Charlie's family is in town

Mackenzie's little sister got married last weekend in California, and had a reception here on Saturday, so Charlie's family came to SLC for a quick trip.

They stayed at our house, so I invited Libbie to come for a sleepover.  She has adored Keelie ever since the first time she met her.   She named two of her dolls Keelie.  They had fun helping make cookies, don't forget to level the flour.

Then roll them into balls

Sooooo yummy with a glass of milk!

Saturday morning, I made cinnamon rolls and invited the family over to get to visit with Charlie and his family.

Jeff and the girls had fun jumping on the trampoline!

The kids LOVE the swingset

Callum liked climbing to the top and playing

Aida 

Katie

 Keelie

Libbie and Keelie

  Callum, head first!

Taylor, feet first

Callum and Katie

Our 2 two year old boys playing with cars

Taylor and his dad

Taylor pulling Callum in the wagon 

Gabbie 

Lots of visiting

Lani and Jen

Me and Mike

Josh and Merijane

Callum and Charlie

Mom and Paige

Devin and Lani

Kathy and Carissa

It was fun to get to see everyone!

Pioneer Day 2013

Today is Pioneer Day!

We decided to celebrate by going swimming at Grandma Cline's pool.

 Gabbie loves the water

  The 3 baby girls and their moms

The big girls are getting to be pretty good little swimmers

All 9 of our granddaughters and their moms, (and me)

Here's the life guards who kept us safe!

Jamie and Matt joined the girls, Josh was home studying, but joined us for lunch after.

It is such a nice pool, and we were the only ones there, thanks Grandma for letting us come!

A weekend with Molly, Abbie and Kelsi

This weekend Jamie and Emily were in California, so we got to have their darling girls for a sleepover.  

They went to church with us and Kelsi won everyone's heart.  She was so nice and said hi to everyone she saw.

They didn't get to go to the zoo with us a few weeks ago when we went, so I took them on Saturday.  We saw our friend the peacock, he was wandering around last time we went too.

Molly really wanted to see him spread his feathers, and asked me how to talk to the peacock.  I told her to just make some squealing noises, so she did and he spread his feathers, we were pretty excited.

We headed off to see the elephants.

Here's Zuri and her grandma

A little better picture of them

We went to the bird show

The polar bear was very active.  We saw him swimming and running around.

Here they are on the polar bear

Most of the animals were easy to spot today.  Sometimes they are hiding in their amazing habitats.

The leopards were snoozing

but the tiger was wide awake. 

Playing with the cats

We loved seeing the giraffes.

Molly's favorite was the polar bear, so that's what she wanted to ride on.

Abbie chose the zebra.

Kelsi was very tired.

 These monkeys looked like skunks.

The zoo has come a long way in the last few years, and they are still doing lots of improvements!