August

We started out the month making a German Chocolate Cake for my brother-in-law’s birthday:

 

The girls’ daycare does the most amazing crafts. I don’t take pictures very often. But I loved this one:

 

A random picture of Abby with the new favorite stuffed animal at our house:

 

 

Sandy after she got her blood drawn. Notice the purple bow on her pink arm wrap. We took her to a pediatric gastroenterologist because she has been having some stomach problems.

Update: All of her blood tests came back fine. And after charting it for a month, I think it just comes down to (1) she has a sensitive stomach and (2) anxiety = stomach aches at our house. So, I think we can manage this and don’t need to go back to the doctor.

 

Another picture of Sandy with her kitty:

 

Bill took Abby to the Seven Peaks Fun Center on a daddy date:

Here is Sandy at a My Little Pony party. Notice the tail:

 

 

Abby loves books! One night we put the girls to bed and left the bathroom light on as a “night light.” Bill and I went downstairs to watch a movie and came back to find this:

Abby had decided to go read in the bathroom. I love that she took her mattress with her!

 

The girls at First Encampment Park:

 

 

We found these amazing swirled balloons:

 

 

Sandy’s first day of school:

Do you like the new door color? We finally painted it after a year of it looking like this:

 

 

A couple more pictures from the first day of kindergarten:

The tears for the day came from Abby, who was sad that she didn’t get to start kindergarten, too.

 

And we’ll end with a few pictures from a princess party the girls went to at Discovery Gateway:"

 

July

The 4th of July started with the traditional Buhler family party at Steve’s house.

The kids dug in the sand for money:

 

They also took a swing at a pinata, played games and had a blast with their cousins and extended cousins:

We ended the month with a trip to Canada. On the way, we drove through Glacier National Park. We stopped to take a boat ride at St. Mary Lake. It was amazing!

 

 

 

 

My sister lives in Canada, so we all descended on her for a family reunion of sorts. There were lots of people, including my parents and my brother with his family.

We had a great time! The girls loved getting to know their cousins. We got to see lots of fun things in Canada.

This was at Frank’s Slide:

This was at a waterfall in Waterton Park:

  We also stopped to look at the Prince of Wales hotel in Waterton Park:

The hotel staff were all dressed in traditional Scottish clothing:

Here we are pulling out of Canada. It was sad to say good-bye, what an amazing trip!

Happy Birthday, Sandy!

We celebrated Sandy’s 5th birthday with our traditional birthday pancakes:

 

Grandma & Grandpa Buhler joined us for birthday cupcakes another night:

 

Sandy has been begging for an umbrella. In fact, she bought one with her birthday money last year. We bought it on Amazon but it wasn’t well made at all. So, what she wanted to do with her birthday money this year was buy an umbrella. And I was very reluctant…until I thought of going to DI.

Both of the girls got an umbrella for $2 each. They were thrilled. I was thrilled that even if they break it was only $2 wasted. These umbrellas look well made, though, I think they’ll last.

The Princess Festival

Today we went to the Princess Festival at Thanksgiving Point.

 

The girls had a blast meeting the princesses:

 

When we checked in, each girl got a special princess story book that had autograph pages in the back for them to collect princess signatures:

 

Since we went in lieu of a birthday party for Sandy, we brought along a couple of her friends:

 

 

We watched a couple of shows and went on some quests with the princesses.

   

We took a carriage ride:

 

 

 

Update

I’m finally getting around to cleaning the pictures off the camera and my phone so I can update this blog. Here’s a few pictures from earlier in June:

 

We went to a summer kickoff party at the library. Some police officers were there letting the kids climb on their motorcycles:

 

 

Our Stake had a Family Fun Day. The girls got their faces painted like kitties:

 

 

The girls are taking a dance class. The dance class was Abby’s motivation to become potty trained.

 

We got the Pass of all Passes this year and have had a blast trying out different things. We went to Planet Play the other day, though, and Abby got clocked in the head with a miniature golf club:

 

Apparently the mess phase still isn’t over at our house:

Abby got into the vaseline, when I found her she said, “Sorry I made a mess, mommy.” As I tried to talk to her about being a big girl now and not making any more messes, she said, “Okay, mommy. When I’m 4, I won’t make any more messes.”