June..oh sweet June

I really think Mom has enjoyed having no school. She loves to fill our days with swimming and sno cones and shenanigans that sometimes include just ignoring us while we run wild in the house!

We have made sure to hit city pool a few more times...

Try and figure out a good school for Iva's sleep...

Sister times!

On Saturday we actually made sure to find time to play with Daddy! We ran off to Zion to our favorite swimming hole. We always try to go fairly early in the day to avoid the crowds and it typically pays off!

I'm pretty sure this was Iva's first time to the Pinecreek Swimming Hole!

We did make it up to the waterfalls at the top but we left our camera down below so that we didn't risk getting it wet!

I was the only one brave enough to jump with Dad in the end. Cara loved the watefall slide up at the top, but wouldn't jump.

The water WAS pretty dang cold!

Oh I know! Let's go to SLC!

We had been debating about whether we would get a chance to run up and see our SLC cousins before our big Romney Reunion in San Diego in June and at the very last minute, Mom and Dad decided to go up the last weekend in May!

We left Thursday night after work and stayed for the weekend. It was nice! Salt Lake had still been stormy and a little cool the whole week, but we brought the summer heat with us!

We snuck off to the zoo on Friday morning because the Preslars kiddos were still in school. Hussani the gorilla greeted us as soon as we walked into the Ape House. He made sure to check us out. Iva kept waving at him and signing gorilla!

We enjoyed pretending to be bears...

And our favorite reason to go to the zoo was that they had brought back the dinosaurs. I begged Mom to take a picture of us running away from the T-Rex!

And then wanted to show us liking him.

We also had to check out the bird show now that it was back for summer.

Iva was thrilled...in the literal sense of the word. She was two parts excited and one part terrified of the swooping.

Had to go for a train ride!

Iva also loved the hammock in the backyard and would ask to swing.

That night, the Preslars elementary school was having their big carnival and of course we went! We got our faces painted...

And enjoyed the blow up obstacle courses!

The next morning we went BACK to the zoo while the two big cousins had cello lessons. We really wanted to show dad the dinosaurs.

Iva just loves her Daddy lately. She begs to stay with him and gets quite upset when he leaves the room and closes the door.

But BOY did we wear that girl out. She slept HARD.

We also had time to run up Millcreek Canyon with Daddy's friends and roast food over a fire! I had a hot dog, but we all really wanted marshmallows! It was so much fun even Mom was  a little sad that St. George doesn't have anything like that so close!

You would think we had enough food earlier, but we actually finished our night off with ice cream from Baskin Robbins. I think Cara enjoyed hers the most based on her face!

Sunday brought a lazier feel to the day. Mom had to sneak out of church early with Iva who was throwing a temper tantrum. 1 minute after being in the hammock and this is what happened.

We LOVE our trips to Salt Lake, but we are so excited that the next time we see our Preslar cousins it will be in SAN DIEGO for a whole WEEK!!

Let the summer partying begin...

And boy did we party! The last week of May was essentially filled with swim suits!

Memorial Day brought with it the sunny delightful weather that summer is supposed to have. It even felt HOT. So of course we went back to city pool with Daddy!

Cara even went off the diving boards for the first time and she LOVED it. Mom had to bribe her to get her to try it and then she wanted to go four more times before we left.

Then on Tuesday, Mom surprised us with a little one night get away with Aunt Angie down to Lake Las Vegas. We stayed at the Westin and it was awesome. They had a fantastic pool! We went down early in the day and played on the Vegas Strip at the Coca Cola Factory and the M and M factory. It was silly and fun.

We bought Dad some Star Wars M and Ms!

We checked in to our hotel early so that we could have plenty of time to swim!

We ran back into Henderson and grabbed a smorgasbord for dinner!

We made sure to head out to the pool as soon as we realized it was open the next morning to maximize our time!

 Iva LOVED the slide. She begged to go on it over and over. We had to wait until the last hour that we were there for it to be open, but it was worth it!

This is what our van looked like on the way home! Ha! We were all very sleepy!

It was a great START to our summer!