Little Mermaid and more Summer Fun

Wow, it's been a busy summer. You'd think with all my lack of recent posts that I was having the lamest summer ever, but on the contrary, I've been so busy I've had no time to catch up!

We took Evelyn to Thanksgiving Point, We went on a few days trip to Cedar City to visit family. Then we went to the Aquarium with Nana and Papa Adams. Then Michael and I got away for a week to Atlanta, GA. There we spoiled ourselves rotten going to a jousting tournament, the world's largest aquarium, movies, dinner....and generally had the time of our lives! Evelyn spent the week at Nana Mary's and got spoiled rotten. Then we went mini golfing and had Abby and Gwendy (Evelyn's cousins) sleep over. Michael has been to Ogden Utah, Kirtland Ohio, Spokane Washington, Fort Eustis Virginia, Columbus Ohio, Georgia, and next week he'll be in Colorado. Last week was Michael's and my anniversary: #6! We again ditched Evelyn for a couple days and went to Tucanos, Lagoon, and had an all night movie-going-marathon.

All these things (minus Michael being away so much) have been so much fun and so many hilarious things have happened, but I can't even remember half! So here's pictures:

The above pictures are of the jousting tournament at Medieval Times in Georgia. It was so amazing! The stunts were incredible! If you ever get a chance to go, do it! It's worth the price! The carnation I am holding was thrown to me as a favor by our knight (pictured above). I was all flattered until I found out that they bestowed favors to random people in the audience the whole time.

This was our 5 star hotel in the heart of Atlanta. 5 star meaning everything costs a ridiculous amount of money. But it was okay because Michael's company reimbursed everything!

It had 27 floors and a glass elevator--It was disorienting to ride from the top floor to the basement!

Evelyn and her green snowman made of play dough. We got Evelyn presents for everyday we were away from her. This was one of them.

Nurse Shark in the Georgia Aquarium.

Manta Ray with about an 8 foot wingspan!

The hammerhead sharks were the most intimidating to me, because they chased the other fish all over the tank.

Two fake smiles, but still happy to be back together!

I'm sure my neighbors appreciated all the chalk art on the sidewalk outside the condos. I don't think there was any sidewalk area spared from these little blooming artists. Come to think of it, I don't think there was any skin that was spared either. Evelyn and Gwendy especially were covered from head to foot with chalk. This picture was actually taken AFTER we cleaned them up!

The other day Evelyn announced, "I'm a Mermaid!" So I looked down, and sure enough, she WAS a mermaid! But I think she got SEAshells and EGGshells confused.

Evelyn has just been adorable. She comes up with the funniest things to say! In church on Sunday, Michael and I were doodling pictures for her to guess what they were. We were on vegetables, so I'd draw a tomato: "It's a tomato!" Michael would draw a carrot: "It's a snowman's nose!" I would draw an eggplant: "It's an eggplant!" Then I drew a potato, and Evelyn shouted, "It's DADDY!"

Later that day, Evelyn was saying that Daddy couldn't wear Mommy's lotion, and I said, "Yeah, it would make Daddy smell funny, huh?" "Yes," she replied seriously. Just out of curiosity for what she would say, I asked her, "So what do Daddies smell like?"

She thought for a moment or two, then stated decisively: "GARBAGE!"

So I guess Daddy looks like a potato and smells like garbage!

Daddy took her into a public bathroom, men's of course, so she could do her business. Evelyn noticed there was a strange toilet in there and pointed it out to Daddy. Michael told her that only Boys can use that toilet, not girls. Evelyn pouted and said pityingly, "Oh! Poor, Poor Evelyn!"