Okay, now summer can be over :)

All summer long we've talked about taking Addie camping up to Anderson Cove. We went last year the day before Labor Day weekend and she LOVED it. Well summer came and went, as did Labor Day....so we decided last week we'd better hurry up and get our campin' on!! It was a PERFECT weekend for it. Gorgeous weather, empty beaches and my two favorite people.

We went up Thursday night and set up the tent and stuff. Then we roasted hot dogs and marshmallows, in true camping fashion. Addie slept good and comfy and warm all night....Jed and I however FROZE.

Our happy camper having some breakfast

Someone, meaning me, forgot matches and salt and pepper. Luckily we found a lighter and also some hairspray in my car :) and some nice old people hooked me up with salt and pepper. Whew, tragedy averted. Hey, I DID bring freshly made blueberry muffins and stocked the cooler nicely. I even had our condiments well organized....does that count?

 Pineview is GORGEOUS in the mornings. Perfectly still water.

We decided to take a little hike and take in the beauty of fall beginning in the mountains

My poor child inherited my grace and coordination. You should have seen her poor legs afterwards from taking so many little trips and bumps along the way.

We went back to the campsite and packed up some lunch and headed to the beach for a picnic

 Ahh....it was heavenly

 Thank you dollar bin at Target....my kid could play for an entire week straight with a shovel and pail. She spent two hours straight in her own little world. She'd take a shovel full of sand, dump it into the water, then take a shovel full of water and dump it on the sand. Very Zen I'm sure.

 Daddy jumped in and showed her that we can actually swim in the lake.

 She was hilarious. Totally in her own world, singing songs and acting out things from shows and stories. Everything from being Alpha Pig from Super Why to this

 That's her being Ariel....and yes she was singing "aaah aaah aaaah" :)

Later, Jed even got an amazing ski run in. The water was glass and the lake was pretty empty.

Perfection.

Too bad Addie totally crashed in my arms on the boat and missed seeing daddy ski.

She loves watching him ski and will say "Daddy is amazing!!"



We're ready to fully embrace fall now! We ended the weekend with a swim at grandma and grandpa Rees's house and then went up to the Weller's and made s'mores. Great way to end the summer!

My version of "If you give a mouse a cookie"

If you give Jenny a box full of peaches.....

She's going to want to make some jam

And if she makes some jam....

She'll want to make home made bread and rolls

And while she's at it....

She'll figure she may as well do a batch of raspberry too

And if she's got two kinds of jam....

She'll need to try them both

to see which one is better

And when she determines they're both delicious.....

She'll see the remaining peaches

and decide she wants to make a pie

And after she eats some delicious pie (and shares with some friends),

She'll doze off to sleep and awake the next morning needing breakfast.

And if she needs breakfast, and there are peaches in the house....

 You can bet her husband will make her some peach pancakes

topped with peach jam, fresh peaches and whipping cream of course.

And once she eats this, she'll be FULL....and several hours later when the peach-crazed sugar high is over, she will crash and dream of the peach ice cream she'll make tomorrow.

The End.

Good Morning Baltimore

Yes, the title to this post is random. This is a pretty random post so I figured why not, especially since I've had that song in my head for about 6 days straight. Addie has discovered the movie "Hairspray" and needless to say, we've watched it like 5 times in a week. She dances around the house singing "Good morning Baltimorrrre!....I've got my hairspraaaay and radioooo.....and me!" It's quite the show :) Oh AND I made the mistake of telling her I have it on my iPod so you can imagine what we've been listening to in the car. Anyway...I digress....on to my random pictures of what we've been up to.

With summer winding down, we've been home a lot more.....Addie cracks me up with how she entertains herself. She likes to put her friends (aka stuffed animals) and princesses to bed. She lined them all up one day and covered them with every blanket in her room. Usually she'll just put one baby doll or something to bed, but I guess they were all very tired.

She'll also do something random or weird and ask me to take a picture.

Afterwards she demands to see it on my phone.

She makes toys or her princesses kiss

She found her two same-same bunny pez dispensers and made them kiss.....

I'm wondering if we're going to end up with a bunch of baby bunny pez's now ;)

 

She took over "George" Jed's childhood gorilla that's a little creepy.

She's always been afraid of it, but it seems that they're friends now.

Helping daddy mow the office lawn....she's getting too big!

Back to school time! Which for us, really means nothing. Okay well not nothing.

It means EMPTY parks!

Yes, really literally empty.

I have NEVER seen the splash pad empty like this. On the first day of school however it was Addie's very own. Well hers and her buddy Max's. I think she would have been bored if she didn't have a friend there. For my friends who went to the splash pad with me this summer when it was crazy crowded- yes, this IS the same place. Crazy eh?

Addie even used her cute girly skills to get Max to touch water. Well done.

Friday night, Jed and Addie had some daddy-daughter bonding while I went to Park City with my mom

She got to help him work, "I went to salt lake with daddy. We went to a guy's house and I didn't touch his stuff" then they played at the park and ate burgers. The next morning she even got daddy to watch "Hairspray" with her and let her have popcorn. Oh this was after he took her to get a pink bagel. Spoiled much?

Meanwhile....my mom and I went up to Swiss Days. It was fun but HOT.

We spent Saturday shopping at the outlet malls. We got some great deals on some fall clothes for Addie. Score. Oh and we ate some treats.

This was day two of treats....day one also included an apple from RMCF and and eclair. Oh and I almost forgot about that scone at Swiss Days....hey we haven't gone anywhere together alone for years! Had to make up for it, right?

It was good that I found Addie some fall outfits, because she's gotten too tall for all her pants, and this week got quite chilly. I've been loving this weather and I hope it lasts a few months before winter comes :) I even hope for a few more warmer days so we can get a last swim day in.

For now, we're just enjoying being able to play at parks without slides burning Addie's bum and me sweating like crazy. Love it.

Oh, and I know this post has had tons of Addie pictures, but look how long her hair has gotten.

My baby girl is growing up and getting so big.

Okay...help me pick a favorite :)

I got our family pictures back from Amanda and I'm loving them! I can't go wallpapering my house with all of them ;) so I may need some help picking what to blow up. We took these outside the Eccles Art Center in Ogden- and it's a great location! Addie had fun and wanted to be friends with the statues :)

Always twirling. Always.

lol, you either get a cheesy grin out of Addie

or this. She's cute either way I think :)

 I sure love my little family.