Summer Wind-Up

I cannot believe that summer is over and fall is vastly approaching us! I decided I better quickly update about the remainder of our summer and the fun happenings involved!

In August I bought my mom and I tickets to WICKED at Capitol Theatre!!

 I loved everything about it!  We went to dinner at Olive Garden and then the production and I must say... it was FABULOUS! I would recommend it to anyone.  The singers were phenomenal and the whole story itself was absolutely brillant.  We loved it!

                                  Such a fun date with my mom!

 End of August-first of September our family went camping up to Strawberry with the Olsen's.  We had such a good time and hope to make this a yearly tradition.  We love spending time with these cousins and always have so much fun.  It's also fun with all the little kids being very close in age. 

We went fourwheeling up Horse Creek which was so beautiful. Leave it to Coby and Brandon to make things more interesting!  They decided to go through all of the big mud puddles.  Everyone around was laughing so hard watching these two!  They are crazy but always know how to have fun.

 And here is my little man, although sleeping, caught with his hand in the treat bag! :) 

           We've had a lot more fun advertures this summer, including:

                                           Making forts

                           Swimming in Nephi (along with many other places)

 Going to the zoo again for a special date with Grandma and Grandpa Madsen

 And of course playing with and tormenting our cat!  This is the big cat we tried to get rid of, but it always kept coming back.  It's way more mellow now and always lets Kayson pester it.  He loves feeding it every day.... but sometimes likes to play with and take the kitty's food as well.

 In August, we also were able to have Reid and Analee come out to Delta and spend the weekend with us.  We ventured futher out west and made our way to Lehman's Cave.

 It was really neat inside of the cave and such a fun little adventure!

 Kayson was a champ and was so good the entire trip.  He enjoyed the cave too. 

Due to the hour time difference (of which we completely spaced) we had plenty of time to hang out in the area, so we picnic'd up the mountains near the cave.  It was so pretty and felt so good to be in the mountains. 

 Just this last weekend (Sept 21-22) we were able to spend time in Mayfield and went up the mountain for dinner and cobbler with Reid and Analee.  It was so so pretty up there with all of the leaves changing.  We haven't made it up the mountains or camping nearly enough this year or nearly as much as we would have liked to. 

 After getting burned by a crackling on our last camping adventure in March, Kayson has slowly learned to like fires again.  He is very cautious and doesn't like to get to close or hot.  

 Grandma Analee was such a sport to go hiking several times with Kayson!

 We were also able to go to the Manti temple with one of Coby's best friends, Holly Edwards, for her to recieve her endowments.  It was so neat and so fun to be among all of our friends there. 

August and September were awesome and we had such a good rest of our summer. 

I am so excited for fall though and all of the upcoming festivities :)