We made a quick 2 day trip to St. George this weekend so Regan could do a triathlon relay for the Utah Summer Games. An American Family Manager did the biking, Regan did the swim and Jared Chapman did the run. It was beautiful in St. George and we were able to swim with the kids a lot at the hotel! We of course ate at the Pizza Factory, hang out with the kids and our friends the Chapmans and check a temple off of the list for our Summer Temple Adventure!
When Regan and I were dating, we would come up to the American Fork Falls (Battlecreek) and talk (and kiss) for hours. It is a hike that Riley can do by himself (with some coaxing!) and then once you get to the falls, it makes it all worth while! They are beautiful and feel so good as they crash down and make a huge mist. We took the kids up to the Falls last week and after seeing them, they loved it! Now it has become a family favorite hike!
So after my summer concert a few weeks ago, I noticed that Riley needed the next size up of violin, so we went to the violin shop and got a 1/16 size. His old one was a 1/32 size. Now that we have 2 violins, Sunny is obsessed with playing the violin just like her older brother! She has to do everything that he does! The only problem is that she is still learning to be soft and gentle with a real wood violin and bow instead of her styrophome violin!
We are ready for Violin Institute this week! We will be in classes from Monday to Saturday, and Riley is doing SO great on his Twinkle Variations! He not only sounds great, but he and I are doing so much better on our daily violin lessons. He is listening to me better and so excited about violin camp!!!
My friend Britta came up with this great idea to get a pictures of the kids in front of all of the temples in Utah this summer. (A temple field trip). So we started last week with the Mt. Timpanogos Temple. It actually was a very cold day, hence the crying kids in the pictures! It will be an exciting this to visit as many as the temples as we can throughout the summer!
So our little family is headed to Disney World in 2 weeks from today and I am looking for suggestions from anyone who has been there with little kids! The long plane ride will be interesting, and we have a 5 day park hopper pass so I am hoping that the kids will last 5 days of walking! I am bringing a stroller that lets them lie down all the way so they can take naps, but what about my stroller? I am going to be 6 1/2 months pregnant, in a hot and humid place walking for miles! Any suggestions for me as well?
