skittle a rink a dink a dink....

i won't even bother playing catch up. we have been reunion-izing, girls camping, celebrating birthdays and trying to recover from the weeks of being gone. here are some pics and video of the last month of enjoying the summer. (the pics are in no particular order.....whatever though right?)

this picture is dan braiding my hair before girls camp.....what a man huh?















here is nova before our hike at the hope family reunion.














here is nova during the hike.....














and here is nova right before we got home....she was WIPED!















here is nova on her birthday before church....we were going to take some more pics after church, but we raced off to a reunion...so this is what we've got. happy birthday novs!














here are pics form our second trip to the zoo this summer. we went with elisa and also met up with our old neighbors the bennions.



















here is nova and i after the 5k....she is sporting my groovy glasses















to preface the 5K---i convinced 2 girls in our ward in the young women to run a local 5K with me the end of june. we decided that we would have matching sunglasses and socks to intimidate the competition......even though you can't see our socks in the picture....oh, well














the day of the race was a local celebration for founders day. they have fireworks at night and here is the picture of the fam before we went outside. by the time they started nova was WAY to tired to be interested.
















this picture takes us back to half-mas day. the glasses were part of the ornaments on the half-mas pine tree in our back yard.














here is nova with crazy hair on half-mas day...what a ham!














here is nova eating her cake and blowing out her candles....low protein cupcakes.....weren't necessarily her fav.















here is nova blowing out her candle. we have practiced the last few weeks and i think she did a really good job....what you don't see on the video is that we did the whole candle thing again in another cupcake......and she burnt herself.....