Sunday, October 31, 2010

June

June was a fantastic month! A fabulous way to kick of the summer! We vacationed in Park City with Larren's parents, sister, Annika and some members of his extended family. It was so much fun! Larren and I celebrated out 11 year wedding anniversary, our little man, Jonas turned two! In true Covert fashion- we of course celebrated twice once in Utah and once in the backyard at home! We started into our summer routine of swimming, art lessons and plenty of play time!! Here are some snapshots of our fantastic JUNE!!


Audrey at Family Home Evening at a friend's house, they have horses so they are a very popular summertime place to visit! We rode horses, took wagon rides around the pasture and did plenty of visiting. It was so much fun!

Look at all those kiddos! A fun wagon ride! The evening was so beautiful, the temperature perfect! It was such a nice night with family and friends!

The girls greeting Mama K! They were so excited to see them! It is hard having their grandparents in North Carolina, we just love the time we do get to spend with them! The girls were beyond ecstatic when they bounded out of the elevator into Mama K's arms!

Our Time Share in Park City! It was super super nice! Fanciest place I have ever stayed! I felt like a fish out of water, but by the end of the week I was thinking, "this is the life!" It was fabulous, so many amenities and the condo itself was top of the line! LOVED IT! Felt completely spoiled rotten and loved every minute of it! The row of windows in the middle was our exact condo! OOOOO LA LA!!

Another view of the condos. It was so fancy and so cute! It was so much fun to stay there and there was so much to do and see, you didn't hardly have to leave the resort, but we did! We were so lucky to have Larren's parents treat us to a stay there!

The fire pit outside our condo, we made S'mores a nightly ritual, it was such a fun way to end the day!

June 12th! Jonas' birthday and it couldn't have been spent at a better place! We went to Promontory Point, where the East Coast and West Coast railroads met. Since he is one serious train lover, he loved every minute of it! It was kind of a chilly, breezy day, but we didn't mind at all! It was so fun to be there and the reenactment was AWESOME! We had a great time! Later that night we dined on the fine cuisine of Chuck E. Cheese (not) but the kids love that place and it was just where a birthday should be spent! The kids had a wonderful time!!

The birthday boy in front of Engine 119!

The inner workings of Engine 119! The trains were exact replicas of the original ones and they were so neat to look at!

The Jupiter!

More of the Jupiter!

The next day it was off to This is the Place Park, the kids love going there and getting to step back in time and imagine themselves as pioneers! It was a perfect day and finally the weather was fantastic!
An herb garden behind one of the many adorable little pioneer houses.

The girls in school, the school marm took her job very serious and the girls got right to work learning the Deseret Alphabet, each learned to write their name using that alphabet, it was really interesting. I had no idea there was such a thing!

It was so beautiful and the flowers are gardens were lovely! One of my favorite places to visit in Salt Lake!
My favorite picture of the whole vacation! Grace with Great-Grandpa Covert, they were the perfect pace for each other, one with little short legs and one with legs that were tired and needed to take it slow! They walked side by side most of the day, slow and steady and deep in conversation! So precious! Grace really took to him and loved walking with him! It was so sweet!

Olympic Park! Larren was back in Idaho this day, duty called and he had to be in Court and there was no getting around it, but we vacationed on without him! This is a picture of me, Larren's mom and Larren's dad on the zip line! I had never before done anything like it! It was amazing! I would do it again in a heartbeat! Sorry you missed it Larren!!


Ski jumpers from the Australian Olympic team practicing into the pool. We watched for a super long time it was fascinating!

The girls trying on a bobsled for size! There was so much to see and do, later we took all of the girls down the Alpine Slide, (sorry no pics) but it was a screaming fun time! My little daredevils all loved it! They were all disappointed they didn't meet the age or weight requirement for the zip line, but the Alpine Slide was a blast too!

More pool practice! I think that would be so hard in all that gear, but it was so cool to watch!
Annika, Jenny and Aunt Sharon on the zip line!
We also took a trip to the Hogle Zoo, they had a brand new baby elephant, kind of hard to see, but she's right there under her mother's trunk!
Grace on the endangered species carousel!

Jonas on his snow leopard!

Happy Birthday little man!! We had a construction theme party and BBQ this year it was so fun to have all our family over and spend time celebrating with Jonas!

I did a pinata for the first time ever! It was a huge hit! (no pun intended ha ha ha!) Ronie taking his turn attacking the dump truck!

A view of the back yard from the deck! Lots of black and caution tape! It was super cute and a lot of fun!
Jonas eating or playing in his cake! You know whatever fits! Yum! And what a mess! But aren't those what birthdays all about!!

All of his loot! He got so much fun boy stuff! Thanks everyone!!

Singing Happy Birthday to our sweet little guy!

Jonas taking a whack at the pinata! He thought it was such fun!

Candy mania! Gathering up all the sweets! Yummy!!

Most of the line up for the party! I compared this pic to the exact same photo from last year's party- unbelievable the change in all these kids! Where does the time go! They are growing up so fast!!
His birthday cake! Delish and fun! And love that I didn't have to make it!!

Day one of swimming lessons- the kids made so much progress this summer swimming!

We did the Liberty Walk this summer as a family/extended family! It was so neat! I love feeling patriotic and thinking of all of our freedoms! It is such a priveledge to be an American! Savannah carried that flag the whole entire way! I think this will become a 4th of July tradition! We really enjoyed be part of this community event!

The fantastic end to June was dinner and a movie with my two favorite sisters (AKA my only sisters he he he!) We went to the midnight premiere of the latest Twilight Movie! It was so much fun! I have never been to a midnight premiere before and it was really entertaining! We played Skip-Bo while we waited in line, well when we weren't making funny comments about the others in line that is! It was a fun silly night! The torrential rainstorm didn't even dampen our spirits- we had a really really good time!

Explanation (aka EXCUSES!)

Man alive- my blog has been seriously neglected over the course of the summer! I could say that it is an indication that we had an amazingly fun summer and there was simply no time to sit down and work on the computer, but then again summer ended two months ago- so there goes that excuse! The bottom line is I have been a huge slacker, between this and my project 365 (which I am pretty much current with- well after some major catch up in September that is) and the 4 kiddos something had to give and it ended up being my poor little blog! I am going to do a brief recap of the highlights I missed by neglecting this for so long and then I'll move on quickly to October and be caught up! At least that's the master plan! On huge advantage in my favor is that Jazz season began last week and last season I found myself working on the blog a lot while I watched the game. So with a Jazz game on and the score OKC 2 Utah 2 I hope to get a lot accomplished tonight! Here we go. . .