September 2019

All 3 kids played soccer again this fall.  The girls changed to a new league and played with some good friends.  They had a great season and improved a lot with playing positions and having a bigger field.  Jaron played with his same team and is loving a larger field as well.


Grandpa came for Grandparents day this year.  We missed grandma who couldn't make it but had a fun time reading to grandpa and showing off all their good work.


Wrestle time with Dad or didi as they still call him.


I got to go on the 1st grade fields trip to Red Butte Gardens and Natural History museum.  Red Butte gardens was so pretty I don't think I've ever walked around there and they had such great guides that walked us around and kept the kids attention the entire time.


Our driveway got re-poured.  It had been shifting and sinking a bit and so it had a big crack in it and a big lip sticking up on one of the slabs.  It's nice to have a smooth driveway again but we weren't able to drive on it for 6 weeks!


Shane and I got to go see Peter Breinholt for my birthday, which is always fun and I hadn't seen Peter in concert in a few years.  We also went to a new cookie dough shop to celebrate with the kids since the rest of the day was spent at soccer games.



We had a Come Follow Me lesson on putting on the Armor of God, they did a good job putting it on and learning what each piece represented.

And we got a jump start on making and trying on Halloween costumes for Gilbert.

Aria and Siena turn 8!

Here it is, 8 years old!  Siena and Aria have turned into such cute young girls this year.  They have changed a lot and it's so fun to see them grow up with each other.  They have started shining in their own individual ways and yet are still the very best of friends.


Siena loves to cook, do crafts, and loves to learn things on the computer.  She will often be found making slides on my laptop to show the family, do a lesson or look up pictures of cute animals.  Her favorite animal is a bunny.  Siena is funny and cute and kind.  If I need someone to go get something or do something for me, I always ask her because most of the time she will happily say sure mom and go do it.  She loves to make or do little things for her brother and sister.


Aria loves animals.  Especially horses and unicorns.  All summer we checked out books on animals but the ones she read over and over were about horses.  And not just fiction books, she loves to learn all about the different types of horses and how to care for them.  She begs us weekly if we can buy her a horse and oh how I wish we lived somewhere that could accommodate a horse for her.  Aria has turned into quite the reader and will read and read and read until I tell her she has to put her book down and go do something else.


Together they love to play with each other and fight just like sisters usually do as well.  For their birthday they asked for and received little 'best sister' heard necklaces that they each wear a piece of.  I hope they always realize that their sister really is their other half and to never forget that.  They still talk each night after I put them to bed and often I can hear them giggling over who knows what.  They have their best friend Sorena who they love to play with but also have some other good friends from church and school.  They are not lacking in friends.


For their birthday they each had to make a little slide show about themselves for their class and then I went and met them and ate lunch with them in the cafeteria which was fun since I had never done that before.  I brought them a swig cookie and got to go play with them at recess.


They also had a friend party at the clubhouse where we just did pizza and movie and they watched Secret Life of Pets 2 since it was an animal themed birthday party.


Such a fun day celebrating these 2 and I can't believe they will be getting baptized in a few weeks.  They are so excited for that!

August 2019

The kids LOVE giving Gilbert a bath.  I'm pretty sure he hates it as much as I do.


Lots more swimming time and we did a night swimming one night where we had the pool to ourselves.  It's always fun when we get the pool to ourselves and doesn't happen that often or for a long time when we do.  It was a fun night.


We enjoyed some fireworks at the Highland Fling.  Max was baptized that morning so we missed the parade and instead go to to the Alpine Days parade the following week.  We love these parades where we can pull up right before and find a place to site and the kids just care about the people that are throwing out candy.


We did a little mini trip up to Davis county for 2 days to see if we could get in as many activities on our Get Out Pass as we could.  It was such a fun, jam packed couple of days.  We went to Seaquest aquarium where the highlight was feeding the birds.  Seriously the look on their faces when they did this was priceless.  They also love those little fish that like to eat your dead skin...gross but they seriously love it.


After that we went to the Rush funplex where you get 1 1/2 hours to do whatever you want.  We did bumper cars, foam pit, roller skating, kids and adult go karts, and laser tag.  We drove over to Allegiant for a virtual ride roller coaster ride, then went bowling, over to fat cats for more laser tag and bumper cars and finished the night looking at the Ogden temple and swimming back at the hotel.


The next morning we stopped by the Hill Air Force Base Museum which was fun to learn about all the different airplanes.  As we walked out the big loud fighter jets were practicing taking off and landing and it was super fun to watch them fly right over us.  After that we spent the day at Lagoon.  The only bummer of Lagoon was it poured rain for several hours until after lunch.  So it was wet, cold and kind of miserable but we made the best of it and then had a blast the rest of the day.  We snuck Jaron onto the swings that he is not tall enough for and we got Siena to love a few more roller coasters including Colossus that she went on with me 3 times in a row cuz there was no line.


We signed the kids up for Horse Camp again this year and they were especially excited because Jaron was old enough to go this year.  It's always a summer highlight.


The kids have been begging to go camping and it just never worked out finding a reservation and I wasn't' up to packing it all up to try and find a walk in camp.  So instead one night we went up and went fishing at reservoir and then had a campfire where we made dinner and smores.  It was super fun and I think we should do that more often.  Although I did promise them we would actually go camping this next summer.


Jaron spent more of his points he earned getting ice cream one night.


And just like that summer break is over and it's Back to school.  After the last 2 summers or having a crazy work schedule and trying to keep kids entertained, I was a bit nervous about this summer.  However, I can honestly say this was my favorite summer with our kids.  They are at a fun age where they are up for anything and are genuinely excited to just go do stuff.  It's easier to just hop in the car and go and I was honestly sad to see summer end.  I wasn't ready for them to go back but here it is.  The kids were super excited about their teachers.  The girls got Mrs. Decoopman who their friend Sorena had last year and Jaron got Mrs. Correa who the girls had last year so I know it's going to be a great year.