Last Day of Summer

We squeezed in one last day of fun in the sun yesterday! Taylor and Jordan were home from school so off we went. The last day Cowabunga Bay was open for the season. We had a great time. The slides.... lazy river.... and splashing in the pool. It is a perfect park for a family like mine!

Random

Taylor let me curl her hair a couple weeks ago on Saturday night. I had a lot of fun. She enjoyed being pampered. All in all it was a good mother-daughter moment!

The girls at the park! I love this mild weather! They love playing in it!

Jordan's creation for his egg drop! The egg survived and so did his creation. The teachers gathered everyone's protected eggs on the roof, had everyone scoot back to the end of the play ground and they CHUCKED them off one after another! When they got to Jordan's they held it high above their head, waved it, then gave it a fling!

Just laying around at a family gathering! These little girls sure love each other.

my cute neice and nephew

Last week my whole layton family got together for a family reunion at aspen grove. The teen class made a music video and some of my fam was in it. This is Rebekka Loderup (elizabeth's daughter) and Hayden Beck (sarah's son) starring in some of this. Rebekka is in an orange shirt and comes in around second 52 and hayden is in grey and comes in around 47.  If you hang out and watch the whole thing you'll see rebekka's amazing dance moves to which she was VERY embarrassed by the whole camp seeing. It was great!

Barbecue, Sweet, Sour and Honey Mustard.... names of Beck's new pets.

 Sarah, my across the street neighbor, and sister, got chickens for mothers day. My kids love going to visit them to see their growth.  Kate especially because she is home all day. Tonight, Friday, we all went over to see them and had a great time. Of course, Jordan wouldn't let me get a picture of him so instead he put a chicken on my head.

 Uncle Ryan (Beck) told Taylor and Kate that the chickens could fly a teeny-tiny bit. He suggested they throw them up in the air and release them. It was pretty funny to see these tiny birds flapping with all their might and simply coast to the ground.  Amidst all this Sarah came out and didn't like that game! Her precious chickens! So instead we put them in her planter boxes with the tomatoes to watch them peck at the ground and dig a hole.  I don't think that Taylor thought that was nearly as fun.

Although I didn't have any pictures of Jordan he had a great time trying to put the chicks on people, tried to sneak them into my hood, and of course had a few close calls with what the chickens so kindly left behind. We can't wait until our next visit.

Zoey and Will

This is Will and Zoey.  Will is Leslie Ann's 7 month old.  All my sisters got together for Elizabeth's 40th birthday.  We had such a great time together.  I cant remember the last time when all 7 of us were together. We were especially lucky to have my mom and grandma there.

Mountian Goats

 making sure we're all warm.... well only the baby actually

 when did she get so big?

 loving her "phone" (deactivated and ancient)

 "Get me out of the CAR!"  You'd think we'd driven somewhere far!

 Love that face!

 We see one! 

 Couldn't let him know I was taking his picture!

I LOVE the mountain goats at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon. Last sunday we were all feeling a little crazed in the house so we drove up to the Temple Quarry Trail in attempt to get fresh air and spot some goats. At first we looked to the North face of the cliffs, nothing. But as we were leaving we saw some skiers looking through the scopes at the south side and figured they had found something. OH THEY DID! We all got to see them. It was so fun. Although we were only out of the house a couple minutes we got some blood pumping and left a little happier and closer to bedtime!