It's been a crazy month, and I haven't had time to write, and post any pictures of some of the things we have done before summer would come to an end. All to soon summer flies by, and then Jeff starts teaching again, and this year Tanner will go to preschool two days a week. It's not much, but it will be a good little break. Not necessarily for me (because I still have Tanner and Lexi), but for Tanner. So I'm going to sum up a few fun things we did in July and August. In the end of July Jeff and I took the kids to Downata Hot Springs up in Idaho. It was kind of a cool day for July. The sky was over casted,and it looked like it might rain. It was nice though because we weren't so hot, and there was hardly anyone there. At Downata there is a big pool with several different small slides that go into it. There is this little kiddie park which is awesome for our kids. In this picture Lexi and Nixon had a lot of fun playing around in there.
Then there is the big slide. Tanner had so much fun there at Downata this year because he loved the slides. He went on every slide, but he loved the big one the best. He was so proud because he could do it all by himself. Well, you have to do them by yourself because they won't let you go down the slides with an adult. However, he didn't need any help when he came out of the big slide though. Last year he went down it one time, and got flipped over on the first turn and I could see him coming out of the slide on his back head first. Jeff took Lexi up to go down the slide because she was winning, and said she wanted to go, knowing she would not like it, I let her go so she would stop winning. Sure enough she was flipped over on the first turn, and I saw her come out of the slide on her back and head first. Jeff was not far behind her and helped her out of the pool. She was not crying, but the look on her face was one of fright. Sure enough she did not want to go again. A few days later she said the slide was really fun. Go figure.
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A few weeks later in August we went to Bear Lake with the Barlow family and stayed in the condo. The first night we went to a park over in Bear Lake and had dinner, and let the kids play.
My mom had a parachute that the kids had a lot of fun playing games with it. They especially like the shark game. To play the shark game you sit around the parachute with your legs under the parachute. Someone is the shark under the parachute, and they go around and pull you under the parachute, and then you become a shark too and help pull the others under.
After the fun games the kids went on a treasure hunt. When they found the treasure all the kids got to pick a prize. Nixon got a toy tractor, Lexi got some play dough, and Tanner got a gun that
would blow bubbles.
The next day we went to the beach. The kids had fun playing in the sand. They sculpted a mermaid in the sand and had fun burying the kids in the sand. Tanner wanted to be a banana in the sand, as you can see from the picture. So the kids played in the sand, but nobody played in the water. It was fairly cold on the beach. It was really windy and not very warm. I remember wishing that I had a jacket. We played around for 2 or 3 hours, and then went back to the condo and swam in the pool.
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One day we went out to my parents house, and my dad took the kids out to the ditch over in Cornish to catch frogs. Well they came back with a lot of frogs. When it was time to go Tanner was so sad and he wanted to take some frogs home. We took around 5 frogs home in an ice cream bucket with the lid on. When we got home we put some water in a 5 gallon bucket and put the frogs in it, and put a towel over the top of it for the night. The next morning Tanner went outside to see the frogs. He took the towel off and then came in to get us so we could go see them too. It was probably about 5 minutes before we made it out, but the frogs were all gone. Tanner was so sad. Later I was watering the lawn, I was walking and one jumped right in front of me. I'm glad none of my neighbors we out because it completely shocked me and I screamed. The kids were so happy, and they had to show all the neighbors. That frog was dead by the next day. It was probably 2 or 3 days later we were in the yard talking to one of our neighbors and I looked down and I saw a frog. It probably wasn't even a minute later and Jeff found a frog too.
Lexi absolutely loved the frogs. I couldn't keep her away from them. She was a little rough with them though. A few times I had to save the frog from her tight grip around the frog. She asked me if I would take some pictures of her with the frog and we got a few silly pictures
We had these two frogs around for a few days and then Jeff And I let them go.
The kids fit in the backseat pretty good. We put in Nixon in his infant car seat and strapped it in. The other two kids were just a little bit squished with the car seat strapped in though. In the spring time I think Nixon will be a little more sturdy and he will just use the seat belt, and then I think all three kids will fit comfortably in the back seat.
When we got over to Bear Lake we had sandwiches and this little dump, but the sandwiches were super good. We ate outside on some picnic tables, and there was this tree that the kids had a ball climbing in it.
The ride home was great. Nixon slept almost the whole ride back. The kids loved switching rides, they would ride with grandma, grandpa, with us in the rhino, and also with Chad in his prowler. There was one bad thing that happened though. As we were driving Jeff started swapping at his leg, and then he started cursing. A bee had got up in his pants and stung him on his leg. It was a really fun day on our new toy!
