July/August Random Pics

After trying to catch up with my blog posts from the last couple months, I came across some miscellaneous photos that I figured I'd put all into one post. So here ya go! Some of them are from one of our many trips to the children's museum and some are completely random pics :)

They love "cooking" me meals in the play kitchen.

Garrett has been so into pirates lately...

Date night at the Gilbert temple!

Garrett is in love with his new shoes we got
at Walmart for $3!

Preston & Garrett when we went bowling.
(Uncle Preston spent the night with us while
he was here visiting Arizona) 

It is so hot in the summer that the park is usually
NOT an option or we'd all burn up. So we went
to McDonald's for and ice cream cone.

They played HARD on the indoor playground
and got just as red faces as they probably would've
outside from how sweaty they got. But they loved
the ice cream!

Queen Creek Splash Pad

We went to the Queen Creek splash pad for the first time a little while ago and it was AWESOME! And the kids had the time of their lives! It was a pretty cool!

It's hot Hot HOT!!!

This summer has been hot. I feel like that's probably a super obvious statement since we live in Arizona... but seriously, it has been one HOT summer! It actually wasn't too terrible up until we left for Utah the end of May. It was still hot but wasn't as bad as it normally is during that time of the year in Arizona. Then in Utah we enjoyed aMaZiNg weather which made it a thousand times worse to come bak to Arizona in the middle of June. We were welcomed with 114 degree weather as we drove into Phoenix. Blah. 

Soooo.... what do we do in the summer time in Arizona? We don't leave the house. Like ever. And if we leave it is to go outside and play in the water first thing in the morning before it get's to be 110 degrees! 

And believe me, we have tried so many frozen snacks, treats, popsicles, etc... You name it! Sam's Club has definitely delivered in there frozen desserts section! The strawberry Mexico brand popsicles have been a dream :) And the kids have loved frozen yogurts, frozen icees, and many different variety of popsicles. Yum!

I prop my feet/legs up on the water table
and the kids pour water on my legs to cool me
off. Such nice little kids they are :)

Sun-bathing in the water table. Haha!

All summer long I've been keeping my eye on the big blow up pools at Sam's Club. At the beginning of the summer they were $32. About a month ago they came down to $24. Well last week we were picking up a few things at Sam's and saw that they were down again in price to $19 so we decided to go for it! We got to the cash register and it rang up as $14!!! What a smokin' deal!! The kids have looooooved it and there is still so much summer time heat left this year that I'm sure we will get plenty of use out of it! Yay!

Summer Break

After Rick took boards we had a week off before he started rotations! It was so fun to have so much time with him! And the kids loved having daddy around all day every day. We went to the YMCA, the splash pad, the children's museum, to get ice cream cones at McDonald's and let the kids play on the play place, to Chick-Fil-A to redeem a free Frozen Lemonade, and bowling when Preston stayed the night with us (he also babysat Kimbri and Garrett so Rick and I could do a lunch date, thanks Preston!). It was a fun week that we got to spend loads of time with Rick/Daddy!

The score is hard to see... but I won Rick even at 37 wks pregnant!

She told me she was going to make potato soup. Ha!