We spent the 4th of July weekend with family playing on the beautiful flathead lake and staying at my parents cabin. It was so much fun!
While there we played lots of games, stayed up way too late, ate too much junk food, and greatly enjoyed it! :) We went to a restaurant where we ate some awesome fish and chips.
Of course the main even was boating, water skiing and wakeboarding.I didn't get a picture of me wakeboarding but I threw one of Chase in here to represent:)
Dal absolutely loved the boat and Braely Rae had her first boat ride
Tiff & I (She is 7 months pregnant & has the cutest little tummy)
Dal, Chase & Jen were the front of the boat posse most of the time.He had so much fun with them!
Hugs all around!Dal went around giving hugs to everyone, especially after they skied, to help keep them warm. It was really cute! :)
The fun wasn't over yet. The next weekend we went to my mom 's family reunion camping at Downetta Hot Springs. It was Dal and Braelyn's first camping experience. Dal abosuletly loved camping! He has asked me to go every day since we got home.
The Reunion consisted of lots of games such as bocce ball, volleyball, football, etc. Each night we played Rook by lantern until all hours. We also had the annual family races. I competed in the women's age 16-30 division and I actually won the race. I overheard people comparing me to a gazelle. :) I was pretty proud of myself for winning, not that the competition was all that stiff, but hey I thought it was cool. Collin even has proof on video, for those skeptics out there :)
Dal had lots of fun playing with his cousins. We also went swimming in the hot springs and they had some fun water slides. Good times!
To finish off our weekend we went to Sandy to hear our Aunt and Uncle who were serving as mission presidents in Japan give their homecoming talks in church. It was so awesome to see them and hear about their experiences. It was so fun to see all of their family as well. We just love the Hills!
More sweet sibling time. These two are just too cute together!
Our little local airport had an open house so we went for some yummy free food and a close look at the little airplanes; Dal got to sit in a couple and jump in a big blow up castle that they had set up for the kids. We had never been to the airport here before so it was kind of fun to check it out and it was so beautiful because it is surrounded by the pretty green mountains.
Dal & I made a banana pretzel caterpillar type thing (and he's making a crazy face:)
So we have a kid tent that Dal was really excited to set up and he wanted to sleep in it in our back yard area. We opted to set it up in our dining room area facing the screen door so he could kind of feel like he was outside. He actually did sleep in it the whole night by himself but he did get up about 10 times needing different things....his blanket, a drink of water, once when I came down he said "Mommy I need a hug" and that was it. I gave him a hug then he went back to sleep. It was pretty cute. The annoyance I felt for having to get up that 8th time all melted away with that request :) We moved the tent up to his room the next night and he sleep like normal.
Before he went to sleep he was really excited to read his scriptures with a flashlight in his tent. (Dal is on a new kick of closing his eyes whenever he says "cheese" to pose for a picture:)
We went to First Dam for some duck feeding fun (There were some adorable little baby ducks there. I just love babies of any kind, well probably most any kind:)
A couple days later we headed down to Provo to go to the temple with Jake's sister, and got to be with a lot of his family there too, and spend some time with them. It was wonderful. We also spent some time with my family that lives is Provo (my mom happened to be in town for Women's Conference so we got to play with her too). While there we hung out, played a lot of Wii and were planning on going to Hogle Zoo but due to inclement weather we ended up going to the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point instead. It was a very cool museum. Dal had been excited to go to the zoo so I was explaining to him that we were going to a dinosaur museum instead where we would see bones of animals that lived and died a long time ago. He thought that sounded cool. On our way there he said "Mom, are we at the dead animal zoo yet?" 
Along with all of the cool dino bones they also had some cool interactive stuff for the kids like a sand area where they could dig for fossils. While at the museum we met up with Catherine and Christen and their kids so Dal got to play and dig with his cousins which was really fun for him.
They also had a huge sand and water table where they could search for little dinosaurs
Dalyn is such a joy. He is so full of life and energy and is so much fun. He is also a little thinker. The things he puts together and comes up with never cease to amaze me. Lately he has really been into drawing and coloring and anything Spiderman. All the stages and phases are so fun!
Braelyn is so precious. She is just the sweetest and happiest baby. She loves to smile, laugh, squeal, socialize, etc. She is my little sunshine! (An added bonus is that she has been sleeping through the night since she was 2 months old. Now she's up to about 10 hours a night. All that great sleep makes for a happier baby and mommy:)
