Best of Friends

I tucked the boys into bed and then went out to do yard work. When I came back this is how I found them. Don't you wish you'd grown up with a twin?

A Weekend Without the Boys

Dan's parents offered to take the boys for a night, so we readily accepted and went backpacking overnight to Twin lakes in the Uintas. It's about 2 & 1/2 miles from Trial Lake, close to Kamas.
The trip had a rocky start since we forgot mosquito repellant and they were so bad that they formed a cloud around you anytime you stopped hiking. I was contemplating asking to turn home when I got the courage to ask a hiker if he had extra and could we have a quick spray. He gave me the above bottle to keep and he saved our trip. So, mosquito man, I'll try to pay you back with a pay it forward kind act.
I discovered this camp site after we'd already set up camp. Dan liked it so much he insisted we move. When a group of scouts came into sight he literally ran to claim it. But, my find made it into his top five camp sites ever.

Between the two of us we caught nearly 20 fish. They were all little guys, but still fun to get.

A Conversation with Dan

So, my ten year high school reunion is in a few weeks and I registered for the dinner tonight (thanks for the reminder Sean). As I was getting ready for bed I was feeling some anxiety and self-conscious, just like I did in high school as I thought about going to the reunion. So I told Dan how I felt and this was our conversation:

Janet: You're not as self conscious as I am.

Dan: I don't know aobut that

Janet: Well, you're cooler than I am.

Dan: That's true. I don't know why you're worried. What do you have to worry about? You're taking somebody cooler than you to your high school reunion; isn't that what everybody wants?

Yep, Dan definitely has more confidence than I do. :)

Fourth of July

Our backdoor neighbors have this great blow up slide and invited us over to come play. Brad had no fear and climbed up with no problem. Seth had to have a bit of help, but they both had a blast.

The boys with their friend Carter. We had a BBQ with them on the 4th of July and he spent the majority o the time spitting water from the water table; it was pretty funny.

Hooray for water fights!

I also took the boys swimming for the first time with Grandma and Grandpa Ogilvie. When I get pictures from them I'll post some. The boys loved it.

Visit from the Kellers

Our good friends the Kellers came to visit us this week. We've been looking forward to it for weeks and had such a good time visiting with them. The boys especially loved it. And what's not to love to wake up to five new friends to play with.

It was boy central: seven in all.

Brad and Seth wanted to be just like the big boys and insisted on having everything the same- metal fork, same cereal, same chair.

We went to see the Kennecott Copper Mine. I thought it was a very manly boy activity.

They didn't want to hold my hand, but as soon as Rook volunteered they loved that idea.

This is our hike around Silver Lake at the top of Big Cottonwood Canyon. There was a family of ducks and a moose jumping around in the water.

What a good looking group of boys!

We went to visit Temple Square as well. Gary wasn't able to make this trip, too much work, but it was so fun to see Teri.

Summer Adventures

Totally Cute!! Their new favorite thing is to go down the sidewalk you see to the end of the street because it's downhill and have us push them back up. It's not our favorite.

We went hiking up Big Cottonwood Canyon today. I consider myself to be in pretty good shape and it kicked my butt! Absolutely beautiful though and well worth it.

Lehi parade- here is Seth with all his loot.

This must've been when the police motorcycles came. Those and the fire engines were their favorite.

The zoo with their friend Miley.

A Boys Will Be Boys Moment

Yet another reminder that the boys should never be left unattended. Here is Brad looking like "Spot the Dog". I stripped them down and gave them a hose shower which they thought was hilarious. At least all this clean up work was funny to them.
Our plan is to pave this walkway with brick pavers. We've dug out half of it which is why with all the rain we ended up with a mud puddle. The joys of unfinished projects.