Summer Part 4

 Having some fun brushing teeth...

 Max likes giving kisses

 Elora sets up her toys in funny configurations all the time. Here she wanted to make sure everyone had a good seat while watching a movie.

 During the summer, I loved that we could go to temple square during the day on a weekday with Travis. We just spent the day there, and it was awesome! We went there a few times actually.

Here's the inside of the Conference center. That place is HUGE!

 On the roof of the conference center. This was the first time I'd ever been on the roof, it was so cool!

 Then we took some fun pictures at the reflection pond. I love the temple!

 Me in my fatter days... I really have to show you my before and after photos... I have lost 33 lbs! :)

 Our eternal family...

 Then we went in the Church History museum...

 And they had this really cool children's exhibit with lots of fun activities. Here's Elora with her angel dress-ups on and a "stained glass" picture she drew.

 This is the build a temple with blocks exhibit...

 And of course during the summer, we got to do a lot of swimming!! It was really nice that our apartments had a swimming pool. Oh, and it was so awesome to see Max's progression in swimming... He went from watching us on the side of the pool, not wanting to get in, to me forcing him in and holding on to him tightly while he struggled and we had to distract him with pool toys to throw, to holding him and he's ok, to forcing his life jacket on, to him swimming freely with his life jacket, to finally him wanting to take the life jacket off and swimming with the noodle and jumping in to Daddy and having a grand ol' time at the pool! All in one summer!

 Elora loved her life jacket and swimming the whole summer!

 We loved having Daddy home to swim with us!

Ballet Recital

Elora just had her very first dance recital last weekend, and I wanted to share the video. She was so excited to get out on stage, she just could not hold still! I love you Elora, keep on dancing through life!

Summer Part Three...

Well since this is my journal and scrapbook, and will print it all out into a blog book, I can't just skip over the summer! So here goes...

Elora and Max LOVE to paint and have been doing it a lot this summer. Elora especially loves any kind of art activities... (Wonder where she got that from?) But yeah, she frequently (multiple times everyday!) gets out paper and crayons by herself to draw to her heart's content!

 Here is Travis watching one of the USA world cup games, he was just a little excited/nervous. I swear he watched almost every single world cup soccer game, I got quite sick of it...

 One week in June, Grandma and Grandpa Gough came up to visit. We went out to dinner at Golden Corral and there was a balloon maker there, he made some really cool hats for the kids.

 Elora wouldn't pose for a picture with hers on, so Daddy did it...

 There was a discount day for teachers at Lagoon in June, so Travis and I went on an awesome date! So here's Travis riding the Samurai which I would NOT ride... ) I get sick on the spinnie-round-in circle rides...

 Ugh... looking at this picture just makes me sick to my stomach... he went round and round and in every which direction...

 Riding the merry go ride... He looks like a little kid...

 Trying on hats at the gift store... Nice hair...

 We brought home prizes for the kids, they were just a little bit excited...

 (Ignore the clothes in the background...)

 One day we decided to hike up Ensign Peak, I had never been there before, and it's really a nice small hike.

 I swear we had to stop every ten steps, because the kids would say that they're tired and the needed a drink... It was slow-going, but still fun!

 LOVE the views of the Salt Lake Valley...

 After Ensign Peak that day, we decided to head right over to This is the Place monument and have lunch, and just enjoy the monument...

 For Father's Day, the kids got Travis a Mater-fishing game, and little green men. They had so much fun with them!

Did I say that I loved having Travis home for the summer? We got to do so many fun things! Looking forward to next summer where we'll have so many other new adventures! But of course, we are enjoying the adventures of Fall and Halloween activities right now... I LOVE this time of year!