Evelyn is a natural camper

It has been another great week of summer! This week has introduced us to the humidity of Cleveland. Last year we only had two or three days we needed our air conditioner, but this year we have already busted it out.

Evelyn is growing! She has only grown out of about three outifts, but she is starting to fit some of her three to six month clothes. It is fun to go through her closet and bring out her spring outfits. I have been keeping track of her growth with the pictures, but I have not been posting them. I need to get those up.

This week we did a lot of activities with the Bakers. Malcolm and Renee are two of our friends that live in the ward. On Monday we went up to Kirtland and visited the Temple. Malcolm is an aspiring photographer and we let him take pictures of whatever he wanted. We used some of his photo's in the blog.

Then, on Friday night we went on a campout with a few other couples. The campsite was located at the historic John Johnson farm, and it was neat to learn about the lifestyles of early saints in the area.We invited Malcolm to come along, then we threw him a surprise birthday party (we let our other friends know ahead of time and there were a lot of presents for him). Evelyn did a great job camping! She was happy the whole time and she still slept through the night. I think she inherited my trait for getting a TON of mosquito bites and Logan's trait for the bites not bothering her at all. We used bug spray, but I think it wore off through the night and pesky mosquitos let us join them for their dinner feast.

Logan created our first volume of The Hazard Chronicles. We decided to make a yearly book out of our blog entries. Logan printed all of the pictures and organized the book for us. We enjoyed looking back at our last year up until this Christmas. This is a fun tradition.

Logan and I have another tradition of reading books together. My dad recently finished his first book and we have begun reading that out loud together. It is very well written and fun to read. I recognize a lot about my dad and my childhood from little comments in his book.

All and all it has been a great week. I will now get to the pictures (there are a lot).

This week we took Evelyn on her very first camping trip. She loved it! There were six other families who went and we all had a great time (except maybe for the people with allergies- they were mowing the lawn and cutting hay for five hours straight while we were there).

If you looked for them, there were a lot of frogs. Here I am with a frog that I caught. Logan tried to take a video of the chase, but I wouldn't let him...Lets just say that it was very exciting.

We invited Malcolm to go with us and we threw him a surprise 9th birthday party. He was very surprised and happy when we brought out the cake and started singing "Happy Birthday"

Somehow, Logan became the target for all of the other kids when they got a hold of some water guns. He finally got a gun to fight back with and they had themselves a pretty fun water fight.

Here we are eating breakfast. We needed a griddle to cook on, so we went to the "mess hall" at the camp where they had working electricity. Oh yea- we are hard core campers!

These pictures were taken in Kirtland when we went with the Bakers.

And last, but certainly not least, we have our beautiful baby bug, all dressed up for church.