State Fair

We went to the State Fair up in Salt Lake with Mike last week. It was a blast! I'm so glad we decided to go.  I love seeing the girls so happy and excited! 

I was going to say their favorite part was seeing all the animals, but they really loved going on the rides too. I think they just loved the whole night. 

We were all hungry when we first got there so we found some food before we did anything else. 

These girls love their corn on the cob.

We walked around looking at all the animals next. 

This white goat at the top of this picture was chewing on that lady's bag. It was kinda funny.

Morley wasn't scared at all of any of the animals, sticking her hands in all of the cages to pet them, while Wrigley was a little more nervous. Especially when we got to the sheep, who were making a lot of noise. There wasn't a chance she was going anywhere near those things. 

We took the girls on some rides after that. And Mike paid for them to go on a pony ride. I thought they would love that because they love the horse down the street so so much. Morley thought it was pretty great but Wrigley wanted to get off as soon as I put her on. I had to hold her on the pony the whole time. Morley sat on there all by herself (with Jeff walking next to her) the whole time and smiled and waved at everyone :) 

We didn't get many good pictures of the girls on any of the rides but they had so much fun. It's really the first time they have been on "rides" that they are old enough to enjoy and it was so fun to see how much they did enjoy it. It was hard to get them off some of the rides.

Jeff & I also took them down the big slide and as soon as we got to the bottom they wanted to go again. So we went down a few times.

 They also got to jump in the little kids jump house. Didn't think we were ever going to be able to get them out of that!
What a fun night!

Family Pictures 2012

We had our family pictures taken yesterday at Thanksgiving Point. We had them done by Fotofly & I am very happy with how they turned out.

I am saving my favorites to use for our Christmas card this year so here are my second favorites ;)

(Wrigley is in the denim skirt & Morley has the fur vest on.)

I really liked our photographer. She was so great with the girls. She took a few minutes before we started to talk to them & play with them to make them feel comfortable with her and it really helped. The girls did so much better than I expected. They have been so clingy to me lately so I was afraid it might be a disaster. But they did so well & I think we got some really great shots. 

Lake Powell

Oh Lake Powell.

My aunt & uncle have a timeshare on a houseboat at Lake Powell. They get 2 or 3 weeks a year & have invited my family to go quite a few times. For one reason or another, I have never been able to go the week they have had it. 

After years of hearing how incredibly fun Lake Powell is, we were finally able to go for a few days at the beginning of September. And I must say, it didn't live up to my expectations. Yes, it was still fun but also hard with two 1 year olds. There's not much for them to do on a houseboat/boat for 3 days. We had to keep them in our sight at all times so they didn't end up at the bottom of the lake. It was more work than it was a vacation. And the girls did not sleep well at all the entire time!! I felt awful for everyone else who had to listen to them cry all hours of the night. By the time we left to go home, we were all completely exhausted. 

But here is some proof that we really did have a lot of fun.

My favorite part of the trip was first thing in the morning. Everything was quiet and peaceful and there were ducks swimming all around the houseboats. That was probably the girls' favorite part too....feeding the ducks every morning. 

I just don't know if the girls could have gotten any dirtier while we were there. 

Just layers of dirty.

One day my dad was scraping off the grill to make hamburgers for dinner & didn't realize Morley was standing right next to him. She was covered. Ha. It was funny.

We discovered Wrigley's love for playing cards. This kept her entertained for quite a while. And surprisingly, she was very gentle & didn't bend any of them.

We thought the girls would enjoy going for a swim out behind the houseboat but they didn't. They can't hold themselves up in their life jackets yet so we had to hold them. They don't enjoy being held in one spot for more than like 3 seconds, so that didn't last long. 

Have I mentioned that Morley climbs. Everything. 

(And yes, they spent most of their time in just diapers. It was SO hot.)

I really enjoyed our boat ride through the canyons. Gorgeous. 

The girls slept almost the whole time. That was really the only time they slept...on boat rides. 

My siblings & cousins tube a little different than most people...

They start with 5 people on the 2 tubes and then jump back & forth between them & try to knock each other off until there is one winner. 

The two wave runners follow behind the boat & pick up the people who have fallen off. 

I didn't get a chance to be on a tube but I was on one of the wave runners picking people up. I was totally okay with that. I love wave runners. 

I love that my mom wakeboards. She's awesome!

This was probably 30 seconds into our drive home. 

See? Exhausted. 

Maybe next year the girls will enjoy it more. 

(If we're invited again.)