A quick trip

On the actual Memorial Day I took Alden and headed to Wendover to meet my mom and Jamie for the afternoon.  My mom wasn't able to come to Hyrum this year and she had some things from her trip to Toronto she wanted the kids to have so drove the couple of hours to meet up with them.  It was a great afternoon if you skip over the part where I got a ticket for running a stop sign just a block from the McDonalds where we were meeting :(  

Anyway, we picked up some lunch and took it to the local park for a picnic and some playing before everyone had to get back in their cars and go home.  The kids loved this slide and so did Jamie Here she is just getting off with Benjamin.

This swing thing they have is awesome. It is a post with a swing on either side, but they bar at the top can go in a circle so you swing out in a circle if that makes sense.  We had a good time trying this out with everyone to see who made up the best combination.  Sorry the picture is so far away mom was sitting at the picnic table watching one of the boys when she took it.

Later that day when Alden and I got home we hung out with Gracie and Cass in the backyard.  These two have so much fun together and this picture shows so much of their personalities.  

We also were lucky enough to have a few birds call our yard home this spring.  The bird house on the fence became home for all of these Chickadee babies and the apple tree had robins build a nest there (we couldn't get a good picture of that one mom or dad bird was always home and didn't like company).  Neither of them stayed too long after the babies were born, but we spent several days watching the moms and dads fly away to get food for all the baby birds.  Alden loved this and can't wait to see if more birds call our yard home next year.