Summer Lovin'

Wahoo! It's June! It's summer! School is out! Mommy has been counting down! The last day of school for all the big kids was on the 22nd and so our neighborhood had a little "Welcome to Summer" water fight! At any given moment there were probably two kids crying, but it was still a lot of fun!

And then we promptly left town again! We headed up to SLC to celebrate Aunt Rachel's birthday, Memorial Day, and the opening of Seven Peaks water park for the season! Oh AND the LIONS are back at Hogle Zoo!!!

Unfortunately, that Saturday was kind of cold and rainy. We still managed to play at the zoo for almost three hours though!

Poor Iva didn't see many animals, she had to stay all hidden in her stroller!

Oh wait...she did get to see the lions. Na na na nya na you can't get me!

The Preslars loved hanging out with Miss Iva. I'm pretty sure Aunt Rachel has even more delightful pictures on her camera.

Sunday afternoon (Aunt Rachel's birthday) was quite pleasant.

We went back to the zoo Monday morning and then had a picnic at Aunt Margaret's followed by play time at Seven Peaks. We were exhausted by the time we hit the car to drive home!

We have continued playing since we got home to St. George. We started swim lessons with Shayli and we are already quite good. I am diving down to the bottom of the pool and Cara is starting to swim across the whole pool doing the front crawl. We have been in swim suits EVERY DAY.

Daily life around here involves lots of morning snuggles and trying to entertain a baby in the bathroom!

We even had our first visit to the city pool! Iva's first time ever! We stayed for over three hours!

Cara was a little fish. Swimming everywhere.

I did the hydro tube all alone with a life jacket AND without. I basically could go anywhere because I was good enough at swimming!

We did go see the movie Maleficent with Daddy, but then decided to GO BACK to the pool for the last hour it was open. Just Mommy and us big girls. It was awesome. We got in at least 15 more slides down the tube.

Kindergarten Graduation!

The school year has come to an end which means I have officially graduated from kindergarten. On Tuesday, I was awarded the Panorama Python Achiever Medal. I had to do eight goals that were above and beyond what I normally would do in kindergarten. I was one of only five kindergartners who did it AND there were only 40 in the whole school!

Wednesday was our actual graduation segment. It was lovely. Dad, Mom, Cara and Iva came and listened to our fun songs. It was hard to get a good video, but they said they liked being there!

Quick lets do 2 more days at Disneyland!

The only day that Daddy could join us at Disneyland was Sunday. We normally don't do Disneyland on a Sunday for a number of reasons, but one of them is usually the crowds. We were pretty surprised by how tame the crowd was. We were able to do a number of rides quickly and easily. Plus the temperatures were still down, barely 80 degrees! Plus, we were able to get Cara on all the mountain rides! Big Thunder, Space and Splash and then we also got her on Star Tours. Big day for us!

We also met a ton of characters that we have never have!

Brer Bear was quite silly with my ears. He danced with them and sneezed on them.

Iva was ADORABLE when she met Minnie Mouse. She shrieked and giggled and thoroughly enjoyed her. They played peek a boo.

Another big moment, we kind of snuck me on Indiana Jones!!! We had to put me in my tallest shoes and maybe add some napkins, but I went twice and loved it!

This picture cracks Mommy up because it's still light out and all three of us were CRASHED! It was only like 7 pm!

And then on Monday we went back for just a few more hours of fun, but this time Uncle CJ could join us! Doesn't he look hilarious squeezing on to Go Coaster with Cara?!

And for our final ride, we talked Cara into going on Tower of Terror. She kind of hated it, then kind of liked and then promised to do it again!

WHAT A GREAT TRIP! We are still tired considering we got in at 2:30 Tuesday morning!