Why didn't you tell me it is the end of summer and not the beginning????

I am having a hard time believing

summer is almost over. 

I knew I was behind on blogging

our family adventures,

but I didn't realize I was this behind!!

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So rewind back to June and this is what we did...

LAGOON

Here is Dallin and cousin Mitch

Not only did we take our family to Lagoon,

but we also went with 2 of my sisters

and their families.

Here is Carter and cousin Robbie

Carter making the winning shot for a prize

The prize!!

Me, Mitch, and Robbie on the Tilt-A-Whirl

Dallin and Lyla

Dallin taking Lyla around the block

Dallin's favorite ride

Driving the boats

Jason & Dallin on the train

Carter, Me, and Lyla on the train

Here is our day in a nutshell:

After we put our cooler down in the pavillion

we decided to go on, "The Bat."

We talked Carter into going with us,

and he got whipped around pretty good.

We rode a few more rides

and Carter played the basketball game

then we walked over to watch Uncle Eric and his

brother Ben go on the skycoaster.

While waiting, we rode the scrambler.

It scrambled Carter's insides,

he got sick and had to lay down.

So while we waited and rode a few more rides,

Carter fell asleep in the stroller.

We decided to go back and eat lunch.

Carter slept through lunch and

we couldn't get him to drink much of anything

AND he was freezing.

All we had to cover him with was a towel.

Soon everyone was ready to move on, except Carter.

Jason took Carter and Lyla home for a nap.

(Luckily we live 10 minutes away, so no problem)

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So with just Dallin and I left,

we went to the Mother Goose Land

to let Dallin ride the kiddie rides.

Sidenote:  Dallin did not want to go to Lagoon

he was worried because all he knew of Lagoon

was the big rides you see from driving by on the freeway.

He informed me many times that he

WAS NOT going to ride, "Wicked."

Dallin was in pure heaven!

He didn't know Lagoon had all of these

rides that were just his size!

He got to ride every ride with his little cousin, Janessa.

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Then Jason brought back Carter & Lyla.

Carter was feeling a little bit better

and really wanted to go to

Lagoon-A-Beach.

While Jason took Carter swimming,

Dallin got to go on all of the little kid rides AGAIN with Lyla.

Dallin was in heaven!

Lyla was in heaven too,

she cried when I pulled her

off of the first couple of rides.

Then she realized that getting off of one

meant getting on another.

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Lagoon-A-Beach was freezing,

so Jason and Carter met up with us.

Carter was still feeling sick, so he sat on the bench while

Dallin and Lyla finished up riding the rides.

Then we went on the train

and on the way out had to stop

and let Dallin play

Wac-A-Mole

so he could win a prize.

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What I learned in June:

My family is growing up!

Carter was too big to go on the little kid rides.

Even if he didn't get sick, Jason would have

had to take him to go and ride bigger rides,

while I sat with the little kids in the Mother Goose Land.

It was a sad reality for me. 

Another example of that is

when we took the kids to the local pool this summer.

Dallin and Lyla loved being in the outdoor wading pool-play-area

and Carter wanted to be inside in the deeper pool.

I guess it has to happen sometime,

but its going to take me some gettin' use to.