June was another busy month for us even though we were only at home for 1/2 the month.
June 3rd Tennessee Aquarium
The kids were getting a little antsy from being out of school for almost 2 weeks now. We decided to make good use of our aquarium annual passes we purchased over Christmas. My mom went with us. We didn't get there as early as we had hoped. We stopped along the way for some lunch. We ate at KFC and Payton asked if it was tattoo day there. When we all looked around, almost everyone in the place had at least one tattoo. She thought they were giving something away free if you had one. How funny!! When we got to the aquarium, we were pleasantly surprised that there was hardly anyone there. Maybe it is because that area was still in school since our school tends to be one of the first to get out of school. Whatever the reason, we were lovin it.
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| Talmage and Hayden with the scuba diver |
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| Talmage giving the scuba diver a high 5 |
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| Feeding time |
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| These little otters are way fast. I had to just keep clicking my camera and hope for the best. Gotta love digital |
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| Hayden |
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| Kennedy, Hayden, and Talmage next to the humungo crab |
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| Hayden Finding Nemo |
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| Hayden and Talmage |
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| Butterfly Garden |
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| Butterfly garden, I love practicing my up close shots on these guys |
Talmage's favorite part was the scuba diver. Since we went to Sea World for Spring Break that is what he wants to be when he grows up. Just as long it isn't with the killer whales. I don't really like taking pictures of things behind glass. If you use the flash, you can see the flash in the picture and if you don't use the flash it is too dark to see.
June 4 National Donut Day
Who knew there was such thing. Not me until I saw some advertisements in the local freebie newspaper we get once a week and on our Internet home page. We decided to go to Krispy Kreme instead of Dunkin because Krispy Kreme was giving out one free donut per person no purchase necessary and Dunkin was giving out a free donut if you bought a drink. So we met the Tady's, my mom and I think Taylor was back from visiting Morgan out a BYU Idaho. After donuts, we went to the pool to swim those yummy things off.
June 7 The Beach
June 8
Thomas and Melanie Trebilcock and kids moved back west. We knew this day would come. They miss the mountains, the snow, the hunting, the country life. As for me, I could do without any of those things, I could live with mountains though but that's about it. But, I know how they feel. I was way home sick a short while after Jon and I moved to Michigan 6 months after we were married. Life is too short to live in a place where you aren't really happy. Not that they weren't really happy, but would be happier in those surroundings. We will miss them, but are grateful for the 5 years we had with them. I wish them the best in Oregon.
June 12th-24
Disney World
I will do a post on this next since this post is starting to get long.
June 20
Happy Fathers Day, Jon. I can't think of a better place Jon would rather be on Father's day than at Disney World. The kids made him a card at one of the places at Disney World.
June 24th
Happy Birthday Payton. Yeah, what a way to celebrate her birthday with a 7 hour car ride. Payton is 10 years old. We gave her the majority of her presents before we left for Disney World. She got a camera, camera, case, and memory card before we left. When we got home, we had a couple other presents for her to open. She had a great time taking pictures and videos of our trip.
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| Payton the morning of her birthday with donuts just before leaving Orlando |
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| Payton opening gifts |
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| The family party Kennedy, Payton, Sonoma, and Eliza |
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| Payton with her red Velvet whoppi pies. She isn't really into cake. |
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| Hayden exhausted from all the fun |
June 25
Jon and Gretta's 16th wedding anniversary. Can it really be that we have been married for 16 years. Some days it feels like only a few years while others it seems like an eternity. In another 3 years I will be married longer than I have been single. How crazy is that. Well it has over all been a great 16 years. Of course there have been times when I wish I could just be single again with only me to have to worry about but I know I wouldn't be truly happy, but rather truly lonely. As long as I could remember when asked what I want to do when I grow up it was an easy answer a wife and mother. And to be able to do both of those things makes me so happy. I wont get too carried away there are days when I want to get in the car and just drive away. I never seem to make it to the car though just a little time out and I am good to go again. We celebrated by going to Outback Steakhouse. It has been a long time since I have been there and I love that place and we had excellent service. Well here is to another 16 years.
June 26
Connor's 12th birthday. It was a busy day. We had Connor and Payton's family birthday party at 12:00 pm today. Connor doesn't like to pose for his birthday pictures so I wasn't able to get a good one with his gifts.
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| Connor |
Right after the party we had to drop Brenton off to the meeting place for scout camp. He will be gone until Friday. Luckily for me, he love Scouts so I didn't have to threaten him too much to make sure he attended all his merit badge classes and got everything passed off all but the few things you have to do at home.
June 29
Dive in movie
Every year our community pool does a dive in movie. They play a movie on one of those big blow up screens. This year the movie was Planet 51. The kids love watching the movie while in the pool. And I love sitting on the side talking with family while stuffing my face with goodies.
