July 7th, 2012 Grandpa's Home for a quick visit :)

 Grandpa just got home from a 10 day trip with Gale, and they brought back CIA t-shirts that you can only get from a private tour of the CIA and cute books.

 We later went to Grandpa's for a BBQ before they headed to Gale's house in California...  What the life Grandpa has found, we are so happy for him:)

July 5th, 2012 Zoo in the rain!

 When I woke up this morning to rain I thought to myself, so much for the Zoo... but then thought why not, so we went anyway...  And it turned out to be the best day we have every had at the Zoo.  I bought the kids ponchos so they wouldn't be stuck under the umbrella and I am so glad I did because it rained all but the last hour that we were there.  The boys got to splash in all the puddles, the animals were ready to show off and the temp was perfect.

The new Rocky Point exhibit is so awesome they did such a great job.  And this polar bear is so funny he looks so happy playing with the crowd.  

 These grizzly bear tried licking Jace's hands

 Jace had such a great time, so much of the time I don't get his true smile on camera, I love this little boy so much.

 This is when we thought we were headed home, we got all the way to the car and Jace said, Mom where is your umbrella?  So off we went to retrace our steps... all the way back to the Merry Go Round.  and the whole way Trevor was saying things like.... Du Mom!, way to go Mom!, why didn't you have me carry it Mom!  Yup I felt pretty stupid.

July 4th 2012, Independence Day

These summer days are one great fun thing after another :)  We started the day out with the Riverton Days carnival with Rachelle and Lex.  We got the kids wrist bands so they were able to ride as many rides as many times as they wanted... and we did !!!  I did find out one thing, that was a bummer, getting old sucks,  I decided to go on the Gravitron ( the Gravitron is the spaceship that you go in, stand agains the wall and it spins really fast and then you slide up due to the gravity) with the kids, it was my favorite ride as a kid, and I was stoked! (Trevor could only go with an adult) well I thought I was going to die, I couldn't breath, I felt like my heart and lungs were getting smooched, I couldn't wait for the ride to be over, Bummer!!!

Anyway....  That night my Dad ended up not having to work so they came over and we had Cafe Rio take out and did some fireworks...

The fire danger is so high right now that we stuck to mostly flowers and little fountains, but it was a really great night. 

and....  Rachelle and Lex came over to do fireworks with us.

Trevor had a scare... he had two sparklers, one in each hand, fell backward and burned a hole in his shirt, he didn't get burnt but Papa ran to his rescue and got his leg burnt in the process.   Trevor was so upset about his favorite shirt getting a hole in it, he was done for the night (come to find out it was Jace's shirt, Trevor's is still hole free )

June 30th, 2012 Taylorsville Dayz

 Me and the boy's started out the morning with the Taylorsville Dayz Parade, we had a great spot in the shade, and the boys came home with buckets of candy.   At 1:00 we headed to the park to watch a neighbor girl sing on the big stage, we had packed a cool for the day, the boy's asked if we could stay for the day, and so we did.

Jace and Trev got to go on a ride on a little firetruck and then they got to sit in the drivers seat in a real fire truck.

We stayed for the Niel Diamond tribute band and the best fireworks in the state:)

 We had soooo many glow sticks.....