Grandma Elna visit.

Brian went to Dallas for a work conference in June, so my mom decided to make her trip to come meet Georgia during that time!  Thank goodness for her help!  I’m kind of a mess after I have a baby, and it would have been tricky for me to have all three girls by myself for 4 days while Brian was away.  Having my mom here was such a blessing!  She helped with the girls, helped potty train Hattie, let me sleep in the morning, made food, and did my mending!  Thank you, Mom!

Oh, just sitting in boxes while they read with Angelina books.

Doing reading lessons with Grandma.

All three girls with their Grandma Elna!  They sure love her!  A few weeks after she left, Elna said to me, “When we get a new house, I want to live near Grandma Elna.”  I think she misses her!

Thanks for coming, Mom!  I couldn’t have done it without you!

Backyard pool time.

We filled up the pool at the beginning of June and the girls loved splashing around in it as it was being filled up.

Brian took this picture of the girls licking each of the kernels of popcorn that hadn’t popped, that were covered in coconut oil, honey, and salt.

While the girls were playing in the pool, Georgia and I watched.  Brian took a bunch of pictures of sweet Georgia and me when she was only 12 days old.  She was so little!

Same swimsuit, two very different girls.  One is a little fish, and the other…isn’t.

 

I think this small little pool felt a lot safer to Harriet, because she spent a lot of her time in it at the beginning of the summer.

I took these pictures of Georgia one day while the girls were swimming.  I pictured them turning out a lot better than they actually did.  But they were a fun idea.

She didn’t see my vision either I don’t think.

Blue Lake park and Brian’s triathlon

The night before Brian’s triathlon we just thought we’d go to Blue Lake park to check things out and have fun at the splash pad and beach with the girls.

1 week old!  Can you even stand how little she is and how much she has changed since these pictures!?

I got to hold this sweet girl the whole time.  I love love love this newborn stage.

The next morning was Brian’s triathlon—

All ready to go!

Coming out of the water.

Starting the biking leg.

The very cutest cheerleaders!

Finishing bike.

The last 200 feet or so of the race are a slight uphill, so I told Elna to run as fast as she could up the hill with Brian to motivate him to finish hard.  You can see her to the right of the man in orange.  I had my big stroller with Hattie in it and I was wearing Georgia, so I couldn’t run with them, but suddenly right after the picture above Elna started to veer into the running trail with the other runners and I yelled for her to get off the trail, but she couldn’t hear me.  The funny thing was that Brian’s mom was closer to the finish line and cheering her on and encouraging her to stay on the trial.  Hopefully the other runners weren’t too bugged.  Elna seemed pretty pleased with herself!

In Papa’s wheelchair.

Our family of FIVE after the race.

Bonneville Dam and the fish hatchery.

A week after Georgia was born (when I probably should have been in bed) we had our first family excursion—to Bonneville Dam and the fish hatchery.  The fish hatchery is always fun for the girls.  So many fish and enormous sturgeons to see.

The grounds at the hatchery are beautiful—and so are these girls!

Looking down at the trout.

It was really windy up there, and hard to get a good picture of us without hair in our faces.