Snowbird Aerial Tram

 Danny received some tickets to ride the aerial tram up at Snowbird Ski Resort, so we decided to use them this past weekend. We invited Gawbie and Grandpa to join us. The girls loved the ride up. It was about a 3000 foot climb from bottom to top. We had Tyler suck on his pacifier to relieve ear pressure.

 The view from the top was amazing. It was a beautiful day up on top, aside from the wind. We spent about 30 minutes walking around enjoying the sights of the valley below and the beautiful mountain scenery. It was a little hard to push the stroller around up there, so we didn't explore too far, plus Tyler was hungry and there wasn't anywhere decent to feed him up there.

 We had quite the adventure as we were driving back down the mountain. Our van, which appeared to have plenty of gas as we were driving up the mountain, suddenly didn't have gas as we were driving back down the mountain. We had a few different warning lights go on and we couldn't figure out what was going on. We weren't worried until a minute later when Danny tried to accelerate and learned that the car had no power. Fortunately, we had a pretty steep downgrade that kept the car coasting. We continued to coast down the mountain for a good amount of time and only hit two moments of concern, 1 - when we had to make a turn and 2- when we were approaching a red light. We felt very fortunate that we came upon a 7-11 with a gas station on the right side of the road before the road leveled out. We filled up the car, put some oil in and the car seemed to run fine again. We are grateful for gravity and for our prayers being answered that day.

Love These Three

 Here are some pictures that we have taken in the last week or two of our three favorite kids.

 Tyler is finally gaining weight and getting some chubby cheeks and legs. We are so excited.

 We have been getting out of the house a lot more. We go to the library, grocery store, friends houses, and even the swimming pool(Tyler and I don't go in yet). We have even had some friends over to our house to play.

I took this picture of Ashley last night because it made me laugh. Most kids like to sleep with a soft, stuffed animal. Ashley chooses to sleep with Bucky.  Anyone who spends any amount of time with Ashley knows how much she loves her pirate ship, Bucky. Most kids request a toy for Christmas, play with it for a week or maybe even a month, and then lose interest. Not our Ashley. This toy was worth every penny that we paid for it and she seems to be even more attached to it now than she was right after Christmas. We keep waiting for her to grow out of this phase, but it doesn't seem to be happening any time soon.

Blessing Day

 We had decided on July 7th for Tyler's Blessing while we were still in the hospital. We had intended on doing it in Sacrament meeting, but decided to change that the week of the blessing. We have 1:00 church and Sacrament meeting last. Not only that, but our Ward is huge and it is impossible to get into our Chapel early as there is another Ward in there. So for convenience purposes we got it okayed by our Bishop to do the blessing in our home earlier that day. We invited the member of our bishopric that we would have had stand in the circle anyways. We also invited family and some of our closest friends. Our house was filled. Tyler was passed around all morning.

 

 

Most of our guests were from the Wheeler side of the family, but my brother was able to come with his family to represent the Miners.

 After the blessing, the kids went outside and enjoyed the trampoline and playset.

 The proud parents

 We are so thankful for our sweet boy and the addition that he is to our family. We already can't remember what life was like before he arrived.

Family Pictures

Since we had most of the Wheeler side of the family in town for Tyler's Blessing, we decided to do some family pictures. We missed having Bobby and Breanna in the pictures, but we were glad to take some pictures with the group that we had. Here is the whole group.

Our family with Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Ginos.

 The Great Grandchildren with Grandma and Grandpa.

The Wheeler Boys

 The Wheeler Girls

 Our Family

 Aunt Shannon with the nieces and nephews

 Gawbie and Grandpa with the grandkids.

By the end, the kids were worn out from all of the picture taking.

4th of July

 On the Fourth of July, we were fortunate to be able to watch fireworks from the Terrace at the Convention Center. The Terrace is the perfect spot to watch the Stadium of Fire Fireworks show if you are not fortunate enough to be able to attend in the stadium(although our girls were scared of the fireworks in the stadium, so maybe it was even a better spot to watch, for us). Danny's brother(and family) got into town early in the day, so we went down to the Convention Center in the early afternoon and let the kids run around a little. The dads and the older kids played some soccer...

Danny set up the big screen and turned on a movie for the kids and brought out the popcorn machine.

Here is the view from the terrace-facing west.

And east

And north towards the stadium. The smoke is leftover from the first fireworks we saw.

 We barbecued hamburgers and enjoyed an assortment of sides, including snow cones. Our group had about 16 people total. One of Danny's employees(and close friend) also took advantage of the terrace-their group had probably twice as much as ours. The weather was perfect that night, but it was nice being able to go inside when Tyler needed a break from the fresh air. There were lots of willing hands to take little Tyler, including this proud Grandpa.

 It was a fun night and a great way to spend our 4th.