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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Saturday, November 21, 2015

We have never taken our kids to a BYU football game so when I heard a deal on the radio for some discounted tickets for their last home football game, I talked DH into us going with Luke and M&M. It was a fun experience - although it got a little cold towards the end of the game! They also won which made it nice - although it would have been more exciting if the game had been a little closer! We also enjoyed watching the marching band!

Hanging Christmas Lights

Saturday, November 14, 2015

We had a few weeks of some nice unseasonably warm weather just after Halloween so DH took advantage of it and hung our Christmas lights up early. He is getting much more comfortable climbing up on the roof - and it is definitely easier at this house than at our old one! A couple of the kids wanted to give it a try as well. Luke was a little terrified, but Kitty and M&M didn't mind it.

New Trees

Monday, November 2, 2015

We decided to plant some trees on our parking strip in front of our house. I wanted some trees that would be some good shade trees with some color to them. These are a variety of maple tree called Sunset Norwegian Maple. They are supposed to have a beautiful fall color. They are little dinky things right now though!

Unfortunately when we dug into the ground to plant them, we ran into sprinkler pipes so we had to dig up quite a bit of the ground to figure out where the pipes were and then move some of them. It ended up being quite a bit of work and DH ended up having to take a day off of work to finish it all. We also ended up having some cool, windy weather for the project! And in the end we somehow ended up with more dirt than we could figure out where to put it!!

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Mt. Timpanogos Competition

Saturday, October 24, 2015

This was M&M's last local competition before the St. George trip and state competition. DH and I were both able to help at this one. This was DH's first and last time chaperoning for M&M's marching band - he usually stayed home to watch the younger kids while I chaperoned. Now that the kids are getting older though, we are able to leave them to watch each other which is nice!

This is one of the competitions that I have always chaperoned for. It is nice because it is fairly close and doesn't take up the whole day! Luke's band didn't compete at this competition because another band was doing the same show and they apparently had picked the show first so that excluded Luke's band from competing.

The lighting was horrible for trying to take pictures on the sidelines with my little point and shoot camera, so none of them turned out. This is one competition where they take a group picture afterwards. So here is my best attempt at the group shot:

M&M is on the back row - far right person

M&M as the band president got to stand in front of the band and call them to attention during the awards ceremony - since the drum majors were all on the field for the awards. If I remember correctly, M&M's band did not place at all at this competition. They ended up in 4th by just a fraction of a point...

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Bean Museum

Friday, October 2, 2015

The Monte L Bean Life Sciences Museum at BYU has been closed for the last year or so for some remodeling. We decided to go and check out the changes. I think a lot of it is still under construction because we couldn't find some of the exhibits that were supposed to be there and it had a couple of sections that were blocked off. It was POURING rain when we got to the museum! Afterwards we went and ate lunch with DH at his work - the girls love doing that. Blondie came with us because she was also off of school - I think Luke came too but I don't have any pictures of him.

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Visit to Vancouver

July 29-August 2

DH, M&M, Luke and Blondie stayed one more night at Bear Lake and then the next day headed off to visit DH's mom in Vancouver. They were able to have some fun visiting her as well as DH's grandma who lives in Portland. The younger kids were bummed that they couldn't go to visit them as well but this was the only time that we could make anything work out this summer with our crazy school schedule. They drove up on Wednesday and came back home late Sunday night. They were also there for M&M's 17th birthday. They went out to dinner with her and saw the movie Ant Man which they all enjoyed.

Thursday, February 4, 2016

High Adventure Camp

July 7-11, 2015

This was Luke's first year going on a High Adventure Camp with scouts. DH decided it would be a good experience to go with him so he took the time off work and went as well. They went to Moab, UT and camped out in tents and did mountain biking (in the middle of July!). We were very nervous about what the temperatures would be like for them down there! Thankfully it was one of the coolest weeks temperature wise that they have ever had in July! I guess our prayers paid off - DH does not like the heat!

So although they had some nice(r) temperatures for July, they also had a few torrential rainstorms while they were there! They would have a nice morning/early afternoon and then the clouds would come in and it would just pour on them for 10-20 minutes. They did a little bit of hiking, went on a couple of mountain biking trips and went river rafting as well.

We bought Luke a new bike before they left - he had outgrown his old bike several years ago... DH and Luke traded off riding the new bike and an older one that they borrowed from someone in the ward. Unfortunately Luke had a spectacular crash that bent up the bike a little and gave him several battle wounds. Thankfully nothing too serious and DH was able to take the bike into town to get it fixed before their next ride.

There was one storm in particular that caused quite a bit of damage to the campsite and equipment. DH was at camp with several of the boys (including Luke) while the other leaders took the rest of the boys into town. While they were gone a very violent squall hit the campsite and damaged several of the tents and shade canopies. There are some pictures below that can give you a little bit of an idea of the extent of it. They also had a rainstorm hit them while they were river rafting!

Getting ready for one of the bike rides.

Playing some hacky sack

A storm on the horizon

The squall hits!

Some hail mixed in with the rain!

Some awesome looking clouds!

A morning devotional

Luke in front of an arch

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Father's Day 2015

Sunday, June 21, 2015

DH opened some gifts after church and then we went over to my parents' house for dinner.

DH's birthday

Friday, June 19, 2015

DH and I went out to Texas Roadhouse for his birthday and then came home and opened presents and had some cake - although neither of us were terribly hungry after our dinner!

This is a present that I had wrapped to give to DH for Christmas, but then ended up keeping it to give to him on his birthday instead. Notice the Christmas wrapping paper. :)

A crazy chocolate/cheesecake/oreo cake that I made for DH.

I'm not sure why I am sitting in front of the cake instead of DH.

This is a Happy Birthday message that Kay left for DH on the driveway! It says "YAY! HAPPY BRITHBAY"

Friday, November 20, 2015

Lightning

Monday, June 15, 2015

DH was able to get a few lightning strikes on her camera. Unfortunately he had some trees in the way.

Monday, November 16, 2015

Family History Department Family Activity

Thursday, June 4, 2015

The Family History Department of the church that DH's works for tries to have a family activity/social once a year that is usually held at a park with dinner served and activities for the kids. This year all of our kids were able to attend and they had a blast! They served a Cafe Rio dinner - which some of the kids didn't care for - and then there were snow cones, inflatable activities, pinatas, face painting, and balloon animals. After we ate we found that some of the lines for the face painting were short so I had the kids that wanted their faces painted get in line so we could get that taken care of first. Then they had some balloon animals made and then Kay and MJ took off for the slides. The older kids went to throw Luke's frisbee and got it stuck on the roof of a building. After some trial and error we were finally able to get it down! The kids all participated in one of the inflatables which was an obstacle course race. It was funny watching Luke and M&M go up against each other!