Jamie's Visit

At the end of July, after Girls Camp was over, Jamie Fox came to visit us. Jamie and her family have been great friends to us and we miss them a ton. We were neighbors back in Maitland, Florida.

Here are some of the highlights of Jamie's visit.

Jamie got to see Christian for the first time

Visited Temple Square and downtown Salt Lake City

Her favorite- 4 wheeling all over the mountain

Petting a "wild" baby elk

Paddling Boating and fishing

Lots of braids- a classic Camp Jackson hair-do

Dinosaur museum in Blanding with lots of grandkids and Gma Marcia

World's Mostest Candy Throwin' Parade in Monticello

Wilson Arch outside of Moab


Most disgusting national Park ever- The Great Salt Lake
Catching brine shrimp and their eggs. We ended up having 17 hatch.

Huge Buffalo

To end it in a high note Jamie went with us to tour the Oquirrh Utah Temple during the Open house.

We had a great time with you Jamie! Thanks for sharing her Bruce and Francine!!

Christian: Four Months Old

Just started eating rice cereal
Dad and naughty aunts have already fed him way too much ice cream

Trying to eat everything... including his family

Christian likes to be propped up to play with toys

How many candles can you fit on a small cake?

Thirty one!! Thanks for a wonderful birthday honey!

For those of you looking closely...my honey was behind the camera. Daniel was the only one....to light that many candles in a small area.

Summer Swimming

Looking back over the summer the most popular activity for all was swimming.
We love the rec center, formally known as the "Bubble!

Briggy

Mac & Amy

Lindsay & Katelyn

A bunch of goof nuts

Tyler & Jamie

Briggy's fav yellow slide

The pirate pool

Ogden's Train Depot

Went up to Ogden to see the Disney Train promoting the new movie "A Christmas Carol" with Jim Carey.



We watched the trailer for this new movie and Katelyn and Amy both said they didn't want to see it. It was pretty scary with all the ghosts and being 3-D. I would highly recommend it for adults though.


Briggy is obsessed with Choo Choos right now. We had a great time.

Biking Park City

We packed up the trailer with our bikes and headed up to Park City to ride around and see the fireworks at The Canyons.


Stopped for a treat at Cold Stone

Yes!! He is feeding our 2 month old ice cream. I fought him on the first three kids, but have now just given up.
No wonder why they all have sweet tooths.

We couldn't have asked for better weather. It was a beautiful day!


Now there are no more pictures of our adventures because our camera ran out of battery. A month or so ago I dropped my brand new camera and the LCD screen broke so I can't see anything of what I have taken or see if the battery needs to be charged. I took some pics with my camera phone, but can't figure how to get them off.

We ended up not staying for the fireworks at The Canyons. We headed down to Provo and got hotel there. The Freedom Festival was going on and there was lots to see and Los Hermanos was yummy. Then we went to 4th of July parade there in downtown Provo.

We biked around BYU's campus to look at how much had changed. Mike took some kids so the baby and I could take a nap at Kiwanis Park after lunch. I must have said a dozen times that I was so glad to be in Utah. The weather was beautiful.
We drove around PG and looked at our old house and the temple. We headed over to visit Jay and Ada and they fed us a yummy BBQ.

The girls and I went to Stadium of Fire featuring Jonas Bros and She Daisy. We screamed and screamed. Mike and the boys rode their bikes around and did some fireworks. The concert and fireworks were amazing. It was cloudy and cool when the concert began. During the opening prayer the man giving the invocation asked that the elements would cooperate so that we could celebrate our Nation's birth. As soon as he said that that big heavy cloud stopped moving over us and pretty much dissipated. Katelyn noticed what was going on and said,

"Mom look. Heavenly Father stopped that cloud. I am sure He wants to see the fireworks too. I am sure He can see the fireworks from heaven."

It was a spectacular show and 4th of July!

Missing a ....

tooth!!! Amy lost one of her front teeth while eating some yummy summer corn on the cob.

Touring the Conference Center

Mike's home teaching companion gives tours of the Conference Center during the week and suggested we head on down for a tour... so we did last Sunday after our Sabbath naps. The building is an engineering phenomenon and, of course, we were paying special attention to all the finish carpentry. Amazing! The artwork is awesome. Everything was awesome. A great Sunday activity.
Tyler on one of the fountains on the conference center roof.

Then afterwards we went over to look back at the conference center from Mike's office and get some pop and snacks.He has an awesome view of temple square.

Christian: Two Months Old

Much more head control this month and lots of SMILING!!

We love this little guy