Brimming full of fun!

So, what happens when you get woefully behind on your blog?  You get A LOT of catch-up.  Life has been busy, fun, and full of changes.  Here's just a sampling of our recent family outings.  Above, you see our girls with the BYU cheerleaders at the annual Cougar Kickoff.  We also got some autographs from football and volleyball players, ran a "race" with the track and field team, and saw Bronco.

Another yearly event for us is the pilgrimage to Hogle Zoo.  Again, a wonderful time together.

I must admit that I LOVE this shot.  What a sweetie.

Here the girls are with their Daddy...

Kadence and Tayah decided that they "love dinosaurs!"

Other happenings: taking full advantage of the $2.00 Tuesdays at Thanksgiving Point, we went three weeks in a row--to the Farm Country, the magnificent gardens, and by popular request, the Dinosaur Museum; we hit the Utah County Fair; also visited the Museums of Paleontology (keeping with the "love the dinosaurs" theme) and Art at BYU.  \

\Above all, it's just being together.  Nothing...and I mean nothing...is more important that just being together as a family.  That is where the true joy in life is found!

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Girlisms

I could include these posts every other day or so :).

Kadence: "Daddy, can you pour me some Snack Cracker and Pop?" (Rice Krispies)

Over a few nights, I was telling the girls the story of Les Miserables and our favorite protagonist, Jean Valjean.  So this morning, we heard this...

Tayah: "Daddy, can you tell us more about Jambi John?"

More Family Fun: Wheeler Park, Hires, & Tracy Aviary

Yesterday was another fun family outing day, this time seeing us hit up Wheeler Historic Farm, Hire's in SLC, and the Tracy Aviary!  Here are the children enraptured with feeding the ducks...

...and loving every moment of it, as you can see.

Next was a fun wagon ride around the park. 

Sorry for the fuzziness here, but it is so wonderful seeing how sweet Stockton's sisters are with him.  Here's Kadence "holding" him on the wagon ride...

...and keeping him company which he talks to the animals.  Love how our little man crouches down to get on their level!

Our beautiful girls up in the play house.

#1 and #3 honoring Jerry Sloan by sitting on a tractor. (and if you don't know who Sloan is, shame on you :).

Nothing like eating some old time candy...in an outhouse!  Oh, and this has capacity for two people.  So efficient, or something like that.

We took in Hire's in SLC for the first-time ever and weren't disappointed in the food and atmosphere (although we were the only non-teenage children in the whole joint; sorry no photos).  Next to Tracy Aviary.  We loved the bird show, where Elizabeth volunteered to have a toucan walk on her hands.  There were a lot of beautiful birds here, but none cuter than these!

And our baby boy got in on the action here too.

Such a fun day!  The kids just crashed when bedtime rolled around, another positive for Elizabeth and me.  Nothing...and I mean nothing...can compare with time together as a family!