What We've Been Doing the Past Few Weeks...

Here's a little bit of what we've been up to the past few weeks! The major changes in our home lately are Max potty training (making slow progress) and Sadie walking (making fast progress). Next...We're ALL going to learn to sleep through the night!!!!!!!!!!!!

A few weeks ago when Megan was in town we went up to Shaver Lake for our annual summer Lake Day with all the fam. I LOVE Shaver Lake! It was nice this summer because I had a babysitter all day for the kids at home and I had a wonderful, relaxing day!

The Lake
Some of us on the boat

I really like this pic of my mom and Megan! I especially love my mom in this hat!
Megan is always the first to get in the water!
Chad and Samuel...I think next year I will finally bring Max. I think he'll be old enough to handle being on a boat without jumping overboard in a year! :)

For some reason McKay always likes to stand at the front of the boat. Funny kid!

Last week Melanie and her kids came to stay at our place for a few days! We had such a fun time and it was so great to spend so much time with Melanie!

All 5 kids in our kids room playing.
We braved the park one morning, although it was so hot at 9:00 am already that we only lasted a 1/2 hour...then went to an air conditioned McDonalds indoor play place!
Marley on the swing. She is so adorable....a princess as she would say!
Max and Sadie swinging.

Sleepy kids. Luckily Mel has a van that fits us all...and our combined 5 car seats!
What we really love is that the Jensens taught Max the joys of eating a cheeseburger!! Cheaper than chicken nuggets so I'm happy! :)
And Mel and Marley taught us the joys of painting Sadie's toenails! She's never without polished and pedicured toes now!
The next day we went to a play area near the movie theater in River Park and it was much cooler. On the downside a flying beetle was trying to dive bomb and kill us. :)
At the Pioneer Day celebration on Saturday Max was in heaven with Uncle Tyler's cowboy hat. I think we are going to have to get out little cowboy a hat of his own.

Here are just some random pics from around the house. It has been so hot, not a day under 100 for a few weeks now, so we get a bit restless indoors all day, but try and find stuff to do!

Max was on cloud nine when I let him eat some cookie dough of the mixer. He was so excited when I handed it to him!
Sadie is our little busy body lately. She gets into stuff more than Max now. She loves to play in our makeshift TV cabinet.
Daddy's not too happy when he sees the Wii like this though. All she has to do is bat her eye lashes at him though and it's fine!
Under the table is another great spot.
She's always walking now! Here's a little video below. She gets fast each day and goes even further now than in this video. It's fun to watch her!! (Oh, and she has bangs again...thanks to Aunt Jane for the great hair cut! Now she really looks like Boo from Monsters Inc. I will post a comparison soon!)