We also went down to Lava Hot Springs and had a lot of fun tubing down the river and enjoying the hot springs, of course.
We also went to the "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" production they had in Idaho Falls. Nick's uncle played Joseph! It was amazing!! I'll have to get those pictures. The girls always have fun at the Splash Park in Rexburg!
We had a great 4th of July. Took the horses in the parade in Menan, sadly we have no pictures. Right after the parade got over we headed down to Utah for another horse pull in Lewiston. The horses did awesome! Nick placed 2nd in the HEAVYWEIGHTS! That was real exciting. My Mom & Dad came with Janelle and Brian and Nathan & Alisa also were there! We watched fireworks after and then made the trek back home. Here's a pic of Nick and Lucy on Howdy . . . 
And here's the best I could get of Kate for now. She's become quite the little walker and is into everything!! She makes life exciting.
So much to blog about! Our internet has been down since we made it home from our trip to “The Oregon,” as Lucy calls it. But first I have to write about Kate’s eye surgery. The procedure went well. However, they were only able to get a tube in one eye, darn it. But that eye is doing great and is clear! When they went to put the tube in the other eye, as suspected, there was no lower duct there. So they tried to just make a duct with a probe, in hopes that it would stay open. The doctor said the upper duct was very tight, so he used his biggest probe to open it up. Poor girl, doesn’t sound fun does it. Well both eyes were doing great after surgery and no goop for one whole week. But now the tubeless eye is back to “normal”. The doctor that did her surgery has referred us to an Occuloplastic surgeon in Salt Lake to figure out what our next step is for that eye. I guess the good news is we are half-way to being there! Kate came out of surgery and anesthesia quite well and after a quick recovery we hit the road for Oregon ( I know we ARE crazy). Both girls did great for the trip, as did both horses. Yes, we couldn’t go somewhere without horses and a 36 foot horse trailer. That would be way too easy. The morning after we got to Klamath we headed over the mountain to a horse pull in Jacksonville. Nick and the horses did great (I think they pulled 10,000 pounds . . . awesome) and we were on our way back to Klamath to make it to Brian’s graduation. It was fun to go back to good old Henley. He plans to start at BYU next week. Not much of a break for the poor guy. We enjoyed a few more days with the fam in Oregon and then had to come back home. We celebrated Kate’s first birthday while we were there too! 
The day after we got home from Oregon, Lucy had an eye doctor appointment. They just never end! The doctor that did Kate’s surgery wanted to look at Lucy too. I decided I'd get outside and try to attempt a little weeding in the garden before we went. Lucy came with me and Kate was napping. I'm weeding away, and all of a sudden I hear Lucy screaming. She somehow was attacked by the fence. I think she was pulling on the wire and it came back and hit her in the face. I ran over and she was holding her eye. Oh no. I was sure she'd poked her eye out. Anyway, she scratched herself just below, barely, her eye and down a little. I figured it was just a minor scratch and cleaned her up. Then it was time to go to the doctor . . . and NO GLASSES! We could not find them anywhere. She had them on earlier, but had no idea where they went. So we were off to the doctor with no glasses and her eyelid split open. Great. The doctor obviously asked what happened to her eye, and checked it out. He looked through his thing, and said that the wire had perforated clear through her lower eye lid. Lovely. He was more concerned about that than her crossed eyes. Poor Lucy. Anyway, he told her to keep wearing her glasses and put her on an antibiotic eye drop. We go back to see him tomorrow about the cut, which is doing much better. Long story, but makes me laugh now (I wasn't then).
And Crazy Aunt Ga! Love ya Janelle. It was so fun to be home and see family. Wish we lived a lot closer though, that 12 hour drive just doesn't seem to be getting any shorter!
Yesterday we took a trip up to Mesa Falls by Ashton. It is always such a beautiful place to go. It's so pretty up around there. (I'm jealous Morgan!) We took Nathan & Alisa along with us, I hope they don't get sick of our adventures. And trust me they are adventures with two little girls! We got there and it started pouring rain. So we waited a few minutes until it was only sprinkling, then we walked down to the falls. Just after we took a few quick pictures by the falls it started pouring again. So we all huddled under a tree and Nathan entertained us with a couple of stoneflies. Thank you Mr. Shannon. We made it out and found a nice firepit to roast some hot dogs. It turned out to be nice and we all had fun!
Lucy has broken her glasses AGAIN! You'd think they could make those things a little more sturdy for kids!
Lucy was doing better so we went to Utah with a team of horses for a horse pull on the 16th. Lauren, my old roommate, and Skyler and their little girl Cali, met us there. It had been a long time since we had seen them and so it was way fun to catch up! Becky and Brad also came! Lauren & Becky & I had a great time reminiscing about the good ole days and had lots of good laughs. The girls loved the parade before the pull and got lots of candy. Nick did great in the pull and we all had a fun time. He even got the "Horsemanship Award"! Go Nick. He has big plans for several more horse pulls this summer. Hmmmm. We'll see. I didn't get any great ones of the horse pull. Sorry Nick. I was busily trying to manage two crazy girls. But here's Jet & Andy. 
The girls when they finally 'crashed' at the very end of the horse pull, of course. Needless to say, I didn't catch a whole lot of it. 
Kate thoroughly enjoyed this . . .
And so did I because it kept her busy for 30 seconds!
