Our summer

I can't believe that summer is coming to an end. What a summer it has been!

The kids loved playing in the irrigation water

we get every 8 days all summer long.

The kids love climbing on the "big" rock at the lot.


We had some fun days at the lot. Charles took the kids up there a lot for overnighters while I stayed home either extremely pregnant or home with the Frances.
The kids always have a great time with their daddy!

Over Memorial Day we went camping to Joe's Valley.
Fishing was fun even though no one caught anything.

Heather made the best marshmellow roasting stick EVER!

It roasted like 5 at a time.

I love nights around the campfire. We had a great time!

...until our kids TOTALLY melted down when we had to go home.

We had a great Pinegar family reunion at a lodge in Park City.

My brother taught my mom how to chop wood.

You would never know she just turned 73! Way to go mom!

We held the first ever "Polar plunge". It was in June so it wasn't

really that cold, but just wait until next year!

What is summer without at least one day at Lagoon... right!

We had fun at the movies in the park.

We had soooooooooo many swimming days...

pretty much everyday!

Josie took her first swimming lessons this summer and is a GREAT swimmer.

I LOVE the 4th of July and the Millcreek parade.

Charlie getting a high 5 from the motorcycle Police.

Our family just 6 days before Frances was born.

This is how huge and uncomfortable I was the night before Frances was born.

The Patten girls!

Sweet baby Frances!!!

It is so nice not being pregnant anymore!!!!

Watching Charles kitesail at UT lake.

Charlie has shot a lot of basketballs this summer.

He is getting pretty darn good at it!!! He LOVES playing ball... any ball too,

soccer, basketball, football, baseball you name it he loves it!!!!

When the baby came I moved Charlie into Josie's room. The first night was

kind of a nightmare. They played and played in there for hours.

Then they finally crashed. You can see that Charlie does have his own bed...

...but he doesn't sleep in it much.

This is them the next day about 10:00 in the morning.

Their crazy late night had caught up to them.
They are doing great now and love sharing a room.

Josie has spent the summer making "salads" out of leaves and flower petals.
She has pretty much stripped all the flowers in our yard of any petal. There are cups and plastic bags all over the yard filled with her "salads". This is her making one up Millcreek canyon. She has quite the imagnation!


Countless hours have been spent playing on our new playset.

The kids totally love it! And so do I, it is like my nanny.

This is one evening up at Rockport boating on Andy and Melissa's new boat!
Josie found a dragonfly and carried it around all night. She named it Evenroo, like from The Resucers. She fell asleep in the Jeep on the way home and was devestated that it had blown away by the time we had gotten home. Oh well.

Boo got shot by a porcupine up at the lot.

The kids could not believe it!

Luckily it wasn't that bad.

We had a big last hoorah pool party before school started.

Summer sure flew by.

Josie is going to preschool this year and this was the morning of her orientation.

She is so excited to go "for real" this week. She will have so much fun!

I can't believe I have THREE kids!!!

We blessed Frances this Sunday and it was a wonderful day!

I am so happy to be the mother of 3 darling children

and the wife to such an amazing man!

LIFE IS GOOD!!!

.... and now I am caught up!

Sweet Frances Elaine

Well I am finally getting back to my blog. It is not that I haven't had anything wonderful to blog about... but because there is so much to blog about that I have felt overwhelmed, and while I was pregnant I just felt too exhausted to get back into it. But now that that is all

behind me and I am ready to go again. SO much has been happening around

here and my world has totally changed (for the better of course).

Our sweet Frances Elaine was born July 10 and we all love her so much!

I think she totally looks like a Patten. In fact her Grandma Elaine showed me

a picture of herself when she was a newborn and they look so much alike.

It is so sweet especially since that is who she is named after.


Josie wasn't so sure about having a baby sister at first.
But it sure didn't take long for her to absolutely adore her!

I am hoping that she will have more of Charles

coloring in her hair and eyes. So far she does.

Josie LOVES to hold her baby sister.

Charlie LOVES to share things with his baby sister.

This is his beloved duck and his cuppy.

He is always putting his things near her... to share of course.

He also loves giving her kisses on her head.

And when he does he gets this high pitched coo and aww in his voice.

He knows how you are supposed to talk to a baby. It is so funny.

Josie is very helpful and always wants to do things for Frances.

Anytime I put Frances under her "jungle" Charlie dives under it with her.

He talks to her (his gibber talk) and points to things for her, it is like he is just telling her all about what they are looking at. She just lays there and listens. She is always really calm and attentive when Charlie is by her. The other day he was telling her how to say all the words he know. He was holding her hand looking at her and in his high voice saying "mommy, daddy, scout, juice..." it was the cutest thing. I think they will be really great friends as they grow up.

She is such a happy, mellow, sweet natured baby and we
are all so in love with her and happy that she is part of our family!