Fathers Day Weekend!

Friday night we raked so that Saturday morning we could lay sod at Casey's house. I was really excited about it, something about instant grass excites me. We laid 20 pallets just under 1.5 hours, it looks awesome. 

Saturday afternoon we went swimming. Josie kept complaining, "Somebody splashed me", but she really did enjoy the day there. Trig loved the splash pads next to the pool and didn't quite grasp the concept that he couldn't breath under the water. Ang helped me with the kids and we had a fun day with the Ballards and the Whites. We missed Dean but he did come down later on Saturday and helped Johnny roof for a while. 

Also on Saturday I got to visit JD and Catherine's new baby Colette. She is beautiful!

We didn't plan on staying in Utah Sunday but when Dean's family moved their Fathers Day party to Utah it opened up the morning for us. We didn't have any church clothes so instead I told Dean we should "be one with nature" and visit the animals at the Zoo. Slightly against his will he took the kids and me. He was complaining on the way in and I told him that he could only say positive things from then on. He only said a total of 8 words the whole time we were there but at least he wasn't complaining. He was probably just taking it all in and loving it all so much that he was speechless. We went early so it wasn't crowded and it was getting hot but not unbearable.

Josie LOVED the elephants! She loved that there was a mom, dad, and baby. She said, "No brother elephant, O darn it". She wanted to hold one but then decided they were to far away, odd the size was never the problem?

I think Trig wanted to hold some of the animals too.

Jos was really excited with she saw a "pink amigo" just like the one on her shirt.

I was really suprised that Josie wasn't scared of the animals. We got to see an ape put his blanket in his mouth and carry it to another room and lay down to take a nap. He covered his eyes and went to sleep it was funny. Josie was really worried about where the Ape's bear was. He needed his bear to take a nap. It was fun to take the kids, I'm really glad Dean takes us to do fun things even though he doesn't love it. (My dad used to take us camping and fishing -both things he HATES- but we loved it so he did it. And now I love him for it so I know my kids will appreciate Dean doing things he doesn't want to just for them, he is a really good dad!)

I think he was trying to climb in there with the animals. 

We saw an actual alligator but Josie was more excited about this one she could see up close. she told me this is the alligator that snapped the monkeys out of the that tree. 

Jos was excited about the train ride but honestly it was anticlimactic. 

Sunday afternoon we had a cookout at Trigger's for Fathers Day. I didn't take any pictures but we had a good time visiting with Dean's family. Janale made a really good dinner. I got Dean this grill, I don't know if he wanted it or if it was me but nonetheless now we can stop borrowing his dad's.