Last bits of Summer

 Maverick does not like Taylor Swift.

Summer hail storm

Autumn being a mother hen during scripture reading.

Maverick drew this picture of his dad.  Maverick doesn't like to draw/color as much as Autumn did so this picture is rare.

My brother Noah was driving from our family reunion in Idaho back to his home in Washington D.C. and stopped by our house for a night.  Autumn took this top picture and skillfully cropped out Violet because Autumn didn't want her in the picture.

After we grocery shop the kids get to ride the 1 penny pony.  I give them 3 pennys but they still like to share and make good use of their money.

Autumn and I playing "pictionary" on a cold summer day.

We visited the new botanical garden and found a new boot.

Maverick and Violet at the Children's Village

Patrick and Elizabeth came for a visit before heading out on their honeymoon.  Patrick and Evan also went over to the ninja gym in town after putting the kids in bed.

We went to an eclipse viewing get together at a friend's house.

a little eclipse face painting

This is pretty much what these two did during the eclipse.

Lark figured out how to open the back yard fence.  So I had to add a bungee cord.

Lark loves playing in the backyard.  She loves to climb to the top of the play set, but she is too afraid to climb down on her own.  She often gets happily "stuck" up there for a good amount of time.

Playing dress up

We went to the children's museum in Fort Collins with some friends.  Autumn didn't get to come though, because she was at school. Maverick liked this train table, but mostly he just liked hanging out with his buddy Hyrum.

Violet liked the music area

These two decided to be "matchy-matchy"one day.

I took these two grocery shopping one Saturday.  Autumn kept asking me to bury her in the groceries.  We had a big plan to scare the check-out guy, but the T.P fell off her face so she didn't get to yell "boo", plus all my laughing probably gave it away.