More comings and goings

This weekend was an eventful one for us. At least, by our standards it was. And Saturday was really low key. But that evening, we decided to get away from the heat a bit and head up the canyon a ways. We ended up at Nunn's park. We grabbed a pizza on the way and just enjoyed being outside and together. And eating pizza. Yummm.

Here's Lacey eating her pizza. I took the pepperoni off cuz I didn't think she'd like it. Then she found it in the box and ate it (as you see here) and looked for more. Guess Mom doesn't know what she's doing.

And after we ate, there was no keeping her still. She was saying hi to everybody she passed and exploring a much as she could.

Sunday morning, we headed up to the airport to visit with my parents and younger brother, who were heading back to SC and had a three hour layover. It sure was nice to see them, even if it was just for a couple hours. I think Grandma was in seventh heaven. Lacey was content to sit in Grandma's lap--until she got over her weird shyness and just wanted to run around. Then Grandma was content to chase Lacey around. Grandpa was pretty happy to see Lacey, too.


After visiting at the airport, we said goodbye to my family and headed to downtown Salt Lake City to check out temple square. We went and looked at the new scale model of the Salt Lake temple in the south visitor's center (you can see more about that here). I thought that it was pretty cool.

Sorry I'm too lazy to turn the picture the right way now that it's already here. But here's Lacey on her first trip to temple square, in front of the temple.
And here we are together enjoying the flowers. It's weird to see me in a picture. I'm usually the one behind the camera...

After temple square, we went to visit Grandmother Bobo, who fed us lunch (thank you, Grandmother Bobo), and we had a nice visit together. I'm so glad that two Lacey's grandparents live so close, and that we got to see the other two, even though I wish they could have stayed longer.

Summertime!

It's finally summer! We're having fun playing outside and eating corn on the cob and cantaloupe. Phil finished his freshman English class (hooray!) and is now on to bigger and better things (Information Systems 201 or something). Maybe someday he'll get a break! Lacey and I hang around all day. She's walking like a pro now, and getting into EVERYTHING. She's busy busy busy all day long. She would literally go until she drops--except she won't ever drop.

Speaking of summertime, we took Lacey swimming for the first time on Saturday.

Here she is before going into the pool.

Here she is after going in the pool and screaming uncontrollably. She stopped screaming right before this picture was taken. Notice the tears on her cheeks. I'm making a funny face cuz the sun was pretty bright.

Eventually I got her to sit on the stair with me. She still wasn't too thrilled with it, though. I hope that she'll get used to it before the end of summer, cuz I love to swim!

Saturday and Sunday at the park

Earlier this month, Phil's sister-in-law and her three boys came to Utah for a visit. It was so much fun to get together with family for the afternoon. Phil had so much fun playing with the boys.

I think that this is the first time ever that I've seen Phil throwing the football around.

And here they're playing tag on the play ground equipment. Tall Uncle Phil looks a little out of place in his black getup.

Going down the slide.

I'm not sure what's going on here.

Finger sword fighting with Eli.

Tossing the football with the boys.

And here's my beautiful angel with dorito dust all over her face and fingers. Yum!

Playing with cousin Lynn.

Sunday morning, we went down to Goshen to have breakfast and church with Samantha, Lynn, and a bunch of boys. Lacey was running around with seven boys, (and a little dog named Chloe) and loved every minute of it. Her favorite thing to do was climb up the stairs. We don't have stairs for her to practice on, so she goes for them whenever she sees them.

After church, we made our way up to Salt Lake City to This is the Heritage Place park monument, built to commemorate the first company of Mormon pioneers to enter the Salt Lake Valley, which includes several of Lacey's ancestors.


Lacey and Daddy.
A couple cousins being silly for Lacey.

The relief sculpture with Lacey's ancestors--Lorenzo Dow Young (the man behind Grandpa, brother to Brigham Young--Uncle Brigham is riding in the carriage), and Lorenzo Sobieski Young (the little boy with the dog). A bundle of cousins and such.

Lacey and her "twin" cousin Mark.
Lorenzo Dow Young is Lacey's great-great-great-great-grandfather.
Lorenzo S. Young is Lacey's great-great-great-grandfather.

Tarleton Lewis is Lacey's great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. He was also the first bishop of Salt Lake City (before it was divided into smaller wards).

Memorial Day Picnic

We celebrated Memorial Day this year with a little Welker cousin gathering. We had a lovely picnic at a park and enjoyed spending time together.

Here's the gang. Or most of it.

These two little munchkins were the life of the party. They're twin cousins (or second cousins, really), born just a couple weeks apart. It was so fun to see them interacting with their very different personalities--both very big personalities in very little bodies!

Lacey loved the bubbles. It was so much fun!

Reese wasn't thrilled about the grass. But what a pair of cute monkeys!