September 24, 2010

Alpine Slide...

A couple weeks ago we decided to head up to Park City for the afternoon and ride the Alpine Slide with the kids. This was a first for me and the kids and it's been years since Chris had gone. I had no idea what to expect, but it was super fun.
You have to ride the ski lifts to the top in order to go on the Alpine slide. I am not a big one for heights and dangling over the ground was not my kinda fun. If the kids weren't with us I probably would have enjoyed it more, but I kept imagining them falling. They enjoyed it and didn't seem the least bit concerned. Because of my fear of heights, I didn't dare let go of the bar...or Audrey... and therefore didn't take any pictures of the trip up the slide...or down for that matter.
Audrey and I rode together down the Alpine slide and we did go pretty slow, but it was really fun and I would love to go and do it again. Audrey LOVED it! As soon as we started I heard a little "Weeeee!" coming from her. 
I did get a picture of Nathan and Chris coming down the end of the slide.
Nathan had a lot of fun too. 
Before we left we decided to enjoy the nice weather and treat ourselves to some slushies.
Here's Nathan sharing his with Audrey. 
I think Audrey was sharing hers with Nathan here...
As we were leaving we stopped in front of this really cool statue to get some pictures. If Nathan sees the camera pointed his direction, he just gets goofy. What else can I say?
Another fun and successful family outing!

September 21, 2010

Creepies and Crawlies...

The first part of August we were able to make a trip to the zoo. We went to see the Nature's Nightmares exhibit and they had these bats just hanging out. Not even separated from the visitors. Very creepy...
And of course we had to check out the baby elephant Zuri...
Nathan posing on the big elephant outside the Elephant Encounters exhibit...
Riding the Carousel...
And the ostrich came over to say hello too...

24th of July

Ok, I'm gonna try and get caught up again. We'll see how it goes. 

Since the 24th of July landed on a Saturday this year, we decided to take the kids downtown and camp out to see the 24th of July parade.  This was the first time for me and the kids. We met up with some of my friends from work and their kids Friday night and set up camp. 
We spent the night talking, playing games, reading and just enjoying one anothers company. We did end up setting up next to some interesting people and it seemed a time or two to be in the middle of a gang war with the cops stopping by to talk to our neighbors, but overall had a great night. 
We even got free breakfast out of it. Some people left their canopy and chairs and asked us to keep an eye on it for them and they brought us bagels the next morning.
The kids had such a great time hanging out, but I was glad when we got done. Of all the fun we had, we didn't get much sleep. We are thinking we might have a go at it next year too. 
Here are some pictures of our fun...

Playing with bubbles...
Checking out the stars...
Waiting for the parade to begin...
Our friends Angela and Kingston
Daddy getting cooled off by Audrey...
A little bit of what we saw...
The policemen/women all were wearing mustaches. Guess it's some kinda tradition. It was funny to see.
President Uchtdorf
Some of the floats and such...
There were sure an amazing bunch of floats. The only thing that would have made it better...more sleep and not so much heat.