Eating, playing, and more eating

Before I could make him breakfast, Gideon grabbed the step stool, set it up all by himself and helped himself to some brownies. He was sooooo proud he could do it without help. Brownies have eggs, milk, and wheat in them right? So it counts as a healthy breakfast :)

My dear friend Melane, from Nebraska, was visiting her parents in SLC so she drove the 3.5 hours up to my parents house to visit me for a couple of hours. She got to meet my kids and my parents. She's an amazing lady, whom I haven't seen since Brady was on his mission...about twelve years ago! We enjoyed some Costa Vita for lunch and some shopping at Deseret Book and Melaleuca. Thanks again Melane for the wonderful visit!! Hopefully the next one will be sooner than 12 years :)

My sister and her family, and my other two teenage sisters joined us at Rexburg Rapids for some swimming fun. Gideon missed it because he was napping at Grandma's. Ayla hated the water for the first hour or more, but then she decided it wasn't so bad and started splashing.

This kid loved the lazy river the most. He thought it was the coolest thing to drift along.

This kid wouldn't stay off the slide. 

Silly faces are hard to do when you're laughing

This is my sister, Abby, with Ayla. Ayla was crawling out of the pool to taste the water splashing into the filter thingy. Eventually she also loved splashing around in the zero entry part of the pool too.

Here we have delicious bananas for lunch. She can chow down a whole one in no time.

And what's better than cantelope all over your face and chewing on the bottom of a cup?