Our traditional Polar Express

Taylor joined us this year as we made the Front Runner into the Polar Express.  We had Hot Chocolate and cookies, read the Polar Express Book and sang a few songs.

 The highlight is meeting Santa and getting our bells to show we "believe."

Lagoon Walking Trail Field Trip

 Lagoon Walking Trail

 

Gorgeous Leaves!

Aleeya Birthday Party at the Park!

 Celebrating Aleeya and Hayden's birthday at the park!

Next door neighbors, friends and exact birthday buddies!

 I expected that we would just have muffins and play, but Aleeya's wonderful friends brought her lots of gifts!

 Aleeya LOVES make-up and this kit was a dream.  Taylor called later in the day and she said, "I am glorious and my make-up is super hot."

Ashlie Christensen, Millie Smith, Haylie Curtin

Freezer Meals

Under the direction of Shae Hansen, we made eight freezer meals for six families!

Air Force Museum

 We visited the Air Force Museum with the Merrill Family. 

Chalk Creek

 The Chalk Creek Crew reunited again!  Jamie is leading the children in a scavenger hunt. 

 Aleeya displaying the map!

The families that joined us: Wiseman, Smith, Roe, Capps.

Summer Movies

We love going to the Summer movies.  10 movies for $5.00.  You can't beat the price or the joy of sitting in air conditioning for two hours.  This picture is dark, but we have taken Savannah Fernald with us each week and though she buys a ticket, she and Aleeya always share a chair. 

Movies we have seen:
June 5-Journey 2: Mysterious Island
June 12-Happy Feet 2
June 19-Rio
June 26-Kung Fu Panda 2
July 3-Despicable Me
July 10-Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2
July 17-Dolphin Tale
July 24-We missed we were in North Logan to celebrate Pioneer Day.
July 31-Winnie the Pooh
August 7-Yogi Bear (upcoming)

Read-a-thon

 We hosted a summer read-a-thon.  First, the children each picked a book and we read it to the group, using different styles of reading based on the roll of a dice. 

 Carter read his book to the group.

 Megan and I divided the children and each did a craft.  Megan made puppets and I read them books that progressed daily (Hungry Caterpillar, Seven Blind Mice) and then they made their own progressive books.  The white board behind shows another activity: we wrote our own story after the format of the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie."  They all would say the "If you ask a kid they will say.....Carter went first and he said "Go Utes!" (surprise).  So most of the phrases followed that format.

 These pictures are from Diane Kelsey.

Serena 6th Birthday Party

 Birthday Girl!

 Savannah Fernald

 Rylee Smith

Abigail Tanner

 Ashlie and Aubrey Christensen

 Mariah Hansen

 Emma Rollings and  Madison Dain

 Amelia Smith

Katelynn Maycock

 

Cinco De Mayo

A festive couples night to celebrate Cinco De Mayo.  We ate Cafe Rio and Virgin Margarita's.  After a few drinks, there was even some dancing and viewing of a comedy sketch.

The children were not really part of the night, but got to pose in our decorations.

More Mommy Gym!

 Look at these darling children!

 Fun game-take all of the tennis balls from one side of the room to the hula hoop.

 Spencer gets into it also!