Oh What do YoU Do In The SummerTIme?

Soooooo, I guess someone out there says that if you are really far behind in your blog updates, to just start fresh with today's happenings and try to catch up someday? :o) I guess that works for me. We will take it and start fresh. Here is what we have been up to lately (besides the unexpected home renovation/disaster/living elsewhere happening....pictures and story to come when it is complete...one word...crazy!) Greg reading to the kids (cody and Emma)
Emma did cheer camp over the summer and here is her performance at halftime of the 1st home High school football game. She is the 2nd from the right. She was thrilled to have fun with Kate, her cousin! My mom took Kate and Emma for the week of cheer camp and they had loads of fun with grandma! Emma didn't want to come back home when it was all said and done.

Here we are at Bear World. We had never visited this fun place before, and I was pleasantly surprised at how much fun this actually was! Here is Emma with a bear. (from inside the car of course!) :o)

So picturesque, wouldn't you say?

Goin' on a bear hunt... it was amazing how many bears were just right around our car and so active!

Carter and Cody at Bear World just chillin' in the stroller.

This was Emma and Carter's favorite ride at Bear World.

Another fun ride with Dad this time!

They had a really hands on petting zoo (haha), no really, they had a great petting zoo. Deer, chickens, geese, goats, ducks, etc...

Emma fell in love with this little deer. She named him Bambi. Yes, she is hugging him in the picture!

Here she is laughing because Bambi is licking her fingers and trying to nibble on them!

Feeding the ducks

We chose a great day to go, not many people and we were able to go through the park twice and the kids rode all the rides they wanted, all by themselves most of the time. Here is Cody surveying the ducks.

Carter kept wanting more and more food to feed the animals. He would walk around and check all the food dispensers to see if anyone had left more food.

My little bears...

Cody loved riding with Daddy to see the animals. Lovely wolf in the background.

Wanting to drive so soon! (don't worry, we were only going like 3 mph through the park, that was the speed limit) :o)

We headed to the water park in Rexburg. What a fun idea! We had never been so we decided to check it out. Totally FREE!! The kids had a fun time. Here is Emma going down the slide.

Sorry, it's sideways....Carter and Daddy going down the slide.

What a funny picture of Emma! When we showed her this picture, she just laughed and laughed. She was getting cold and wanted a towel.

Cody loved the bubbling water spouts.

All the kids in the water.

Then we took the kids for a ride on the merry-go-round.

Emma started preschool! Yes, she was so excited to go and just loves to learn. She is a smart little girl and loves to go to preschool. She is learning sign language right now and her alphabet sounds. Isn't she a cutie!
(side note, yup, that is our fridge and stove in our living room. Haha, just remember the one word....crazy)

And lastly...here we are at the football game tonight. We went to watch uncle Cavin play football. The kids had fun on the jumpy castle, eating cookies, playing with their glow sticks and playing with Aunt Breann.

I got a good picture of Carter~!! YAY! Here he is in his school spirit shirt. (thanks Heather!)

Emma was helping Cody to cheer for the team. Can't you tell he is so thrilled by this experience. :o)

We have been having a fun summer with many other adventures, which most pictures are stuck on my phone that I am currently getting put on the computer, so maybe someday we will post all the other fun things we've been doing. For now, enjoy and I hope someday my kids will be able to appreciate this scrapbooking/blogging/journal to remember all the fun things and times! I love you Greg & kiddos!