8.22.2012

a birthday drive, hike and swim

for cory's birthday, we were lucky he had the day off work, so we decided to go on drive across the mountain from bountiful to farmington. it was a fun drive - much better than farmington canyon. that scares the pants off me. we ended up at farmington lake. who knew farmington had a lake?!? we saw a mama moose and her baby, skipped rocks in the lake and explored a bit. 

after we made it home, we had steak fajitas per cory's request, had ice cream sandwiches for his cake and then went swimming. it was a pretty fun day!

making birthday balloons for daddy. this was the first time we've done this and the kids loved it! they drew all over the balloons, the only drawback is you can't save them. we got detailed pics though.


view from one of our stops along the way.

exploring around the lake as far as we could go without spooking the mama moose.

farmington lake.


mabel's first jump off the diving board this year.


mabel couldn't wait to show cory the card she made him. had to show him the night before his bday.


birthday breakfast - cinnamon rolls.

hiking up bountiful peak.



the fam at the top.

mabel found this bug at the lake that we thought gpa packer should make fly fishing flies like it.


fajita dinner.


the pics are out of order. i'm just too lazy to fix them...

8.02.2012

july by instagram.

girls playing on the field after a baseball game.

yeah for free slurpees!

splash park with cousins.

begging for candy at the farmington parade.

picking apricots @ gpa packers. 
can you spot sneaky connor?

happy to be in mesquite, even in the rain.

watching the rain. waiting to swim.

mesquite early riser. 5:30am.

all the early risers @ 6am.

crazy hair day.

hunting for golfballs with dog and rc car in tow.

driving range on a cloudy mesquite morning.

our pet lizard.

exploring @ farmington pond.

lego building on the 24th of july.

playing at the neighborhood pool party.

connor's cannon ball.

daddy's kisses are the best.

7.26.2012

a summer of baseball.

it seems like all summer we've been to baseball practices, games and back. it was so much fun for connor and the boys. so precious to see little boys so passionate about baseball! needless to say, they finished the all-star season undefeated, farmington invitational champs and state champs! connor played most the season as the second baseman. he loved playing, getting to know new teammates, being in the parade {one of his favorite parts of all-stars}, and continues to love to slide whenever he can.

with his best bud, briggs.

state champs!

at the parade, ready to throw candy.

post-game treat. don't you love the glove in the back pocket.

sliding while coming in between innings.

practicing before one of the games.




this one cracks me up. check out their faces. after the game is over, all the players run the bases. usually turns into a dog pile at home cause everyone wants to slide.

waiting patiently in line for their trophies!




best coaches ever. thanks to them for all their time and hard work.

cory teaching connor about how the pros don't step on the white lines cause it's bad luck.

state champs!!