Our next activity was a trip to the Living Planet Aquarium. This is new to SLC so we hadn’t been here before. The girls loved looking at all of the sea life. The coolest part was being able to pet the sting rays, star fish, and other sea creatures. Unfortunately I was so busy helping the kids I didn’t get any pictures of them petting them, but I got some other cool pictures around the aquarium…
Here are my girls with their cousins Brianna and Megan. Brooklyn, Natalee, and Gentry came along too with their Mommies Janette and Robyn.
This is one of those times when you think you can get a cute pictures, but the kids just don’t cooperate all at the same time, so this is the best one I got.
Rylee loved playing peek-a-boo in the caves.
I thought the least exciting part was the section on Utah sea-life. You can only look at so much trout and brine shrimp. I was actually amazed they found so many different fish to put in that area. But the kids really enjoyed the simulated boating on the Great Salt Lake. 
July 30, 2008
The Living Planet Aquarium
July 29, 2008
Discovery Gateway
yesterday we wanted to do something fun with Craig’s family that wasn’t out in the hot son. So, me and the girls went to the Discovery Gateway children’s museum with Grandma Wales, Aunt Margaret and her grandbaby Carter, Aunt Tammy, and Nathan. We had a great time and the girls got spoiled by their aunts once again!
They have a lot of fun things at the museum that the kids enjoyed, like th balls you can drop into all different sorts of places. they especially liked the shoot that sucked the balls up.
Here is our niece’s little boy Carter having fun making music…
Rylee loved playing in the kid-sized grocery store. She bought a LOT of milk.
She also really liked the pretend horse. So did Jaycee. they spent a lot of time climbing up and down from the horse and feeding it hay.
Jaycee liked the helicopter, but Rylee didn’t want to get in.
We had a great time with the fam. Thanks for taking us all Grandma Wales!
Sister Retreat 2008
The next day we continued the “pageant” by showing off our unusual talents… then we headed to the park for other strange competition events, such as seeing how far you can walk with a book on your head - which turned into doing jumping jacks with a book on your head, and racing accross tires, and more…
And Kelsie was our winner! Way to go Kelsie. Juli and Janette were attendants…
(by the way, never ask Juli to gather some foilage for a bouquet… she practically killed the tree.. haha! )Pioneer Day
on Pioneer Day I was too tired to get up for the parade… Rylee is really freaked out here and will not leave my hip! So, instead we just hung out at the house, played in the kiddy-pool, and then went to Craig’s sister Tammy’s house for a family cook-out.
(this is a bad picture, but I had a hard time taking any with Rylee being so demanding)
Uncle Dave taught Rylee how to get her own drinks from the cooler. I had to keep stopping her from getting more cups to fill up { thanks Dave 
}… after a while Rylee decided it would be a great idea to put the juice on top of her cookie! She would pour a little juice on top and then lick it off. What a goof!
After dinner we came inside to watch some old family movies Tammy had made of the past few Christmases and her daughter Emily singing (and she is amazing by the way). Jaycee and Rylee liked seeing themselves as babies in them and they went crazy when they saw daddy on the TV! They miss their daddy SOOOO much!
Then Jaycee and her little second-cousin Jayden peformed for us all…
It was a fun night!
Visiting Cousins
Here is Jaycee with Brianna. These two are only 10 days apart in age and they are best buds. It is so fun watching them together.
Here is my niece Alli with her little baby Peyton.
This is Rylee with Lani.
Here is Rylee and her cousin Gentry eating back at my parents house…
The little girls had so much fun playing together at G-ma and G-pa’s house. Jaycee and Brianna had to be with each other every second. At one point Jaycee crawled up onto Grandpa’s lap and fell asleep and Brianna was heartbroken. She kept asking “when will Jaycee wake up?” She was so excited when she finally did. Rylee loved playing with Brooklyn and Peyton.
July 21, 2008
On Our Way…
Well, me & the Girls are off to good ol’ Utah! We had a fun time packing today… 
the girls thought the suitcases were very exciting….
Rylee even thought it was a good location to take a rest…
And despite the power going on and off all day long making it VERY difficult to do laundry, I was able to get us all packed by 4:00!
July 19, 2008
A Wonderful Saturday
Today we wanted to spend time together as a family before us girls head off to Utah for 2 whole weeks! We first went to visit the temple grounds, the girls in their white dresses. Unfortunately we couldn’t get too many good pictures because they were doing construction on the exterior of the building and all you could see was ladders and construction workers!
There is just something about seeing my girls together in their white dresses…
Jaycee loves going to the Temple and she talks about it all the time. She loves her Temple dress and her Temple bracelet she got when our family was sealed.
Next was a stop at none other than…
I swear the girls could stay at Krispy Kreme all day! They LOVE watching the doughnuts being made. 
And of course they love eating them too!
I’m glad we got to spend time with “daddy” today because we are all going to miss him SOOO much! I’m really wondering what I was thinking planning a trip for two weeks without Craig. Don’t get me wrong, it will be nice to see all of ya’ll there in Utah, but I am going to miss my hubby so much!!! And I know my girls will too! They are crazy about him.
July 15, 2008
Swim Lessons… 2 days down, 3 to go
I think it helped that her friends Levi and Mira are having lessons with her too. And her teacher Angelyn is awesome!!!
July 13, 2008
July 10, 2008
Fun at the Park
The other day I took the girls to the park. It had been a little while because I really cannot stand the heat, and I’ve been working in the mornings, so it’s been harder to find the time. here are some cute pictures of the girls having fun together. I feel really blessed that they are so close to eachother. It’s fun to see them being best friends.
Rylee on the “BIG” swing…
Rylee going up the ladder… just like her sister. what’s funny is when she gets to the top she freaks out and asks me to come get her down. The gap between the top rung and the platform is a little too scarey for her.
I swear they can stay on the swings for hours! Jaycee really wants us to get swings in our backyard, but we haven’t done it yet - she keeps telling us “you guys forgot to put swings here”.
