Date Night in July

July was one of Cory's 4 months to plan our date night so he chose to take me up to Emigration Canyon for dinner at Ruth's Diner. When we got here it was getting really busy and we would either have to wait 15 minutes for an inside table or 45+ for an outside, so in spite of the PERFECT weather and temp out we opted for an inside table.  While we waited, however, we sat out front and enjoyed the outdoors. 

Our wait started to get a bit lengthy so we ordered an appetizer, deep friend dill pickles & okra. I know it sounds kinds gross, but it really wasn't. After waiting for still a long while we inquired about our wait we found out that where we were waiting was a dead zone for our table vibrator. To apologize for our then 1 hr wait they sat us out back on the patio which was lovely, they even had a live band playing.

Our dinner was great and in spite us not even finished it all we ordered dessert because they bragged about serving authentic Hawaiian custom made ice cream and I have never heard of such a thing. It turned out is was one of the BEST vanilla ice creams I have ever had with so much vanilla the color of the cream was a grayish color. The greatest part of the meal was paying so little for our 3 course meal because they had a 50% deal from citydeals.  WOOHOO for another wonderful cheap date!

Miscreants

If you follow my family at all you know that all my children are high miscreants, but none so much as my twiners. Lately Cami has been into everything.  I can't possible keep up with her trail of terror in the house.  Here are a few examples.  A couple weeks ago while I was upstairs the twiners decided to get into the pantry and empty the whole box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch all over the table and floor so it was more convent to graze upon.  One of the best parts of these incriminating photos is that I didn't take them...Phoebe got in my purse dugout my camera and took the proofing shoots.

After such a fun ruckus these two climbed up on the couch and had to take a mid morning nap.

As if that wasn't enough horribleness a couple days later as I was up stairs once again, this time printing off a dinner recipe, I came down to find this disaster. Raisin bran all over the floor and my two cute summer chargers cracked and broken.

Once again the guilty party member showed no remorse in fact they made sure to stay at the scene of the crime so show me their handy work as if they were proud of it.

 Well one thing has become painfully clear after these 2 incidents...it's time for child locks on the pantry doors.

2 Mos Already

Last Tuesday our weest one turned 2 mos old. We celebrated by taking a trip to the Drs for her check-up.

She measured in at:

10lbs 15oz (50% for girls) & 21.5in tall (10% for girls)

How quickly our cute photo shoot went from happy time to sad.

In the last month Sophie started to sleep through the night about 50% of the time. She also has just barely learned to smile which is why she has earned the nick name of wide mouth frog with her ginormous grins.  Sophie also hasn't begun to track objects yet which gives the drs some concern so next month we will be visiting a pediatric ophthalmologist.  In the week since her dr visit she has begun to track large objects at a distance, so we know she can now see, our guess is that she is just delayed in vision or far sighted. Oh well she is still 100% cute either way!

Celebrating the 4th with a Bang

Like we do every year this year for the fourth we celebrated with the whole Fergy clan.  We started the festivities about 11am with a breakfast and cold swim.  It was raining on and off so my kids weren't really eager to swim much longer than about 10 minutes.

Sophie took 6 hrs day as her day of rest starting at about noon.  Cory and Dave must of have twin telepathy, because they managed to show up dresses as twinsies.

After a full day of eating, swimming, playing frisbee, and resting we chose to all grab a dinner, go eat at Wheeler Farm and watch the fireworks. We had the place to ourselves which was nice, however, the mosquitoes.

One other nice think about this location was the fact that it was a farm so we could go look at all the animals as we waited several hours for the firework show to begin.  Josh and Phoebe loved petting he bunnies while Cami mainly like to chase the chickens around.  This place is usually busy and crowded so it was great to come so late in the evening and only have about 3 other souls other than our family around.

My kids really enjoyed sitting on the large tractors, especially Joshie!

After it was too dark to see the animals anymore we went back to our blankets and chairs and watched some of the neighbors fireworks until the big show started.

A couple of minutes before 10pm the twins and Sophie started to get cranky so I went and sat in the car with them, which they loved because they could just walk around and sit in the front seats. At 10 when the show started one firework had went off and Phoebe decided she was scared of them so Cory and Phoebe finished packing up and came and sat in the car with us.  It was kind of a dud show from what we could see with our inhibited view, but it was still fun to hang out and play with the family at the farm.

End of June Cookin' & Campin'

Cory's Family is way into dutch oven cooking, something I had never even heard of before moving to Utah, but his family rarely still ever eats dutch oven due to all time it takes to prepare and cook. This year, however, it has been made a goal that we will do it once a month all summer long.  No complaints here!

In spite of how delicious the dinner was my AWESOME layered drink was our kids still had little to no interested in it all because the neighbor had their dog out and my kiddos just wanted to play with him.

After dinner we had some unplanned water fights which Phoebe got soaked in, luckily we had her pjs with us, and a tug-o-war with Dennis vs 6 of his nieces and nephews.  I think the kids with the help of Uncle Jason won in the end.  Amber and Alan also made their delicious homemade ice cream for dessert which is what my kiddos loved the most!

As I am a Den Leader in the Scouts, last week I was able to spend a day with my Wolf and Bear scouts at Cub Country. The camp I took them too this year was Superhero Adventure Camp.  The theme was a bit "special", but the boys still loved every minute it. Here are all my cubs minus one with their senior boy scout leaders for the day.

June's Date Night: Christmas in Hawaii

For June's date night I came with the theme of Christmas in Hawaii. I also chose to make this another group date and invited several neighbor to join us. I and one other set of neighbors came dressed in festive Hawaiian wear.

To celebrate the Christmas part of the date I made each couple a stocking with both Christmas and Hawaiian goodies.  Each couple also make yummy goodies that thy normally only serve at Christmas time, I made hot chocolate, but seeing at it was 90 degrees I made frozen hot chocolate. Lastly, we had a gift exchange where we actually ended up with 2 useful gifts: and nice beach towel and Christmas CD.  

The whole night Phoebe was having a HUGE meltdown tantrum that she couldn't join us downstairs in her Hawaiian wear, so the next day I decided to dress them all up in their Hawaiian wear and take pics. Phoebe was really exited and smiled like a fool; Cami on the other, hand was a bit putout with me and the only time she didn't have a grumpy face was when I finally gave them all fruit snacks at the end. Oh well, I can't make everyone happy all the time and even when Cami is grumpy her faces still make me laugh.