Deer Creek "Beach"

Sunday, after church and naps, we decided we were hot and wanted to go to the beach! Sadly, Utah has no real beaches that we know of, so we decided to try Deer Creek Lake! We thought we remembered some sandy/muddy beaches on 1 side! Well we were wrong, all the "beaches" are lined with large rocks... I guess to keep boats away. We made due with what we had and really had some fun! And of course took lots of pictures! My sister came with us, and is now being officially thanked for the pictures!

The Fam!
(please don't ask me how I forgot to bring my swimsuit!)

Jaxon and Daddy playing in the waves!
(Yeah the sun was right behind us, so some of the pics are dark)

Us with my sista!
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Favorite picture of the day! My boys are always happy if we are near water!
He thinks it's pretty funny to eat his feet! We tell him "eeewww" and he laughes harder and eats them more!
My handsome little man dried off and ready to go home!

It was the PERFECT way to end the weekend! It was short and sweet and JUST WHAT WE NEEDED! Now... if only there was a real sandy beach somewhere near by.... hmmm?? I think it's time to move to Florida!

** Perfect evening right?? Well we thought so... till we got home and had no power for 5 1/2 hours! Lovely.**

Parades and More!

Of course we had to participate in AF Steel Days this past weekend! We started with the parade in the morning! It was fun, but HOT!! We met my dad and a couple of my step brothers there and really enjoyed it! But the floats and stuff were spread too far apart, and we were toward the end, so there were big gaps between them! Oh well! Jaxons favorite part was probably the police motorcade! He though they were amazing!!

~Watching the Parade~
~ Sitting with Grandpa and his very first sucker! He loved it! ~
After nap time we went to the Car Show. Joel loves cars, and has passed that love on to Jaxon! They had a great time looking at the vroom vrooms!

~My boys behind a Mach 1 Mustang ~

Then we met up with my mom for the car parade. We stayed for about an hour and of course Jaxon loved it! We parked in the Papa Johns parking lot, and watched the kid put a boot on our car! Luckily we got out of it! Go Joel!

~Abuela and Jaxon watching the cars go by!~

~Sitting in the big boy chair! (He was sick of the stroller by now!)~

~Favorite picture of the day! My sweet boys enjoying the car parade!~

All in all a fun weekend full of parades!
On a sad note, my poor baby is getting his 1 year molars! I have never seen teething like this before! He is cutting 2 molars and 2 bottom teeth all at the same time! Lets just say we are living on Hylands teething tablets and Tylenol! Hopefully they hurry up! We love having fun busy weekends like this! :)

4th of July

Like many others, our 4th of July celebrations are a 3 day thing this year! Which for me is so exciting! I love 4th of July... but I don't like being sick. I haven't felt very good all weekend, so our activities have been nothing extravagant! We spend Saturday hanging out, shopping and watching WIPE OUT!! (our favorite show!)
Around 9 pm we woke up Jaxon and we took our little family to Thanksgiving point to watch the fireworks! Jaxon was such a good boy and LOVED them! It was windy.. and a little cool! But we still had fun all bundled up in sweatpants and blankets! :) Jaxon liked to point at the fireworks and say WHOA!
Somehow Joel got better pictures of the fireworks on his phone then on our Nikon camera... not sure how that works! Haha Oh well!
Sunday we went to church, hung out at home, had a bbq with my mom and sister. And then woke Jaxon up AGAIN around 9 pm to go to my dads house for more fireworks! I thought he might get scared being so close to them! But he thought they were pretty dang cool! The noise didn't bother him either! No grumpy kid for us! We were there for an hour or so... went home.. and went straight to bed! Easy peasy!
Today was Jaxon's first day of swimming lessons! We are in the same class as his girlfriend Paityn. They go for 2 weeks every morning! He did so good today! Hopefully one of these times I will get some pictures!
Joel has today off! So we are letting Jaxon take a little nap, then we are heading back to the pool!! Yeah I married a water boy and gave birth to another one!! I love the sun so I am not complaining! We will probably spend the rest of the day there! Gotta Love Summer!
Hope everyone had a GREAT 4th with family and friends! Here are a couple pictures of my little man in his 4th of July outfit! Could I love him anymore?!?!