Silver Lake

After Baby Gwenyth's baby blessing and naps, we decided to go up to Silver Lake. We got a little treat on the way up. We got to see a leg of the Tour of Utah bike race. Since the canyon was blocked off for the race, we decided to watch bikers. They were seriously flying down the canyon. Some got clocked over 60 miles per hour.

Once the canyon opened up, we headed up to Silver Lake. The girls loved climbing the rocks...

...and picking some wildflowers as we walked.

The whole time that we were watching the bike race, Vienna was loading up the bottom of bike stroller with rocks. Once we were by the lake, Vienna knew exactly what to do with all those rocks that she had collected.

Cambry loved walking on logs and finding "secret" paths with Mommy.

Cambry has become quite the climber. It is one area of her life where she is quite fearless. She climb to the top of this rock face with NO help. I just went behind her and spotted.

Vienna didn't want to be left behind.

On our way back around from the lake, we saw these three moose in the wetlands.

They were still there when we got down there.

It was exciting, but also scary especially since there was a young one around.

On the way back to the car, I lost the girls. Come to find out they got caught up in watching a car get towed. I love my girls!

Summer Catch-up

Ahem. I took a sabbatical from blogging (and became terrible about taking my camera around. I'm just happy these days when me and the girls leave the house with clothes on our bodies, shoes on our feet, and our hair brushed). Thankfully Devin has kept up the blog. Hooray for my fantastic husband.

Here are some pics from the last little bit.

V cheesing it up during a little cousin time with Rylee

We got this amazing hutch and made it a family activity to paint it. Cambry loved painting. Vienna was done after she got her finger tips frosted in blue.

Finished product after 2 layers of paint and "vintaged" on the edges.

We got to go see Margaret and Jessica play soccer

Goalie Jessica. 

Striker Margaret

Baby Gwenyth had her baby blessing in my parents back yard a couple weeks ago. Here's the priesthood

V with uncle Jordan and baby Gwenyth

We moved our girls into the same bedroom and they just party all night. They're getting better now that we made a bed chart for them that seems to help, but this was a common scene when they were first adjusting, cuddled up in the morning or afternoon with each other and their blankets watching Dora.

We went to the zoo with our friends the Reeses. Cameron insisted on holding Cambry's hand the whole time. Sometimes Cambry would let her.

Naturally, the statues were a bigger hit than the animals.

This polar bear is a great performer. He swims under water and pops out at the glass, letting the kids there cheer and/or wet their pants

My aunt Rose gave us a piano when we moved in, and we all love taking our turns playing it. Lots of times before bed, dinner, bath time, etc, Cambry will climb up on the bench and say to me, "Just a sec mom, I need to play a few songs first."

One night Devin was out late, and I took the girls to Liberty Park at dusk. Although I was somewhat afraid for our safety, this really was a great park, and the girls had so much fun.

Our New Place

At the end of July, we moved in this sweet duplex.

Around back is this nice carport. Our first time having our car covered. It's nice.

Behind the carport, we have our own little private backyard. Side Note: Sometimes, I find myself staring at that back corner and daydreaming about North Carolina. It's my little piece of NC.

From the carport, you enter into our kitchen.

That's right no dishwasher... we're surviving, just in case you were wondering.

Right next to the kitchen is our front/living room

The rest of our rooms are split between two levels.

A look back at the living room from the stairs.

The bathroom.

The Nursery/Office/Guest room... anybody want to come visit? We have great accommodations.

The master bedroom

Now, onto the downstairs. The toy room.

Off of the toy room is the laundry/HVAC room and the girls' room.

The Girls' room.

It really is a perfect place for us and a complete miracle that we found this place. The other unit was listed on Craigslist and was taken within 3 hours, but our unit was going to be vacated soon. So, we dibsed it before it could even be listed. Our neighbor in the other unit is a sweet Grandma who had just served in the Raleigh NC mission. We both moved from NC to this duplex. It also is close to two bus lines that go up to campus. I can't help, but feel that the Lord prepared this place especially for us. We are so grateful He did.

Pioneer Day

So, we totally forgot about this Utah holiday (even though we went to the float preview), Pioneer day, and didn't plan anything. However, we were able to salvage it by going up the canyon for tin foil dinners with the Beck and Greg.

The girls had a great time throwing rocks in the creek with Grandma.

They also loved exploring in the trees, finding rocks and little hide outs.

The food was delicious.