Happy Father's Day!! Sad news... we didn't take any pictures on Father's Day... Sad times. But we did get swim lesson pictures!! Here are the girls together. I don't know if this was on their last day, but they finished their two weeks on Thursday. They both had a lot of fun, and I believe improved a bunch. Brooke is definitely feeling much more comfortable in the water, especially with her floaties on. She is basically self-sufficient. She also loves to jump in! Winry is doing much better, but still isn't comfortable. She still needs one on one attention when she's in the water, and doesn't trust herself in her floaties. She'll get there soon though, I just know it.
Winry enjoyed a bit of tanning while waiting through Brooke's swim lessons. She spends a lot of time trying to keep herself entertained, and I believe does a good job entertaining Monica!
Brooke was busy absorbing everything. Here she's practicing monkey, airplane, soldier, or whatever they call it now. I don't remember which, but one of those words was different for her. That's how I learned it though.
Our garden has been growing nicely. At least our strawberries are really taking off. Other things are growing, but I think we've gotten strawberries and green onions so far. I'm excited to see what else we end up with, and hopefully our watermelon does great!!
Winry continues to patch, and does a great job. She's always happy to put it on and takes them all the way off by herself now. I'm glad she's been enjoying it. She usually has it on in the afternoon during quiet time. Here, she's nursing her baby.
Summer dance classes started, and the girls have been loving it. Winry gets to move into a combo class and now does ballet AND tap. She's really liking it. Brooke has ballet, tap and jazz this summer, and I believe this is her first time doing jazz. She's really liked it so far.
Jelly found a visitor in our backyard this past week. She loves to watch the squirrels! We also found a ping pong ball under the bathroom sink, and she chased that around the house for a day or two before it got lost under something again. I think ping pong balls are her favorite toy... we should probably get her some more.
The girls love to play with Grayson, and are probably better at making him laugh than Monica or me. Especially at bed time it's hard to keep them out! That's probably because they just want to postpone going to bed.
Jelly continues to take a nap in the office basically every day. It's nice to have a coworker who also lets me get stuff done.
On Saturday we left for Utah! We stopped in Cheyenne to feed Grayson and also grabbed gas, and then stopped again in Rock Springs for lunch. We tried to find a park near the Wendy's we went to, and this is where we ended up. The pictures were definitely of the park highlights. There was a small playground (not great for our age of kids) with a little grass around it, and we were expecting a bit more of that, and a bit less dirt...
The kids were great for the car ride, so that was nice. We stopped at my Aunt Alyson's house on the way in to go swimming. My sisters and Oriah's kids met us there and we had a great time. After swimming for a bit we grabbed some dinner and finished the last 30 minutes of our drive.
For Father's Day, Brooke was just too excited and brought up all my presents, so I opened them right after breakfast. I got a nice bread knife and bread loaf pan, some books, a golfing gift certificate and cooling towel things. Once we were all ready we actually headed down to Orem to see Monica's friend from childhood, Cristine, who happened to be passing through. They got to catch up for a little bit, and then since it was 10 minutes away, we also surprised her parents and went to church with them for a Father's Day surprise. After church we headed to my sister Niki's house to work on dinner. I picked chicken and waffles, and they were terrific! When we got back to my parents it was time to get ready for bed for the kids, and Monica and I who were quite tired followed suit. Oh, I also got a piece of pie at church!
I'm a bit sad we didn't get a specific Father's Day picture, but we're having a lot of fun so no real complaints. I'm really excited for the next week out here with my family. Technically I've already gotten through 2 days, and it's been a lot of fun. Got some good pictures today, so look forward to that!
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