Outdoor summer fun

We had a crazy, busy month of June.  We went tons of fun places, had 2 weeks of swimming lessons at the rec center, and went swimming a lot at Grandma Curtis' pool.  

Oh, yeah, and our air conditioner in our house was broken, for like half of the month.  We had it repaired a couple of times only to have it break down again several days later with a DIFFERENT problem.  Well, we finally decided to replace the whole darn thing, but the a/c company was out a week to put it in, so we had to survive the hottest June week on record (for like the last 100+ years) with no a/c!!  Our house got up to 90-92 every day.  It was MISERABLE, and I was super cranky the whole time.  We had fans blowing, but they were noisy and only mildly helpful.  (By the way, new a/c's are extremely expensive--I hope no one reading this has to get a new one anytime soon!)

Despite hot days in our house, here are some of the fun outdoor things we did:

We went to This is the Place State Park on a free day and enjoyed free ice cream cones:

In front of the Brigham Young house

Evy petting a goat

Jared petting the chicken named Lunch

Maggie petting Lunch

We rode the ponies

We rode the mini train

Jared and Maggie panned for "gold"

We have also been up the canyon next to our house for a couple of picnics and campfires.  One time we went up with our friends the Hamiltons in our ward, and another time we went with Alan's sister Rachel and her husband Justin.

Maggie looked so cute in her skinny jeans that I can never get her to wear except when we are up the canyon.

We are lucky to have a couple of splash pads close to our house, so on days where we don't go swimming in Grandma's pool, we often go to one of them.

I'm still trying to work on Maggie looking at the camera...Can you tell by all the pictures in this post?

 We went one afternoon to a local carnival and enjoyed the rides and the churros.  Even Evelyn was big enough to go on many of the rides!

Alan took these pictures of Evy on one of our neighborhood "cookie walks."  Once a month on Sunday evenings, a few houses host cookies on their driveways, and then families can walk around and visit with neighbors while they eat a cookie or two (or three, or four...)