Baby gets a haircut

So my baby needed a haircut. He was only 8 months old but the hair was constantly in his eyes. I have such a hard time with first haircuts. It makes them look older! But for the sake of the big family picture and so he could see and eat without having hair in his mouth, we asked his Aunt to cut his hair. She's a fabulous hairdresser and actually ended up cutting a bunch of hair before the family photo. Maybe I should have asked for help with mine.

Balanced Rock

Back in Idaho, we visited Balanced Rock and Nat-soo-pah hot springs. It was a short hike and we had fun running around exploring. Then we enjoyed swimming and playing in the hot springs with cousins. It was a lot of fun.

Timpanogos Cave

While in Utah I wanted to hike to Timpanogos cave with the kids. Two of my sisters and my brother in law were happy enough to join in. Which was good since without them I don't think we would have made it. The boys loved the caves, and had lots of interesting questions to our guide. Princess hated it. She whimpered the whole time. The boys earned their junior ranger badges as well.

Shoshone Falls

After successfully packing up all of our belongings and moving them into storage, we took off for our Summer Fun, visiting Family across the country. First up was Idaho. Shoshone Falls was turned on full flow while we were there which doesn't happen much (they divert the flow for irrigation) so we went to see it, it was an awesome sight.

Seeing Shoshone Falls

Isn't it gorgeous?

Double rainbows!

Excited kids don't hold still for pictures

Tada! 6 at once!

Baby dealing with too much hair in his face. Oh how he needed a haircut!

The rainbows from the mist were fantastic.

We also went to see Twin Falls, the falls for which the city is named for, which is just a few miles down the Snake river. Except they killed one of the falls. No longer can you see the twin falls, just one fall and where the other one was before they diverted it, also for irrigation and power. No pictures, I just found it depressing.

Fellow Texas cousins (June)

Got baptized!

We saw our Fellow Texans and cousins in June before heading off on our summer adventures. (Two sets of cousins pictured here.) First for a baptism and then second because my mom was visiting and wanted to see her grandnephews!

Fairy Tale Castles

We went to the Arboretum and enjoyed some activities and exploring the fairy tale castles they had set up. I took spring pictures of the kids too, motivated by the desire to get a cute picture of Baby while he's still a baby!

Love his smile!

Cheese!

She was so tired here

I think this is my favorite

Or maybe this

 

Happy Baby

An African throne they all loved and wanted their picture in

In The Throne of King Triton

Using Fairy wands as light sabers in front of the Easter Bunny

Me and baby, as photographed by Dinoguy

As you can see, we had some fun. Baby's hair was already getting a bit long too. On a random side note, I had two people stop and ask me about my sling that day. No one has ever even commented on it and both people loved it and wanted to know where to get one like it. (I made it myself back when Trainboy was a baby.)

Baby while I'm wearing him in the sling. You can see how his hair is getting in his eyes. (And that he's tired)

Snow White's castle