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Wednesday June 22

On Wednesday afternoon I went to Melissa's to have lunch and hang out. It was just like old times. Her sister Rachelle stopped by so I got to see her, too. Melissa and I have been best friends since high school and we can always find so much to talk about.

That evening we went to the Salt Lake Temple to do an endowment session and some family sealings with John's whole family. It was such a great experience to be there all together!

Thursday, June 23

On Thursday morning I went to breakfast at Jamba Juice with my brother's ex-girlfriend. We had a fun time catching up.

That afternoon we headed to the Utah Arts Festival, where we've been going every year since I've known John. We've always just gone as a couple without kids so this year it was a different experience. We parked our selves in the kid's section and partnered them up in twos to go around to the different craft booths.

Laine, Marshall, and Eve don their bird masks

Atticus shows me his creations

Coen, Marshall, Eve, Laine, and Sam play on the teeter totters

Cute little Violet found a snail to rock on

Laine, Andrew, and Marshall
I love Andrew's hat! Very creative!

After the Arts Festival I picked up my younger (14 year old) cousin, Erikka for a girls night. I nannied her and her brothers for a year when I was pregnant with Marshall. I used to pick her up from first grade, take her home and do homework, then either do her hair and get her ready for dance class, or do arts and crafts or play with her. She is a sweet girl and so fun to hang out with. We went and got some nail polish then headed back to her house to paint our nails and watch Pretty Little Liars online. So fun!

Friday, June 24

On Friday morning we headed over to Melissa's parent's pool along with about 20 of her closest friends. As soon as people started to clear out it was just me, Melissa, Heather, and Sage. The kids played while we laid out and chatted like old times. I sure miss those days.

In the afternoon we packed up some overnight bags and went up to Oakley, Utah to spend the night with the Bradley's at our sister-in-law's family cabin. The kids loved all the fun things there were to do outside! We even had a barn dance!! Then we roasted s'mores. Thanks for providing such a fun venue, Josh and Sarah!!

Andrew and Laine

Sarah, Kirsten, Violet, Mel, and Me

Coen is all about the crusty these days.

James had a blast using this stomp rocket

Sitting around singing and listening to Kate play guitar

Coen

Eve

Kate!!

Sam and Marshall jammin'

Sam, Simon, Atticus, and Marshall do the chicken dance

Swing your partner round and round

So much fun!

Cute little Atticus doing the chicken dance

Andrew and Jacob partner dancing

Violet was playing peek-a-boo with me

Laine roasting some marshmallows

Sam admiring his work

Andrew and Laine

John showing off his sweet break-dancing moves

Uncle Josh shows Eve the best spot to roast a marshmallow

Enjoying the fruit of their marshmallow-roasting-labors:

Laine

Sam goes for a double-decker with Reeses cups - YUMMM!

Eve and James

Jacob has some walrus mouth going on with his marshmallow

Saturday, June 25

After cleaning up the cabin we headed to the Rec Center in Kamas to play and have some fun.

My nephew, James, coming out of the kid water slide

Coen practiced his fish moves

James and Coen played on here forever

John

My nephew, Jacob, shows off his Superman Dive

Dad and Marshall

James and Coen had so much fun together!

Daddy and Coen

Marshall shooting out of the waterslide.


After the pool we headed to a quaint, yet very popular drugstore that still has a little diner inside. There were not enough seats inside, so we ate outside on the benches like people used to in the olden days. ;-)

James and Violet, Atticus, Laine, little James, Kate, Coen, Eve, and Marshall

Coen takes a dainty bite.

Marshall is in bubble gum ice cream heaven.

Atticus polished off his cone in no time!

James is doing a really good job eating this big bowl all by himself.

Laine went for the double-decker