Our Favorite Time of Year

Our family has been having a fun but busy summer so far. Here is what we have been up to in the last month and a half. First of all, Canyon and I went to the zoo...twice. First Canyon went with his cousins and then we went with some of my friends. It was a blast. Canyon loved the giraffes!
Here is Canyon's mad face when we had to leave the giraffes.

Canyon absolutely loved the carousel. He rode on the polar bear.

The good old lion drinking fountain. I remember that thing from when I went to the zoo in 1st grade! (That's been a long time)

Our upstairs neighbors got a kiddie pool that they set up outside in the back yard. Canyon LOVES it! As soon as we step outside he RUNS to it and he has successfully jumped into the pool on several different occasions with all of his clothes on.

Daniel spent one day brushing out Aspen. If any of you have ever had the experience of being around a shedding Alaskan malamute, you will understand how much hair is involved in this process. It could seriously fill up an entire garbage bag and possibly more. The entire lawn was covered with hair.

We also went camping for the weekend. We found the perfect spot surrounded by pine trees. It was beautiful and relaxing....until our super awesome camping neighbors started blasting their heavy metal music complete with swearing and other crude language. Finally I asked them to turn it down at 9:30 so we could put Canyon down for bed. Their idea of turning it down was to drive their truck that was blasting the music, about three extra feet down the road. This music continued until 3:00 in the morning. We haven't been back to that spot since.

Our family celebrated Strawberry Days in Pleasant Grove. We went the the parade with Lindsey, Devin, Max, and my mom. Canyon loved running out to collect the candy that the people in the parade threw. We had quite a stash of candy by the end of it. Then we went to Taco Amigo and ate fresh strawberry shakes. Yum! Canyon and Max also got to go to the carnival and ride the carousel. They had a blast.

Then something bad happened. I had pictures of all the above events, but a stupid copy place lost our memory card along with a bunch of pictures. IDIOTS!

Shortly after the strawberry days festivities, Canyon and I got the swine flu!!! It was awful. Poor little Canyon was so sick it broke my heart. Luckily, we both recovered and are in good health.

Daniel and I celebrated out 3rd year anniversary on June 21st! We got to go on a romantic date just the two of us. We have had a wonderful three years:)

We also celebrated the 4th of July! Daniel and his brother woke up at 4am to go and save us seats for the parade. Canyon and I got up at 5:30am so we could go and see the hot air balloons. All Canyon could say was "Wow! Wow!" Shortly after the parade started, Canyon fell asleep.

We finished off the day with a a bbq and fireworks. It was such a fun day!

Daniel's birthday was just a few days later. Daniel and I went to see Transformers 2 and went out to dinner at Los Hermanos. Happy Birthday Daniel!

Canyon is very spoiled and got a new pet. Fishys! Canyon recently became obsessed with fishys and we have watched Finding Nemo about 200 times. In hopes that I wouldn't have to watch Finding Nemo as much, we purchased three gold fish. Canyon loves them.