summer days

I feel like during summer all the days run together into a big hot mess and then all of a sudden summer is almost over! We've had fun lately making the most of it, with only enough time to pictures from my phone.

Caitlin has been playing with our fun neighborhood kids a lot. They are so cute with her. We have a bunch of kids that live in the court across from us and everyone just goes from one house to another and plays outside. Its so fun... I love where we live. The kids just come knock on the door and ask if Caitlin can play and then off she goes happy as a clam. The other day we had 6-8 kids playing in our backyard and then came inside for cookies and watching Lion King and I loved it. Another day they all came over and painted Caitlin's toenails and fingernails in our front lawn. Another night she went out in her frog Jammie's to play and cute little Maddie saw her jammies and was so excited because she had the same ones so she had to go change into them right away and be twins with her. Caitlin just adores all of them.

 Tuesday (8.7) we went to the Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point with some of the Young Women from church. Caitlin loved hanging out with all her favorite babysitters and going around looking at the interesting animals. I definitely need to brush up on my dinosaur knowledge before my kids get older. It was a fun activity.

Wednesday (8.8) we decided to head back to Thanksgiving Point and went to the petting zoo with Cassie. Caitlin liked looking at the cows and horses and touching the goats through the fence. She also took her very first pony ride and LOVED it. She wasn't scared at all and go right up on her little tiny pony and held on to the saddle the whole time. Cassie walked along side while Nolan and I watched from outside the fence. Caitlin was so happy and just walked along and a few times would look down and pat her little horse. When the stopped and it was time to get off she didn't want to but then she nicely said bye bye to her horsey. A couple of the horses made that like huffing/breathing sound that they make and it scared her a little then i told her to say "bless you" because they were just sneezing and so she started saying bless you to every horse and she thought it was the funniest thing. Afterward she kept talking about her "wide" on the horse and that she told them "bessuu".

   

A few more things that we are pretty serious about this summer:

 #1: Dress ups. #2: watching the Olympics #3: our bucketload of tomatoes we are getting from our garden #4: Our little climber dominates the jungle gym. All by herself.

And Nolan is just cute.