Park City

Over the weekend we went up to Park City to celebrate Lance's last day on "break" (he was still working full time every day). I just love Park City. It's so refreshing and artsy. It's like the Laguna Beach of Utah.

We waited a long time in line to have the kids faces painted. They were both excited. Gavin wanted to be a Zebra (which as you can see, I don't think had been a previous request) and Jackson wanted to be a tiger. Gavin went first while Jackson kept playing. As soon as Jackson got one look at his brother, he ran for his life. It still makes me giggle. Gavin's zebra face looked more like a mix of a skeleton and The Dark Knight's, Joker. Although of course we kept telling him how cute he looked. :) I think he was scared of his face too. I made Jackson just get a lightening bolt on his face and then he chased Gavin around with a wipey the rest of the day trying to take off his paint. It was so funny.

Crafting

Here are a few of my latest crafts.

My dear friend Kimberly provided the adorable lettering through her company I Wall Vinyl. Thank you Kimberly!

This is a magnet board for Gavin to hang up his artwork and projects. He always has multiple paintings or colorings hanging up that he is very proud of. He loves having a place to show off his work. (And mommy likes it too so it's not all over the fridge!) I found some metal wildlife
cutouts and made them into magnets.

Speaking of stuff on the fridge... this is what is on ours. This is a goal chart that I made for Gavin a while ago. If anyone wants the spreadsheet I will send it to you. You can modify it with your own goals and clipart. I just attached velcro to each circle so that it's as exciting as putting a sticker up everytime, but they are reusable.

This is where we keep all of the circles for his goal chart. It's magnetized so it's just right up on the fridge next to everything else.

Dinosaur Museum 2009

Once again I stupidly braved the biggest crowd of the summer to go to Thanksgiving Point's $2 Tuesday at the Dinosaur Museum this year. I promise I will not be going back next summer for Any discount day. The crowds make you feel like you are being herded through. Move or be trampled. The boys had fun and brought home some souvenir lizards.