27 days!!!!

That's is how much nursing school Damon has left. I am beyond THRILLED!!!! I can't believe it is almost done! YAHOO!!!!!!

July....

Okay I can't believe that it has been a month since my last post. Where has July gone, it has just flown by. This post has tons of photos, because I'm just going to blog about the whole month. So lets begin with the fourth. My little sister was having her reception in Lakeview over the 4Th of July weekend. I wasn't planning on going, but at the last minute (night before) I decided to carpool down with Megs and her hubby Tim and the girls. It was lots of fun to see everyone, and the girls were SO excited to see Nanny and Grandad. The reception was lovely and I ate my fare share of key lime pie and raspberry cheesecake. One of the highlights for me was getting to see my best friends family. I love the Knowles family, they are like my second family. It was great getting to catch up with them! Oh and I also got to go to my favorite restaurant the Aspen Ridge, YUM!

When we got back from Lakeview, we came home to not only Damon but my other sister Emma and her family. We knew they were coming but because I went to Lakeview last minute, Damon got to entertain them for a few days. There main reason for coming to visit was Steve (brother-in-law) his parents were just coming home from serving for the past three years as Mission Presidents. They had to come with Utah to pick up a car, so Emma and Steve made a vacay to see them and us all at the same time. They also blessed baby Oscar too. Who is adorable and little chub. I think he weighs the same as Sophie. I don't know why but I didn't take any photos of him, and only a couple of Betty. I was SO excited to see Miss. Betty. She is so much fun, and talks your ear off.

Since all the Kings girls were in Utah, my parents of course were here too. We actually got some family photos done by Megan and Tim's wedding photographer. We haven't seen them yet, I'll be sure to post some when we get them back though.

Now we are to the end of the month and it has finally calmed down around here. We are keeping busy trying to stay cool. Olivia would have about 5 popsicle's a day if I let her. Sophie is STILL not walking. I think she just figures she has it pretty good with us carrying her. That's okay though she is such a sweet little snuggle bug that I'll take it. Sophie's new thing is holding up one finger. If you ask her if she is number one and she will stick it straight up. She has now even started waving it around as if to boss us around. Funny thing. Olivia is getting excited for preschool to start. We have been going over raising our hand and being patient. Tough things to teach, especially the being patient, but she is learning. I am especially excited for her to start preschool, three days a week two hours each time. I'm sure though on her first day I will cry though.

Well that about sums up the month for us. I promise it won't be another month before I post again.

Some pictures of Megan and Tim's Lakeview reception.

The Two Amigos
(at least when they are getting along)!

Sophie showing us who is number one!

Pigtails!

Splash Pad!

Last summer we were introduced to a fun free splash pad about 20 minutes from us. Olivia loved going there, so we are very excited for the warm weather.

Olivia had to bring Ariel along with her.

Sophie tasting the water

I just love her polka dot swim suit!

I just thought this photo was typical Sophie, always crawling right up to me to see what I'm doing.

Tunnels.

What do you do on a rainy day, you learn how to crawl through a tunnel. Well that's what Sophie learnt to do just recently at least.

On a side note, that is not pee coming out of her, that is her oxygen tubing.

Yellowstone Part 2

I realized that I hadn't finished about our trip to Yellowstone. We really did love it there, and are hoping that next summer we can go again. It is so beautiful. So on our second day into the park we saw bear! We first stopped and looked through a telescope and saw some on a mountain about a mile away. While we were doing that a woman came and told us that about 10 minutes up the road was a grisly momma and two cubs. So we hopped in the car and drove over there. The funny thing about Yellowstone is if you go and you are driving through the park and see a bunch of cars and people with HUGE cameras on the side of the road, you stop. If there are park rangers with them, you get out. The momma bear and cubs were about 400 yards away and the cubs were SO cute. I wish I had a fancy camera with a nice lens so I could get better shots. That's my goal is to go there sometime with a nice camera to get the really good shots. That was probably my highlight from the trip was seeing the cubs. We had such a good time and it was just nice to go away and relax. I'm so glad that my parents have a time share so we can use it, ha ha.



Getting ready to go out for the day.

You can kind of see the cubs right up next to her.

The buffalo were everywhere.