scenes from a weekend

here are some of the pictures i snapped this weekend. it's been hot the last few days and we've been finding ways to get out as much as possible. SO...all my grand blogging plans have fallen by the wayside. i have so many fun things cooking for this weblog, when they finally happen it will be epic! my kids come first and i have been trying not to stretch myself too thin.

we had bryan's parents and step bro tanner come and visit us. we had a lot of fun with them. i was so glad that they were able to see miss isla before she gets out of the infant stage. we went swimming on Coronado (this beach is great. we will be back!) we went to old town and enjoyed their Independence day festivities, we ate good food and had some down time. we also got to celebrate kerry's birthday while they were here. they were actually driving home on his real b-day, but we had cake & some homemade ice cream anyway. it was a great weekend. how was yours?

 the girls in the matching skirts i made them.

 

grandpa needed a little help blowing out the candles

 of course we went to the mormon battalion.

 group shot

 penny did the cake walk and won us some lovely funfetti cupcakes-that's my girl.

 isla was a great sport on the fourth. she even drank from a bottle for like the 3rd time and was a champ.

 face painting makes a girl feel pretty cute. (penelope asked for a princess...but the face painter said that was a no-go, so she chose a rainbow.

 BLING!

the end

thank you to the sparks/lemmon crew for making the trip!