A Couple Fun Things We've Been Up To

This last month or so has kept us pretty busy.  Marissa came up for a month with her 3 boys and while she was here we were able to have a sisters day outing.  We went swimming and then went for ice cream.  It was fun hanging out just the 4 of us and catching up.  We also went on our annual Father/Daughter outing.  It would have been difficult going backpacking or camping this year so Dad was a good sport and took us all shopping at the mall.  We tried on clothes and talked and laughed and Dad found a vacant chair in the store and patiently waited for us to decide on what we were going to buy (I think he may have taken a nap too).  Then we went to Baskin Robbins and had some fabulous ice cream sitting outside talking and laughing.  It was a great time.  Sadly, I neglected to take pictures on both occasions, so there are none to post.

Marissa came over to our house one night while they were here and brought Ammon, her eldest son.  Ryan took him on a tour of our house and at the end when they arrived back in the front room we had a conversation that went something like this:
Ammon said, "That's cool.  So, where's the rest of it?  Isn't there a downstairs?" 
When we told him that was it, he asked us, "Don't you guys have a TV?"
No. 
"Well, do you have any toys?" 
No. 
"Don't you get bored?"  Well, we work a lot so we're not home all day long. 
"Oh.  Well, why didn't you buy a house with a backyard?"
We had to smile.  I don't think we are poorly equipped to entertain a 6 year old boy.  We'll have to work on that.

We were able to go to Hogle Zoo and spend some time there with Ryan's family for part of day.  The baby elephant was super cute, she was still tripping over her trunk when she was running around.

 We went and saw the giraffes and while there tried valiantly to get a picture of the giraffe's tongue.  We went to the zoo once while we were dating and the giraffe was licking the enclosure door.  Who knew that they have super long purple tongues?  We attempted to get pictures of it this time around.  We ended up with a lot of really close up mug shots of the giraffe, but no tongue in the pictures.  Here's Ryan by the giraffe.

We rode the train at the zoo as well.  I had never done that before.  Here we are riding the train.

I think it was a month or so ago, not sure exactly when, we went to Mueller Park in Bountiful and had a cookout with Rachelle and Eric and Lily.  It was outdoors with great food and good company.  We'll have to do it again sometime.

We even got to make s'mores, a summer must-do.  I'm glad we got the chance at least once this year to enjoy the tradition.