Another Over-Do Update

A month ago we had some of our best friends up to visit from Texas. They went on a 5 week long road trip (and most of it Tanya was by herself while Jake was working-can we say super mom!) and were coming through Utah with a few days in between family things so we got to hang out. We went to the Bean Museum, the BYU creamery (since they used to live about 2 blocks from there), and the pool. And of course some amazing dress-up time had to be included in the fun as well. Thank you so much for staying with us for a bit and playing!! We had so much fun hanging out and working on the sewing projects. Tanya is completely amazing and she had a family reunion auction to get some things ready for so I think she made like 5 nursing covers in just a few hours! And I was the lucky recipient of a cover, burp cloth, and taggy blanket for little lady coming in November. Alli had so much fun having friends to play with! The funniest thing about this is we first became friends a few years ago when Jake and Ryan were doing summer sales so we would hang out together pretty much every day. Well last fall when they came up for a wedding and stayed a night Ryan was out of town and Jake had to stay in Texas for work, well the same thing happened again this time so whenever we are together it just seems like the summer again except now there are 3 more kids added to the mix. :) Thanks again for making time for us! Somehow I didn't even get a picture of "baby" Ian or Tanya. :(



Later that week we went to the rodeo for Spanish Fork's Fiesta days. I loved going to this growing up, and even though Ryan is pretty new to the rodeo scene, I think he is realizing just how much fun all this "hick" stuff is. Alli loved every part of it. From the mutton busting to the "racing horses" to the cows she thought every event was great and told us many times after that she wanted to go again. The only bad part was that I waited too long to get tickets so we were on the top row which is fine except there was a big gap between the floor slat and the seat part so the whole time my heart was in my throat thinking of what would happen if she fell through somehow-so she sat on a lap the whole time.


We also took her to the carnival sometime and let her go on some rides. They were seriously overpriced, but when we took her it was hardly busy at all so we definitely ended up getting our money's worth. She got to ride each of them for at least 5 minutes! It was crazy how long she was on there, she was completely ready to be off some of them-even though she loved them- as soon as they were done. She loved the carousel which wasn't a surprise, and the racing type cars the most. You can see in the pictures the motorcycle ride was fun-at first- and then reaching (because she thought she HAD to hold the handles instead of sitting up) hurt her back and arms so she was tired of the ride. And maybe the fact that it was at least 100 outside contributed to the "melting" factor??



And Ryan isn't a huge fan of parades, but he does like a few. Here he is teaching Alli the art of "candy gathering" and it was pretty nice because the rest home my aunt is at blocked off the area in front of the place and obviously there aren't too many kids seeing as it was some old people, some nurses and their kids, and us with Alli so she got plenty of candy and had tons of fun. A week or so ago (so a few weeks after the parade) she woke up talking about running in the street (awesome habit, I know!) to get candy and luckily the Salem parade was that weekend so she definitely got to do that. We did fireworks that night and seeing as Alli is still fully in the "princess" stage she loved the "princess" fireworks.
And in between the parade and fireworks and bbqs and flyfishing (Ryan went fishing while Alli and I went to the craft fair with my mom) Ryan fixed a leak in our sprinkler system so Alli loved playing in the water while he got the ground a little softened so he could dig. Don't mind our little naked, white trash girl. I am not sure how she ended up "nakey" but we quickly remedied the situation with her princess swimming suit and cover up.