Nowhere to go but Down.

The first week of summer has been so action packed that I fear the rest of it is going to be one giant letdown.   Already, we've had swim parties and lessons...

Kiki amazed her teachers with her diving/belly-flopping.



Kate and Alexis have hung out almost every day, including one ENTIRE day- a complete 24 hour period.

She is a third wheel only sometimes.

Usually they let her feel like one of the big girls.

The Wynn kids came with us to Grandpa Jack's Redneck Carnival.
There are only 3 attractions: A zip line, pony rides, and snake catching.

No one caught any snakes...they were in hiding.

We went with our neighbors and camped overnight in their trailer in American Fork Canyon.

We've started calling the one in the middle "Blond Hatch."

I'm teaching piano lessons, the girls are back in gymnastics, and we are gearing up for a summer full of visitors.  Things have actually felt pretty busy to us, but it has been fun so far...and we haven't even been to our favorite swimming haunts yet! More fun is definitely in store. 

Things Kiki Says

After a winter in the tropics, the word "pants" has disappeared from Kiki's vocabulary.  We have only "shorty shorts" and "the shorts that are long."

We went to see my new baby niece, Evie.  Kate held the baby, and fed the baby, and fawned all over the baby.  Kiki hardly looked at the baby, except with serious jealousy when I held the baby.  After leaving, Kate went on and on..."Baby Evie is so cute and new...Baby Evie is so sweet...I got to feed Baby Evie her bottle..."  Finally Kiki had had enough of that and said, "Yeah?  Well, I liked the dog."

I bought some pepperoni with plans to make pizza sometime this week, and Kiki can't stay out of it!  We should all know by now that she lacks the ability to eschew a processed meat product.  I finally told her there would be no pizza if she didn't quit eating my pepperoni, and within minutes she was back at my side saying, "I know that I extra double bind promised to stay out of the pepperoni but now I really need some bacon."