Still More Vactioning

The weekend brought me out to Utah to see more family. Most importantly, more nieces and the nephew! We went to a mall that had so many fun activities for kids. Andrew, Maddy, and Katelyn had a blast!

While out in Utah, Elise had a baby shower for dear little Olivia. Olivia is the most beautiful baby! The shower entailed a lot of really yummy food!

 

I got to see Karl and Wendy.... I've missed them so much! We went to Caraba's for dinner...yummy!

Elise has such a fun back yard for the little ones. They had a blast playing with the water on a super hot Utah day.

 

A few days in Utah was not enough time to spend with those little people I love!

A Few Weeks Away...

A few weeks away from home, but back to another home and I had a lot of fun! I learned that a turkey moved in!

Jocelyn, Evelyn, and I had a few adventures of out own.

Here's a glimpse at our swimming adventures:

 Evie was happy calling me Mom all week. I think she thought that a woman that plays with her is called Mom. Oh if only it were that easy (from what I see of course...)

 Joce is a super brave swimmer. I think I was suppose to keep it a secret that she went in the deep end (sorry Jess).

 Evie got very nervous when Joce was in deep water.

 We also had McDonalds adventures:

Some patio adventures:

That helmet came in very useful on our hammack adventures too.

Even some fun Doctor adventures:

 

Thank you Julie who sent Scott and I home a year ago with this toy. Evelyn wanted to take it everywhere we went.

All in all, how could you not have fun with these cute girls!!!

Danny was home for a week, so we had a good time too! From A's games to birthday parties, from Grandparent trips to just running errands, we had a blast. Even here where I caught Danny drinking straight from the carton right after he had gone to the cupboard to get a cup!

Pattito was so dear and had some delicious birthday lemon bars for me!

 

Danny and Jess made a fabulous cake (the only cake I actually like too!)

We can't forget it was Jess' birthday too!

The day of celebration (because Jess and I are truely something the celebrate) ended with a delicious seafood dinner!

My CA trip continued into the next week and brought a brave father's surgery. Good thing I wanted to be a teacher and not a nurse! The surgery was followed by more family visits... and more A's games, of course!

Stomper had a crush on Steph and gave her a stress ball (watch out Danny D!) What a great trip!

My First Race

Today I ran my first real race! I say real because when I ran the Rex Lee, well... let's just say a certain Katey and I went to breakfast instead. So... today I ran the 10K Market Place race with a few good friends. I started... and finished! I kept my goal (if I told what it was... I'd just reveal some embarrassing information).

Mainly Maine!

What a fun weekend we had! We were finally able to sneak away and shirk our sunday responsibilities (thank you Stake Conference... shhhhh). The Tourist Season starts in a week, so we got to try all the tourist attractions as they opened at the off season prices. It was great!

It started off with a long drive to Bar Harbor, MA and are first night was spent in a cute Bed and Breakfast right off the water.

 

We had a super fun day filled with lots of activities and lots of really good food! We had a lot of fun out on the town...

I even tried...wait for it.... Lobster ICE CREAM. If you are wondering if it actually tastes good, you are wrong. It was terrible. Super gross, way too buttery, and the chunks were real lobster, frozen and mushy. Gross.

Downtown was pretty small, but very quaint.

Scott got pretty close to the whale.

In town, we found the cutest hand-carved Santa's. We absolutely fell in love with them... wouldn't you!?

That afternoon we went to a Tulip Festival that was amazing. Over 80,000 bulbs were planted by the local youth. A seasonal guy that lives on the island really helps out the local community. After the youth planted the bulbs, he sent them all to Holland to the real Tulip Festival there. So cool!

So, here is a piece of the beauty!

Here's the home

We also had a lot of fun experimenting with our camera...

The home has huge grounds, right on the water!

We took a nice drive around the island and got to see and ton of great views! But the roads were a bit scary! How are we supposed to even do what this sign is warning us to do?

We spent the next night camping. We found a great little camp site and set up our tent.

After the tulips, we got to spend the afternoon on an awesome sail boat, The Mary Todd, sailing around all the little islands surround Bar Harbor. 

It was so cool, especially when we discovered our telephoto lens and started having some real fun seeing things others couldn't!

True or False, this is a Bald Eagle!!!!

 Who knew you could use a baseball for so many things!

It was surprisingly cold! We had to layer and layer and layer some more.

 

See those sails.... I got to pull them up! It was hard work.

If the man looks concerned, it's because I was so good and he feared I'd take over his job.

Some more fun with the camera.

All in all, it was a wonderful vacation and I can't wait to do it again!