Taylorsville Dayzz parade

Out of order pic to rush and get candy. Ha ha. Always a rush for kids. 

Once again, it was time for Taylorsville Dayzz! Yeah! Adeline was VERY patriotic and picked out in great detail her outfit for the parade. Even though it's not really a Fourth of July parade, she still wanted to dress this way. 

First time we brought all chairs. 

And the parade is starting!

Liam got home from FSY at 730 am showered, and then changed and went to walk in the parade with the football team.

Yeah Liam!

Signing off to us!

It was a fun parade and the girls got TONS of candy. 
 

Adeline and gymnastics camp, Evelyn visits Draper and Oquirrh Mountain temples with a friend

Out of order pic of getting Menchie's frozen yogurt after 2 temple visits. Evelyn LOVED the cookies and cream one.

While Evelyn was at girls camp, Adeline did a gymnastics camp. It was a ninja style, so she only wore this leo the first day ha ha. Overall, she had fun, and it wasn't quite as learning new gymnastics skills as she thought, but she had fun. 

Met my parents for my Aunt Carol's graveside service and took a picture of my Grandma and Grandpa's headstone.

Adeline also used her free Menchies coupon from reflections. She just got pineapple and LOVED it.

Evelyn and I and her friend Anika went to the Draper and Oquiirh Mountain temples to do baptisms the last day of Adeline's gymnastics camp. We kept up our streak of when we walked in, we were the ONLY ones in the baptistry! It was crazy like that, even at those 2 temples. 

Draper definitely has some beautiful views. 

And how can you not GUSH at that castle house in the background. Every time I go up to the Draper temple I'm like WHO LIVES THERE?!?!?! It's a full on CASTLE!

Looking out over the valley. 

And the Oquirrh Mountain temple was really pretty too. They both really liked the fountain.

Proof I was there ha ha.

I love that I have been able to take Evelyn to so many different temples this summer. 
 

Evelyn's first year at Girls' Camp!

Out of order pic playing "swoop". 

Evelyn has been SO SO SO excited for girls' camp this year. It is her first year and it is a stake year. She has a lot of friends in the stake, and especially with the ward they shared a camp site with so she was pumped. 

This is when she got home and said she had a ton of fun but was glad to be home. I'm impressed our braids lasted for 4 days!

These are just all pictures the leaders sent of the camp so I don't know how to comment on these, but wanted to include them for Evelyn's looking back. 

There were 10ish girls from our ward who went which I thought was great!

Crafting.

Eating. 

Evelyn said she liked the lake the best. 

This must have been the bishop/testimony night. Yeah for great memories of girls' camp!
 

Hogle Zoo visit

Out of order pic in the new Wild Utah visit. They were doing enrichment for the snake inside. The kids got to draw on the windows. 

Recently, when Ryan was in Colorado for his reunion, I took the kids to the zoo. We haven't really been for a few years, ever since we haven't renewed our zoo pass due to kids getting older, in school, choosing other activities instead. It was a fun break. It was our first zoo visit in a LONG time on a Saturday. Here we are by the giraffes. 

There was a baby giraffe in the distance. 

Iconic lion statues. 

My kids look SO SO big compared to the gorilla now. I remember when the gorilla was HUGE compared to them :) 

Same here! Man my kids are getting big. 

Since we have visited a few years ago, they don't have elephants anymore at our zoo, which was kind of sad. They had some cool horses in this area now. 

But the elephant weight calculator is always fun still.

Had to go back to the playground for nostalgia purposes. 

And now it is NO big deal for any kid to climb up on top of the rocks ha ha. They are all mountain goats. 

Splash pad memories. Oh man. We relived a lot of memories on this visit.

And either this nest got WAY smaller than I remember or my kids are huge!

This was Adeline's favorite statue all when she was a toddler. She had to give it a hug. 

The sea lions are still so fun to see swimming around.

They had redone a lot of parts of the indoor exihibit by the sea lions.

Adeline's favorite polar bear. 

They had all these chalk artists doing drawings. They were SO amazing. 

Grandma's house, always a favorite, except now it's called cat corner. 

Yeah for fun memory walking at the zoo!