Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Hiking, running, football, haircuts, look-alikes and Bear Lake. Oh yah, and a PUPPY!

We just got back from Disneyland, but for some reason I felt like updating this past summer first. I'll post Disneyland soon.

A couple months back we went on a fun hike with the kids.
On the hike, there was a little spring that trickled down this creek. We thought it was a good time to teach the kids about water safety, since the rivers were super high, and we were going to be crossing one soon. We told the kids that they were not to touch ANY water anywhere, without asking Mom and Dad first. And to be super-careful over bridges by holding hands, etc. Just SECONDS later, I lie not, Ethan leaned over the little bridge and FACE-PLANTED into the little stream. We grabbed him too quick to snap a picture, but it was pretty funny. And completely ironic. Well, if the lectures didn't teach him, this little testing ground did:)

And then this little missie turned 3 months (over a month ago, I'm lame:)

I ran a 5k on July 4th. They had the race chip-timed for the first time this year and the event planners were pretty excited about it. Well, the company they hired completely botched it and everyone's times got messed up. They announced the "winners" and they went up there and told them that they saw people come in ahead of them. Stupid stupid. They told us all they would work it out and post our times soon on the Internet. Well, 3 weeks later I finally called them to see what was going on. They said, "Oh, you got second in your age division. We can mail you a ribbon if you want." Lame. Anyway, my time was 28:35. Not super-terrible, for my first 5k back. (Not super-great, either).

Ethan took a little ball class this summer where he learned to play soccer, baseball and football. It was way cute.




And take a look at this! My Little Ethan looks just like Jonathan Lipnicki from Jerry Maguire and Stuart Little.
Cassidy had been growing her hair out all year, but I had finally had enough! Watch it go...

tada! Aaah, much better. I don't do tangles.

And our biggest news on this post...

we got a DOG!!!

He is half-pug, half-pomeranian. He's a cute little guy, but oh my. Puppies poop everywhere.

Joel had always wanted a dog, so he is just thrilled.

A few weeks ago we went camping at Bear Lake with Gus (the puppy).

The campground we were at was so awesome. It had a pool, a super-fun park, tennis, mini golf, a game room...








...and these awesome bikes called a Surrey!

two people pedal and the kids sit in front! It was a little hard, but too hilarious to not try. Such fun.

And of course, we had to enjoy some famous Raspberry Shakes!

The lake part was the most un-fun and un-eventful part of the whole trip:)

Beautiful Bear Lake


Alex and Becca

Alex has a little friend named Becca who is just 5 weeks younger. I thought it would be a good idea to have them wear matching outfits and take pictures. I was wrong.

Becca was sad. The girls wouldn't even look at each other.
So we switched their places, which only helped for a few seconds.

Then Alex got hungry.



Maybe we'll try again in a few months:)