Morgan's 1st Birthday!!!

Apparently, Mommy was still reveling in Saturday's upset.

Ashlyn, Cam diddle and Morgie Moo!!!

Morgie Moo just turned one year old. We sure love her and the little personality she is developing. She is cute, especially when Camryn and her play together and get so excited being with each other. We had two parties for her, one down in St. George with her Marcroft cousins and then at home with the Rowe and Felix relatives all coming to celebrate.

Trying to get the summer into three weeks...

Here is a load of pictures to recap the busy last couple of weeks of summer. With daddy being gone all summer, we tried to make up for it in the last few weeks. We went to the Bountiful parade with Aunt Amanda, Uncle Daniel, McKylin, Mommy's friend Maura with her two kids Amara and Shareef.
Camryn is growing up, now she is in a toddler bed, although I think she spends more time sleeping on the floor by her door...
We were able to catch the last day of the Oquirrh Temple Open House, which was great because we had been mistakenly told that we couldn't take kids to the Draper Temple open house and we were very excited to take the girls. They loved it and Camryn has talked about wanting to go to the Temple ever since.
Our sister-in-law Sara told us about the Salt Lake Connect Pass, which enabled us to go to all these great places in Salt Lake for $20.00 each adult. The catch was, you had only 2 consecutive days to do it. We got to go to great places like the Hogle Zoo, Red Butte Gardens, The Museum of Natural History, Discovery Gateway's Children's Museum, Tracy Aviary, Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur Museum, This is the Place Heritage Park and even included a meal at the Lion House. It was great and it was really fun to watch the girls enjoy each place and see their eyes as they discovered new things. It was exhausting, but really fun. It was also neat to take the girls to their Great Great Great Great Grandpa Heber C. Kimball's home at This is the Place, where I got to show them how he lived and also the work on the house that Nate and I did when it was being built. Well this has been a long post, but I am sure Grandma Rowe and Aunt Jen will love it.

Mommy and Maura at the Bountiful Parade.

Camryn doing the "U" sign!

Camryn's big girl bed!

Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open House.

Camryn and Morgan riding ponies at This Is The Place Heritage Park.

Heber C Kimball Home.

Utah Museum of Natural History

Discovery Gateway's Children's Museum.

Camryn loved the energetic little snow leopard.

Tiger!

Camryn at Red Butte Gardens

Mommy and Morgie Moo!!!

Eagles at the Tracy Aviary.

Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur Museum.

Trying to get a summer into three weeks... camping!

Great Basin National Park

Mikey and Camryn hiking at about 10,000 ft. elevation at Great Basin National Park.
Daddy and Camryn hugging a 3200 year old Bristlecone Pine.
Morgan's first camping trip at Strawberry Lake.

Morgan and Mommy at Capitol Reef.

As part of making up for Dad being gone over half the summer, we went camping three times in the last couple weeks of summer. First we went to Strawberry Lake, it was Morgan's first campout and between her crying, Camryn's not being tired and the white trash loud music drinking party close to us, it made for a long night.

We then went to Capitol Reef. Morgan and Camryn loved seeing the deer in the campground. When it got dark, the stars put on a show as we all laid on a blanket watching the shooting stars before going to bed. It could have been a rough night too, had Aunt Amanda not brought her Ipod, so that Camryn could listen to Moon River and had daddy not taken Morgan on a little drive to put her to sleep.

The last camping trip was just Daddy, Camryn and Mikey Persson. We went to Great Basin National Park. We didn't get in until late and there was a huge wind storm that made it impossible to set up the tent, so the three of us squeezed into the back of Forester. The next morning we took a beautiful drive and hiked a really cool trail up in the Wheeler Peak area that put Camryn hiking above 10,000 feet for the first time. We wandered through an ancient Bristlecone forest and Camryn felt obligated to hug, touch or ride almost everyone of them. It is a beautiful area.