Drive in Movie

Yesterday we went to the Drive in movie!! It was a blast! I remember going to them as a kid, but hadn't been to one in a long time. They were showing "Brave" and "The Avengers" and we were excited! We arrived early and got front row parking so the kids could swing on the swings and play in the grass and sandbox. They also had this cool train that we got to ride!

At dusk one of the coolest things I've ever seen happened. The drive in is in the middle of fields, in the middle of nowhere, and there were fireflies like I have never seen before! We see a few around our house each night, but this was hundreds of fireflies! So so cool!!

 Please pardon my crazy fascination with the fireflies (and all my goofy comments) but you can see the fireflies pretty good in this video. We had people around us calling them lightning bugs...what? Don't they know they are fireflies? Or is that some crazy thing I've learned from Utah? 

It was a good evening/early morning (we got home around 2:30 am)! 

Bows and Arrows, Rocks, and Lagoon

(Getting the last of the Utah Pictures out of the way so I can post other stuff :))

Grandpa helped Liam and Emma make bows and arrows. They got pretty dang good at shooting them too. 

Fox got new glasses while we were there. They ended up in all sorts of cool places. (like Tom's face and the back of Fox's head)

Liam sold rocks. He made enough to buy an Avengers ball.

My mom excellently said she would watch my kids while I did a girls day with some awesome friends! We went to Lagoon. It was a blast!! Seriously one of the highlights of the trip. 

(Pay no attention to my crazy smile and crinkly nose...my friends look good in this one ;))

We made Chantal ride the Rocket all by herself...well we went on one with her, but when she wanted to do it (another one) again, she was on her own. That's just how good of friends we are. But I took a picture of her...and won a stuffed animal while she was plummeting to her dead.

Children's Garden

Another perk of being sil with Sophie- Fun at Thanksgiving Point Children's garden :) 

 Fox is stuck in his shirt (hehe)

Stevie decided that some of the kids needed to be thrown away. 

Oh stop it, you two!

The farm at Thanksgiving Point

We went to the farm at Thanksgiving point! And saw some animals! Yahoo! 

Emma had this thing where she was trying to make her hands like a horse or something? That's why we are posing with our hands like that :)

Memorial Day 2012- I yuv it

On Memorial Day (and other days) my parents pay to have a flag put up in their front yard. Fox thought that the flag blowing in the wind had to be the best game that anyone had come up with. He would chase after it, giggling, with arms outstretched as the wind whipped it out of his reach.

Occasionally he would catch it and hold on to it. 

Not knowing if this was unpatriotic or irreverent or something, I would ask him to let go.

To which he would reply by hugging it tight to his body and saying, "I yuv it."

I figured you can't get more patriotic then that so I would let him do it.

Until he got bored and would let go to chase it again.

 You gotta love the look of pure joy :)

btw- I did 3 more "Utah" post below. Check em out...if you want. If not, that's cool. 

And there are more to come...later.