Lagoon

This year for Labor Day, Studies Weekly had their summer party at Lagoon!  The kids LOVED it - we had such a fun day! They were so brave and went on all of the rides, we were so impressed!

The Romans decided to come that day with us, it was fun to hang out together there!

Kris was thrilled to get to ride the Sky Coaster for the first time

City Creek

We checked out the new City Creek shopping center across from the Salt Lake Temple.  We had a fun night with LauraLee. 

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We ran into Rodger and Claudia Sorenson - family friends from long ago!

Thor and Lokey

The Romans got two new kittens - recently after The Avengers movie came out.  

The kids love playing with them!

No Soup for You!

In July we went to an Orem Owlz game and met the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld!  He signed autographs, served soup, and we even got video footage of him sternly yelling "No soup for you, Cole!"  He was such a nice guy and we had fun meeting him.  It was also free ladle night at the game so we all got ladles.  Good times!

This is the Place

In August we took a little trip up to This is the Place park in Salt Lake. We had driven up to see the memorial statues before, but never actually gone into the park.  Wow have we been missing out!  We had such a fun time! 

The animals at the petting zoo were so much fun! This goat would not leave Claire alone! He followed her all over and really loved her shoes!

We went on a trolley ride, panned for gold, learned about Native American culture, made crafts...we loved just walking around and seeing the fun replica they built of what Salt Lake looked like when the pioneers arrived

Happy Birthday Cole!

Cole is 9 years old!  I can't believe how fast time goes...it doesn't seem like that long ago that we brought him home to our condo in Orem as a brand new baby and tried to figured out the whole parenting thing.  Wow, has he taught us A LOT!  We love Cole so much and couldn't be more proud!  On Saturday we went up to Aspen Grove with all of the Gillespie family.  He had Ryan Kelly come along and we had a pre-birthday celebration up there.  Today he wanted to take glazed doughnuts to school for his treat - they couldn't be anything else.  When I took them in all of the kids were chanting and cheering - it was awesome!  After school I made dinner of Cole's choice - homemade cheeseburgers!  We also bad blue (BYU) jello, strawberries, fries, endame and for dessert I surprised him with a Texas doughnut! The kids were so funny with them - they were huge!  After dessert and presents we went to see the new Amazing Spiderman in 3D.  What a fun day - we love you Cole!

Girls At The Game

The girls love coming to watch their brothers for a different reason - the playground!

Ali and Claire walking to the slides - I LOVE this picture!

 And the snacks!

Josh even shared his Oreos with them!

 When we got home we stripped Claire down because she got so wet on the field.  I was laughing so hard at her in her diaper and pink shoes!  She wanted to play DS like the big kids and vacuum! Such a cutie!!!

Are You Ready For Some Football?

This year Cole and Josh are playing flag football.  They practice each week and their games are on Saturday  morning at the sports park right next to their school - about two blocks away from our house, which we love!!

This week they both of their teams won!

Josh is a Running Back on the Cleveland Browns.

 This past game Josh ran in an extra point as well as a full field touchdown! We are so proud!

His Coaches are Mike Pizzi and Dad!

Cole is playing Quarterback for the Jets!

Set, Hike!

 

His Coach calls his arm "The Cannon".  He throws a perfect spiral with amazing aim!

 

11th Anniversary

In August we celebrated our 11th Anniversary.  The kids stayed at the Horton's for a couple of nights and we had a blast! We went out to eat, went shopping, shot guns at Orem Rec Gun Range, Finished season 2 of The Walking Dead, went to City Creek and went to see Wicked!  I was so excited that we decided to get tickets and we absolutely loved it! 

It is wonderful being married to your best friend!