Bunk beds! We're really excited with these beds. I thought it would give us more space in their room, but since they're a twin bed over a full bed, they take up a lot of room. Poor Mieley has been sleeping in the crib until now. She has so much space now! She went from a crib mattress to a full size bed. Big bed, little girl. Now she just needs to get used to not having bars anymore - she's fallen out of bed a few times! Funny side story - I went to bed Sunday night and woke up to Adam turning on the lights everywhere and looking around. I asked him what he was looking for, and he said Mieley. I shot up straight out of bed and asked, "What do you mean Mieley??" Adam said, "We'll she's missing." So we hunted around the house to find her. Where did we find her finally? - underneath the bottom bunk bed, hidden and fast asleep. We think she fell off her bed and then just rolled under the bed and went right back to sleep. Silly girl! Adam and I couldn't stop laughing!
We barely got these set up and then had to move all our downstairs furniture out of the way because we had a carpet cleaner come early Monday morning. I tried to talk Adam into getting a new couch - moving the old one out and moving a new one in - but that didn't work. One new piece of furniture at a time.
Mieley with a little bit of a concerned look on her face. 
Here's at the Firehole swimming area. Mieley had her pants off in a couple minutes and was ready to play in the water. Adalyn took some persuasion, but all the sudden decided to follow Adam and Mieley into the water with her pants and shoes and socks still on! Adam got her out quickly and soon she was stripped down too to throw rocks and play for awhile.
Mieley and Adam watching Old Faithful.
Adalyn got a HUGE ice cream cone a couple minutes before Old Faithful went off, so she sat down right in the middle of the boardwalk and watched the geyser while enjoying her ice cream. Oh the joys of being a kid.
Luckily for Mieley, when Adalyn had to make an emergency potty break, it left that huge ice cream cone unattended and Mieley got to enjoy the rest of the cone.
Adalyn was super excited to see these buffalo up close. There were tons on the side of the road.
Mieley thought the buffalo were pretty neat herself.
Then, I put them in a salt water bath for a minute or so and then lay the apple slices on the dehydrator trays. After I had all the apples on, I took the jello powder and sprinkled it on top. This way the powder doesn't get all goopy, and it left just enough flavor on the apples.
We've now tried strawberry, raspberry, lime, and lemon jello. Our favorites have been the strawberry and raspberry, but the lemon was good too. The lime. . .well if you really, really like tart things go for it.
Just be careful how many of these you eat. I've had a belly ache for two days and I know it's from the mounds and mounds of apple slices I've eaten!
Addy actually was really was happy this day and asked me to take pictures of her with her pink fuzzy hat on that she adores. She's so into dressing up.
One other funny conversation from Adalyn at bed time the other day:
Adalyn: "Mom, can I get some water?"
Me: "I don't know, we'll see if you stay in bed."
Adalyn: "But MOM, I'm sooooo drinky!"
She just cracks me up.
Lately, I've just been dehydrating peaches and apples like crazy. I've never been much of a "canning" person, even though I've had multiple offers from both my mother and sister Jandy to help me. I know, I know, call me a slacker. However, this past week I bought a box of peaches and picked a box of apples and knew that I had to do something with them fast before they all went bad. When I was out picking the apples, the lady we picked them from gave us some apples she had sprinkled jello powder on and then dehydrated them. They were yummy! So that's what I've pretty much been doing for the last week. Cutting up apples (thanks Jandy for the tip of the apple corer/slicer/peeler - that's a life saver!!!), and slicing peaches. The girls love the jello apples, not so much the peaches.
In other news, Adam and I got called to teach the 7 year olds in primary. I'm excited. I'd rather do this any day than teach Sunday School or Relief Society (quick! I need to knock on wood!). We start on September 21st. This Saturday we may head to an air show near Boise. We went to this air show a few years back and it was awesome. We'll see if we really go or not, but it's something to look forward to.
