Summer Lovin'

Folks, we are lovin' this weather! We've been bouncing around all over the place doing fun things. . . like trying not to melt into a puddle or misplace one of our kids. It's been swell! :)

We kicked off the summer with Hogle Zoo and then hit up the Ogden Dinosaur Park {the next weekend; not the same day :)}. We stuffed in a random 4-hour road trip, a fishing trip, a family party at the park, and some tractor pulls in Nevada while we were at it.

Yeah, we're pretty wild. . . Kinda like ferocious wildebeests or sumthin'. {Are wildebeests even all that wild or ferocious?!}

*Ahem* Moving on.

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Here's some Hogle Zoo action:

Hannah's favorite-- the sea otter

He's a wee bit unsure about the whole thing, but happy to be along for the ride :)

We were able to see the elephants do some tricks, which was pretty freakin' awesome. Hannah was sure hypnotized :
















And what's a trip to the zoo without a sip from the 'ol drinking fountain?




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Ogden's Dinosaur Park was fun. . . well, as fun as a boiling hot day spent seeing rundown plastic dinosaurs in bushes can be :)

Hannah was SURE the dinosaur was going to eat her.

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We decided to hit up Payson Lakes for our first annual fishing trip. This was the first time Hannah was old enough to run around semi loosey-goosey. Well, I think it's hardwired into toddlers' html code to poke sticks into the mud because that was the very first thing she did.





I thought I was the best mom ever for remembering to pack everything AND the kitchen sink. . . until I realized I forgot the most important thing of all : Curtis' binkie.

Sweet mother of pearl.

What was I thinking?!?

Thankfully he handled it fairly well. . . thanks to being able to nurse and be cuddled the entire time. Little stinker! :)





Chuck no sooner had our lines in the water when I caught a big one! Unfortunately, it was a big canoe; not a fishy. Some not-so-smart folks decided that rowing their canoe 10 feet from a shoreline full of fishermen was a grand idea. . . and I was the lucky one that snagged the front of their boat! They got that untangled all right, but then my line caught the back of their boat. After they gave up trying to untangle it and started drifting aimlessly towards the middle of the lake, Chuck suggested that they paddle to shore so we could unhook our own line. They disappeared shortly thereafter. . . Probably to go cry in the trees and burn their canoe paddles.

Drama, drama, drama.




Fishing is hard work, okay?


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In order to reduce the chance of a photo-induced coma, I'm going to call it quits here. I'll post proof of the rest of our recent adventures in a couple of days after you've had time to recover. :)

Go out and enjoy the sunshine, my friends!