Fun in June pt. 1

We had a lot of fun in June. We didn't necessarily go anywhere crazy, but looking through pictures made me understand how fun the day-to-day life was this summer. Sofia and Claire are at such fun ages, and Quincey was content to be along for the ride. I'm going to soak up these days for as long as I can before the girls realize their friends are much cooler than their mom.

Our strawberries decided to grow this summer and there was nothing sweeter!

Helping cook dinner. I wish I was this happy and cute while cooking.

We played in the river at the Layton Park. It was so fun!

I love going through pictures after-the-face and seeing the girls cute antics. This perfectly shows the girls personalities. Claire guzzling water with a Kitty in her cupholder, and Sof kicked back sporting her "rock on" symbol.

That one time I was able to fit a tree in my van ...

and Greg and the girls planted it.

Bow to your Sensei.

I was laughing at this caricature a local ward member drew of Greg on the Sunday School role. The best thing about it is he drew Greg jumping for joy while he was in fact napping through the lesson 😅.

We finally bought a mattress and Greg was so excited to do a time lapse video of us unbagging it.

Enduring the 2 weeks of swim lessons.

Having an afternoon snack in our neighbors cute chair. Yes, Claire is dressed for winter in the middle of June. On the daily I ask her what planet she is from.

Lazy summer mornings.

Cute baby Quince. I love how she always holds her cute hands up to her face. 

Watching Claire jump around with Greg on the tramp in a blanket sleeper brings me a special kind of joy. She's hilarious. Probably because the crotch of the jammies is down to her knee's.

We got together one day with our friends from Logan. It had been well over 5 years since all getting together, and it was so fun to pick back up where we left off! There were 13 kids between the 4 couples. Talk about multiplying and replenishing ... I wish we lived closer and could get together more. The kids all played so well together and it was fun to watch. These people were our best friends at such a fun time of our lives.

Sofi's highlight of the night was finding and holding this garter snake. 

Some nights, this is how dinner was able to get put on the table.

Claire became Queen of the Syracuse Splash Pad.

Our first time as a family of 5 at Cherry Hill.

The cutest baby in all the land.

#sisters. They look so similar.

Greg took this one night of the girls playing in the tub. It is pretty hilarious 😅.

She found her tongue!

Mini Enduro #2: Deer Valley

I really need to get caught up on this blog business. I'm not even done with June and in real life it's 1/4 through September. My recollection of the Summer is starting to run out. Luckily I have good old Instagram to remind me just exactly what we did and where. Have I ever said Northern Utah has too many ski resorts? Because they do. How in the world do people keep all of them straight?!

Anyway, Mini Enduro #2 was at Beautiful Deer Valley. Easily the hardest hike out of all of them, but oh so worth it. We started the day out at Cafe Rio because, Yum! It's our place to go and no one complains. It's kind of magical. And Greg doesn't exactly love it, so it's the perfect place for our Girls Afternoon Out. Here's a pic of our girl party, with cute Quincey peeping down in the corner. 

She is a trooper!

Stage 1 finished up in the bushes where no one but the Volunteer's could watch, so we happily hiked up as high as we could before Greg magically appeared down the hillside ready for Round 2.

The climb up to Stage 2 was steep! I had Quincey on my front, the diaper bag on my back with Claire perched on top. Strangely enough, it wasn't as heavy as you would think. Long, hot firefighting summers carrying my pack and bladder bag sure prepared me for motherhood 😏. 

The sweetest lady asked if she could snap my picture. She told me years down the road I would appreciate this picture showcasing the effort it took to get where I am. I am so glad she did!

Our breathtaking view. Park City really is beautiful.

Waiting for their Daddy and comparing sticks.

These pictures prove without a doubt that Claire is indeed a Spjute.

Post-race of Greg and his girlies. Claire is perched in the background a couple of feet away from a dropoff. Luckily she chose not to jump.

She is one free spirit. It is both a beautiful and nerve-wracking thing to watch.

On the hike down, Quince promptly fell asleep. Have I mentioned that she's the best? Because she really is!

Greg keeps telling me I need to start a YouTube channel of Claire's antics. I think he may be right. I rewarded the girls with ice cream cones on the way home. They sure were troopers up that steep hill! 

We barely missed the rain, but it made for some spectacular views driving home.

Fun with Cousins

Tiff took the day off work, so I took the girls down to spend a day at her house in Lehi. Everything is more fun at Aunt Tiffy's, and I have to agree. We went to the Lehi pool, and it was so fun! There was slides for the girls, a rockwall to climb and jump into the water, a shallow end, and of course cousins to swim with. 

Claire is a really good swimmer for a 4 year old, but she got a little too confident when she jumped off the diving board in to the 12 ft deep end. She made it to the wall the first time, but I had to jump in and save her the second time, which humbled her. She spent the rest of the time on the slide and in the shallow end with cousins :). 

Quincey is a hot commodity in the Haggerty household.

If I couldn't find Claire, I quickly found her going down these slides. So fun!

The gang.

So fun to have cousins their ages! They ended the day with a sleepover. They are so spoiled :).

Mini Enduro #1: Jeremy Ranch

Greg started up his Mini Enduro's this summer. Thanks to yours truly, he missed the email telling the crowd that the Mini Enduro Season Passes were live - meaning he didn't get a season pass, but it wasn't all bad. He was still able to sign up for the individual races that he wanted to do and miss the ones he didn't. 

The day of the 1st Mini Enduro was super hot down in Kaysville, but the clouds continued to get darker and darker the closer we got to Park City. Being the stellar mother that I am, I didn't pack any rain jackets ... why would I? But, I remember the girl's hats, so I considered that good enough. Lucky for us, and Greg, the clouds waited to unload until after his 2 races.

Check out those dark clouds!

The girls did so good on the hike! Look how green it is.

Greg's first stage finish and we made it in plenty of time. He did great!

Claire was in wildflower heaven.

Greg came barreling down the mountain on his 2nd stage finish and scared the crap out of the lady in front of him. You can see her stopped as he flew past her in the first of the video. Luckily she got off the trail just in time or he would've run her over.

It chose to rain for a little bit while Greg was climbing back up the mountain for his 2nd race. The girls and I did the best we could hiding under the scraggly tree's.

I had to include these pictures of Claire, because she's hilarious!

We were able to hike down quickly enough before the rain hit. We were a good 50 yards away and Claire, Quincey and I booked it as fast as we could to the car. It was dead (I'll tell that story in a later post) and poor Greg was out in the pouring rain jumping the car while the girls and I watched cozily from inside.

I snapped this picture of this random guy to show how muddy it got. He rode down just minutes behind us - it was crazy! But, Utah needs the rain so it's hard to complain. 

You can't even tell the color of his bike. Crazy!