.....and the Livin's Easy

We had a fantastic weekend! I didn't want to go back to work. Well, I never really want to go back to work, so nothing new or surprising there. We spent the 24th at my parents house, they have one of those over-sized above ground swimming pools. B stayed in the pool from 1 to 8 getting out only to pee and eat ice cream. We left my parents and Marcee picked up some fireworks that we set off at our house. Cody loved the sparklers until part of one fell on his leg then he wanted nothing to do with them, "hot, hot".



We took a drive up American Fork/Tibble Fork Canyons and spent the afternoon at Silver Lake Flats. We had a nice little picnic full of bugs and dirt, the kids loved it. The kids were all over the rocks. They loved climbing up the rocks and jumping off. The last picture in the series, b started to fall and was bringing her brother down with her. Luckily for them their dad has cat like reflexes and caught both of them before they hit the ground. Too bad no one got a picture of that.


We headed down to the lake. It's kinda bare right around the lake, its about twenty feet low, not unusual for Silver Lake Flats. No real shade right by the lake, lots of rocks and dirt. B kept asking why it was so dirty and where did all the rocks come from. We waded out into the lake a bit, would have gone swimming if we would have brought a towel, at least that was my excuse, it was cold. Cody fell face first into the water as he was trying to pick up a rock, he was upset more that he couldn't pick up the rock then he was that he feel into the water. I skipped rocks while T tried and the kids threw rocks into the lake and thought that it was the greatest thing ever.



B wanted to go hiking on the mountain, so we hiked up the trail. From the trailhead to the wilderness sign was 1/2 mile. We hiked up to the sign and back only carrying jonas. B could have hiked another mile and cody was right at his limit, wanting to be carried right as we got back to the car. Cody had to stop and look at everything. He stopped to look at flowers, bugs, horse crap, rocks and anything else to drive his dad nuts.



We then finished out the Alpine loop, stopping at the park in the mouth of Provo Canyon. That is a nice park other then the playground is week. The kids really enjoyed the drive and did really good in the car. Now cody is always asking about the mountains (that and fireworks) and b wants to go hiking. It's truly amazing how dirty they got in just a couple of hours. It was like we had been camping for a week.


Jonas is getting big. He's awake a bit more and starting to smile. He has lost some of his coloring but keeping his hair. His sister is a big help and loves to love him.