I have to start this post with an addendum to July. The pictures weren't on my camera so they didn't get put with the rest of them. On July 4th we welcomed a new little cousin, Monty's brother and his wife had a little girl named Sophie. She is adorable and Mia likes going to visit "Baby Dophie" as she calls her. July 17th Mia got another little cousin named Daxton. My brother and his wife had their 2nd child. We get to go see him in September.
August seemed to settle down a little bit for us. It was still super hot so we spent a lot of time either hanging inside or playing in the water.
We started out the month with our Ward Camp out. This was Mia's first time camping and she had a blast! Mom and Dad were left exhausted but it was a good time. Mia helped Monty put up the tent by holding the stakes and handing them to him.
Don't let the sour face fool you, she was very excited to finally be able to climb in the tent.
Mia and Monty joined in on the game of kickball.
Sitting at the campfire waiting for the evening program.
Mia was very excited to go to bed in her tent. The problem was she was too excited to fall asleep. It was after 11:00 pm before she finally passed out and then she was up before 7:00 am. Like I said we were exhausted but everyone got a nice afternoon nap to make up for it.
Bet you can't guess what kind of doughnuts we had for breakfast on the camp out.
Monty took Mia bowling for the first time with a bunch of our old friends from up in Ogden. She had a blast and managed to knock down a few pins.
We had only been to the splash pad in Riverdale so we decided it was time to check out some of the other ones in the area. This is the new one in Layton.
Mia was a fan of the slide.
We also hit up the splash pad in Kaysville.
I decided to turn the carpet cleaning box into a little house for Mia. She got nearly a whole month's worth of play out of it before it finally fell apart.
It definitely is a Mia size house and not a Mom size house.
Monty's mom had a grand kid sleep over this month. The girls all brought their tents and they had a camp out in the back yard complete with a hot dog dinner.
The pyramid (or at least as close as you can get with 4 people).
The girls decided to teach Mia how to roller skate.
Ready for bed!
One Saturday we decided to check out the Air Force Museum at Hill AFB. Neither Monty or I had ever been there and we are always pointing the planes out to Mia as they are flying over our house so we figured we'd go get a closer look at some of them.
They had some seriously massive planes there.
Mia caught a ride through part of it. Really it was a convenient way to keep her from touching stuff.
Mia liked the plane with the mouth.
Sitting in a cockpit seat was pretty cool too.
Mia is absolutely obsessed with her "keys" as she calls them. It's two blankets that she has taken a liking to and she has to have them both. She was wearing one of her keys this day.
Mia likes to go on walks with Aunt Trina to WalMart. This is usually what she looks like upon return. Out like a light.
Our neighbor Claire has outgrown her roller skates. Ever since Mia slept over at Nana's house she's wanted to skate more. When Mia found these in Claire's basement she didn't want to take them off. Luckily we have nice neighbors and they are letting us borrow them.
The last weekend in August we went bowling as a family. This bowling alley had ramps so Mia was able to get her ball down the lane with some force.
No summer would be complete without a trip to Cherry Hill.
We had a great family day playing in the water. Mia was really disappointed that she wasn't big enough for the tube slide but try as we may there wasn't a way to put her in her own tube that she could stay on very well.
This girl definitely loves the water!
Until next month our friends!
