What happened in June

Summer, glorious summer. How I love you. My favorite thing about summer is how I think every morning that I'll get up early to work out, but then my bed is so comfy, and the kids can get themselves breakfast so they don't bug me in the morning and I just stay in bed until it's not early anymore. I love it and hate it, but obviously I love it more than I hate it since it happens every morning.

Anyhoot, here's a wee bit of what happened in June 2014.

The kids took their report cards to Krispy Kreme and each got a half dozen donuts for free. Pretty sweet! (I'm so punny! Snort snort!)

Nils was in Chicago for a week, so I determined to do something fun with the kids every day. By myself. Who da man?

We went to Temple Square, and the kids enjoyed it a lot more than I thought they would. It was fun to walk around the temple, and to be able to go up to it and touch it. The enjoyed the Visitors' Center, and we ate lunch at the JSM Building. They couldn't get over how fancy that building is, and I had to apologize to a lot of people and explain that we don't get out much. The kids were running around like maniacs, overcome by all the fanciness.

They loved going downtown. They sat on the curb outside Baskin Robbins while eating ice cream so they could people and car watch. They all said how much they liked walking around the big city. Poor little sheltered country kids. 

We did other stuff that week, like to go The Museum of Natural Curiosity. Normally a place like that, with all of its 3,000,000 daily visitors, is a place I would not enjoy. I decided to take one for the team, however, and we braved it. So. Crowded. I didn't take any good pictures, because I couldn't find my kids most of the time. Heh-heh. Yaaaay!

We discovered the Manila Pond in Pleasant Grove. Love it! We have been twice and will go more.

Aani is our one and only summer birthday kid, and she turned 7 in June. She wanted to hike the Y for her birthday activity. I managed to talk her out of that and we decided to go to Bridal Veil Falls instead. She couldn't think of anything she wanted to do that cost money. Bless her pea pickin' heart.

The Haul. Anders gave her all his Webkinz, so it looks like a lot more than it was. :)

Bridal Veil Falls trail.

I love this picture of the Flave.

I love this one, too. Even though I had to yell at them to pretend to be happy and like each other. All fake smiles.

She wanted Birthday Pudding Pie and Jell-O instead of birthday cake. 

 June was fun!