Cousins! And other fun events...

We were so happy to have cousins come visit us in August! We had a lot of fun playing at Thanksgiving Point. The kids all loved this awesome spiderweb in the children's gardens. Tucker climbed all the way to the top and I'm sure Halle would have too, but she was just a little too short to reach some of the ropes.

Sammy and some random kid in the background. If I ever edited my photos I could crop it because it is a cute photo of Sammy.

Blowing bubbles and Halle would dance to the music her cousins were playing.

The next day we did the dinosaur museum and of course the part with the sand is always the most fun. Tucker loves to bury his dinosaurs and turn them into fossils and Halle likes grabbing the sand and dropping it in another part of the sandbox.

We all had dinner over at Dahlia's house one night and had awesome chocolate fudge dipped ice cream treats. Tucker really loved it and somehow managed to still eat it all even after it was falling off the stick.

To get ready for our trip to Zion over Labor Day weekend we decided to do a little practice hike. We hiked  up to Donut Falls and discovered a few things that was good to help prepare us for Zion. Halle is the slowest hiker ever. She has to stop and look at every rock, flower, bee, leaf, and of course climb on everything. She spent most of her time in the backpack or on shoulders, or else it would have taken us hours to hike. Tucker is a pretty good hiker and good at moving along, although eventually he does get tired. For some reason, he only likes to ride on Sheldon's shoulders. I try to give him rides on my shoulders, but they must be too bony or something. So Sheldon often has Halle in the backpack and Tucker riding on his shoulders. It is pretty impressive that he can carry two kids. Technically I carry two kids as well sometimes, because I am carrying one in my belly.

Picnic when we made it to the falls! They weren't very big waterfalls, but Tucker loved throwing big rocks in the water.

Halle saying cheese with a bunch of food in her mouth. Kind of gross, but also kind of funny.

Someone was nice enough to take a picture for us at the falls and amazingly I think it turned out pretty good. Everyone is looking and smiling, that doesn't happen very often!