Bear Lake

Me, Alyssa, and Abbey on the boat.

My dad and his white legs! (He NEVER wears shorts!)

Avery and Dad

Avery's feet in the sand. She loved the feel of the water.

Avery's cute smile! Cousin Andrea is holding her.

My Dad playing horseshoes.

David took the girls out on the UFO.

My cousin Katie's little boy Conner. He is SO cute!

Avery eating her toes.My nephew Hunter.


This year for the Peterson Family Campout we went to Bear Lake. We were able to stay at the Inn at Snow Meadows and the huge house next door called The Grand View. They were so beautiful. The two houses are brand new and we were the first people to stay at the Grand View. It was an awesome place to be. We were able to spend a lot of time at the lake and we had tons of fun. I love to be on the beach! We spent most of Friday at the beach and then we came back to the house and had dinner and got ready for the family talent show. It was really funny. Saturday we went back to the beach after we checked out of the house we stayed in. We had the annual Peterson Family Horseshoe Tournament on the beach. Grandpa Pete wins every time!

4th of July Weekend

This year we spent the 4th of July with David's family at their cabin in Sigurd, Ut. We had such a fun time there. We decided to go to the Gunnison parade. It was basically livestock, tractors, and local royalty. They throw out lots of candy and we even scored a couple t-shirts!

This is the biggest piece of farm equipment I have ever seen. It took up the whole road!

This one was pretty big too.

This is a prize winning bull- it is massive!

You might be a redneck....

Me and Avery

Avery and David

Alyssa and Abbey eating the popsicles they caught.

While we were there, David took Abbey on a ride on the four wheeler. They went with David's dad and brothers Kason, Dallin, and Justin. They were gone for about 2 hours, but Abbey had a good time. I wasn't sure she would like it, but she did awesome. We also went to see the fireworks at Gunnison Valley High School and we saw the movie Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

*As a side note, the day we left to go out of town we had a really bad rain storm. Once again, we had water come in under our sliding glass door and it buckled our wood floors again. We are not sure what we are going to do about it since the people responsible (the glass company who installed the door and the builder, Trophy Homes) are now both bankrupt. The HOA is trying to come up with a solution, but we don't know yet what is going to happen. I will update on this when I find out details.

Lunch with Friends

Kristin, me and Leslie
The babies- Shelby, Avery, and Kate

All the girls together- Sarah, Grace, Alyssa, Abbey, Shelby, Avery, and Kate

Last week I was able to have a couple of my favorite friends over for lunch at our house. It was really nice to be able to sit and chat with adults during the day. That really doesn't happen very often for me. Kristin, Leslie and I haven't gotten together for a couple years so it was long overdue. Between the three of us we have 7 girls! None of us has a son. Kristin's girls are Grace and Kate and Leslie has Sarah and Shelby. The older 4 (Alyssa, Abbey, Sarah, and Grace) all had a great time playing dress-up. The baby girls were all born within 2 months of each other. Avery is the oldest, Kate is two weeks behind her, and Shelby was born 6 weeks after Kate. We had a great time!

Avery's 4 month check-up

I took Avery to her 4 month appointment on Monday. Time goes by way too fast when your kids are babies! She is still really small though. At her appointment she only weighed 11 lbs 14 oz. That is the 25th percentile. Her head and her height are in the 50th percentile. I started her on rice cereal about a week ago and she loves it. Hopefully now she will gain a little weight! Alyssa and Abbey love her so much and they can't get enough of her. The first thing they do every morning it come in and say hi to her. They are such good helpers with her. They love to hold her and she loves to smile for them. She really is such a good baby! She only cries when she is hungry. When she has a messy diaper, she doesn't really cry, she just kind of grunts at me so I know that something is bugging her. She is getting really good at sleeping through the night. She usually sleeps from 10:00 until 5:00 or 6:00 in the morning. I am one who really needs my sleep or I am not a happy person, so it is really good for me that she is doing so well.

Splashing at the Gateway

Alyssa and Abbey

William

Abbey, Marlee, William, Ava, Hannah, Alyssa, and Chase

Abbey, Ava, Marlee, and Alyssa
Chase

On Friday, I decided I wanted to go to the Gateway for the Chalk Art Festival. I was really excited to see the artwork, but none of the pictures were done and only a couple of them had been started. I was really bummed because the billboard for the festival says it was Friday and Saturday. I assumed that meant that the art would be on display all day both days. ( David tells me that's what I get for assuming!) My sisters-in-law Ashley and Brooke, my mom, and my cousin Amy and her husband Chad all went with us. We let the kids run through the water for a while and they had so much fun. Everyone had swimsuits except for my girls, so they got wet in their clothes. It was such a fun outing and I had fun taking some cute pictures. These are a few of my favorites. Maybe next year we can go on Saturday and actually get to see the artwork!

To our friends...

Last night (Tuesday) we had our last supper with our friends Chad, Anya, and baby Lincoln (Avery's boyfriend). They are leaving us to move to Indianapolis for Chad's residency. We met the Turner's almost four years ago when we made a big move and sold our house in Tooele to move to a little two bedroom apartment downtown so David could go back to school at the U. It was a huge sacrifice for us since we were downsizing quite a bit from our 4 bedroom house. The only good thing about giving up my house was meeting our new friends. Chad and Anya were the managers of the building and after a few months we started hanging out with them all the time. We spent a lot of weekends playing cards, watching movies, and just sitting around chatting. A few of our favorite games have been nines, hand and foot, and boggle. When we first met, Chad was in his first year of medical school and now he is a doctor. Time has flown by! We prayed so hard for them to get to stay in Utah for residency, but because he is going into Orthopedic Surgery he was lucky to match at all (Indiana was their 11th choice). They will live there for about 5 years and hopefully they will come back to us after that.

We went to dinner at Robintino's in Bountiful and then went to Dairy Ann's after for some ice cream. We took a few pictures of our last time hanging out with all of us there. If we are lucky, we will get to see them again during the holidays. We are going to miss them like crazy!

Busy Weekend!

We had another busy, fun, and adventurous weekend! It started with helping our good friends Chad and Anya move out of their apartment. We got to their place at about 9:30 am on Saturday morning. They were mostly done, so we helped clean and load a few things. That day was also David's company Lagoon day, so as soon as we were done, we headed north. While on the freeway, we were stuck in traffic because of a really bad accident and it took us 1 hour to get from downtown Salt Lake City to Bountiful, which normally would take about 10 minutes. We had lunch at Applebee's and then headed to Lagoon. The girls were so excited to go and they couldn't wait to get there. There were a lot of rides that Abbey wanted to go on last year, but she was just 2 inches too short to ride them. This year she was tall enough and she was thrilled! She even got Alyssa to ride some rides that she wouldn't normally want to ride (like the Bat and the Ladybug Bop). We got there around 2:00 and we stayed until 9:30. We would have stayed a little longer, but Avery was really upset. She had only slept about 15 minutes the whole time we were there, so she was super tired. We had a fun day though. David's company pays for the tickets to get into the park, the dinner for everyone, and they do a drawing for prizes after dinner. The whole day is free, which is nice because the fee to get in now has gone up to $41.95! We have never won any prizes until this year, we won a $50 gift card to Costco.

This is how Avery spent the day, in the carseat.

Sunday morning, we got up really early to go to a baby blessing. My best friend Kristin and her husband David were blessing their new baby Kate. David did a great job blessing the baby. It was a beautiful blessing. Just as we were getting ready to leave for the blessing my mom called and said that they had water damage in their basement and they needed help going through the boxes that were down there and getting things cleaned up. They didn't lose too much, but a few of my little brother's pots that he made had cracked because they hadn't been fired yet. We spent most the day over there helping and then we played games and had dinner. We came home and sat on our lazy butts for the rest of the evening, we were SO TIRED!