Park City, UT Family Photos

 

Summer Time

 

I'm seeing the girls personalities more and more. Lucy had her dance performance about a month ago and she was just the sweetest- eager to to perform. Showing all sorts of spunk. And almost more endearingly, she was so supportive of the other dances. After her dance, she was sitting with me watching the others and she would hoot and holler for them! and then with private oo's and ahh's to me saying how beautiful they were. It makes me tear up just thinking about her confidence she must have in herself to be so in other's corners without being jealous.

Ella is so creative and cool. And practically seems a teenager to me, what with her choker necklaces and stylish outfits she picks herself and a bit of a too cool for school attitude at times. Plus she's both annoyingly independent - not trusting my friend advice or practically any of my advice - and a bit attached to me- not hardly wanting to spend a second apart from me at the pool for instance. Both sweet and tender and again- a hair annoying at times. Though i really shouldn't be annoyed at all- I should treasure it.

She also lost her tooth!! It was hanging on for dear life for a while- she could even turn it so the back of the tooth was facing forward while still stuck in!

At nights, after the sun goes down just a bit, we sit outside. look at this sunset! Its a tricky time though because its at about 8pm that the sun goes down enough for it not to be too hot in the front yard- and by that time I want the girls in bed, not outside playing, even though it seems a shame for them not to be because its so lovely in the summer night time. I should probably tell bed time to be damned because I won't get their childhood back. is that what I should say?

I showed the girls the movie Freaky Friday with Lindsay Lohan in it- the day or two after, I regretted showing them that because Ella would argue with me like a Lindsay Lohan teenager and it was a bit roll your eyes frustrating. But, it has also brought about this rock n roll phase. Lucy is using our rock band pretend guitar to do many a full out rock concert and she constantly throws up the rock n roll hand sign! haha its pretty fun. thankfully Lucy doesn't copy the 'arguing-with-your-mom' stuff the movie showed :)

NC Trip and Spring

I loved taking my kids to the beach! Ella especially loved it so much. She loved boogie boarding, the ocean, rocking her cool swimsuit, and on the last day she collected so many shells and after convincing me with tears, brought them all home. 

Every time I go on vacation, and NC is no exception, I am mesmerized by the difference in plants and landscape from Grantsville, Utah. The trees were SO TALL in North Carolina. It is amazing and so beautiful. We went to this nature preserve. We also found some poison ivy, which made me a bit paranoid about the girls going off the path, to the bummer of everyone. Thankfully no one got poison ivy! Phew! 

I tried to really explain Easter to the girls this year. I even got this paper cut out easter story- basically like a nativity scene but with easter figures. Lucy took to it. We also loved decorating eggs with this cool spinny egg decorator gadget. 

Lucy thriving at dance gives me so much joy! 

We loved the beach and we loved getting to see our family, including you Eleanor! It was so sweet.

Outdoors

Today we had church at home and played outside at my inlaws house- they have such a nice yard and its making me so excited for ours. We have started doing our yard- and by that, I mean, we paid someone else to start on our yard. There are trenches in the front yard that are dug for irrigation and we also have a tractor sitting in our backyard. 

I feel some anxiety about Ella's school. She is in first grade, goes to school in person mon- thurs. She kinda likes school- but I'm always questioning- could I do a better job of teaching her at home? I probably could with some things- but I'm just not disciplined enough and it seems so hard! It's hard to always do whats best for your kids. I doubt I'll ever go through with home schooling but I do think about it sometimes.