Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Summer Fun For June

This Summer has been so busy and fun. I wanted to be able to do something fun with Tanner and Violet besides just cleaning the house and working in the yard. It got really busy too. This is some of the fun stuff we did as a family in June.
 Going to church together as a family. Some Sundays were easier than others. Tanner doesn't always like to go to class he still wants to just be by his dad and Violet she just likes to be held. But she does better when she can fall a sleep in her bed. 
 We went several times to the Curiosity Museum. Tanner loves playing in the water. One Monday we went with Ben's family for FHE and another time we went with with Krisde's and Amber's family and many other times with just us. 
 Violet doesn't like playing in the water. 
 We also went with Grandma Bonnie to the Living Planet Aquarium. That was great. Tanner just went from one tank to another. I liked the sharks the best. It was kind of fun walking underneath them. 
Playing games with Grandma Bonnie
Surprising my dad by helping in the yard while he was out of town
Tanner made some caterpillars out of egg cartons
We also went to the Monte L. Bean Museum at BYU. It's amazing with all the animals they have. 


Dan's Grandpa Dee was put in the hospital so we went to visit him in Nephi. He was really glad to see us. 
Violet and Tanner doing some exercises with their dad. 
Celebrating Father's day. Violet and Tanner sure love their Dad. 

One of Dan's friends came to visit us so we went to the park to for a picnic and let the kids play on the toys. Tanner loves playing on the playground equipment.
I took Tanner on a date - just him and I. We went to Cabela's and played the shooting game and looked at the animals. Then we went to Johnny Rockets for some dinner. Tanner loved the mini hamburgers and the chocolate shake. 

We went several times to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point. This time we went with my friend Alicia and her kids Kaylee, Austin and Collin. 
Tanner had a great time at the Zoo. We saw the new Africa Animal exhibit and we rode the train and played in the water. Tanner had fun being with his cousins. 
Thanksgiving Point Dairy Days. It was great learning about cows, and riding the cow train. They ran out of ice cream other wise we could have made our own. But Tanner loves stopping at the restaurant and getting an ice cream cone. Yum! We did that almost everytime we went to Thanksgiving Point. 
Tanner and Violet after Dairy Days. It started to Rain so we ate our cones in the car. Violet loves doing things with her older brother. 
We didn't make it camping this year but we had a great time roasting hot dogs, giant Marshmallows, and starburst's at Grandma Jan's house in the back yard. We got all sugared up and smelled like campfire.  
Violet got to go to her first Lehi Parade. I am glad my mom went with me. It was fun. We also went to the Lehi boutiques at the park to see what kinds of things they were selling. We always like buying books. 
During Round up week  they had some specials at Hutchings Museum in Lehi. I hadn't been there since I was younger. It's changed a lot and seems to have more things in it. Tanner thought it was great to see all the fossils, rocks, and bugs. We even went to the reptile show on the front lawn. We got to see snakes, and lizards and a other reptiles. 

I didn't take pictures of everything that we did, but we really had a fun and busy June.