The Fire

On Thursday, a lawnmower near Eastlawn Cemetary hit a rock and let off some sparks which caused a huge forest fire on Provo's East Mountain bench. Because it's so hot and dry right now, it really spread up the mountain. Thankfully not into our neighborhood, although, it was pretty close!

You can see Mom and Dad's house in the picture.

Because the fire was so hot, it really started to spread up the mountain. Here is a plane spraying fire retardant chemicals to prevent the fire from coming to the houses.

Chucky Cheese

We've been struggling getting Daniel to sleep lately, so we made a sticker chart where Daniel could earn a trip to Chucky Cheese with a friend. It took him several weeks to finally go to sleep 3 nights in a row without a tantrum or a million excuses, but he finally earned his trip to Chucky Cheese. He was excited to have Cousin Barrett come along.

Aunt Carina and cousin Austin

Daniel had been dreaming for weeks about riding this big truck. Before we started the sticker chart, I walked him through Chucky Cheese and showed him all of the rides, so he would know what he was working towards.

The highlight for Nathan at Chucky Cheese was looking for plates with leftover pizza crusts from other patrons and digging in!

It was a great afternoon.

Cousin Claire's 1st Birthday Party

We had a great time at Cousin Claire's party. The water slide was a hit with the kids.

Crazy cousin Brooke. She's fearless and is a little acrobat!

Cousin Blake

Daniel had the time of his life on the water slide. He probably went down it 100 times!

Sherry's twins Kate and Noah (1 yr old)

Nate had a fun time getting in and out of the baby pool

Not so much fun on the waterslide. Nice try Paka!

Paka didn't know what he was getting himself into when he started sharing birthday cake with Nathan. He throughly LOVES to eat.

The birthday girl Claire

Aunt Linda made ladybug cupcakes

And, boy did Nate enjoy his!

Uncle Jason multi-tasking-- cooking while soothing cousin Jack

The party was a bit more geared towards little kids... but Brooke and Matt were good sports.

Uncle Dane

Uncle Dane came to visit!

A Visit to the Farm at Thanksgiving Point

Daniel was really excited at the idea of riding the ponies, but once he got on, he wasn't so sure he liked it!

They had the cutest little baby foal at the farm which Nate LOVED. Below he kept pointing to it and it was hard to pull him away. He really gets excited about animals.

Daniel had a lot of fun pretending that he was in jail

Slip n' Slide

Daniel had a great time on Mimi's slip n' slide

Utah has been having some really hot weather so this was the perfect way to spend the morning.

Cousin Barrett

Dave's 35th Birthday (June 11th)

Dave opening his big present from Ashley

Clarks Sandals!

Daniel was a big helper

A Daddy Squeeze

Dave's little mini Coldstone cake