saturday we had the privilege to visit family friends, tadd, jenn, maddy, lizzie and belle at their home in beautiful huntsville. they live about a mile and a half from pineview reservoir and we spent the afternoon soaking up {too much} sun, boating, swimming and playing in the sand.
we have loved spending more time with our cousins this past year since they moved out west from philadelphia. we are sad to see them go on their next adventure to north dakota, where nick got a job as an interventional radiologist! we are proud of all of their hard work as a family and accomplishments of making it through medical school, residency and this last year of fellowship!
even baby stella enjoyed the sun in her new beach lounge! (olivia was so excited to snag this at D.I. the other day for a $1!!!)
(didn't realize i had a photo-bomber until i saw the pic on the computer!)
maddy rode her bike to the beach after she got home from work. tim was kind enough to offer to ride it back home for her, what a guy!
i failed to get more beach pictures and boating because we were too busy having fun and relaxing!
after the beach we headed over to the judds' house and enjoyed their idyllic location at the base of the mountains in beautiful farmland. they had a big sprawling front yard with tire swings, a trampoline and lots of room to run. the kids had a great time while the ladies chatted and the men bbq'd.
lizzie wouldn't get in the first pic so she photo-bombed the next one!
lexi tuckered out for a bit and had a cat nap before dinner
lizzie, belle, livy, evy, lexi, brady and auntie nickie leading the dance moves!
then we got all of the kiddos (even baby brielle) in for a picture!
evy and zach dancing to frozen's "let it go"
chris took nickie for a quick whirl before grabbing evy and making some moves with her! we have some very good dancers in this family! olivia danced around for about a half hour doing moves with a purple feather boa and a pink pool noodle!
tadd and jenn- such a fun couple!
we settled down at dark to some dutch oven peach cobbler, homemade oreo cookies and scotch-aroos to watch a movie on the projector. it got a little cold towards the end but we stayed through it all and had such a fun time...a new yearly tradition ?!
thank you so much everyone, and especially tadd, jenn and the girls for such a fun day!!!! we got home at 2 a.m. on sunday morning but the sleep deprivation was worth it! next time we'll be pitching tents!
grammie and grandpa followed us home and stayed over and after relaxing for the morning and doting over sunburns we headed up middle canyon to see the kennecott copper mine overlook. the mine is 2.5 miles wide and is one of two man-made structures that can be seen from space! right in our "backyard!" it was about 12 miles up the canyon to the summit and much longer than we anticipated but the gravel roads weren't too bad, just a lot of hairpin switchbacks. luckily, once we got up to about 8 miles we realized that when we came back down from t he summit to that point we could continue down the backside of the mountain to herriman instead of going back down to tooele and around the mountain to slc, since we were eventually headed to nick and nickie's for a bbq.
the kids were a little nervous about the skinny dirt road and the height but we had beautiful views, tons of gorgeous wildflowers in red, yellow, white, purple and blues and this great sight at the top:
{livy not pictures, she was squeamish of the heights and chose to stay in the car}
and no i'm not just chubby, i'm finally just about 7 months along with baby #4!!!
thanks for joining us on the adventure grammie and grandpa!
not only could you see the mine, but we could see from bountiful all the way down to lake provo! the entire salt lake valley, as well as views of the great salt lake and on the other side...our tiny tooele!
when we finally got to nick and nickie's we met them and shawnae, tim and brielle. everyone had a relaxing day which we all needed. lexi and chloe weren't feeling good and olivia actually got sick in the car coming down the mountain so she's been under-the-weather since. but we enjoyed a great family dinner and playing outside all afternoon.
lexi did some great sidewalk art of a snail and a turtle and we were all impressed with her detail!
happy trails...until the 4th of july family!
