Spearfish Park

One of the things I love about living here are all of the great parks. Spearfish park is one of our favorites here. We do not get to go as often as we would like because it is about 40 minutes away. However we went on Thursday and had so much fun. Jessica found some mud and this girl loves mud. Here she is bringing me a mud cake she made for me.

The water was a bit cold at first, but refreshing. It was 100 degrees on this particular day.



We had a wonderful day!!!!!

Hot Summer Days

One of our favorite places to go during the summer is to Canyon Lake Park. It has wonderful playgrounds and lots of room for the kids to run. The best part of the park is the little stream that runs through it. It is the perfect place for them to cool off on hot days.


On this particular day Abbi was having fun splashing in the water while Jessica and John caught crawdads. We now have two pet crawdads from the trip to the park. They reside in John's room in a tank. We will see how long they survive the constant handling from the kids.
Jess sitting on the side of the stream watching John catch the crawdads. In a later post I will have to put some pictures up of the crawdads they caught.

The Fair Is In Town!!

The kids were thrilled when we told them that the fair was in town. It has always been a hightlight of the summer for them. It means fun animals to see, crafts to do, carnival rides to go on, and their favorite "the rodeo". Here they are painting some ceramics at the fair.

The kids love to go on the big slide. This is one of the few things that Jessica likes to go on. It amazes me though because she is afraid of heights.

John loves all of the rides at the fair. One of his favorites is a ride called the Hang Glider. Here he is all strapped in ready to fly.

Abbi is too short to go on many of the rides, but she loves the merry-go-round because she can ride a horse.

Falling Asleep

After a long day at the park and playing in the river Abbi was apparently exhausted. We got home and she wanted to watch some TV, I told her that was fine but please put on some dry clothes first. She instead put her towel on the couch and started watching TV. Not much longer this is what I found.

Photo Shoot

We went to the park the other day and I did a photo shoot with the kids. These are some of my favorite.

Jessica loves to pose for the camera, usually they are funny, but this one turned out cute.


I have too many favorites of John in this shoot, he is a photogenic young man.
Jessica looks way too old in this photo, but I love it.

I managed to get a couple of good shots of the three of them.

John and Jessica both wear glasses and they are transition lenses. They would not stay light so in most of the pictures they do not have them on. This one John obviously does, but I still like the picture.