Weekend Adventures

Grandma and Grandpa Gillette were here for a few days this week. We always love when they come to visit us.

We like to take them hiking in one of our favorite spots – Snow Canyon. This particular hike was making Grandpa Paul a little nervous. He was convinced one of the kids was going to fall and he sure didn’t want to call the emergency medical personnel more than once this weekend (see butterscotch story below!)

We also went on a family bike ride. Don’t you love Bella’s cute shoes! Grandma Jerri Lynn got them for Bella’s birthday that is coming up next month. They light up and everything.

The trail by our house is beautiful for a family biking adventure – we get to see this view everyday!

Saturday evening we went to the Rodeo Parade. It was hot!

And we managed to lose this little one for a few minutes! We were trying to get our spot staked out and suddenly Chuck realized Jenna was missing. We were frantically looking all around because it was crowded and there were people everywhere. Finally a woman behind us asked if that was out baby wondering down the sidewalk. Jenna apparently just went on a little stroll by herself. I hate the gut wrenching feeling of displacing a child for a few minutes.

The kids collected a lot of candy. We have been working on creating our Family Flag and as part of that we asked the kids to come up with a few ideas to describe what we like to do as a family. One of the first things they said was, “Get candy at parades”. Not quite what we were looking for, but they are right we do like parades and candy!

To top off the evening we went for a picnic at the park. It was so nice for Chuck and I to sit back and watch all the kids just play together. Even little Jenna was trying to join in the fun. Jenna is a fighter though and soon she had bugged and pushed another little boy until he started to hit her. I got up to take care of the situation since the boys mom was very preoccupied, but realized I didn’t have to solve the problem because there was Isaac who had jumped to the rescue and was telling the little boy to stop hitting his sister. Very sweet – older brother defending his baby sister – although really Jenna tends to be able to hold her own most of the time!