Provo Summer 2015 (Part 1)

We began our trip to the US this time and Grandeur and Grandest's house and spent lots of time playing with cousins and exploring during that first week.

Drawing was a popular past time!

J got a new hat!  E also got one later, a real-life cowboy hat because
he informed me he was going to be a cowboy when he grew up.  Since when?!

At the base of Bridal Veil Falls.

Climbing as far up Bridal Veil falls as we could barefoot. 

We made it back down safely!

And we went swimming with our cousins--I love that we are
at the age where I can relax in the shade while they play around
in the water, sometimes completely out of sight when they go on
the water slides.  Amazing! 

We went to see the dinosaurs at the zoo with our cousins.

Lots of love!

And a bald eagle, much to E's delight! 

He even found one of the merry-go-round.

J on the zoo train.

E at the mall.

Playing with sidewalk paint at the grandparents' house.

It was a restful beginning to our big summer, with no schedule and nothing much to do besides play and get over our jet lag, which they managed very well, thank goodness!  And even though everyone around us kept complaining of the heat (and, in fact, those were the hottest temperatures we experienced all summer), to us the weather was a relief after the punishing heat at the end of the school year in Doha!