End of July 2013

Christian was employing his chef skillz again on the 20th with some tie-dye colored pancakes.

Later that day I caught Skittles snoozing.

 

On the 22nd, we enjoyed produce from our garden and from Day Farm. Our pico de gallo included sunsugar & sweet 100 cherry tomatoes, Roma tomatoes, green onion and jalapeños from our garden and only cilantro and kosher salt from the store. The zucchini bread had lots of garden zucchini, and we enjoyed fresh beans and peaches from the farm. Faith made deviled eggs, just for good measure :)

I was cleaning out my dresser and realized that I never got a picture of my 2012 Mother's Day gift that Christian made me at Miss Kelly's preschool. 

I love that the craft was supposed to be rolled construction paper rosebuds on top of straw stems, but Buddy got tired of making them after completing a few, so for the middle he just drew flowers on a bigger paper and taped on a bunch of staws. Priceless!

 

On the 22nd of July, Tony started his week off from work. We just relaxed that day, but on the 23rd we used a Christmas gift card to try out Buffalo Wild Wings. We tried six or seven flavors and loved them!

 

On Pioneer Day, the 24th, we started our two day Salt Lake Connect Passes. We usually do this with Joy's family, but she was a bit busy with her new bundle this year. (Haha, bundle of Joy)

We started the day at This is the Place. Tried out the olden day stilts,

inspected many animal pelts and got to guess what they were from,

and see lots of the houses and buildings which are normally closed when we are there.

We also panned for gold (still the favorite), 

visited with some children in traditional Native American dress inside a teepee,

bought some tonics from a traveling "pharmacist" (snake oil salesman), and collected the spoils from the candy cannon.

Next, we visited the zoo and saw the bird show.

Enjoyed all the animals and statuary :)

Then we drove up to Snowbird and rode the tram up the mountain.

 

The next day, we confused the departing time for the Frontrunner, and had to race it to Farmington after spending too much time grabbing breakfast from Carl's Jr!

We got off at the Thanksgiving Point stop and found that it was MUCH farther away from the Museum of Ancient Life than we thought. We didn't have much time, so we speed-walked over there in the heat. 

Had a fun, albeit short visit and especially liked this air tube in the science exhibit.

After grabbing a quick bite to go from the deli (of course Faith's favorite pasta), we jogged to the station and rode to the planetarium. We saw a neat 3D movie about Monarch butterfly migration and the kids were excited to eat nacho flavored freeze dried meal worms from the gift shop. They liked them!

We took Trax to Taffy Town,

then over to Temple Square. 

We ate at the Lion House and then saw a live star show at the planetarium where we learned about robotic exploration of space.

We were even the first ones to try out this brand new exhibit demonstrating tornadoes!

We had a little mix-up with the train times, so we blew some of our extra time riding on Trax. Buddy kept hanging off the hand straps :)

 

We spent the day at Boondocks on the 27th. We bowled, did laser tag, and played at the arcade. Tony even splurged on bowling pin slushies.

 

On Sunday the 28th, mom was showing us this picture of Eric & Joy from a trip years ago that Christian had loved when he was staying over. 

Mom said that when they had returned from this vacation and she was showing it to Grandpa Quinn he said, "Nice picture! Now remind me, which two are yours?"

That afternoon Faith finally got to hold Baby Evie <3

Silly times were had on July 29th.

 

And on the 31st both kids were in the middle of a week of swimming lessons. While watching Faith's, Christian had this fly guy "pet" who would keep landing on his hand and arm.

Beginning of July 2013

Here are our birdie "pets" on July 1st. We figured out that they're Western Kingbirds.

Two babies are gone, and these are about to fly away as well.

We've loved having them, but are tired of being attacked every time we exit our back door. We even had to move Skittles' tie-out leash  out front. The mom and daddy birds had two friends that they would call on for backup, and the four of them would dive bomb our heads in quick succession!

That evening we drove up to Park City to stay at the condo. It was soooo hot this trip! It was hard to sleep at night because it was so warm. But we had a lot of fun swimming,

joking around,

walking with grandpa to get a newspaper and candy from 7-11 & touring the fire station on the way back. They were loaded up with goodies on this trip!

Sierra & Lily came up with mom & dad and Joy (with her super pregno belly) and Brandt came up later.

We went to Ruby Tuesday's on the 3rd for my birthday dinner. Joy & Jordan gave me these rad glasses, an "over the hill" necklace,

and a set of stick-on mustaches with the note:

Love it!!!!!

That night, The Canyons had their firework display. We thought that all the pine trees would block the view from our condo, but went out front when we heard them start and felt like we had the best seats of all!

We had fun playing Catchphrase that night. The kids are getting to be pretty good guessers and Faith can play without help now.

The next day was Independence Day. Before leaving Park City, we stopped by the farmers' market. There was a little petting zoo where the kids loved on a baby llama and miniature horse foal.

We also bought some produce, rustic bread, earrings for Faith and a cap for Buddy which was embroidered with an eagle and flag.

Skittles was so happy to see us when we got home! We stopped by YogoTogo for a treat,

then headed over to Braeggers' for the family barbecue. I brought these fruit pizzas and snickers salad.

Tammy got glow sticks in addition to some firework fountains.

Tony brought some aerials, as well, and the kids did some sparklers.

On the 5th Buddy made this creation out of some extra wheat roll dough.

And that night we ate a delicious dinner of crab legs!

 

On the 6th we went to Salt Lake and did my birthday celebration dinner at Tucano's.

Buddy started swim lessons on the 9th. He loved it and did really well.

 

July 10th we got to see a Renaissance magician at the Autumn Glow Senior Center as part of the summer library program. 

 

On the 13th Buddy had cotton candy with his breakfast (again) at Golden Corral.

 

On the 14th I finally got to see baby Evelyn! She had been born via c-section and had to spend a day and a half in the NICU because she'd aspirated some fluid :(

 

The 15th was when Faith and I headed to Cedar City! First we dropped Christian and Skittles off to my mom & dad's.

We had a blast at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. The first day we tried on masks at the gift shop and saw the musical "Anything Goes."

 

 On the 16th we had a wonderful backstage tour given by Rhett--Peter from "Peter and the Starcatcher"!

We also had a fangirl moment when we ran into Brian Vaughn & asked for a picture.

We saw some great green shows and showed off our glitter nails :)

 

We saw "Love's Labours Lost" and marveled at the awesomeness and creativity of "Peter..." We had a fun day trip to St. George, complete with shopping at the outlet stores. On the 18th we turned for home and ate chicken pesto pasta at Thanksgiving Point (just like on our way there, at Faith's request). I introduced her to her first piece of Tiramisu, which was love at first bite!

Christian had been having all sorts of adventures with his grandparents. Riding the Frontrunner, dining again at Tucano's, going to the movies, visiting a splash pad, and the list goes on!

We brought him back a mask. We had a wonderful time, but all missed each other!!!

Soccer schedule

Because I am terrible at getting out the soccer schedule to all interested parties, I am posting this fall's on the blog!

8/31  Faith 10:30, Christian 12:30

9/7  Christian 2:00, Faith 2:15

9/14  Faith 10:30, Christian 2:00

9/21  Christian 12:00, Faith 1:00

9/28  Christian 11:00, Faith 11:45

10/12  Faith 11:45, Christian 1:30

Faith's games will be at Angel Street Soccer Complex, Brazil field.

Christian's games will be at Gailey Park, 200 Larkin Lane.