Last week Lyle & Jan came to visit for a couple of days. While they were here we decided to have a fire and make s'mores. I think the pictures say it all. (Except you might not be able to tell from the pictures that Jordan decided he didn't like s'mores because they were way too messy, and Josey enjoyed his Reeses Peanut Butter Cup s'more WAY too much.)
We've been enjoying a couple weeks of summer break so far, but the weather hasn't been much like summer. It won't stop raining! I really can't wait until the sun comes out. (At least it's not snowing like it did last year in June. I remember posting about it on this blog.) So what have we been up to?
Jordan "earned" his new bike. I had really been wanting to get him a bike this summer, but he had to earn $50 by being a good boy, $1 at a time. When he was naughty, he got a ticket and had to pay depending on the offense. The idea worked really well (meaning he exhibited REALLY good behavior) for about 3 days, and after that the novelty kind of wore off. But after about a month, he earned his bike.
We also hit another deer with our old brown car. Luckily, this was on our way shopping for a new car, but it was still disappointing, especially because it totaled our car and we got ripped off by the insurance company. (If you look closely at this picture, you can see the mirror hanging off. Josey wouldn't let me take a picture of the car with all of the deer poop splattered all over the side. He thought that was gross. Also another gross sidenote: when I tried opening my car door to inspect the damage, all of the icky deer hair flew in on me. And after suffering through that, my door wouldn't even open.) Anyways, when we found the new car we wanted (actually Lyle the car-hunter spotted it at the back of a dealership - exactly what we were looking for), we decided to get rid of our old red car too. I've had this car since my sophomore year at BYU, and it has served us well, but it's just not that safe anymore for Kemmerer driving in the winter. Luckily, it made the drive to Salt Lake just fine, and we got a little play money out of it.
So what did we do with our play money? We decided to blow most of it by spoiling the kids with a day of fun at Boondock's to kick off the summer (And once we have more than 2 kids, we will probably never return because this place is a money-sucking pit).
It didn't start off being too much fun for Jarrett, who was totally exhausted.
Jordan got to ride with his daddy on the bumper boats.
Jarrett managed to wake up for the giant playground. What kid wouldn't?
Me & Arielle took a ride on a roller-coaster simulator. I wanted to be excited and a little bit scared, I really did. But it wasn't even close to the real thing.
And while me & Arielle were having all the fun, Josey got to let the boys use all their tokens on the arcade games. He was not happy about this. He kept getting so annoyed because they would choose games that were way too hard for them (duh, they're 4 and 2) and lose in about 2 seconds. Oh well; they were still having fun. They probably would have had just as much fun pretending to play the games while Josey used all their tokens to have his own fun.
Here are a few more pics of what we've been up to:
Almost burning the house down with all of Josey's birthday candles.
Picking mommy flowers. (I just couldn't resist posting another picture of this cute little face.)
