Corbin has made a new friend this summer.  Cole is on his baseball team, and has been over almost every day this summer.  He's such a good kid - we've really enjoyed him.  Cole and his brother Cash, who is Mason's age, got to sleep over while their parents were running a marathon in Minnesota.  They had a great time.  It was so windy outside, so they buit a fort for shelter. 

Then they built another fort inside, and watched movies until they fell asleep.



Sage is into wearing things.  If she finds something she can wear, she wants it on.  Usually it's clothes, or she's walking around in someone's shoes, but this time she found a bag of hair clips.



Debbie and I took the kids on a "field trip" to tour the Beehive House, then we ate lunch at the Joseph Smith History building.  We're looking forward to some more fun adventures with Debbie and the kids this summer.

Getting ready to let Mason's pet butterflies go. Steve and Tasha gave him a butterfly garden for his birthday, and it was a lot of fun to see them grow from caterpillars to butterflies!  We learned a lot about them.

Mason had circus day on his last day of preschool. He dressed up like a lion, and got to jump through hoops, play laser tag, and all sorts of fun games.

Ferocious!

Mason made a magnet board and a card for his teacher.


Sage celebrated circus day at home.

After Mason got home we went to the elementary school to play on the playground.

Weeeeeeee!

A great big brother.

Nice balancing!


Tub time!

One of our favorite places to go is to the frog ponds in Zions. There were more frogs there this year than we've ever seen! We all had a blast!

Sage didn't love the frogs, but she enjoyed splashing in the pond.

Interesting reflection coming off the water.

The circle is the net with a frog in it.

Scott was holding Sage, and the lizard ran from the net onto her. She wasn't impressed:)  Corbin says: "Sagey's only enemy is frogs and lizards!"

Like father, like son!

Sage and I ate fishy crackers and played in the water while the boys went for a hike.

Frogs and lizards!

Corbin says:  "Sagey the rock climber"


cannonball!

The birds broke into our fish crackers when we weren't looking.  Corbin says:  "And it followed us all the way back to our hotel!"

Dividing up the spoils. I'll bet the boys caught over fifty frogs that day!

Anyone want a frog?

Hiking to the Emerald Pools.

Riding the Zion bus.

We waited a loooooong time for our food at the Pizza Noodle.  Corbin said I should put more "o"s in the word looooooooooooooong!

Scott was embarassed because Sage kept making really loud sqwaking noises at a fake parrot.

Sage is starting to walk!

The boys liked hiking up the river in Red Cliff Canyon.

There were lots of rock tunnels for the boys to climb through.