Amelia's Summer Adventures

The best part of summer was Millie got a new BFF, her cousin Blakely moved to Bountiful from Calgary and they are in heaven. Only 5 weeks apart, they hug and kiss and wrestle and copy and sing together all day long. She has been busy showing Blakely her favorite places to visit, Bear Lake, Brighton, Edgewood, the park, the pool, kangaroo zoo, her brother's football practices and sister's dance performances. Millie tried to show her how to shop, but climbed into the window display and grabbed a $139 necklace and pulled the clasp apart, we had to buy the unwanted article and that activity has been kept to quick Target jaunts. We are so happy Millie survived summer without any serious diseases. I can't decide which is worse, drinking out of the rivers at Liberty Park on the 24th of July just after the parade ended or licking ice cream off the floor of Orange Leaf. We love our sweet, mellow little one.

Miss Olivia growing up so fast!

It seems like yesterday Olivia was dancing and tapping in her creative dance performance and graduating from Kindergarten. How can she already be starting first grade without a backward glance. She loves school lunch and all her new friends and has not blinked an eye about the longer days. We rented Soul Surfer and Olivia watched it twelve times. The other day I caught her trying to recap the toothpaste with one arm behind her back, she told me she was practicing in case she ever lost an arm. My little Gidget in the making!