About 3 weeks back we went up to 40 Horse Cave, with the Gregory’s. It’s been a long time since I’ve been there, and we’ve never been with the kids. It’s actually quite a steep hike, so it was an adventure getting up, with William in the backup and helping kids at the same time.
So it’s probably been about a month now, but a while back we went to Ammon Days. They had a free breakfast, that was actually really good, lots of booths that had free things, like snow cones, face painting, balloons, candy, etc. They had some games set up that you could play and win prizes. They also had a ping pong ball drop, where some of the balls had prizes on you could win (we didn’t win anything, but the kids loved running around catching as many as they could from the helicopter).
We went to Bear World last weekend and drove through the park, saw lots of animals (even bears walking right in front of our van), went through the petting zoo and the kids rode some rides.
The last time we were here (probably 3 years ago) Lucas had a meltdown on one of the rides, so we weren’t sure if he’d go on any of them. But he actually tried some of them out and I think enjoyed most of them a lot. McKinley had no problem on any of the rides, so I guess she’s our daredevil.
Lucas celebrated his 6th birthday yesterday, which is another reminder of how fast kids grow up. He had a party with some of his friends where they played some games, ate come cupcakes and broke open a piñata.
That night we had family over for dinner, cake and we did another piñata, though it started to rain so we hurried to get it done. But it was a great day and Lucas had a lot of fun.
This last Saturday we decided to get out and do a little hiking. There’s a pretty easy trail not far from here, right by Heise. So we went and hiked that and afterwards went swimming at Heise.
Probably sound like a broken record but I can’t believe that William is already 1 year old! We had a family party on Sunday (though his birthday wasn’t until Tuesday) and he got to open some presents and eat some cake, which he loved. Then on his actual birthday he got to open more presents. He didn’t understand what was going on, but he loved anytime we sang Happy Birthday to him.
He has his year checkup tomorrow, so not sure on his weight/height/etc, but he is getting too old, too fast. He started taking a few steps when we were in Utah a few weeks back and continues to take more and more steps, so it won’t be long until he’s fully walking. He gets into everything, especially now that he can stand up by himself and he loves playing with all the stuff in the kitchen (might need to lock some drawers down).
We are so grateful to have William in our family. He is always so happy and smiley and it always brightens my day when I come upstairs and he’s so happy to see me. We love you William!
We finally decided to buy a playset. We got it the Friday before Memorial Day, which was good, as it gave me a little more time to work on it. I was worried putting it together would be tough, but it actually ended up being pretty easy and didn’t take quite as long as I was thinking.
