Hanging Out

Lola and I recently came to Denver to hang out and spend some time with Grammy and Bonka. We've enjoyed relaxing, going to the pool nearly everyday, playing with cousin Landon, meeting Grammy for lunches (with uncle Taylor too), going to car shows with Bonka on the weekend, visiting the Denver children's museum, playing at the water park, going to a Stevie Nicks! concert and many other fun activities! We sure miss Daddy and Brooklyn though and are excited to get home and see them soon. But for now, we're enjoying our time with family and the last few days (2 weeks really) of summer. Fall will be here before we know it! Here are a few pics of what we've been up to-- nothing too exciting just so you know:

Trying on Uncle Taylor's shoes

 Lola loves spending time with her closest-in-age cousin, Landon. They're only 8 months apart and now that they're a little older are really starting to enjoy playing together... for the most part. Lola has to do or have everything that Landon does and gets very jealous when the attention is on him and not her. But he has been very good to put up with her beastliness when he comes over :)

 Grocery shopping at the Children's Museum

 Playing at the water park

 Showing off her new 'trick' that her cousin Carter taught her a few weeks ago :)

JOURNEY Concert

We saw Journey, Foreigner and Night Ranger in concert this week. It was pretty awesome to say the least and we had such a great time! It was fun singing along to every song (except I didn't know Journey's new songs) and of course sneaking up to the front to get as close to them as possible! I'm so glad I can say that I have seen Journey live in concert. What an amazing experience! They truly are (classic rock) legends (minus Arnel- sorry but you're not Steve Perry). Thanks for taking me Babe- I loved it! 

 

Nothing Much

 We've had a pretty low key summer thus far. Lots of swimming, playing outside, and hanging at the park. Last month, Brooklyn had her first sleepover here at our house, with her friend, Kira. The girls were so excited to try and stay up until midnight but they only made it to 1030 and 11 :) A few weeks ago my brother, Taylor, came to stay for a few days. We went to Park City and rode the Alpine Slide and had a backyard camp out with our neighbors one night. Last weekend we went up to our family cabin in Bear Lake but in our hurry to get on the road I forgot my camera. So there are no pics of the girls at the lake or riding four wheelers this time. Hopefully next month will hold some better/more exciting activities for us (and pics for you)...

 

  

Lola still loves to be naked when playing outside. I figure as long as were in the backyard, who cares?! And she's a cute little naked monkey :)

Lola and Daddy pretending to be sleeping

 

Her hair is getting so long (just about to her shoulder blades)! It's time for another cut so we can finally give it some shape.

 

Fourth Of July Fun

We had a fun Fourth this year. We went to a breakfast that morning then to Park City for a parade and some festive activities and watched fireworks from the park next to our house that night.

Daddy and Lola at the parade

I've never made festive treats for the Fourth before so I tried my hand at 2 this year- Red, White and Blue cupcakes

and Red, White and Blue fruit pizza (which was super yummy and you can get the recipe from OurBestBites.com (btw)).

We found ourselves the perfect spot to watch fireworks and were able to see 2 sets going on at the same time plus a few smaller ones from around the valley as well. It was quite the show and we are excited to have found this awesome spot (that we plan to return to for many more years :)

Lola has a love/hate relationship with fireworks. She gets scared of them and covers her eyes (or her mouth like so) but she also can't take her eyes off of them! It was pretty funny to watch- she'd cover her eyes but then hurry and take her hands away to ooooh and ahhhh over them. I wonder how she'll feel about them next year?!

Happy Fourth to our friends and family! We hope you also had a great day celebrating :)

Summer Is Here!

Summer has finally arrived and is in full swing at our house! We are enjoying many a summer activity and are looking forward to many more fun filled weeks ahead of us!

What's summer without weekly BBQs?! Lola tried her first corn-on-the-cob the other day. And very much enjoyed it!

After that she ate (devoured) her first s'more! S'mores always make me think of the classic summer movie The Sandlot :)

Playing at the park

Being outdoors everyday means a few extra owies are sure to happen... Lola likes to be extra prepared and have band-aids already on (therefore protecting) all the places where she normally gets her owies. Knees... Check. Toes... Check :)

Sporting her super-stylish pink shades. I love her new smile she does for the camera. If you know Lola then you know that she has never been one to smile on demand. Ive spent the last year and half pleading with her to smile with her teethies and looking the fool trying to 'show' her how. And even though the really great smiles are still few in between, I'm more than thrilled that she'll even sometimes do it for me and will happily take what I can get!

There's been a few times during these last few weeks where Ive gone to see what Lola was up to and found her happily reading books to herself. She's quite the adorable little reader when she's sitting there relaxed with a pillow (or on the potty) and jabbering away to herself :)

Yesterday was hot so we turned on the sprinklers. I thought for sure Lola wouldn't be much interested in them but to my surprise, she loved them and ran through them for a good 30 minutes with the other kids!

Lola watching Brooklyn fill up her water gun. I love the hands on the knees. Too cute!

More swinging. This girl LOVES swings. Its the first thing she asks to do when she wakes up and every other minute in between (when she's not on one :)

"Look Momma! No hands!"

Hope you're all having terrific summers so far! More summer posts (than you probably care to view) to come!

Face Painting Fun

We ventured over to a family fun day at a local park last week. The girls were excited to find that they had bounce houses, games, crafts, wagon rides, balloons and face painting. And I was excited to find it was all free :) The girls had a great time and even though I had left my camera at home I was able to get these few cute pics of their faces done up with my phone.

Brooklyn chose to have her face painted as a cat. She is such an animal lover. And a very cute girl :)

Lola got a butterfly. I was very surprised that she let the woman paint her face. She didn't even protest or flinch during! It might have helped that she watched Sissy get it done first with no problem :)

Look who finally learned to smile when I say 'cheese' with the camera?! Even though its very select on her part its still a huge Hooray for me!