Puzzles

As if a 100 piece puzzle isn't hard enough for a 4 year old. Ashlyn is now doing the puzzles face down for a little bit more of a challenge. This is a full 100 piece puzzle done completely face down. This girl LOVES puzzles. We have to glue the ends down on the pieces because she does them so much they start coming apart.

Family Fun

Our day started with the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Openhouse. What a beautiful temple, and I love being able to see it every day. The kids loved the tour of the temple. They thought the star lights (chandeliers) were amazing and Tanner loved climbing all the stairs by himself. When we were in the Celestial Room I was talking to Ashlyn about how special it was and I asked her how it made her feel to be there. She answered, "hungry!" I'm glad that talk got through to her. I asked Tanner if he thought the room was pretty and he looks around and yells, "Balls!" The design of the carpet is a bunch of cirlces, so he thought the room was cool because it had balls in it!

After the temple we headed up to Tracey Aviary and Liberty Park.

They loved the peacock and as you can see it wasn't very shy. It just wandered around and showed off every once in awhile. The little rivers at Liberty Park were a hit too. Any time my kids can get wet and dirty they are pretty happy with life!

Insane Summer Storm

This INSANE summer storm rolled in June 10th around 1pm. It was crazy. It went from a normal summer morning to this within a matter of minutes. Literally all this hail and water came down in less than 30 min. That is a river going down my front porch, and the sandbox was a swimming pool (too bad it wasn't warm enough to play in). Thank goodness the low part of our yard is in the back corner and not up next to our house. We had so many neighbors with their basements flooded. The crazy thing too is the storm was so isolated. I was talking to Brad who only works 7 miles away during the storm, and it wasn't even storming at his work.