Fun at Bear Lake

We've been anticipating our stay at a Bear Lake cabin with Greg's entire Spjute family and it did not disappoint! We played hard and ate good food - 2 things that are a common factor in these type of gatherings. Sofi couldn't get enough of her cousins and thrived in the environment. She has become quite the vocalist and loves telling people what to do. She is going to make a great older sister.

On our way to Bear Lake, we planned to stop and eat dinner at our old favorite spot, Cafe Sabor. It's in the old Logan train station and it was fun to see a giant train parked there.

The cabin we stayed at had such a fun yard: Volleyball court, swing set, slide off the deck, hot tub, and a hill to roll down. Sof never got tired of running racing her cousins up the hill. 

The room we were staying in had a bunk bed for all 3 of us to share. Sof slept on the top bunk every night and loved it! I think a bunk bed may be in her future. Sadly, Greg and I didn't sleep so good on the bottom. We each took turns sleeping on the floor each night, it was that bad.

Every morning: "Daddy!" And stick her head over the rail.

Wednesday morning we all caravaned to the ice caves up in Idaho. It was about a 40 minute drive, and not everyone found the actual ice caves. And, it was freezing! If you look, you can see ice under the planks we walked on.

Walking up the hill above the ice caves

Helping Dad drive the dirt roads. Luckily, this is before we got pulled over ...

Patiently waiting for our Raspberry shakes BEFORE dinner :)

We celebrated 3 birthday's this week. 

Helping Marcus with double dutch

This girl sure loves Beanie

Grandma and Grandpa busted out the glow sticks one night. It was awesome!

We happened to be up at Bear Lake during the week of Raspberry Days. Thursday was the day for the parade and the party just seemed to keep on going.

Getting her Dory Tattoo

Lately Sofi has been really into Dory and Finding Nemo, so these tattoo's were perfect! She was so excited.

 

Greg's dad had the hookups and scored us a private beach from someone in his ward. There was pretty much no beach anywhere else because the lake was so high, so it was awesome to have a place all to ourselves complete with boats, paddle boards, and this random snowmobile.

She lives the dream!

We took this little beaut out a couple times. Sof wasn't so sure, but she didn't complain either.

We were lucky enough to get this girl to nap every day. You know she's tired when she falls asleep in 2 minutes flat in a new place.

The Raspberry Days parade was Thursday night, and it was pretty awesome - just like any other small town parade. They threw out a bunch of things: beach balls, hula hoops, mini shakes, otter pops, and Greg's sister even scored chips and salsa (something he is still talking about).

During all of the crazy, we found time to snap a picture of the entire family (I'm thrilled you can't see my pregnant belly). Sof was being a ham and looking everywhere but at the camera, but luckily she has a cute profile so it will do.

Friday we woke early enough to eat breakfast (Sofi had mush every morning), pack, and play outside on this awesome swing set. All Spjute's were of the same mind and everyone left pretty early. 

We sure had fun!

The day we got back, Sofi took a 3.5 hr nap and was still onry enough to go to bed 1.5 hr later and sleep another 13 hours. She had fun and played hard. It's gatherings like this that realize I sure lucked out in the in-law department. It's good to know that no matter what, we will always have fun.

July Festivities

July seems to be the month that keeps on giving. Other than the fact that it is bloody hot, we are finding lots of fun things to do.

Eating toast. For one who doesn't eat bread at all, this was a big moment.

Greg surprised me with Train tickets for my birthday and the day finally came for us to go - without Sofi :). I have always wanted to see him and this just happened to be the year we were finally in town when he was here. In all my pregnant glory, you better believe I was singing and dancing with the best of them.

Quite possibly the worst angle for both of us, but we saw TRAIN!!!

We had fun despite the fact that Sof was being awful for the babysitter. Oh well.

Her new obsession is painting anyone's nails. There are worse things.

Tangled is still going strong in our house

It was my job to save spots for the Farmington Parade, and it did not disappoint. It is probably the best parade of the summer, and Sofi didn't want her Fat Boy, so yours truly devoured it in 2 bites flat.

Sof sure loves her Uncle Toby

Grandma and Grandpa Spjute treated everyone to the Trampoline park after the Farmington Festival Parade. Sof was in heaven, and Greg wasn't too shabby on the slackline.

If they offer a winter season pass, I am totally getting her one and we are going Every. Single. Day.

July 11 is officially the best day ever. Not really, but food-wise it's not too bad. We dressed up like cows and got free dinner at Chik-Fil-A, then went over to 7/11 and got a free slurpee, which isn't anywhere near as good as a frazzle, but it was free so I can't complain too bad.

My cute "cows"

First pony!

Breaking in Baby Sister's new bed

These car carts have saved our shopping trips!

Greg's grandma's twin sisters had a birthday bash we had a lot of fun at. It's fun to see the Boise Spjutes' and get reaquainted with them every time.

Greg's dad scored us tickets to the MoTab's Pioneer concert. Mark graciously watched Batman at our apartment while Sofi slept. The concert was actually really good, and I may now just be an Alex Boye fan.

Yes, Greg is sweating in this picture. We ran the entire way from where we parked to be able to get there in time.

Sofi got to meet her new baby cousin Baya, and loved her as much as I thought she would. I'm getting more and more excited for her to be a big sister. She's going to be the best little helper.

Exploding flour.

For July 24th, Greg's cousin invited us up to her home in Park City, and we had a lot of fun. Sofi was able to run around like a crazy person and play for hours with cousins. 

We went to El Rancho with April, Toby and their kids. A little farm in the middle of the city. I'm still able to catch a chicken, pregnant belly and all :). When you forget you're pregnant for a minute, it's amazing how fast you can still run.

throwing rocks.

Sof and Megan are two peas in a pod.

Photo cred: Sofi. She's getting pretty good.

Playing in Grandpa's beautiful backyard.