The Malouf Family: August Adventures 2013

Lily with Grandma Malouf and the kitty Bruce

Lily and Bruce are best friends

Biggest news this month in our family is that Lily has 3 teeth now! 1 on top and 2 on bottom.

August is a fun month for us. We have 2 anniversaries. Our 8 year wedding anniversary was on the 20th and our 7 year anniversary of being sealed in the temple was on August 26th! To celebrate we left Lily with Chris and Alison (Michael's brother and sister-in-law) and their 3 kiddos and took off to Park City for a night. We actually stayed in Deer Valley which is way up there on top of the mountain above Park City. We stayed at a beautiful place called Chateaux of Deer Valley. We took full advantage of the hot tub, swimming pool and the plush white robes :) We spoiled ourselves even more and ate dinner at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. If you haven't eaten there and you like steak, you need to immediately. It is very pricey though. Go on your birthday or anniversary and you get free dessert at least :) We also went to the outlets and got clothes for us as well as some cute fall outfits for Lily. It was a fun little getaway! I'm glad we are best friends and have so much fun together. We really like to spoil ourselves so we couldn't stop there. On our real anniversary we also ate at one of our favorite restraunts: Teppenyaki's.

I took this picture the day I threw them away! They were much prettier on our Anniversary.

Here are some flash back pictures from our wedding 8 years ago! I don't have any of our sealing 7 years ago. :( Maybe somebody out there does!

Bishop Ben Chase married us. He was our single's ward bishop. I later had his daughter in my 3rd grade class!

You can see the tears of joy on our faces!

Holly, Megan, Caryn and I. My beautiful bridesmaids.

Michael and his best man Chris, who also happens to be his brother :)

The Stoker Side of the Family! I think we have doubled the number of family members since this picture!

Everybody!

The Malouf side of the family! Sean was on a mission serving in Texas at the time.

The cutest flower girls in the world!

such a handsome ring bearer!

August also meant going back to school for Michael! Its his 5th year teaching. He is very beloved and popular with the students. Lily and I miss him but we are glad he has a good job that allows me to hang out with Lily. I also love that he gets home early, usually right around when Lily wakes up from her nap so he doesn't miss too much of the action.

I decided to join Michael in his no pop pledge! He hasn't had any soda for about 5 years. I decided I might as well not either. I hardly ever drink it but when I do I go overboard (usually because its a restraunt with free refills and I want to get my money's worth) and drink way to much and feel bloated and sick and usually I am up all night from the caffeine. So no more pop! It doesn't really have any redeeming qualities anyway. Good bye Mr Pibb.

This month Lily and I also went to the Tracy Aviary with Shani and her little girl Makadie. Both of our girls love birds so it was a great trip! Lily loved the owls! My camera was broken so these are pictures Shani took :)

Michael and I also went to Lagoon! We were joined by Kim, Reynie and their 2 kids and my sister Tina and her 4 kids and 2 of my neices rode up with us. It was really fun! Not too many people. But I think I must be getting old because I kept getting sick on all the rides! :( I love roller coasters so this is a real bummer for me.

I ran the Alpine Days 5K! It took me 40 minutes. I am so slow. But hey I did it! :)

We watched the Highland and Alpine fireworks. For Highland's Lily was mesmerised and just layed on Michael's chest and watched them in awe. We went with my parents and my brother Mike and Nicole and their kids (its kind of a tradition). For Alpine's we met up with our friend's Brad and Amber and their kids. Lily got all hyped up and went crazy. She was running around everywhere and kept going up to random strangers and tapping their shoulders and just went nuts! She liked the fireworks but she liked being crazy more!

I also took Lily to the Alpine Days parade. She just sat on Craig's (Michael's dad) lap the whole time and licked a tiny lollipop someone threw one lick at a time. She loved the horses (Neighs).

Lily and I were bored one morning so I made playdough by putting 2 cups of flour, 2 cups of warm water, 1 cup of salt, and 2 T. of vegetable oil in a pot and stirring it over low heat until it was playdough like. Then I massaged some food coloring in them and Lily and I went to work! It was pretty fun! Its a nice little activity to have on hand for when I want her to stay in her high chair for a bit.

we made a snowman, a turtle, and some snakes!

Lily has started to really like coloring/scribbling. I put her in an empty diaper box with her crayons and she can be occupied by that for a full half hour. If you know Lily you know she usually doesn't stay in one place long, but in the coloring box she is truly captivated :) Once the box was pretty much completely colored we started putting stickers on it! I have a million stickers from my teaching days so we have a lot to work with :)

Lily coloring in her Barbie Coloring Book. Say "Cheese"!

We went to Farm Country for Thanksgiving Point's $2 Tuesdays with our friends Shani and Makadie and Amber with her kids Ryker, Sophie, and Beckett! We even saw my sister-in-law Nicole and her 2 little ones there for a minute. It was very busy but a lot of fun! Lily loved seeing all the animals but when it came time for the pony ride she didn't want anything to do with it. She screamed and kicked and did not want to get on. So they gave us our money back for that part! It was a fun adventure and I'm glad we went!