June 2019

Summer has officially begun.  We spent June doing lots of things around town.  We kept very busy with our many activities.  Luckily this summer I was able to limit my work to morning hours so we were able to spend a lot more time just having fun.

We spent time with cousins petting horses and library craft time.



Jaron played coach pitch baseball.  He likes baseball but is not his favorite sport.  But really he is up for just about any sport these days.  He loves to play ball and spends most days throwing a ball around our house.


We set up our tent in the basement and let them play down there, watch a movie and sleep down there one night.  I didn't know if they would last the whole night down there by themselves but they totally did.


The kids went to a week long kids camp and did different themed activities each day and had a lot of fun.


We went to Bridal Veil falls one day.  The run off was crazy this year with all the snow we got so I was nervous and wouldn't let me kids get close to the river.  I could barely watch all the families that didn't seemed bothered and went right up to it.


The kids learned to climb the door frames in our house...insert eye roll.


Shane's birthday and Father's day.  We sure love him and are so grateful he's ours.  He works so hard and we love that he works at home because we get to spend lots of time with him.


Ice cream and soda dates.


Learning to tie shoes and making cookies.


The Pace's came a few times this summer and we love when we get to see them.  The kids always pick up right where they left off.


The girls got to go to Camp Jeremiah Johnson with their Activity Days group.  We had all girl groups and cub scouts in our ward go together this day.  It was a super fun day and they did so many activities.  Bottle Rockets, shooting, rafting, human foosball, archery.


The girls used some of the points they earned this summer to go to a rodeo.  The kids are able to earn points for doing reading, chores, music practice, etc. and then they can spend their points on small treats, dates, prizes throughout the summer.  It seems to work well for us to keep them reading and doing productive things each day before we play.


We took a day and went downtown.  We walked in and around the Capital and hiked Ensign Peak and ended at temple square.  I always love going downtown at least once in the summer time, very different experience then when we go at Christmas time.

May 2019

Jaron played soccer this season with a bunch of his friends.  It wasn't his normal coach or team he has had the last couple times but it was fun being on a team with friends.  And Grandma and Grandpa Goold are always so good to come out and see a game each season.



We did a few things on our get out pass this month.  Provo beach to do the ropes course.  The kids were pretty nervous about it but I thought they did a great job. And one last time on the Ninja Warrior Obstacle course.



Jennifer had an extra ticket to go see Aladdin at the Eccles theatre on Mother's day.  I had never seen the broadway production of it and loved it.



I sure love being a mom to these 3 kids.  I love them and they love me despite my imperfections.  Always want to spend time, cuddle and go everywhere I go.



Lots of end of year events in May.  First up was the Talent Show.  The girls played a piano/violin duet of 'Go Tell Aunt Rhody'  I was so proud of them.  They practiced so much for this and was their first time really performing in front of everyone, let alone their first duet as well.  And I got a great video and no pictures!!  boo.

Jaron played the drums to 'Final Countdown'  It was seriously so cute and so funny all at the same time to see him up there playing his drums.  It was a crowd favorite for sure.



Jaron had his Kindergarten program.  It was cute and fun to watch him sing and do actions to all the songs.  We have sure loved having Mrs. Reckling as his teacher and wish she could move up along with my kids and be their teacher.




Dance festival - The girls had a western theme dance and the dance was so cute.  Each class formed a big circle and the dance was really good and cute with boys and girls alternating, etc.  Jaron did a song from Trolls, hence the crazy hair.  It was cute and Jaron had the song stuck in his head quite a bit during the month of May.  Jaron often gets songs stuck in his head, you always know what song he is practicing at school or for the dance festival, Christmas sing, etc. cuz you hear him sing it at home a lot.



Last day of school picture as they scootered off to school for the last time as 1st graders.  Jaron ended school the week prior and I didn't get a picture but it was a great year for all 3 of them.



The girls got invited to an end of year party from their friend Ella Hatch.  These are girls from their class this year that they've been friends with and it's such a cute group of girls.

April 2019

We decided to go to St George for Spring Break.  This should probably just be a post itself but I'll just include it all here.  The kids were so excited to go on a trip that they all sat in the back seat squished together.  We had lots of fun.  The kids went from hiking to swimming, to a park and repeat.  They love to go climb on the rocks above St. George Blvd and their favorite thing to do there is play hide and seek.  They could play that for hours...and we practically did.  A few times it made me nervous because we couldn't find Jaron and he would not come out until he was found. We went to Snow Canyon one day and had fun doing some hikes there and seeing different things that we hadn't seen before.

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Grandma Glover came to visit, always fun when she's here.



We had another soccer season.  The girls got to play on an all girl team and they loved the change that brought to their game.  Siena scored her first goal during the season.



We attempted to go to this Unicorn Festival at the outlets and oh boy was it the craziest thing we had ever done.  It was sooo crowded and just crazy amount of people.  In fact they were supposed to have this balloon drop and had to shut it down because of the amount of people. We did get to see a few things and pet a unicorn.  Aria is still very obsessed with Unicorns so I was glad we went even though the crowds were crazy.



I got to go with the girls on their 1st grade field trip to the Bean Museum.  This was the first chance I have had to go on a field trip with them so it was lots of fun and they were excited to have me along.



We had a few fun Easter activities.  We had a neighborhood Easter egg hunt up at the park which was fun and easy as everyone just brought eggs and we threw them out on the grass.



The kids were super disappointed that they had a soccer game right when the Highland City Easter egg hunt was this year so I looked up and realized the Cedar Hills Easter egg hunt was right in between the girls and Jaron's game that day so after one game ended we raced to the other park, got there literally as the horn sounds, gathered Easter eggs and jumped in the car and went back for our 2nd game of the day.  We lucked out on the timing and the kids were happy to do another egg hunt.



Easter egg dying and other Easter pictures from the holiday.



The kids had their Ridgeline fun run.  It was cold and rainy this year and in fact they moved the time up and had them run at an earlier time which was a bummer for a lot of parents that missed out.  I was lucky I was there doing take home reading book exchanges when they announced the change so I got to go out and watch just in time.



The girls were so excited that their first grade teacher, Mrs. Correa, decided to do a class Battle of the Books for them.  They read all the books, formed teams and did a great job.  Siena's team ended up winning for the class and it was fun to watch all the kids get so excited about reading.