Danelle's Swim Lessons

This was Danelle's second year of swim lessons, but last summer it was really only playtime in the water. She got to do 2 sessions since I know how much she loves the pool!

She did great, and since she is in love with mermaids at the moment it worked out perfect for her to try and learn to swim, just like them!

Grandpa McKellar visit

*please excuse the delay in all these posts. Lane has been out of town a lot lately and these kids sure do keep me busy!

In August Grandpa McKellar came out to visit us for a few days. We headed over to Bear Lake for another one of Lane's triathalons, and he even took 1st in his division.

Since Grandpa McKellar had worked at Hill Airforce Base when he was in the Airforce, I decided it would be fun to take him and the kids to the muesum. It's huge and totally free, and Danelle loved all the real airplanes we got to see.

Friday night we went to an Ogden Raptors baseball game. Gunnison wasn't to impressed, but it was a fun evening actitivty to do in the summertime.

Thanks for coming out to visit Grandpa!

Cape Cod & Martha's Vineyard

Lane & I spent a week (no kids!) back East visiting Boston and some of the New England states. Our first stop was the beach! We went to Nauset Beach in Cape Cod. Click the link if you want to see where it's located.

Beautiful beach, beautiful weather, and I got to lay on the sand and catch up on some reading.

Lane did a little body surfing.

We ate several of these while we were out there. Lobster rolls are a big thing out there and basically consist of lobster, some mayo, sometimes 1 or 2 other ingredients, and then you put it on a bun. Soooo good! We made it our mission to try as many of these as possible while there. (7 total :)

The next day Lane got up nice and early and fished at Martha's Vineyard.(I slept in till 10 then did my 10 mile run along the river- training for my half marathon & shopped at H&M, best way to spend a day for both of us).

He loved it and caught a dozen or so pretty big fish.

We took a ferry over to Martha's Vineyard and walked around for the day but the weather was a little rainy so we didn't stay to long on the island.

The towns were really fun to walk around and we found some really good seafood places to eat at.

I think Boston my be one of my new favorite towns- more in the post below!

Boston Trip

We had an amazing time in Boston! This resturant The Union Oyster House is the oldest in the US, and we just happen to be there on their 185th birthday! This was my first "whole" lobster.

We went to the NY Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox baseball game at Fenway Park. Great way to spend a summer night!

On Saturday we headed over to Newport, RI (were the Astors & Vanderbilts have their mansion, if your into East Coast "royalty").

We had never been on a sailboat before and it was a blast. Lane and I sailed on The Heritage, a 12 meter yacht that was in the America's Cup Regatta.

We will have to wait till we start raking in the millions before we take up sailing as a hobby though.

They even let us have a task and help with the sailing. Such a cool experience!

Doesn't Lane look like he could be straight out of a Nautica or Ralph Lauren catalog :)

Summer bites

Take a close look at this girls arms and legs. You'd think she has chicken pox or hives. But no, it's just a little mosquito love. Guess we were outside a little to long in the evening without spray...she was covered in bites on her arms, legs and face :( we still love summertime though!

Gunnar's 1st Haircut

BEFORE

AFTER

Our little blondie, all ready for summer!

(since this first haircut we've had 3 more for this guy already :)

Hello Baby!

I had to hurry up and get some "baby pictures" done of this little guy before he got any bigger! He's growing up so fast. He's doing the crawling thing now and really wants to walk. He loves to have you hold his hands so he can stand up. Not to mention he's quite the little chatter box. Come and get some of his baby-ness while you can!

This boy was a dream to shoot pictures of. Smiled the whole time. Which is really his overall demeanor all the time. I love how happy and smiley this guy is!