Year: 2009

My dad wanted to do something to spend time with our family, so he asked what there was to do in the area. I mentioned a couple things that I had heard of around here, but we don’t go anywhere, so I don’t know really what anything is. I mentioned that there is a zoo in Salt Lake City and that the kids had never been to the zoo. So after checking the internet for information and prices of different things, dad decided to take us to the zoo.

So we went to the zoo with my parents, and Jenny and her two kids, and with Debby, Wendy and Tiffany. The kids were just SO excited. Look at this big smile:

Check out the drinking fountain….Jeremy was afraid to put his head in it to take a drink at first. 😉

Dad was having a really good time taking the kids out.

It was such a fun day. There was a 2 day old baby giraffe that we only got a peek at. It was inside the giraffe house, and it poked it’s head outside to look around then it went back in. The kids also got their first taste of cotton candy. Later Jeremy asked me for “some more of that melting stuff”. Some of us got to ride the carousel, and Dinah cried when we took her off. And some of us got to ride the train, and Dinah cried when I took her off. 🙂 And By the time we left the zoo, we had walked around to see everything and were tired and hot and we were happy to be in the car and on the way home.

(There are more pictures in the photo gallery)

We went with my family to the Oquirrh Mountains Temple open house this morning. Kyle got permission to be late to work, so that he could come with us. And Debby spent the night with us so that she would be here in the morning to be able to get to the temple nice and early.

The temple was beautiful, and it was so nice to be there with the family. I think this picture of Dad with Dinah is just so precious:

Here is a shot of MOST of us that went:

(There are more pictures in the photo gallery)

We bought a swing set before Chloe was born, and it has just been hanging out in it’s box in the garage. Last weekend I insisted that we get it out to the backyard and start putting it together. (We didn’t buy a swing set to have it stay in it’s box!) We got the frame put up on the weekend, and hooked the swings onto it, but it got dark before we could finish the lawn swing. So last night we got the lawn swing finished and the glider put up. This morning while the kids were having fun on the swings I put the slide together and got it hooked up to the set all by myself, and my family arrived for a visit this afternoon. 🙂 Well after everyone napped Grandpa went outside to watch the kids having fun on the swing set, then he asked me for the instructions to put the teeter totter together. It was just so special to have him want to help on the swing set, I wanted to take a picture. But I didn’t find my camera until he was almost done, so this is the best (and only) shot I got:

After dad finished, Ethan walked out into the yard proclaiming “The swing set is complete!”