Busy Week!

Last week was pretty busy! Michael was on campus everyday teaching a block class 1-5pm. He left after breakfast and would get home around 6 or 6:30...the girls really missed him!!

Elizabeth more interested in books lately and has been practicing turning the pages one at a time!

Madilynn started gymnastics on Thursday! She'll go Tues/Thurs through the second week in August - yeah! She was so excited!! (Forgot to take my camera for pics in action, will do next time!) It was great and she did so well following instructions!
Elizabeth can now climb up into the chair by herself!

at the table

she can even climb onto the table

Friday afternoon I worked with Madilynn on riding her bike and she's doing much better already!! She's learning how those handlebars work!!

Then we mowed the yard with Elizabeth's help! I even mowed for awhile with Elizabeth strapped on - talk about a workout! Flip-flops weren't exactly appropriate for the hills in the backyard!

Saturday we ate breakfast at our new favorite spot - they have yummy pumpkin chocolate chip bread (the girls love) and yummy cinnamon rolls! Then we browsed a home decor store we hadn't been to, it was pretty cool. Then made the Wal-Mart trip for groceries, and came home for lunch and naps! During naptime Daddy went down to the river just to see if he could catch a fish and he did - a brown trout!

After naps we got our swimsuits on and lathered ourselves in sunscreen and made our way to the aquatic center. We spent a couple of hours and had a great time! Elizabeth floated in her ring and she would just squeel she loves the water! Madilynn took a little bit to warm up and then she was under the mushroom (shower) and the buckets. She even rode the curvy slide with me and we both went under at the end, and she did great! She held her breath good. We didn't take the camera to the water park...you can imagine!

Then we came home for dinner hamburgers, deviled eggs, and key lime pie! I made the deviled eggs and pie during nap time so it would be ready when we got home it worked out great!

Elizabeth enjoying her avacado...she has to do the spoon by herself these days. We dip it then give it to her and she eats it...sort of!

We even had a little avacado on our burgers, it was so good! We had a great day Saturday!

Sunday morning - all dressed for church! Madilynn's beautiful dress!

both of the pretty dresses - Thank you Mama!!

So cute!

Michael did a little more fishing at naptime and caught a large brown trout. He says the largest he's ever caught!

beautiful...he put it back - you can see the river from the deck here...

Doing a little fly fishing

The girls woke up and we joined him down by the river...talk about convenient!!

I thought this was cool of them both!

Here's our garden these days...I was picking some snap peas (that we'll be eating tonight!) and Madilynn is standing beside the corn. I just realized the peas are as tall as me!

Broccoli finally!!

The whole garden

the peas

and I had to get a couple of pictures of Elizabeth in her dress outside!

clapping

We had a great weekend and have been enjoying the HOT weather!!! This coming Friday is a holiday here in Utah called Pioneer Day...can't wait for the 3 day weekend! Wonder what we'll do???