home we built the girls a water blob (it's like a bit water pillow slip and slide).  The girls had a blast especially on the night we let them play on it in their dresses.  Dad made sure it was safe.  And since we didn't have our big pool set up yet dad promised the girls he would swim with them in the paddling pool.  It was a tight fit but a ton of fun as you can imagine.

 Then a few days ago we got our big pool set up and it has been a lifesaver.  We can all fit in it together and it is the perfect temperature and we bought a cover for it this year so it is staying clean.  Oh thank heavens for this pool.

A new year with many trips to the beach to come

I decided it was time for us to head to the beach once again for the new year.  The girls just love playing by the water and in the sand.  They even played for a good long time before I went back to get the sand toys from the car.  They are so carefree and delighted in the simpleness of getting covered in sand.  The worst part of going is actually having to come home-getting girls covered in sand who are wet into a car to drive back to town is one of the most unpleasant things I can think of.  Next time I think I will have to take a change of clothes with us and just keep them moving around until they are more dry and I can change them.  Anyway it was still a blast and we are looking forward to going again.