Wednesday, September 20, 2017

4th of July & Bear Lake

We went on a double date with Em & Tim to Chilis. We talked and talked. We always wish we lived closer to them. 
 Dahn family party at the swimming pool was a success.
 4th of July, candy parade!

 We went to wish my Grandpa Hansen a happy birthday, and take our annual photo in the front yard.
Oh, I just love him!
I got this video of Ava dancing that really cracked me up:

We had a BBQ lunch at my Nana's house.
 My cousin and I found "squishy grapes" that Nana kept from when we were young.
The Finches came over to my parent's house for dinner and fireworks.


Coen saying, "hat!"
 Both of the grandmas watched the kids so that I could work during the summer.
 Our friend Kristi came to visit and the kids had a nice group hug at the end!
 My work party was at Cowabunga Bay again, which was really fun. We invited both sets of grandparents, Marcie & Dan!
 BBQ dinner and Coen loved the corn.
 We had a Cowley reunion at Bear Lake and we all stayed in the condos. They had a beautiful view!
 We went on a drive all the way around the lake.

 Natalie took lots of family pictures:



The girls had fun doing crafts.
 Three cousins watching a show:
There  is a Pixar short about a magician and his naughty bunny and it really hit Ava's funny bone. I took a video because her giggles were so cute, despite Coen climbing all over her.


We spent all day at the lake. The kids swam and had fun playing in the sand.


Cute cousins! It's so fun for Ava to have all these girls.
We drove home in the middle of the week to work and then drove back up on Thursday. Here are my cute twinners:
 Coen loves to wear bows and keeps them in his hair way better than Ava does.
 Back to Bear Lake.
 We spent another day at the beach. Brent's uncle had a boat and took us on a ride on this tube:
I screamed my head off! Brent went another time with his younger more adventurous cousins and almost got thrown off so many times but he held on!
 After dinner we went to feed carp and they were HUGE!
On our last day we went to get the famous raspberry shakes. Since I'm still not eating dairy, I got a hamburger which was delicious too!

 We saw these adorable puppies and I kind of wanted one.
 We drove home through Logan and did some shopping there. Ava and I went in Old Navy and I bought her a few things for the school year. She felt so special and excited that all the clothes were just for her.

That evening we went to the Tabernacle Pioneer concert with Alex Boye. We had a really good time and were so lucky to have such nice grandma babysitters!

Friday, September 8, 2017

June in Utah- staying with the Cowleys

After my summer hiatus, the blog is back! Here are some pictures from what we did in June. There are no pictures of me going into the office about once a week and working from home the other two days, or of Brent teaching at SLCC, because that's kind of boring :) We stayed with the Cowleys all of June, and most of July too. It was such a fun and busy summer! 

Packing for four people to be gone two months, and it all has to fit in the car, is hard!
 We drove through Bend, central Oregon, and it was just gorgeous! The kids were really good in the car and we stayed with the DeHarts in Boise.
 We surprised my parents by getting to Utah on Saturday since they weren't expecting us until late Monday night after Coen's doctor appointment to get his cast off. We face timed my parent's from their front yard after a minute they were like, "wait what!?!" and ran outside.

The doctor was able to see us early to take out Coen's pins, and then he just velcroed Coen's cast back together and we could remove it ourselves a week later.

Silly kids in the bath.

 Andrew came into town and we got to see them as they were staying with my parents for a week. Ava had fun playing with cousins!

 Coen liked watching all of the airplanes flying overhead.
 We went to the Gale museum by our house with our cousins.


 Staying at the Cowleys meant we got to see Marcie more!
 We went to a teddybear picnic at the library downtown which was really cute!
 We stayed with my grandparents for a few days and Coen absolutely loved the marble run that my grandpa made when my mom was young. Unfortunately Coen came down with hand foot and mouth during these few days we were staying there, so that was a major bummer!

 Grandpa's birthday party!

 All the grandkids gathered around, listening to a book.
 Chocolate faces
 My grandma got us tickets to see Cars 3. It was fun to go with all of us! Poor Coen wasn't feeling well so Brent spent the time outside the theater, but they gave him a ticket to come back.
 Little sickie.
 Father's Day with some of my favorite men.
 Dress up time. Hahaha.
 Ava, the little leader.
 Coen shakes his finger and says "no no" to Ava.

 Ava took swimming lessons at my mom's neighbor's house. She has regressed from last year :(
A video of Ava pushing Coen in the car- he likes how she does it all crazy.
 Fun times at Grandma's house.
 My new hair cut
Family selfie. Ava is not wearing a shirt. Typical.
 Swimming lessons- Ava was so brave.
 We went to my dad's work party and Ava really enjoyed the face painting.
 Saying bye to Andrew until next year.
 Taylorsville firework show with my aunt and uncle. We go every summer, and now Ava has a little cousin to play with!
 Summer livin'

 Ava got a haircut at Great Clips. When we walked in, she started panicking and throwing a fit because there weren't toys, and she remembered from over a year ago the last place she got her haircut had toys. It got so bad we had to call Brent to come calm her down so she could have her hair cut. Luckily we were the only ones in the salon...


 We went to the planetarium with Cher and had fun. Bonus- it's free!

 After the planetarium I went shopping at City Creek with this little helper.
 Coen is obsessed with Mickey Mouse. Obsessed. He may take after his dad.
 My parents took Ava and Lucy to a wedding reception and then they got to have a sleepover!
 I asked Ava what she wants to say about the sleepover. She says " when I had a sleepover with Lucy, I had a fit because I wanted to have more sleepovers with Lucy. Then I changed my mind. Then I got to play with Coen. At my sleepover we sleeped in the same bed. It was Laura and Jordan's bed. And we had so much fun cuz Lucy is there. We watched Hunchback and we watched fireworks. And we had so much fun."